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Amy Sennett
With her undergraduate background in international relations, Amy Sennett’s fellowship at the China Foreign Affairs University, where she taught oral English and current events, was a natural fit for her talents. While the experience was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
them, we have to do exactly what we don't want to do -- we have to accept the emotional pain of hearing about our faults in order to learn." The payback? "Individuals who are able to control this tendency make natural leaders and have a... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
environment requires understanding three key management factors: the interactive nature of strategy, organizational design, and individual leadership. Today's managers need to harness technological advances; manage and lead a dispersed,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Christensen Center: Open for Business
evolution of teaching styles over time, and the role of gender and ethnicity in the classroom. Research findings will be used in interactive media materials developed and distributed by HBS Publishing. A natural teacher himself, Emmons’s... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
the air outside New York City's JFK airport and eventually hitchhiked across the country." Merkl fell in love with California and decided to stay. Enrolling at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he studied environmental science, regional planning and View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
short-term nature of the stock market, while financial scholars find evidence that financial markets look deep into the future. But markets are only one source of information. Another is direct contact between boards and executives on the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
research, and compiled a database of 1,050 examples of alumni who are tackling social issues. The team also surveyed 13 MBA classes, ranging from 1955 to 2015, to discern the nature of such philanthropy, which researchers defined broadly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
(OPM 30, 2001), former Immigration and Naturalization Service attorney and coauthor of How to Get a Green Card, now in its 12th edition “Know your motivation. Know what drives you to write and publish. You don’t have to want to change the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
Behavioral ecologist Toni Rapone knows that natural selection is the law of the planet. But for the vibrant and down-to-earth MBA-cum-scientist, that knowledge comes from more than textbooks. Rapone, whose given name, Antoinette, honors... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- January 2002
- Case
Noranda Inc.: Mining, Smelting, and Sustainability?
Noranda is a $7 billion international mining and smelting company headquartered in Canada. It has been cited for its fine environmental record. This case explores the issue of sustainability--in this case, for a mining company. Over time, and under nongovernmental... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Mining; Cost Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Environmental Sustainability; Mining Industry
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Noranda Inc.: Mining, Smelting, and Sustainability?" Harvard Business School Case 702-009, January 2002.
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
Harvard Business School Case 708-418 Nearly all environmental organizations have a similar aim: to stop the degradation of the natural environment. However, the strategies which environmental organizations choose to employ are sometimes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
in 2006. White: What was it that attracted you to mountaineering? Vogl: As kids I think we sort of naturally gravitate towards climbing trees or spending time playing in the outdoors. I also always have loved the snow. And so for me,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
federal government. NASA sends people to space; the Federal Aviation Administration keeps air travel safe; the Department of Defense protects our country; the National Park Service cares for our natural and cultural resources—things we... View Details
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Max Seel
As an undergraduate, Max Seel had two encounters that would mold his ambitions. The first was with a professor, Tom Warren, who recruited Max into an analytical chemistry research fellowship that explored naturally occurring cylindrical... View Details
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Faculty - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
intellectual interests center on leadership and organizational change. His recent books include What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success, Changing Fortunes: Remaking the Industrial Corporation; Driven: How Human View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Reinventing Radio Days
Kennedy stresses, “We run Pandora with an eye to fueling our employees’ natural bent toward creativity and innovation.” As for continual improvement, Kennedy is a big believer: he’s been playing piano for 30 years, “mostly attempting to... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
and only disposable baby diaper to have earned the cotton natural seal from Cotton Inc. for having 100 percent cotton touching the baby’s skin instead of plastic. And San Francisco-based HumanFirst raised $12 million in new financing led... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
Countries 70 Undergraduate Majors Humanities and Social Sciences 35% Engineering 28% Business 24% Natural Sciences 8% Unspecified Major 5% Class of 2006 Median base salary $105,000 Median total compensation $138,125 Leading Job Locations... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values
task was rebuilding trust and confidence both inside and outside the organization.” Following Chao's remarks, Dean Clark told the new students that they had come to HBS at “an extraordinary time,” because of changes in technology, the world's geopolitical structures,... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
respond to this intervention, suggesting that formal training can limit the spread of peer advice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52649 Do Managers Matter? A Natural Experiment from 42 R&D Labs... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman