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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
always insist on the highest standards. Indian companies had begun to wake up to this problem even before the crisis in corporate America. They have also observed how shareholder value multiplies in those... View Details
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From Classroom to Workplace - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
male-dominated arenas and of achieving a delicate balance between their professional and personal lives. 173, 174, 037 Women students, for example, experienced the sting of discrimination beginning with company recruiters, who offered... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
aspirations, serve as stewards who know the organization in all its dimensions, and make decisions that create value for all stakeholders—owners, employees, customers, and society. The goal is not just achieving short-term success but... View Details
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
student-run company, Campus Enterprises, as the Chief Operating Officer,” Krantz shared. “The company is several different ventures under one umbrella, and I founded a new cleaning service business within it.” In her senior year, Krantz... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
generations to come and shares his personal history as an heir to the Carnation fortune. The message of his great-grandfather, E.A. Stuart, the founder of the Carnation Company in 1899, still holds true today, says Lucas: Be useful. How... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
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Monne Williams
At Duke, Monne Williams wasn't satisfied with playing rugby or even working in the athletics office on sponsorships and corporate relations. Curiosity led to questions: "Who do companies sponsor? What's the benefit? What's the return... View Details
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Jonathan Arena
five." Jonathan’s grandfather worked at the Heywood-Wakefield Furniture Company in Gardner, Massachusetts; his father “is an amateur photographer and professional writer – and he had his own business, which influenced my interest in... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
partners Howard E. Cox Jr. (MBA 1969) and Henry F. McCance (MBA 1966), were honored in 2003 with an HBS Alumni Achievement Award in recognition of Greylock’s role in helping to build more than 250 companies and nurturing numerous... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
http://hbr.org/search/613083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-027 Société Internationale de Plantations et de Finance (SIPEF) Management of a company with extensive palm oil tree plantations questions the usefulness to management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Trends and Insights: Board Leadership Diversity and Organizational Performance - Blog: RGE Report
confirms this. In a 2024 study with senior leaders , only 65% of women said they feel they can influence decision-making (compared to 85% of men). Companies can and should set diversity targets both at the board level and for employees to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
November and December, these women typically awake before dawn to pick the coffee cherries in the cooler morning air. Then they spend days tending to the drying beans, meticulously sorting them for sale. To ensure that more of the value... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
in Cambridge “I believe that after achieving financial success, most people want to have an impact on society. That’s what brings meaning and purpose to my life.” Having built and sold an Internet company in the 1990s, Chertavian launched... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
had a viable business. A totally new concept at the time, Cheney initially created Prokanga as an innovative marketplace solution that connects companies with experienced, flexible expertise—in other words, well-established, senior... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Methods Revisited By: Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung Park Abstract—We estimate a sales response model to evaluate the short- and long-term value of pharmaceutical sales representatives'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
expose minority youngsters to the same opportunities I had,” he explains. At HBS, Sundy has served his classmates as cochair of the Leadership and Values Initiative. “I believe in empowering people by involving them,” he says. “That means... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
dominated by philosophical and political discourse due to a lack of systematic evaluation. Very little empirical evidence is available to indicate whether these codes legitimately distinguish adopting companies and factories as providing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines
and MBA, it would have been difficult for me to pursue consulting and venture capital roles in early stage surgical innovation companies, where technical and business acumen are crucial. During my RC year, I consulted with Activ Surgical, a Boston-based startup View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
to understand the technology cycle, which is often influenced by ideas generated by former members of the military. Only months before he would graduate and launch his own venture, Michael Orzetti (MBA 2018) was in Israel. He and 44 classmates were working with 10... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
drives. CB: Ultimately, though, the power of modularity does not lie simply in the creation of financial option value and the ensuing impact on competition. Modularity also helps simplify complex systems and divvy up complex tasks so that... View Details