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- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
women have made Some conference speakers pointed out that it’s important to celebrate the gains women have made over the years. For example, white women have made strides in education circles; these days... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
this requires formal training programs. "Companies hold numerous meetings related to diversity training to make the workplace comfortable for people of different races, genders, or sexual orientations," says Quelch. "Employees should be View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
wealth with them. His parents’ primary assets were their talents, energies, and aspirations to have a better life for themselves and their children. So how did Brin reach a position to cofound Google in 1998? The US View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
benefit the environment as well as a company's bottom line," Rangan adds. Good examples are the early childhood literacy initiative of PNC, a financial services organization based in Pittsburgh, and the 10,000 Women initiative of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
would love to know when life will return to “normal” even if it is a different normal than what we have previously experienced. Many companies are running ads or issuing CEO messages that say: “We are in this together.” Perhaps it is more... View Details
- 18 Nov 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Making a Fast Start on a New Job
One skill every new employee must master is getting a fast start. Here are stories from the archives on what Harvard Business School faculty have advised about hitting the ground running. A Fast Start On Your New Job Your first 90 days in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
In June, Professor Joe Bower (with fellow HBS professors Dutch Leonard, David Moss, and Lynn Paine) led an HBS faculty colloquium on "The Future of Market Capitalism." The HBS Alumni Bulletin spoke with Bower shortly after the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
A New Ecosystem for Business and Society
survived." Dean Clark continued this theme by discussing issues that businesses, society and higher education need to recognize and confront. For business, he said, the Internet has brought about the creation of "an entirely new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
greater risk and thus affects resource allocation. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1999484 Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
and students, since the case studies in the book were developed for a course on corporate restructuring that I have taught here at Harvard Business School for the past eight years. (I have also taught these materials View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
themselves, are strongly influenced by biases. Perhaps the best example of this insider/outsider distinction, among even well educated consumers, can be found in their negotiations with contractors for new... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
very sophisticated economy with some of the most educated and most successful business people in the world," Kirby continues. "But they will only be leaders if the Chinese government steps back." He is the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
regulation should be there.... Keeping 'excess' in check is an appropriate response by a civilized society." As Edware Hare put it, "Forget 'nudging.' We need to replace self-indulgence with self-restraint ... better View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Evolution of Agribusiness
to be seen not just as economically important, but as a critical part of society. Agribusiness touches on health, nutrition, safety, science, and government. One particular step in the evolutionary process is a transformation that... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
Boston predict which places might be violating public health regulations. And it is working with an education nonprofit in Watertown, Mass., Education Resource Strategies, to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
technology is being diverted to the creation of more variations on basic ideas faster instead of “an economy based on new products/platforms/ideas.” Donald Shaw cited “problems in finding qualified people to hire.” He also said that,... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
immune therapies available to patients as quickly as possible.” The next step for the KPMA is to launch an HBS Executive Education program, Accelerating Innovation in Precision Medicine, View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
for eleven years at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and was director of research at MIT's Center for Real Estate Development. "Housing in any form is relatively more expensive for municipalities than most other uses of... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details