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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Leadership and Innovation in a New Global Economy So-Young Kang (MBA 2004) (Awaken Group Pte. Ltd.) Too often, people look at leaders and focus on their accomplishments and successes, but Kang examines the more human side of 12... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
payload—this one delivered the company’s New Shepard module that someday could give human passengers a taste of space travel—and are destroyed on the way up or crash back to Earth in pieces. With rockets costing tens of millions of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
about how to manage and grow the company? The turning point was when Deng Xiaoping opened up China, making available the most important natural resource it had, its labor, to the rest of the world. Starting in 1979, China began to... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Folarin Gdabedo-Smith. Though she anticipated her job would be researching and designing policy recommendations, Rewane quickly found herself engaged in the human resources realm, recruiting and building... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services
ads and marshals the full range of human and technological resources available at HBS and beyond. Gardella joined the HBS staff in October 1997, succeeding Robert M. Armstrong (MBA '66), who moved on to the... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
common. Each of the successful organizations they studied, including Mobil, CIGNA, and Duke Children's Hospital, used the balanced scorecard to align and focus all resources on strategy. The authors document how executives... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
of how it affects decision-making. At almost every stage of a start-up’s evolution, founders face a tension between attracting the resources needed to maximize the venture’s value and maintaining control of the enterprise—what I call the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
moving along, getting ‘back to normal,’” says Pasricha. “That approach sweeps most deeper human emotions under the rug. Loneliness, anxiety, and mental health challenges are spiking. There is a lot of mourning and guilt, too. Survivor’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason, business View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
India. He is currently working on a serial and has two more projects in the pipeline. "I believe it is a corporate social responsibility to pay back to your motherland," Parija says. "I am fortunate that I have the resources to bring a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Environmental Management. In his role as faculty chair overseeing the BEI, he collaborates with Lynn Schenk, BEI director, who adds: “We’re not debating whether climate change is real or caused by human activity. We’re laser-focused on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
by climate change by managing resources more efficiently, pursuing new strategies in the wake of climate change, and bringing climate-ready products to market. On May 15, over 100 Harvard Business School alumni and local and regional... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Broom, came from halfway around the world. The vice president of human resources for the cosmetics giant EstŽe Lauder International, Inc., she had just completed an assignment consulting on staff issues with... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 09 Jul 2024
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) has encountered gender discrimination in the workplace. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of it,” she says. As director of Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Wooldridge, who... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
States. "Like the supermajors, we have to be global in our orientation — albeit on a smaller scale — and that includes how we manage our human resources. It can be a challenge to find skilled, multilingual employees who are willing to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
direction is largely determined by the needs of its scientists and by the direction of the life sciences themselves. "Management's role therefore tends to be more of a resource provider," he says. Even so, Pratt adds that Whitehead's... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
hassle out of moving and furnishing a new residence. The runner-up spot went to Tom DeBrooke (MBA 1972) and his company, Vascular Perfusion Solutions, Inc., which has developed a new system to extend the viability of human organs and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
this to be a teachable moment. Our hope is that the tour, our book, and a related documentary film can serve as a catalyst toward further scholarly research. It’s important that young art historians be able to tell these stories with the benefit of more View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
governments to use those resources to help people escape poverty. In the private sector, Rangan sees a positive trend among multinational corporations within industries to set and adhere to minimum standards for labor, the environment,... View Details
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)
thread in my experiences was satisfaction in fixing things that were broken and creating efficiencies and processes.” While at HBS, she talked with alumni, professors, and classmates, and ultimately concluded that human View Details