Business Engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

a business opportunity from the perspective of a "triple bottom line"-a performance evaluation scheme focused on "people, planet, and profit" that construes success in terms of social benefits, environmental... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

that make this possible. Together, they reveal a systematic approach to managerial work at the top, which is seldom found in the literature. By building on the engagement of many in the development of the organization, the practices are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2017
News

A Summit Higher Than Everest

Vogl (MBA 1998), CEO of The Mountaineers, explores the past, present, and future of the adventure business on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Tom Vogl (MBA 1998), CEO of The Mountaineers, explores the past, present, and future of the... View Details

Keywords: April White; mountain; climb; climbing; adventure

30 Mar 2017
News

Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest

what you were engaged in as a negotiator for the provincial government. Talk to me about the approach that you guys employed. Wally Eamer: We were trying for what I think technically is called a Pareto optimal outcome, which is better for... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

complicated challenge. Early experience suggested that computer-aided case analysis could enhance classroom discussion and bring real-life business issues into sharper focus. Faculty engaged in a continual... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

- to live what I had spent so much time only reading about. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: Why, then, did I leave the Army? I left for the same reason I joined - I felt called. The Army helped me understand that I become most passionate and View Details

24 May 2023
News

Balancing Acts

I don't have to explain why. Right? And that's fine. The third thing I would say is seek joy. For me, bubble baths, that's my tip. I take regular bubble baths, so you know, I have a busy life and I'm doing all these things and that's my... View Details

Keywords: work-life balance; happiness; family

09 May 2021
Blog Post

Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

a support group for one another as we navigated the joys and challenges of motherhood. The student parent community at Harvard Business School is heavily skewed towards fathers as opposed to mothers, with a 5:1 father to mother ratio.... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

investors, but it’s really a struggle—especially for early-career entrepreneurs,” says Hiroko Muraki Gottlieb, a senior researcher in Business and Climate Change who co-edited a 2020 report on advancing science for sustainable ocean View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

McGinn believe that negotiation skills are crucial to closing the gender gap in leadership. Riley Bowles, who earned her doctoral degree from Harvard Business School, is an assistant professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

student-focused initiative has collectively raised more than $30,000 in less than 3 weeks, has mentored more than 350 prospective business school and graduate students, and started a fundraiser to procure oxygen concentrators and channel... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

The Middle Way

canoes, dwellings, and totem poles. A road now bisects the hill and the coast, with a busy logging facility operating just off the water. Hulking yellow vehicles relocate felled trees around a dirt lot, navigating stacks of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM), and in seeking to appreciate the diversity, history, and myriad experiences of the Asian Pacific Islander community, the Asian-American Business Association, in collaboration with the... View Details

19 Jan 2023
News

Forged in Fire

didn't have a chance to say goodbye. She'd had a heart attack and died. But when I recovered from her death I fell in love with a woman from Georgia and I got engaged to be married, and she started having some headaches in the summer, but... View Details

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