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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
In towns and cities across the country, HBS club members are putting their expertise to work helping local nonprofit organizations solve an array of interesting challenges. Alumni agree that it's a rewarding and enjoyable way to make a... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
Matter’s largest financial supporter, meanwhile, is Pershing Square Foundation, started by Bill Ackman (MBA 1992). Pershing helped fund a 2014 ROI study by Columbia University professor Clive Belfield, who found that for every dollar... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
seventy HBS students who participated in the HBS Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship Program, which gives financial support to MBA students who choose to work in the public and nonprofit sectors during the summer months. Sponsored by the... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
still worth my time? But while much is changing in business, a lot of the challenges still involve basic block-and-tackle work around product development, sales, and distribution. Also of major importance: hiring, training, motivating, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
In discussions that continue to swirl in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the question of corporate governance's role is often front and center. In The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
an entrepreneur; what the role of a fundraising leader entails; and why and how fundraising can be rewarding and fun. The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup by Noam Wasserman (Princeton... View Details
- 17 Jun 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience
hosted a panel and networking reception during San Francisco Climate Week at the University Club of San Francisco focused on how communities, businesses, and governments can respond to climate-driven disasters through innovative financial... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
and incentives—whether organizations promoted and rewarded employees based on performance and tried to keep the best performers from quitting. To collect the data, the researchers hired teams of MBA students who could interview managers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
as important as rewarding investors is using the power of business to build a better society. Roundtable members committed to building up local communities, investing more in employees, fostering diversity and inclusion, embracing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
horizons, risks, and norms. New management skills, new organizational forms, new institutional and financial arrangements, and a new breed of leadership are all essential.” Adds Pisano, whose case “The Science Economy: Creating Leaders... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
easy to find circular economy models that are interesting, but few have achieved the scale and financial sustainability Apple has,” says George Serafeim, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, who heard Claure tell... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
iVillage soon created sites such as About Work (www.aboutwork.com), Better Health (www.betterhealth.com), and Armchair Millionaire (www.armchairmillionaire.com), a financial planning site. Although Carpenter and her cofounders originally... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
and well-being of others.” He thinks these virtues are not often reflected in what actually happens in real organizational life. Instead, the leaders he sees commonly exhibit immodest, inauthentic, dishonest, untrustworthy, and self-serving behaviors. They are View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
illegal-drug addictions totaled an estimated $700 billion in direct and indirect costs, according to a 2015 report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. DynamiCare developed an app that provides financial View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
Resorts (B) faculty namesHarvard Business School Supplement 111-015 This case describes how employees are rewarded and compensated and is a supplement to "Aman Resorts." Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Kevin S. Rollag
nuances — legal, ethical, and global — of all this unbounded technology," says Kevin. "I needed a comprehensive introduction to business fundamentals while getting a high-level vision of how organizations are put together." At HBS, many of the biggest... View Details
- Profile
Raymond Hwang
KishHealth Spine Center? “It’s remarkable how often I use HBS-derived knowledge, particularly since medicine is not a traditional MBA career track. From assessing the financial status of a medical practice to negotiating strategic... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
leaders. Inspired, Kloeblen formed a boutique, “CFO for hire” firm called “C-Street” that built a book of small business clients eager for seasoned financial expertise. Word spread and soon, Kloeblen was leading a small network of... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- Profile
Lisa Cousins
perspective, and none of us are afraid to speak up about new ideas or to challenge each other...kind of like an HBS classroom. Everyone is also really nice and I just get so much joy from interacting with them every day. I love learning from my teammates, and there’s... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
That means that a first-class human-resources executive must be at the CEO's right hand. Eventually, traditional strategic-planning processes will need to be overhauled and the financially calibrated measurement and View Details