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- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
des Autodidactes (VDA)—the self-made entrepreneurs award—held in Paris on May 14. “This event celebrates self-made entrepreneurs of small- and medium-sized companies who started working right after high school,” explains Alexandra Mannai... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
she was honored with the National Order of Merit, France’s highest decoration, in recognition of her efforts to promote sustainable development and to support innovative startups. “It doesn’t make my life different on a daily basis, but... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
fast-food joints proliferate. Globalization and downsizing affected blue- and white-collar workers alike. “Layoff” used to mean “temporary unemployment”; now it meant “loss of job.” David McNew/Getty Images If we worked only four hours a... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
member of the Omaha Tribe and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. I traveled to Omaha because I wanted to see Keen's work with Sacred Seed, a nonprofit he started in 2014 to educate others about an indigenous, centuries-old approach to... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
Working in a small fishing village on the Panama-Costa Rica border, Skelly helped to make decisions about micro lending in order to generate small-business growth. “I didn’t know much about business, but when you’re trying to figure out... View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
build successful businesses. The desire to capture the scale of this change is the ambitious goal of Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project, whose new website was profiled in HBS Working Knowledge last year. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
of Hazleton Laboratories Corporation, a Virginia research and laboratory-services company, Nielsen returned to his native Washington State. “I had retired early and decided to devote the balance of my working View Details
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Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
Race, Gender and Equity at Work Race, Gender and Equity at Work Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author HBS Staff Topics Topics Board Diversity RGE Blog Filters Read posts from Author HBS... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
I believe will be historically important. Both my choices top 700 pages, hence my hesitancy. The first book is Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. It inevitably appears on the list of greatest war novels of all time. Grossman has been called... View Details
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- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
received was warranted. Collectively, our results suggest that self-reporting can be a useful tool for reliably identifying and leveraging the voluntary self-policing efforts of regulated companies. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-098.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
working was critical. So we literally wrote down our unwritten rules and created a handbook for onboarding. I was a bit skeptical about the idea; it felt like a very old-school HR effort. But the results were tangible. It instantly gave... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans (image by John Ritter) People aren’t very good at predicting what will make them happy, say Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans, who both study the intersection of time,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
wanted to work with," says Wallace, who combines a winning personality with a team-spirit approach to the ACOG mission. "I try to support him in any fashion that will allow him to make the best use of his time. When I get involved with... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
it wasn't until this fall, when we began a somewhat systematic review of the magazine's past, that we came to realize the extent to which the Bulletin has served as a chronicle of the School's life and times. Our research for this special... View Details
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Commencement 2011 Address | About
white photo. His parents were standing in front of the gas station they owned. “ I don ’ t think I ever saw them with clean hands, ” Rob recalled. But the dignity and integrity they brought to their work transcended their surroundings.... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
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Research Resources | Baker Library
Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration constituted a pool of 1,200 subjects which Radcliffe Institute researchers drew from in their studies of women interested in developing careers and marketable skills in the period of 1938 to 1963. Goodman, Natalie C.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Life Green Day Related Links What businesses can do to make a difference Takeaways: Preparing for the population boom Case study: Slum for sale Conference report: Investing in Cities of the 21st Century Making a Difference in the World -... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
changes on jobs, tax base, and blight as you lose thousands and thousands of stores around the country?” Q: Are some malls still working well? Alvarez: Some you see succeeding are experience-based malls, ones that have restaurants, movie... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
been successful, all the way up to the C-suite. Look for an organization with a truly flexible culture, where new ways of thinking are embraced. Women are most successful in work and in life when they build... View Details