Communications - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

"outsider," director membership on the audit committee has been strongly prescribed. Increasingly, audit committees are called to task for their responsibilities and required to co-sign important communications to shareholders.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2021
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Fostering Diversity

trust the organization and the leadership, you want to give them the flexibility to put donor dollars where they are most urgently needed,” says Victoria, who joined the Boston Consulting Group after graduating from Yale. In 2002, she founded the Jewish View Details

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

you use most frequently in various contexts. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a global View Details

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

or not we agree. Finally, I am humbled by the service of some of our classmates. Those among us that have seen a need or a shortcoming in our local community and stepped forward to fill that gap. There are disproportionate impacts in the... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Innovation Outside the Boundaries

organizations they will work for and the communities they will live in stand to benefit enormously from that kind of background.” “When I talk to current HBS students and recent graduates, they often cite their global immersion trip as... View Details

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Liz Plooster

of faith! New friends to grow with, so much to learn, plenty of restaurants to try, and a whole new side of the country to explore. Being part of the HBS community is like A camping trip with new friends. Although we may leave exhausted,... View Details

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

OneTen is also partnering with education and training organizations—skills “providers”—such as nonprofits, community colleges, and credentialing groups. When an employer hires a Black applicant without a four-year degree through OneTen, a... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

“Data-driven decision-making, executive-level synthesis, insight, and communication are all part of the MBA skill set, in addition to quick time-to-output. The training that leads people to take a complex and somewhat amorphous problem... View Details

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Neale. Max H. Bazerman : Distinguished Winner of the 2021 Responsible Research in Management Award from the Fellows Group of the Academy of Management and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) for... View Details

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Developing the Plan - Advancing Racial Equity

Professor Jan Hammond, chief marketing & communications officer Brian Kenny, and chief inclusion & diversity officer Terrill Drake. We formed the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force and identified the work required in seven key areas. After... View Details

13 Jan 2021
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How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

forward. In challenging situations, blame and resentment can overtake support and solidarity in business. Teams, however, can only succeed through effective collaboration. New leaders need to replace blame and denial with dialogue and View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

11 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

their True North.’” The recollection helped Kloeblen define two dimensions to his search: that the right role for him would involve collaboration, and that it would be driven by a desire to turn companies into “positive actors” in their View Details

14 Jul 2022
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When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

how automated cars might be designed to minimize major accidents. For their time-use study, the researchers conducted online interviews with about 400 knowledge workers, who make up a large percentage of commuters on today’s roadways and whose work often specializes in... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

Comstock: a community service entrepreneur who has founded two inner-city banks and other community organizations in New York and the San Francisco area using his personal credit card. Chuck Knight, who runs... View Details

06 Jan 2016
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Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

behaviors either were not reported or, if they were, not communicated up the line. Under these practices, top management’s claims that it was unaware of what was happening may be believable. But were there other, more obvious signs of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion

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Get Involved - Entrepreneurship

Rock Summer Fellows enables students to continue to explore their entrepreneurial path, both as founders and as those interested in joining early-stage startups, through a 10-week summer fellowship that provides not only financial support but a peer network and View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil

industrial company committed to both the natural world and the growth of the Brazilian communities where it operated. Lorentzen served as chairman of Aracruz until 2004; under his leadership, the company built a world-class research... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

opportunity for students to develop competencies in quantitative analysis, learn to compare and contrast different approaches, and develop skill and comfort in communicating technical material. In practice, this can involve: Including... View Details

01 Mar 2021
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What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

bosses and peers, something (including boards in some organizations) that CEOs don’t have to worry so much about. In fact, middle managers are often blamed when problems arise. Some leaders say that middle managers obstruct effective top-down View Details