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01 Mar 2007
News

A Helping Hand

economic power to really shape the world, and that always stuck with me.” Rice subsequently founded a nonprofit organization, Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), to help educate young people about, and prepare them for, business... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2010
News

The Natural World

and net assets of $4.6 billion, with over 119 million protected acres in thirty countries, WSJ.com reported (June 10, 2010). Two months after Tercek assumed his post, the recession hit, delivering a powerful blow to the funding that... View Details

Keywords: Conservation; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

July 2014
Teaching Note

Rebecca S. Halstead: Steadfast Leadership

By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell

The case reviews Rebecca Halstead's career history, detailing how, through her personal attributes, skills, experiences, challenges, and organizational practices she developed into a successful leader and commander in the U.S. Army. The teaching note discusses... View Details

Keywords: Strategy And Leadership; Leadership And Managing People; Working Conditions; Groups and Teams; Competitive Strategy; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Gender; Power and Influence

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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, sold $315.6 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on “EDLP” (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the Holy... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

Whitney MacMillan

MacMillan was responsible for the expansion of Cargill’s business from $10 billion to $33 billion in 10 years. He diversified Cargill’s scope of activities by introducing it to the consumer market. By the mid-1980s, the firm became the most View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

13 Jun 2014
Op-Ed

World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention

heavily through TV and other media in the months leading up to the World Cup. A portion of the population has seen the value of protesting in front of a TV camera in an effort to get the attention of other segments of the population or the government. As we all know,... View Details

Keywords: by Thales Teixeira; Sports

Portrait Project

Rye Barcott

graduate this year, I also near the end of my eight-year commitment to the Marine Corps. Marines trained me to lead with a "bias for action." When combined with a strong moral compass, business judgment can be a powerful force... View Details

Portrait Project

Judy D'Agostino

among family, I remained an outsider; even as I endured the inconveniences of power cuts and well water, I was a Westerner. My stays were time-bound, my presence ephemeral. I am American.I pledged allegiance to the flag each morning, and... View Details

Portrait Project

Grace Hou

powerful weapon than corporeal force. A community of supporters — from the nurse stroking my hair on the operating table, to the neighbors who sent me a lifetime's supply of lollipop trees, to the physical therapist who pushed me to walk... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture

around Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, made that particular napkin a challenge, for example. “In first-year Finance at HBS there was a lot of focus on spreadsheets and numbers,” says Hay, who studied communications at UCLA and worked in the film industry. “As a visual... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants concluded at a Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

passionate advocate for businesses to engage in water innovation and governance. Since her graduation from HBS in 2008, Nicole has been at the forefront of the interrelated water and power industries. For nearly five years, Nicole served... View Details

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Summit Explores the New Economy

difficult to have innovation without data—which is one reason why the health care industry in the United States is too expensive. One remedy: Make the patient the customer. who Has The Power In The Music Industry? With inexpensive... View Details

Portrait Project

Stephanie Parker

considerable power and influence? Apparently not, or at least not me. Mine will be a life of service. You won't find me padding around on the soft carpet, sipping coffee in an ivory tower, engaging with others in ways which are long on... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Chile

Industry and market research Passport Click on Search on the upper left side of the main screen to get started. Locate the industry of interest and then choose a geography. Click on Run Search EMIS (Emerging Markets Information System) Create... View Details

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Shivika Bhasin Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 2 Results SECON 2023: Back in person to discuss the power of narratives for social impact Lia... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Meg's World

Award on September 18. And she landed the No. 2 spot on Fortune’s list of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” (October 13, 2003). Whitman garnered all this attention the old-fashioned way: She earned it. During her five years at the... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2010
News

A Wonderful Whirl

Mounted atop the Soldiers Field Park Garage, two wind turbines — 40-foot towers with 11.5-foot blades — represent Harvard’s biggest wind-energy project to date. Weighing more than 1,000 pounds each, the turbines are expected to supply 5 to 10 percent of the seven-story... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution

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