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- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
debate about gay rights in Indiana” To investigate, Toffel and Chatterji designed an experiment to gauge whether mentioning Cook’s concerns about the RFRA influenced public support for the law, and whether Cook’s opinion affected... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
either mitigation or adaptation. It’s both. Businesses can and must play a key role in driving society’s ability to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Professor John Macomber, a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, has been View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs. For the past several years, Professor Ely has maintained an active... View Details
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs. For the past several years, Professor Ely has... View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
technology on the newspaper business with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne in this e-mail interview. An article based on Gilbert's doctoral research in this area received the Robert Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
organizational size.” While roughly two-thirds of its clients are nonprofits, Bridgespan also works with philanthropists and foundations. The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, for example, was an early Bridgespan client and has been at the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
exploding. "Over the next 20 years, we have to generate 80 million jobs," Masha says. "That's the population of Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy." But endemic corruption has scared off many foreign companies. "Nigeria is a nightmare country. Things just... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
people who train at our expense.” His final volley was, “Labor cost is not what makes us noncompetitive, stupidity is.” Perhaps the most striking suggestion came from a representative of the Independent Workers Party of Chicago: “The solution is simple: The length of... View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
a “human transfusion” for its economy. In recent decades, it has had plenty of practice--with good and bad experiences--in integrating other peoples into its society. Instead of building physical or psychological “fences” and arguing about quotas View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
directors and thematic working groups that shared information, drove partnerships, and facilitated investment across businesses and the municipality. These contracts were not branded as “sustainability” initiatives – they were just viewed... View Details
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. A recent Economist magazine includes a... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog
seemingly rational ways making logical business decisions, often find their firms in trouble. The course seeks to develop insights into why these things happened and how we should think about them in our future careers. The original course View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
driverless? Is it an advertising space? A connected entertainment center? A personal transportation sanctuary? —Jeff Zeller (MBA 2016) KAPOOR: The internal space will be very different. Up until now, cars have been designed for a scenario... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
reading, writing, and math,” she explains. “I wanted to bring that idea to Ghana.” With the cooperation and input of local nongovernmental organizations and a $350,000 grant from the Danish government, Akinola collaborated with a teacher from Denmark to View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
at Entrepreneurial Speed For Peter Michailidis (MBA 2011) the financial aid he received while attending HBS made it possible for him to follow his dreams and make a difference in the world. “The fellowship reduced my debt, so I could build a business instead of View Details
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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
FishLogic's Javier Segovia, Patrick George, Benjamin Vigoda, and Gonçal Pagan: producing programmable signal-processing chips that cost less and work faster. Lucas Klein, Matthew Mugo Fields, and Jason Green of BEST Education Partners,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
Harvard Graduate School of Design (HGSD). HGSD professor Spiro Pollalis serves as the program’s director and HGSD lecturer Andreas Georgoulias as its lead researcher, with faculty from across several other Harvard schools, including HBS,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
well received. A new program, Charting Your Course: Alumnae Career Choices and Transitions, was designed to bring together alumnae — many of whom have reduced their professional commitments for some time in order to raise a family — and... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
had full access to corporate archives and executives and provides us with a unique insight into the workings and strategies of one of the world's oldest and largest multinationals. Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution As a System of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace