by John P. Kotter - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

again? Should companies do away with Zoom and return the workplace to its pre-COVID ways? The answer, in a word: No. At least that’s not the future of work envisioned by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty—all of whom... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

species. My Name Is Melvin: The Life of an Extraordinary Ordinary Man by John A. Ehlert (OPM 23, 1996) (Telemachus Press LLC) In this biography of his father, Ehlert tells how Melvin was born in hardscrabble... View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

Healthy Buildings John Macomber and the Harvard Chan School’s Joe Allen published a new book, Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, and gave a virtual talk sponsored by... View Details

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Oral Histories | Baker Library

was big. As someone said, “It’s another growth industry”. During this period I also had an offer I couldn’t turn down to work with an architect named John Carl Warnecke. By this time Gropius had died, and... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

range of ideas and voices assembled by a succession of talented editors. From ardent speeches on leadership by the School's founders, to impassioned editorials about the causes of the Great Depression, to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2024
News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

together an ambitious agenda for change and hired a charismatic leader named John Stanford, a former Army major general with no ed-ucation administration experience, to be superintendent. Stanford would die tragically of leukemia three... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

has been published in multiple top academic journals. Dr. Livingston has also done executive education, speaking engagements, and consulting for companies and non-profits such as Accenture, John Deere, Yves Saint Laurent Beauty,... View Details

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Business School, olvwork88210 Founded in 1881 by two non-Native white men, John Healy and Charles Bigelow, the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company sold “healing” salves and cures, including a concoction they... View Details

26 Oct 2020
News

A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions

crisis. The program featured speakers Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at HBS, and Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who talked about their latest books, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, and IMPACT:... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

08 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

Direct Investment in Times of Crisis Authors:Louis T. Wells Publication:Chap. 12 in The Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy 2009-2010, edited by Karl P. Sauvant, 477-504. New York: Oxford... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

charitable giving, crowding out intrinsic motivations to give by corrupting a purely social act with economic considerations. Purchase the Book: http://www.psypress.com/the-science-of-giving-9781848728851 Americans Do I.T. Better: U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

ethical issues surrounding the use of psychological influence in negotiation. "Do Well by Doing Good? Don't Count On It." Social Responsibility Author:Joshua D. Margolis, Hillary Anger Elfenbein, and James View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

by the John C. Whitehead Fund for Non-for-Profit Management (created by John C. Whitehead [MBA 11/'47], who now chairs the Initiative's advisory... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

22 Jul 2019
News

A Way Forward for Women

network cofounded by fellow WOB participants Lisa Pent and Bonnie Hagemann with a vision to become the go-to source for corporate boards to find and recruit highly qualified women. Initially, Pent, an account executive at Grant Thornton,... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Mar 2019
News

Building a Movement

image by John Ritter Twenty-five years after the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) was launched at HBS, the Bulletin sits down with professors on the forward edge of the movement: Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004),... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

Connecticut—and developing an impact model for transforming communities Patch Work How John Jameson (MBA 1991) and Winning Connections harnessed the enduring political power of a phone call Complete Table of Contents December 2024 Back at... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

charisma, negotiate comfortably and creatively, and spot manipulators before it’s too late. HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose By John Coleman (MBA 2009) Harvard Business Review Press We’re living through a... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

this book shows how it’s done. Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. Pisano PublicAffairs Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Code Breakers

recent decades, the number of women in tech jobs remains far lower. And the figures for women in leadership roles still hover around a far-from-equal 25 percent. Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in STEM education and in computer science in... View Details

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