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Michelle Giguere
mutual. After completing a nine-month Retail Manager Program of rotations in San Francisco, Michelle acquired merchandising responsibilities for menswear, infant clothing, and ultimately, "the entire... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
organization’s DNA and treat it as a radical new operating system. Deep Purpose is the result of a three-year journey for Gulati, in which he visited organizations around the world to see, firsthand, how leaders have managed to create... View Details
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
didn’t know much about HBS at that point. But when I heard about the option to actually do a combined degree, I started thinking that might be a really interesting thing to do. “I’m interested in revamping how we deliver health care. I want to bring some of the best... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
consumers in their homes and workplaces. Using a novel web-based face tracking system, we continuously measure consumers' smile responses as well as their viewing interest and purchase intent. A simultaneous Bayesian hierarchical model is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
inclusion (D&I) strategies, she is responsible for the firm’s multicultural initiatives designed to retain, develop and advance diverse professionals. Elena is also responsible for PwC’s Diamond program, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Inside Executive Search
leading companies in the relevant industry sectors, then works to identify the managers most responsible for the success of the relevant business. We want to learn why a prospect may be an appropriate... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
happening in terms of management practices in their hospital. What I see in my studies mapping the adoption of basic management practices across hospitals is a wide dispersion: There are some points of... View Details
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Tim Nicolette
Where are you now and what are you doing? I’m the president of UP Education Network in Boston. We serve as a third party administrator for our district clients, charged with the responsibility for turning around failed or failing schools.... View Details
- September 2009 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A)
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in Kenya. The organization's investment committee and its... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 310-011, September 2009. (Revised May 2011.)
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
results illustrate how firms redesign their organizational structure through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their environment. We discuss several possible interpretations of these changes. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
important to note that electric vehicles can provide a solution to both personal and freight mobility, and even work with the electricity system to help manage variability in demand, which will result in more economic value and lower... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
Art by Brian Taylor As an HBS doctoral student and recipient of the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research, George Serafeim (DBA ’10) coauthored the paper “The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing director of ICV Partners, and in this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
Improve an Organization’s Culture? Here’s a succinct response from Juan E. Gomez Inciso reflecting many of the responses to the question: “It takes what it takes, given the circumstances and people... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated workforce shifts that had been gaining momentum before the public health crisis, thrusting employers and workers into a new era within months. Joseph Fuller, a professor at Harvard Business School and co-leader of the School’s View Details
- October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa
By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Esel Çekin
In July 2021, Sunil Lalvani, founder and CEO of Project Maji, a non-profit social enterprise headquartered in Dubai that had already provided sustainable, clean water solutions to 80,000 people living in rural communities across Ghana and Kenya, was facing an important... View Details
Keywords: Water; Pricing; Nonprofit Organizations; Projects; Price; Decision Making; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; Equity; Green Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Africa; Dubai
Ofek, Elie, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha, and Esel Çekin. "Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa." Harvard Business School Case 522-043, October 2021. (Revised May 2023.)
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
role is appropriate for the board? And how can the directors understand enough about the company to meet their responsibilities effectively? In this excerpt Lorsch looks at how directors are rethinking their roles. (For more about the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
industry. That said, technology will be most powerfully utilized during the pandemic by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more nimble, efficient organizations, more capable of managing the factors of production (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which the union invested to be managed for the long-term... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace