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- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
dry lease) model is recognized as a strategic move. This shift allows for rapid scaling of the bus fleet without the need for substantial upfront capital. Collaboration with Private Actors: While BEST excels in expanding the government fleet, there's an View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?
"prevailing conditions" and Ahmed Issa mentioned "external and internal factors" as influences on possible responses. Perhaps the most interesting responses were to the questions themselves. Gopal Padinjaruveetil... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
short-term, bottom line thinking drive decisions contrary to the best interests of that business (and society) over the long term. Frankly, the threat that is posed by climate change to our planet must now be thought of as short-term.... View Details
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
importantly, this venture is not the only answer and in the interest of solving the problem I should partner. On the personal side, I could not have had a better chance to explore entrepreneurship. I enjoyed every aspect of being a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
database of every senior official in the Secretariat from 1945 to 2008—some 4,000 names in all. Then, consulting news reports and international directories, they determined the nationality of each official. “It's not clear that it's in the best View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
experience. After the league spun out NBA Africa as a standalone entity, it found interested investors in former NBA players who hail from the continent, including South Sudan’s Luol Deng and Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Dikembe... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal
here. Alumni really want us to keep in touch.” As for the future, Dolan is taking one step at a time and appreciating the opportunity he has been given. He says, “I can now give something back to the School, while meeting fascinating people, making View Details
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
time, managers and corporations seek capital for their ideas, but in doing so they have an inherent conflict of interest about what information to disclose. Therefore, for this complex system to work smoothly requires a governance system... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
theory has developed. To reinvigorate academic interest in disruptive innovation, we propose several underexplored topics—response strategies, performance trajectories, and innovation metrics—to guide future research. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
says. "The reality is that the only reason you're interested in either of these things is that you're interested in finding the truth. We spend most of our waking hours in our professions, but if we can't... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
percent in 2015. Yet nearly one-third of Indian housewives express the desire to work. How do governments go about changing perceptions of women in the workforce when it’s in their economic interest to do so? A recent working paper by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 May 2020
- Blog Post
Building a World of Trusted Leaders: Taking the MBA Oath
alone. My decisions affect the well-being of individuals inside and outside my enterprise, today and tomorrow. Therefore, I promise that: I will manage my enterprise with loyalty and care, and will not advance my personal interests at the... View Details
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Molly Welch
tremendous impact on human problems -- but that its impact would depend on how systems are developed and the problems to which they are applied. I came to the joint MBA/MPP program interested in more directly shaping the governance and... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
4 Things You Need to Know About Independent Projects
Unlike many business schools today, HBS offers only one type of MBA degree: the two year, full time residential MBA. Everyone graduates with the same degree, and we don’t offer official concentrations or specialties. That isn’t to say that students don’t hone and... View Details
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
consultants and eventually founding corporate publicity departments.” 14 The economic strife brought about by the Great Depression in the 1930s instilled a sense of public misgivings about large corporations, while interest in American... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- What Do You Think?
As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?
Mentoring? There was negligible response to last month’s column. Either there was little interest in the topic of reverse mentoring or potential respondents may have been discouraged from responding by Stac, whose lone response raised a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Contact Us | HBS Online
have a specific question about one of our programs, or are curious to learn more about what our learners are up to, explore these additional resources: Frequently Asked Questions Student Stories Blog Want to know more? If you still haven’t found exactly what you’re... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
knowledge base." At HBS, Professor Warren A. Law's corporate finance course solidified Fisher's interest in the field, and a summer internship at Morgan Stanley whet the Baker Scholar's appetite to return as an associate after graduation.... View Details
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
M-PESA is popular among customers. But they wonder how such an application can also be good for the carriers' bottom line. After all, the company is not allowed to pay interest on savings or to invest the float, per government orders;... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
a freelancer who had worked for the Atlantic and was held hostage in Libya in 2011. Bradley gathered interested parties—Gillis’s parents, journalists, lawyers—to brainstorm how they could help, and their initial success led him to bring... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young