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- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
agencies, and Fortune 500 executives. The bet: by providing "no-strings-attached" help to ecosystem partners, the partners might someday reciprocate by steering founders seeking funding to a16z. The case closes by asking whether a16z... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Download the paper (purchase from NBER required: $5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13470 Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Abstract Civil society actors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
larger rescue package backed by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and a group of countries. Kim in his home office and library: “It’s where I meditate, where I read, where I write. It’s where I find some little drops of peace.”... View Details
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Enter Elton Mayo – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Archives Photograph Collection Elton Mayo was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1880. Affable, witty, and a brilliant lecturer, he taught mental and moral philosophy at the University of Queensland, where he conducted psycho-pathological tests on View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
teaching methodology, but also for the creation of Harvard Business Publishing’s flagship publication, Harvard Business Review (HBR). For the past century, HBR has been required reading in executive suites around the world and a... View Details
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Profiles - MBA
an authentic desire to build the world they want to live in. ” Tech areas of interest: AI/ML, Design, Human Computer Interaction, Sustainability, Privacy, Security & Trust Formative experience at the intersection of technology and... View Details
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About - Global
About Building upon a rich legacy of global engagement in business education. The Global Initiative is anchored by a team based in Boston with more than 65 staff sitting in key regions around the world to contribute to the school’s global... View Details
- 01 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs
her professor couldn’t come up with a design that worked with such low wind speeds. Shodiya was intrigued by the world of research despite those setbacks. But she decided to switch gears and gain experience in the air transportation... View Details
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Skydeck - Alumni
Programs & Events Skydeck Skydeck is the HBS alumni podcast series that features interviews with HBS alumni from across the world of business, sharing lessons learned and their own life experiences. Subscribe on iTunes , Spotify , or... View Details
- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
Shafiq Khan (MBA 1982) loves to solve problems. It’s what attracted him to the case study method at HBS and, after graduation, to consulting at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Then, at United Airlines, Khan encountered another challenge: The company was spending one-sixth of... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
subsequent chapters describe how leaders at firms such as Du Pont, IBM, and Cemex have transformed their organizations, exploring issues such as the role of the senior team and the ways in which firms shift their identities, build innovative cultures and processes, and... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
The trillion-dollar size of the union pension funds gave the Office a platform from which to work. The departure of Home Depot's CEO had been a significant step by Home Depot and the company had made other concessions as well. The AFL-CIO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
European market and, indeed, in the world economy. Over the first half of the twentieth century, however, the bank faced a series of national crises: defeat in WWI (1914-1918), revolution in 1919, hyperinflation in 1923, economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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HBS - The year in Review
The installation celebrates the generosity of the newly established Bridgitt and Bruce Evans Contemporary Art Fund at the School. 26th New Venture Competition Launched The 26th annual HBS New Venture Competition, held in Klarman Hall in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- What Do You Think?
Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?
social, and governance issues at the heart of so-called “stakeholder capitalism.” Corporations that become too visible in support of stakeholder capitalism run the risk of losing public investors, such as pension funds in states in which... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About
Kresge Hall once stood. Play Video duration: 17:00 About the Name An extraordinary gift to Harvard University and HBS from a Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and family foundation is funding both the new Executive Education facility and financial... View Details
- 09 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?
Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details