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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

If I have an issue, question, or problem, I can pick up the phone and call Sherri at any moment. We've consulted on several topics, which has been extremely helpful. It’s important that we share our plans and I welcome her opinion and... View Details

15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

http://intranet.hbs.edu/dept/drfd/new_publications/papers/Porter-Ketels/clusters.pdf Board Interlocks and the Propensity to Be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions Authors:Toby E. Stuart and Soojin Yim Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming)... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

employment were dim after decades of making madeleines in one of Caen’s last factories, a building that had survived two world wars. The occupation was widely covered in the French media, with public sentiment favoring the no-nonsense... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

July 2020
Teaching Plan

Girls Who Code

By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein

This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter... View Details

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13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

Soviet Union fought in the shadow of the capitalist-communist clash. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49811 forthcoming Journal of Public Economics Does Front-Loading Taxation Increase Savings? Evidence... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

as a result of the pandemic and why. Finding out how employees would like to work—home or office—through a survey is too simplistic. You want to know the whole truth. You need an honest, collective, and internally public conversation!... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

trusts, fake foundations, regulatory loopholes, money laundering techniques, and more that make up the financial secrecy system. He then examines the motivations driving the system that generates and shelters trillions of dollars that could otherwise go toward... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

society in developing altruism? What is it about our current society that drives a large share of the population to be scared of other countries, and to be willing to shut down to the world and not open itself to it? Why is it that people frequently discard facts and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
Teaching Note

Ransomware Attack at Springhill Medical Center

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-065. In July, 2019, Springhill Medical Center (“SMC”) in Mobile, Alabama fell prey to a malicious ransomware attack that crippled the hospital’s internal network systems and public-facing web page. While the hospital rushed to... View Details

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01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

communication. We’ve had a telestroke program for a number of years, where doctors in an emergency room can consult with our neurologists, share images, and get a stroke neurologist’s opinion about how to handle a patient in that... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

March 2023
Teaching Note

Sustainability Reporting at Dollar Tree, Inc.

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-044. The case discusses the ESG strategy of Dollar Tree Inc., a U.S. Fortune 500 company in the deep discount retail industry and the shareholder pressure faced by the company. In 2022, the company faced a shareholder resolution from... View Details

Keywords: ESG; Sustainability; Shareholder Activism; Dollar Tree; Sustainability Reporting; ESG Reporting; Board Of Directors; Shareholder Engagement; GHG; Environmental Accounting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Trends; Communication; Announcements; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Reports; Business or Company Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Retail Industry; United States; Virginia

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01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

peace in Indochina was signed by one-third of the student body and later publicly denounced by other students who felt the gesture misrepresented the majority's opinion at the School. Bearded "peaceniks" faced off in heated debate with... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

scenarios and with expert opinions on emerging risk issues. In order to explain the dynamics of these alternative plots, I show that risk experts engage in various kinds of boundary-work (Gieryn, 1983, 1999), sometimes to expand and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2020
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

Stewart (MBA 1983) address Black female leadership. Noting that a group of unicorns is called “a blessing,” the authors present “an unapologetic look at our often-overlooked role in America’s social, political, psychological, and economic history” and describe their... View Details

18 Aug 2021
News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

blessing,” the authors present “an unapologetic look at our often-overlooked role in America’s social, political, psychological, and economic history” and describe their new publication as a playbook “to help Black unicorns ‘team up’ and... View Details

28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

Publications Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii Authors: Michel Anteby, Filiz Garip, Paul V. Martorana, and Scott Lozanoff Publication: PLoS ONE 7, no. 8: e42673... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1997
News

Facing the Music

1996, "you develop an ability to spot a quality act when you see it." In the end, however, admits Boberg, "when we decide to sign an artist, it really comes down to somebody's subjective opinion here at the label." Building the bonfire:... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

One of my first assignments was to rewrite a case that Dean McArthur had written early in his career. I was surprised when the editor informed me that the Dean had asked to meet me. No other faculty member—before or since—has made time for this, and I have now written... View Details

Keywords: Dean

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Complete Table of Contents June 2023 Curb Appeal Can Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) clean up New York City in her role as commissioner of the Department of Sanitation? Alumni Achievement Awards 2023 As leaders across the private, nonprofit, and View Details

September 2021 (Revised November 2022)
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Community Solutions

By: Brian Trelstad and Tom Quinn

Community Solutions was an anti-homelessness nonprofit founded in 2011 after protagonist Rosanne Haggerty grew frustrated with the limited impact of traditional housing and outreach strategies. It set an ambitious goal, reached in some partner communities, of ending... View Details