Corporate Political Activity - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

change, because back in 1997 the number of faculty with a strong interest in health care research was fairly small. Now it's actually fairly big. We have about ten to fifteen faculty who have active research or case writing agendas... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

suitable education, and in the spring of 1921, Doriot enrolled at HBS. His first job the next year was at the New York & Foreign Development Corporation (an affiliate of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company), where he assessed... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

building a more sustainable economy. She focuses particularly on how firms can safeguard economic growth and long-term profitability by addressing challenges like climate change and inequality, actively contributing to the health of our... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

11 Sep 2018
News

Bringing Government Up to Code

basic needs, we're all going to be instead just building armor plates for our Teslas. We're going to be living in a society we don't want to live in. At the same time, being a mother, it activated all of my motherly instincts and the... View Details

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

Photo by Mary Ellen Mark At first glance, perhaps, the writer John Irving might not seem to have a lot to teach the corporate world. As the author of such celebrated bestsellers as The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp,... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2009
News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

Peter Leiman and Cameron Ogden when they returned to the HBS classroom last October for the discussion of Sahlman’s case. Now they were silent protagonists, not active participants in the discussion. “It was a fantastic luxury to have... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

that groups create by thinking, talking, and collaborating. Artful Making Any activity that involves creating something entirely new requires artful making. Whenever you have no blueprint to tell you in detail what to do, you must work... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

01 Jun 1998
News

Diversity and Community

first annual Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership to IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA '65) and Levi Strauss CEO Robert D. Haas (MBA '68). The two chief executives received the newly established award on behalf of their companies'... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

standpoint. What will HBS do in terms of innovation to provide models and learnings where businesses can ensure everyone can be more secure and prosper and allow for significant wealth creation? —Clayton Chan (MBA 1996) Given the increasing income inequality, the... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Ready for Takeoff

is now an absolute focal point, meaning that flights typically serving leisure or corporate travelers—the latter accounting for more than 50 percent of current air travel in the country—will be reduced in favor of more site-to-site... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Terms of Use | HBS Online

rights; Content that you do not have the right to disclose; Profane, pornographic, obscene, indecent or unlawful content; Advertising or any form of commercial solicitation; Content related to partisan political activities; and Content... View Details

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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

noteworthy considering the challenges that confronted HBS and other academic institutions this year, from an economic landscape marked by higher operating costs to an increasingly complex global political climate that created pressure on... View Details

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

control this risk, the authors write, but you can and should plan for it. They offer three steps to help you survive a corporate scandal. 1. Be forthright. Transparency and full disclosure are key to overcoming the stigma. Executive... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

social change campaigns to the rest, Crutchfield reveals powerful lessons for change-makers who seek to affect society and the planet for the better. Corporate Diversification: Opportunities Created by the Winds of Change by Brooks Fenno... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Books

Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job by Robert S. Gardella (Harvard Business School Press) As fast as the business world is changing, so too are the techniques for searching for the right job. Yet regardless of the reason for a job change -- the... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

20 Nov 2015
News

Room to Grow

corporate ladder wasn’t for him. He wanted to make a more personal mark in the world. “A principle role model at the time was my uncle, Henry Way Kendall, who was a nuclear physicist, Nobel Laureate, and cofounder of the Union of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

social responsibility in all corporate affairs. That now lives under the rubric ESG-- Environment, Society, and Governance." Gina Hall MBA 1986 | Partnering for a Low Carbon Future “I’m slowing climate change by harnessing the power of... View Details

March 2025 (Revised April 2025)
Case

Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News

By: Vincent Pons, Jesse M. Shapiro, Bharat Anand and Susan Pinckney

The case examines the Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News defamation settlement based upon statements made on air in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. View Details

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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Professor Joseph Badaracco (MBA 1978) + More Info - Slides – Less Info - Slides This session will explore the current landscape of business ethics through case-based discussions of today’s most pressing corporate dilemmas. Drawing on... View Details

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

Tightening the commercial banks' capital requirement from the status quo leads to safer commercial banks and more shadow banking activity in the economy. While the safety of the financial system increases, it provides less liquidity.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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