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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
with video "chapters." HBS Business and Environment Initiative - Check out HBS faculty research and news on sustainability efforts on the HBS campus With the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) now well established, View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and won the 1994 Massachusetts Democratic primary for lieutenant governor before losing in the general election. Since 1996, Massie has guided CERES, a national coalition of some 85 groups that includes environmental organizations and... View Details
- 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
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
thousands of women and men MBAs, research by Catalyst finds that women are still placed in less-promising roles and at lower compensation from their first post-MBA job—and those gaps only widen over time. This means that today's MBA women have to start their careers in... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
traditional process, focused on firm awareness and skills training. The two identity groups received the same training as the control group, but also an additional hour-long presentation, which varied according to the group. In... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
played in accelerating innovation. We know that small, entrepreneurial firms are the source of much of the innovation in the economy—but our work suggested that in many industries the emergence of those View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
the HBS and the Harvard Law School alumni communities. “We were pleased to have our four-woman panel comprised of two HLS and two HBS grads,” says Fortner, who organized the event with Joahne Carter (MBA 2002), Elizabeth Williams (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
global reservation systems, including Internet traffic, and overseeing the operations of a newly established pan-European call center that he designed and implemented. These high-tech business operations are a far cry from Club Med's humble beginnings in 1950 as a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
can’t be 100 percent in control of my destiny, I want to be as much in control as possible.” Kismet: “At HBS, when I was organizing the Latin America conference, I was told to invite this guy who was CEO of the nonprofit Accion... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
revitalize product lines produced by some of America’s most recognizable retailers. More recently, Ross, a self-styled corporate maverick, has branched out from products to explore process in pursuit of corporate America’s elusive holy grail: successful product... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
reinforce losing streaks. In contrast, when leaders believe in other people, confidence grows, and winning becomes more attainable. Leaders of organizations in success cycles are a little like rabbits, constantly reproducing. In losing... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
the United States. What has driven its success? How can it be sustained? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706417 John Mackey and Whole Foods Market Harvard Business School Case 807-111 Traces the history of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Lahey Lecturer on Education Lisa Lahey is co-director of Minds At Work, a coaching and consulting firm serving businesses and institutions around the world, and on the faculty of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. An... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
benefits to part-time workers. We have a consulting firm poll our workers every year to find out how they feel about the company, and they've told us that they've never seen such a positive response in an View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
investing the time or recruiting people to improve those processes.” The researchers conducted the survey over nine months between October 2015 and June 2016, in partnership with the membership organization WomenCorporateDirectors... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
and the October 17 deadline for extending the debt limit. Beyond that, if you look at sources of profitability for a lot of the select companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and even the top end of the S&P 500, there are other reasons to be nervous. Many of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
to innovate the products that people want at a price they can afford. For example, while public-sector organizations are hardly renowned for convenience—think about the location of your Division of Motor Vehicles—entrepreneurs created... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992), an HBS executive fellow and founder of ContinuumLab.ai, a differentiated venture firm that incubates and launches AI startups. The Institute, which launched in July, has repurposed the lab-based research... View Details
Keywords: April White