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- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
a permanent reality in corporate boardrooms—whether or not executives have a deep-seated passion for the social issues involved. Expectations are changing, agreed panelists. Oil corporations, for example, are well versed in the standard tradeoff of providing schools,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
HBS, he believes his lack of graduate degrees may have proved an advantage, allowing him to transcend the confines of particular disciplines and think holistically. Whether the subject is Third-World development or national... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
or as major employers of graduates of professional education programs. The survey assessed their views of the future, the core skills and knowledge needed by future leaders, and their assessment of how well... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
especially in changing the culture of the School and the broader world. The W50 Summit in particular was a way to reach out to the women who "have sometimes felt disenfranchised, disconnected, unwelcome at Harvard Business School," Nohria told an audience of... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
occupations are more likely to bequeath their corpses to medical research than those in male-dominated occupations. “There's a lot of discussion in the field of donation on how to morally increase the supply.” The finding is important... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
of Booth Business School at the University of Chicago, and Amit Seru of Stanford Graduate School of Business. Their initial working paper on the results made business headlines in 2016. The best, the worst The researchers found that when... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
treating its employees well. The company provides staffers with free education services to complete high school and supplementary medical care to cover gaps in government health plans. These efforts have... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
candidacy in the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and then applying for and being granted a waiver of medical and psychiatric prerequisites so that I could receive full training in clinical psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
operating system for dealing with elective (largely surgical) patients. By opening an emergency room, however, the institution is now called upon to care for complex and highly variable medical patients. Asks if the previous operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
explanation was offered most provocatively by Tony Wanless, who commented that "B-schools are university cash cows, and the only way to justify their fees is to go where the mass market wants it to go. So they concentrate on what will earn their View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
You've done everything—endured diets, purged your freezer of Ben & Jerry's, and educated yourself on fat, sugar, and calories. Yet, you can't manage to lose weight. What's wrong with you? According to standard economic theory, which... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
nurses speak up about medication administration problems and contribute improvement ideas. We find that each component provides its own contribution to organizational performance. Blockages encourage people to suggest improvement ideas,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
and financially—to educate their employees, their communities, the financial community, and the public, as to what they stand for and what they're really about. Make it not only a touchstone for how a particular company conducts its... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
professor in the Finance Unit: As an academic, my main reaction to the executive order is that this decision is absolutely not grounded in the facts. I spend a lot of energy teaching my students to look at the facts to educate their... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207087 The Challenges of Launching a Start-up in China: Dorm99.com Harvard Business School Case 307-075 After graduating from Harvard Business School in June 2006, Ken Pao and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
prominent philanthropists and members of government, launch Ensina!, seizing Brazil's unprecedented economic growth and national commitment to education. The new independent educational non-profit is to be part of Teach For All, a global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
procurement policies. General Médica, a vendor of high-complexity medical equipment, knew that their products were competitive, but it was also aware that they could not compete on price. A demanding market would reward General Médica,... View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's enrollment is falling and deficits are becoming the norm. At the same time, the modern vision for girls' education requires an even greater investment in science and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
When Dean Nitin Nohria stepped onto the Burden Auditorium stage on the morning of October 1 to welcome a standing-room-only reunion crowd back to Harvard Business School, his audience was as attentive as any he had experienced in his 22-year teaching career. Although... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
will you attract top talent graduating from universities if your company is considered to destroy the environment? Second, competitors are interested in avoiding new regulations that might end up significantly increasing the burden for... View Details