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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
the courage to reinvent yourself, not hold on to the past, and to act swiftly.” Proudly noting that corporate responsibility has always been integral to Avon’s identity, Jung stated that the company has raised over $450 million in the... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
11 Ways to Reengage Employees in the New Year
to ensure employees feel recognized and valued. Plan to celebrate personal and professional milestones and achievements: birthdays, the birth of a child, work anniversaries, completion of a long-term project, etc. When staff feel that their organization View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
everyone everywhere in the world in unprecedented ways and the consequences are real,” says incoming HBS MBA student Isha Khambra, a member of the Students Fight COVID initiative. “Despite these challenges we—now and in the past—have seen View Details
- Portrait Project
Vaibhav Singh
got stuck in rough terrain. They taught me not to brake hard on corners and how to act if things went horribly wrong. No one ever cared if a CEO with a superbike was riding next to someone who bought a... View Details
- Web
Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and helped launch the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) that was created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He also served as special assistant to the... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
Still Care About the Paris Climate Change Agreement?America has withdrawn from the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change. Should business leaders care? Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?If industry... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
echoed Hamburg’s call for improvements in regulation, but he also emphasized the innovation side of the balancing act between safety and product development. “Reinvent invention,” he told the audience. The industry must get smarter about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
if you walk into Best Buy and purchase a cell phone, we run your credit score and activate the account so you can walk out with a phone that’s ready to use. We tie together the retailers that sell digital services with the providers of those services by taking View Details
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
(Photo source: Catherine Lane) Giving to charity is the ultimate act of selflessness. We offer our own hard-earned money to those in need, with no thought of return. The reality of altruism, however, is much more complicated, as Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More... View Details
- Profile
Caitlin Reimers
to learn how to lead. The case method helps you define your own values within a universe of ideas." "I'm continually surprised by how thoughtful, caring, and family-like my section is," says Cait. "Here, people take View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC, who has pledged $1 billion of his own wealth to fighting climate change through the Grantham Foundation. “Time is not on our side. We should act as if we are desperate,” he said. “We are... View Details
- Profile
Kevin Nazemi
care IT startup in Boston. Once he completes his joint degree, he looks forward to “being a builder, someone with an operations role who can act as an entrepreneur.” View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
alumni from fields such as venture capital, consulting, law, accounting, life sciences, and technology. “I was impressed by the great turnout of teams, the care and diligence that the HBS clubs brought to planning the regional contests,... View Details
- 17 May 2017
- News
Nisa Godrej Takes Over
relented and gave his daughter free rein. Friends and colleagues describe the Agrovet episode as the opening act in Nisa's journey at Godrej, her almost missionary zeal to bring a "performance-oriented culture" to the 117-year-old firm.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
Because it’s a problem that we could actually solve right now! A statistic from a Washington, D.C., hospital network highlights the seriousness of the situation: Sixty percent of physicians’ time at that hospital system was spent searching for information — not View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
executives using tax minimization strategies, and to see whether that correlated with the tax strategies of the corporations they run. Spoiler alert: They do. The 2013 tax increases due to the American Taxpayer Relief Act and the... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
rigidity, unthinking application of age-old rules (vs.) careful reflective thought on matters that need intelligent application of criteria." Just how to promote slow thinking where it is appropriate stimulated an interesting and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Nitin Nohria explore one of the most basic questions of human behavior: What motivates us to act the way we do? Drawing on theories of... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
problems and how people are coming up with solutions,” WuDunn says. “We invite everyone to learn and act in some way.” WuDunn, also a former New York Times reporter, and Kristof won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on China’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley