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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Swiss Re, which predicts that even if some mitigating actions are taken, global GDP will shrink by 14 percent by 2050 by 18 percent if no actions are taken. Okay, the sky may really be falling. However,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
our actions and getting to where we want to go?” she asks. The inspiration for this line of questioning arose in 2018 when Perlow was teaching Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), which addresses the human side of enterprise. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
Combining action and analysis, they are a formidable crime-fighting duo. In Pale Gray for Guilt (1968), Meyer carries out an intricate con to trick a wealthy bad guy into stock market losses that will benefit a widow whose struggling... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Takeaways
leads to action that produces needed results.” —Professor emeritus John Kotter (DBA 1972), That’s Not How We Do It Here!, a book written in fable form “It is now possible to build a new sort of firm that promotes open communication across... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
suggestion, it was an action plan. Less than a year earlier, he’d been invited to join the board of Manhattan’s Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, which was in the midst of a three-year, $79 million transformation. A New York... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
lights in working order? Maybe not. The state of the nation's highways, bridges, airports, dams, seaports, and tunnels collectively rate a grade of D+, says the American Society of Civil Engineers, which has called for a $3.6 trillion... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
climate change, ocean acidification, or depleting the topsoil, because business as a whole is going to suffer from the results of environmental degradation. There is a very strong collective case for business action, but from a... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
taken up by the population overall. So I think there's a lot we can learn about metaphors and visual language and how we can help people understand a crisis through those tools. That's exactly the same thing that we're trying to do with climate change. The role of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
pharmacies making concoctions for their customers, could become so international. Today the ten biggest companies collectively account for over one-half of sales throughout the world. The two biggest, L’Oréal and Procter & Gamble (P&G),... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
planned to disclose DEI metrics to the public. And yet, a 2021 Deloitte report, The equity imperative: The need for business to take bold action now, states: “Despite agreeing that change is needed, many leaders have come to realize how... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
companies, industries, and human capabilities. Examples of the fusion technique for high-value, radical innovation are presented in this unique collection of stories about innovating across industries, fields, organizational silos,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
survey cited specific actions their companies had implemented to remain competitive. The majority had taken steps such as improving worker training, investing in technology, growing exports, and expanding to new markets. Among the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
practical guidance, and cutting-edge research, author Maria Ellis offers readers a comprehensive and compassionate understanding of Alzheimer’s disease—from its emotional toll to its scientific frontiers. More than just a reflection on the challenges, Stolen Memories... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
discovers a top-secret parenting manual, it’s kids versus grownups in this kooky, illustrated middle-grade thriller with nonstop, seat-of-your-pants action that will delight fans of Jarrett Lerner and Stuart Gibbs. When tween boy FP... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
increased expectations for hard, measurable results. Which seems only fair, right? The problem: Nonprofits can lose sight of their mission if a major funder's performance measurement priorities don't align with the necessary actions to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
our action plan, it begins with a clear position: “Harvard Business School rejects racism in all its forms, and anti-Black racism in particular, as wrong and fundamentally inconsistent with our mission and values.” We need to be educating... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Long remembers eating lots of pumpkin — the only food readily available. The early engines of growth were holdovers from the Maoist era: township and village enterprises (TVEs) rooted in China’s vast rural regions, and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The TVEs were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
it is also a way of addressing men’s (and Gen Y’s) growing hopes for flexibility and innovative ways of working. This book clarifies the business case for gender balance, explores what men have to gain, and provides the basic knowledge to engender debate and View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
educators, policymakers, and labor leaders to spark a revival of middle-skills jobs.” Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) set out to build a car manufacturer from scratch, no holds barred. The result is Arizona-based Local Motors, a decentralized tech... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
design rules. Thus, the computer industry was transformed from a quasi monopoly (dominated by IBM) into a large modular "cluster" of related subindustries, a development made possible by the decentralization and multiplication of design... View Details