Business Engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Nov 2014
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Expanding Audiences Through HBX CORe

To introduce the language of business to those just starting careers or preparing for an MBA, HBS debuted in June 2014 its Credential of Readiness (CORe) program, an online business primer for college... View Details

20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired

And it involves fundamental change. It also involves the leaders changing themselves. I think it’s hard work, but my hope is to convince people that it’s worth the effort. Flint: Do you think all businesses should have a deep purpose,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2018
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Trade Off

stop the import of finished cars. But today, much trade is intermediate goods that can go back and forth across borders. So even the politics of understanding what you do with the tariffs, their purpose, and the consequences are much more opaque. It requires a very... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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School Ties

education system (e.g., jointly studying and implementing global best practices). Though some superintendents are frustrated by how business has approached education in the past, more than 80 percent of superintendents would welcome new... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2016
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Managing Change

Harvard Business School’s Executive Director for University Affairs. James, previously executive director of External Relations, will be working with Senior Associate Dean Srikant Datar to lead efforts including HBS’s View Details

04 Nov 2014
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Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years

to 2.5 million women across the country and launching his own startup, Salud Cercana (Health Near You), to address the issue of heart disease in low-income Mexico communities. One of only a few Mexican physicians with an MBA, Ocejo, 31, first saw the opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2014
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Living Social

average entrepreneur is becoming much more civically engaged and socially minded. They are creating businesses that are deeply invested in the community and are thinking responsibly about how they are making... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

18 Sep 2017
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Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact

at how alumni are engaged in addressing today’s social problems; shows how social impact can evolve over a person’s lifetime; and relates some of the experiences shared by HBS alumni. “We’re constantly stunned by the breadth and depth of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Scientific Research and Development Services; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

01 Dec 2018
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Preparing Our Students for a Changing World

ventures have been incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs,” says Executive Director Jodi Goldstein (MBA 1996). “Collectively, they have worked on an incredible breadth and diversity of ideas.” 83% of Harvard University students engage... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service by John A. Goodman (MBA 1971) (AMACOM) These days businesses have more opportunities to enhance the customer experience than ever before. Goodman explains how View Details

02 Aug 2017
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The Atlantic Finds a New Home

right.” The Emerson Collective engages in cross-sector partnerships that focus on education, immigration reform, the environment, and social justice initiatives. Bradley has told the story of transforming a magazine (purchased from Mort... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

30 Mar 2016
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Alumni in Middle East Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

challenges and opportunities facing Harvard Business School, but also the great opportunities we have to help create positive change throughout the world. “And the Campaign is about more than raising money,” he noted. “It provides an... View Details

24 Feb 2015
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Florida Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

Alumni young and old gathered in Miami on February 24 to celebrate and socialize. Alumni and friends of Harvard Business School from across Florida gathered on February 23 and 24, 2015 to celebrate and connect with each other as the... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab

shows on topics that many advertisers would find too edgy. How we consume TV, it seems, is changing what we consume, opening up new opportunities on the business and creative sides of an industry that hasn’t seen a similar degree of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I wanted to ask a quick favor. We’re running a two-minute, ten-question listener survey to help us continue to bring you these great, View Details

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

not being micromanaged” or “I'm much more productive in a hybrid work situation” or things like that. How their energy and time is being used, they want to reset. And then the regain alignment folks are those who say, I actually really like how my job View Details

04 Feb 2016
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From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl

families. Led by Santa Clara University professor Juan Montermoso (DBA 1977), a member of the Community Partners team, SCU business students developed plans to engage area technology firms as partners or... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds

proposal. At the end of FIELD 3, the team—which was by then armed with a better understanding of both sides of the market and how to engage business owners—pitched HourlyNerd again. This time, the mock stock... View Details