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- 02 May 2013
- News
Gil Kemp, MBA 1976 & Barbara Guss Kemp
HBS is the opposite of complacent. The School could coast on its reputation, but instead it con¬tinues to work to improve itself. The fellow¬ship program has been terrifically important in giving great students more choices, and the... View Details
- 29 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Will I Stay or Will I Go? How Gender and Race Affect Turnover at ‘Up-or-Out’ Organizations
minority junior professionals don't see senior professionals in their organization who look like them. To want to stay at a firm, women and minorities need to see other women and minorities in senior positions. However, ''peer effects'' have the View Details
- Portrait Project
Joel Segre
absurdly lucky life. I want to harness that good luck, pouring myself into the issues I find most urgent and sharing my good fortune with others around the world. Forget work-life balance. My work and my life will not carry equal and View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
change, NATO, immigration, and energy in direct opposition to what they need to build their companies. As a result, they are stepping up to take the lead on vital global issues. Business leaders have a history of stepping in This is the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
it’s consistent from company to company.” Her new COO role at Code for America, a San Francisco–based nonprofit dedicated to improving civic tech and “strengthening America’s basic social safety net,” has proven this maxim true. “I actually own kind of the View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
and productivity, but also in the labor market, as information access and communication technology changes can be expected to affect the wage distribution in opposite directions," their paper states. The researchers looked at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
residents of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket such as the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Cape Wind has also confronted opposition from other political leaders as well as Native American groups, tourism and business... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
only vaguely aware of, the larger world. Today in the United States, I see the opposite happening, a closing-off of the world, in this the most media-intensive society in the world. If by “globalization,” we infer engagement with the rest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards
the power to unleash the next wave of global growth. Kanter received second-place honors for “How Great Companies Think Differently,” which appeared in the November 2011 issue. In her article, Kanter explains that traditional theories of the firm are dominated by the... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Good for Laughs
about being real, not about being a celebrity,” Moore observed. “Comedy is about self-deprecation, about showing vulnerability. In many ways, it is the opposite of being a celebrity CEO.” View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
"counterphobic move." Punch cards and mainframes were the technological order of the day when she enrolled at HBS, and a successful career in marketing -- including top-level positions at J. Baker Inc. and Bank of New England -- had required little direct experience... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
These employers are missing the underlying point. Instead of resorting to perks that are at best a band-aid, companies should follow the lead of Recruit Holdings, a $20 billion Japanese advertising and tech company that focuses on being a good place to be from. "This... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 08 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Getting Laid Off: An Opportunity for Reinvention
their job. Tran had been on the opposite side of the table any number of times in his career, working on post-merger integrations and reducing redundancies. In those moments, “I kept telling myself it’s nothing personal, we just had to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
that appear to have never been debated. That includes ‘nation-building’ or what would happen after we passed through major military operations.” Despite his eventual, lonely opposition (now hailed as courageous by many observers) to the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Web
Consolidated Balance Sheet - Annual Report 2019
4,821 m. * In pursuit of greater comparability across the Harvard schools, the University has asked all the schools to report their net results in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) in the United States. In addition to results for fiscal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
intense, markets tend to form, with supply responding to demand, in spite of controversy. Thus, with the potentially huge, lucrative, and beneficial industry that could emerge from embryonic stem-cell research, the question seemingly becomes when, not if. “Prohibitions... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
outside the United States. The cost to the American economy could be far greater than the cost of war.—John Quelch But now a deepening opposition to American foreign policy is threatening the long-term strength of these brands. And the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Applying to HBS in Round 3?
(sometimes the exact opposite happens) during this already stressful time period. My situation was no different. I was traveling more for work and my deliverables were getting more demanding. Recognizing that I needed to improve my GMAT... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- News
Prepare to Exit
one of the millions of Americans to lose their job. Tran had been on the opposite side of the table any number of times in his career, working on post-merger integrations and reducing redundancies. In those moments, “I kept telling myself... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
designed to fit with the strategy. Q: What were some of the other most intriguing results from the survey? Did any of these results surprise you? A: Perhaps the most surprising result was that the U.S. does not have smaller headquarters than European firms—indeed the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace