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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
diversity issues, notes, "Even companies that once were mostly interested in hiring women and minorities either out of a sense of moral obligation or merely to comply with the law now see the value that comes from broadening the demographics of their workforce. "With... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
import-export firm in his native St. Croix. Sent to America for college in 1772 by local leaders who saw his potential, he soon joined the revolutionary army and was tapped for service on General George Washington's staff. Among... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), allowing businesses to cite religious freedom as a defensible reason to deny service to a customer. Critics, who included a number of high-profile CEOs, argued that the law granted... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Guillaume and Wendy Perben (MBA 2002) Children: Jasmine (6); Julien (4) Wendy’s marketing career has involved travel all over the world. Now based in Switzerland, she and her husband have recently launched Unity in Glass Europe, which... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
support have loosened." Through her research into how businesses and communities interact, Kanter is finding ways for the two to join forces as companies move into the global economy. In fact, she says, what's good for towns and cities is good for business and vice... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
increase in professional services, which grew by $24 million to $77 million in fiscal 2023. Professional services accounted for 8 percent of total operating expenses for the year, 2 percent higher than fiscal 2022. Fiscal 2024 Outlook... View Details
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
Benefit Innovative Leaders and Intrapreneurs High-Potential, Mid-Level Managers Experienced Team Leaders Drive innovation within companies of all stages and sizes—whether an established market leader, a fast-growing midsize organization,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
service especially needed given the isolation caused by the pandemic. After two decades in the senior housing industry, which included overseeing a multibillion-dollar portfolio for a REIT, Oppenheim developed a vitality framework built... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
ventures during the venture capital boom of the late 1990s was selecting areas that had no staying power, such as Web calendars or Web-dispatched limousine services. Over time, it was inevitable that these new niches would merge with existing ones. The View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
business leaders had to have demonstrated at least four consecutive years of top financial performance, and/or they had to have led a business or service that changed the way Americans lived, worked, or interacted in the twentieth... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
(in that order), so my first jobs were below the MBA level: market research at Carnation, then media at BBDO. When we moved to New York City, I was offered a position as an account executive at BBDO, but I heard that the previous woman in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace. When he and his siblings sold it in 2006, Macomber started teaching at HBS, where he began some revelatory research into the Indian real estate market and its regulatory and environmental issues. “It... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
circumstances: ensure the survival of the organization. For this, cash is king. Accordingly, the immediate priority is to halt the outflow of cash. Any dollar leaving the organization is a high-level decision and any payment that does not lead to an immediate cessation... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
Kanebo, a large Japanese cosmetics company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's "Big Four" audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese Financial Services... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
with comical tales are perceptive looks at things as different as family Christmas rituals, and the impact of 40 years of communism on society. When Climate Change Hits Home by Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012) (Amazon Digital Services LLC)... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
research. Their apprenticeship under Curzon was very interesting, not least musically. Curzon insisted on proper English manners, including torturous English tea service and proper "breaking of the scone." What does breaking a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
have today's senior executives, trained in the days when the pyramidal organization and domestic markets held sway, made the transition to a global, technology-driven economy? For three 1971 classmates and corporate leaders, Donald J.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
(and when proper oversight makes sure the "rules" are followed), cities can gain a competitive edge since businesses and citizens can benefit from services without their city having to put up the investment capital. The Carlsbad... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
School’s recently formed Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) and develop a School-wide DEI strategy. One of the initial priorities includes increasing our supplier diversity through the expansion of our partnerships with Black- and minority-owned View Details