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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
The Ron Brown Awards grew out of President Clinton's wish to establish an award that would honor corporate citizenship, explains Richard E. Cavanagh (MBA '70), president of The Conference Board, a business research and membership View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Fuller
start-up with five employees to a global powerhouse with sixteen hundred employees in 23 countries. From day one, Fuller and his colleagues knew they wanted to build a firm with global reach — a cutting-edge notion at the time. In the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
It’s a problem that is “capitalism’s Achilles heel,” declares Raymond Baker (MBA ’60), executive director of the Washington, D.C.–based organization Global Financial Integrity (GFI). This month at the G20 conference in Canada, Baker will... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
years ago, the organization added a distinctive network of elevated walkways, known as Wild Walk, that gives visitors the unique opportunity to experience nature at treetop level. “Everybody loves Wild Walk,” Clifford says. “It’s been a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and Lagos, Nigeria, ranging from a financial services operation to a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
more than 10 percent, and India's more than 6. It won't be long, says Daniel Pinto (MBA 1993), cofounder and chief executive of Stanhope Capital, one of the largest independent investment firms in Europe, before the West falls to the East... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
with video "chapters." HBS Business and Environment Initiative - Check out HBS faculty research and news on sustainability efforts on the HBS campus With the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) now well established, View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Where Are They Now?
concept, which holds that customer/employee satisfaction is mutually reinforcing and enhances profitability. In 1999, after a year as jack-of-all-trades at Brown University, his alma mater, Schlesinger went to the firm now known as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
investment. Detailing a half-century of stock market hits and misses, often with brutal honesty, the book relays lessons learned from both the crucible of failure and the elation of success. The Disruption Mindset: Why Some Organizations... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
the student had interviewed industry leaders to better understand the barriers to growth that Indian private equity firms face — his analysis echoing findings from Sadun’s own research. “It built on intuitions that I already had, but... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
of some nebulous wish to do good, however. She's doing it because being smart about water will save these organizations a lot of money. "Providing dramatic improvements in how much water we use, and the natural resources for using water,... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
CEO and cofounder, Saeju Jeong, accepted the award and shared the company’s success story during the online “fireside chat” organized and cohosted by HBSANC board member and dinner chair Ben Dubin (MBA 1997) and HBSANC president and board... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
acknowledged place in the business world. Yet any entrepreneur can attest to the creative power required to build an organization where none existed before. “Look, I made a hat /Where there never was a hat,” sings Georges Seurat in the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
Death Star,’” recalls Crespin, the founder of CollaborateUp, a consulting firm that specializes in tackling big societal problems and bridging difficult, cross-sector relationships. He adds, “The environmental people had their arms... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
stable, who-we-are kind of thing. But sometimes innovation requires firms to change how they think of themselves.” For TOTO, she continues, this boils down to whether the company should consider itself an View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
Family-owned companies account for more than two-thirds of all business around the globe. In fact, most of the world's largest and most influential business organizations are family-run. In the United States, for example, View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
one moderately successful product — Stove Top stuffing mix. " Armed with this information, he quickly advised the firm to refocus its efforts on acquiring established but undermarketed concerns, which eventually led to GF's profitable... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Constant Inspiration
partner organizations to work with students in Chile, where she has lived since 1997. In the second module of the required yearlong FIELD course, small teams of students develop or improve a product, service, or experience for their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Americans—especially those in the business community—do to increase the ability of firms to compete successfully in the global economy while raising US living standards? This is one of the most important questions facing the nation and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
education and say that they are only providing opportunities,” writes Tamara Heimur (HBS ’10). “On the other hand I was impressed with the CEOs’ commitment to continually increasing reach and decreasing interest rates. It highlighted the important issue of scale, which... View Details