Activism - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 18

objectives. First, this format allowed us to combine the active student orientation typical of case-based approaches with the systematic construction of cumulative theoretical frameworks more characteristic of lecture-based methods.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

manage a company's resources. But many executives who have tried to implement ABC on a large scale in their organizations have found the approach limiting and frustrating. Why? The employee surveys that companies used to estimate resources required for business View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55632 forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Rick Grinnell

Educational Council at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is active with the entrepreneurial programs at Harvard, and is a frequent judge at MassChallenge. Rick’s contributions to the broader community include serving as a... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital

Portrait Project

Peter Park

quietly accept the status quo, or actively change it for the better. I want to continue sharing these moments by creating opportunities which enable others like Iminza to shape their own paths. And as HBS provides me with the rare and... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Preparing Global Leaders

and diverse business issues,” he says. Wahl, an investor based in Oslo, Norway, was cofounder and partner of the private equity firm IK Investment Partners Ltd. from 1989 to 2009. Presently he runs Stromstangen AS, a privately owned investment firm focusing on asset... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel

travel activities booking site, “dedicated to making travel planning enjoyable.” Earlier this year, Peek raised an additional $10 million and announced an instant-booking partnership with Yelp. Getaway CEO Jon Staff (MBA 2016) Founded in... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2014
News

The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships

ability to enhance the discussions that lie at the heart of the case method. Participant-centered learning depends on the active involvement of every student, each of whom brings a unique background and perspective to the mix of voices... View Details

Keywords: fellowships

01 Dec 2013
News

Joining Together for HBS

inclusiveness. The fund also supports activities that take advantage of the School's exceptional convening power — bringing together scholars, practitioners, and students to work together to help identify solutions to the world's pressing... View Details

Keywords: alumni giving; innovation; business education

Portrait Project

Soline Miniere

to myself, my point of view on others' perspectives. As I am looking around me, I wonder what it means to speak with an Indian accent or a soft voice, to wear a veil or high heels, to have a dismissive attitude or to choose prudently your words. When I am stuck in my... View Details

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Howard E. Cox | Baker Library

capital. Howard joined Greylock, a private venture capital firm founded in Boston in 1965. He has been actively involved in healthcare, has served on numerous boards, and was a director of the Boston Globe when it was sold to the New York... View Details

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Karly Hou | MBA

building solutions that tackle our world's biggest problems. Professional goals: I want to build new things that make life easier for those least served by society (that might be a startup!). I want to explore technology at its frontier. I want to create art,... View Details

22 Nov 2022
News

Merlin Entertainments Taps Scott O’Neil as CEO

Entertainments is second in size only to Disney in the theme park space, with more than 140 attractions in 24 countries, featuring partnerships with Lego, Hasbro, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. “We will be very active in making sure... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Who, Me?

three-quarters of Tickle’s revenues, with the remainder coming from ads and memberships. Since the site was introduced in 1999, the company says some 50 million people have taken a Tickle test and some 18 million are active members.... View Details

Keywords: Tickle.com; social media; tickle; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2010
News

Students Serve the Community

initiative also saw the seventh graders visit HBS in November for a special case discussion on leadership with Professor Ton. HBS students plan to make a visit to a new school early next year, with a joint community-service activity... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11

residential mortgages. This expansion was itself fueled by the development of non-bank credit intermediation (or "shadow banking"). Whether the growth of the financial sector has been socially beneficial depends on one's view of View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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1.2 MBA Honor Code | MBA

1.2 MBA Honor Code 1.0 Academic Information & Policies The MBA Program at HBS educates leaders through a learning model in which students and faculty teach and learn from one another. This process of active participation and shared... View Details

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

adversity, boards become more active by definition," one director said. "But what one has to ask is: Should they be more active when things are good, to make sure that the risk-management processes are in... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

fragment and coordinate production around the world, multinationals will be able to rationalize operations more by concentrating productive activities and disposing of secondary activities. This rationalization, in turn, will require an... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

like local community-building initiatives. Others disclose activities rather more guardedly: effects on environmental pollution, for example. As of April last year, there were over 32,000 such reports of "global corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

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