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Latin America - Global Activities 2020

incentive systems for the loan officers and measured how much more helpful they were to borrowers. We found some substantial increases. Natalia Rigol: Once you change the institutional incentives to align them more with the View Details

22 Nov 2024
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Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

mission to make a difference in the world. I want to give alumni behind-the-scenes access to Columbus’ top businesses and their leaders and to build a support network as we... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

business community. The interview, facilitated by HBS’s Middle East and North Africa Research Center, is part of a collection that explores the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, View Details

22 Jan 2018
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

retail onto the social media platform.” Gaglani: “We are on a mission to educate the world’s health professionals. There are clinician shortages across the professions and globe, from primary care physicians... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

years later, looking for a new challenge, she came across salauno. Captivated by the organization’s mission and work, she negotiated a month-long project to show the directors how she could make their... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Sep 2011
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Green Day

Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Water for Life Green Day Related Links HBS Business and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

Today's most successful leaders are focusing on sustaining superior performance by aligning people around mission and values and empowering leaders at all levels, while serving... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Sep 2024
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Back to School

alumni who throw pots, drink wine, tell jokes, and collect baseball cards—for fun. (And, yes, some have turned their passions into their professions.) How to: Jump Out of an Airplane Our instructor: Alejandro Montagna (MBA 1996), skydiver... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

07 Jun 2019
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Are You a Digital Manager?

to thrive today, managers need to make sure team members can have an impact on an organization whose purpose they deeply care about. Lagace: You’ve spoken recently about the importance of building ecosystems. What do you mean? Hill: For... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Jun 2020
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Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5

Black students in our community have spent the last few weeks grappling with the weight of a devastating truth: that our country and society has undeniably and systemically failed Black communities – View Details

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

was asked to develop and teach my own version of The Moral Leader. Q: Tell us about your version of the course. A: In my design, The Moral Leader is a 13-session seminar, an elective course taken by MBAs in their second year. The View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

04 Mar 2002
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Don’t Lose Money With Customers

series of articles and HBS Working Papers, he explores the process of how firms in business-to-business markets manage customer relationships. As a frame of reference, Narayandas explains that modern marketing occurs at three distinct... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

06 May 2019
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Startup Talk in Chicago

Clubs News Clubs News “For entrepreneurs to succeed, they must stay humble.” This was just one of the takeaways from the HBS Club of Chicago’s (HBSCC) recent conversation with Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman of investment firm PSP... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Pritzker; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

has led Shilla to her next venture, launching a company in the fashion technology space with a mission to do well by doing good. “I’ve been working on it for the past year on nights and weekends, View Details

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

there’s something very intoxicating about the feeling of, ‘Oh, this whole thing is something that I’m creating.’ That’s really a reason to wake up in the morning and also something that’s terrifying on a level that I hadn’t appreciated... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

experience at GE can teach large organizations about overcoming barriers to innovation. READ MORE Dan Morrell: What made you want to stay at GE and make your career there? What was enticing about the mission... View Details

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy, focusing particularly on the relationships between organizational purpose and innovation and productivity.... View Details

02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

to work on with this heroin campaign. Hanna: Last week the White House introduced four ads that are focused on prescription opioids, and they feature the stories of four people who purposely hurt themselves... View Details

26 Mar 2025
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Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore

Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details