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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
include the following: Jim Cash (Cash Catalyst), an emeritus faculty member who serves as board chair Ken Chenault (General Catalyst) Ken Frazier (Merck) Doug McMillon (Walmart) Brian Moynihan (Bank of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
investment – at huge scale – with transparency and accountability – to attack these challenges? Papa Njiae, Madani Tall, Pippa Tubman Armerding and John Macomber. I’m the faculty chair of the HBS Africa Research Center and a member of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
participate in the HBS curriculum. As members of a mock board of directors, alumni volunteers work with small teams of students who act as case protagonists and propose solutions to issues facing their company. MBA students and alumni... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
accountable?” He also expressed concern that too much emphasis is placed on independent board members. “The more independent, the more ignorant,” he said. “Sector experts can be very helpful.” On the Continent, executive compensation is a... View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
strongly linked to the gender of the person they are competing against. “Women are competitive, but not in particular work environments or groups” "Women are competitive, but not in particular work environments or groups," says McGinn, the Cahners-Rabb... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- Web
Burden Park | About
studied the developing airline industry at MIT and was an aviation business analyst until the early 1940s. His impact on HBS began in 1942 when he partnered with Dean Donald K. David to establish the HBS Research Program on Aviation; he View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
available for these projects. JH: Naina Lal Kidwai continues to do her work at the intersection of business, government, and the environment, serving on numerous boards in addition to continuing in her role as View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
his 22-year career at Goldman Sachs chaired the firm's senior leadership training efforts and co-chaired its partnership committee, identifies seven areas for self-reflection: vision and priorities, managing time, feedback, succession... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
transaction that was perhaps the ultimate fulfillment of the founders' original vision. She was reminded of the company's founding just 15 years earlier and its meteoric growth. With a considerable sense of achievement and satisfaction, she reflected on her tenure as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
Board Governance and Sustainability with a Q&A led by BEI faculty chair Mike Toffel, where the role of regulation, fiduciary duty, and managing for sustainability at one of the world’s largest pension... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
Public Health. In recognition of his contributions to the entire Harvard teaching community, in 1984 then Harvard President Derek Bok named Christensen to a University Professorship, one of a small group of endowed chairs reserved for... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
you—look next for a source of competitive advantage? Second, for entrepreneurs and investors, the article has governance implications. Telling the board that the sales pipeline grew by $X should not qualify as a good answer if the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
community through board work at Rising Ground and Service Program for Older People, both of which have rallied to help New York City through the crisis,” he says. Pandemic exposes underlying weaknesses in health care In Canada, mental... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
in a World on Fire. Opening remarks from Alan Horn (MBA 1971), chairman of Walt Disney Studios and chair of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Board of Trustees, underscored the night’s charge:... View Details
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
position. Now, “it’s the CEO, not the company, weighing in on the issues,” says Toffel, who is also Faculty Chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative. “Second, it’s conducted in public—it’s not related to backroom dealing,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Hamermesh, Faculty Chair of the Harvard Business Healthcare Initiative, discuss the barriers to personalized medicine and suggest ways to overcome them. The blockbuster model for developing drugs, the authors point out, is still what most... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
during the 1970s, while also chairing the School's General Management Unit (or Department). As Senior Associate Dean for External Relations under former Dean John H. McArthur from 1980 to 1989, Uyterhoeven completely restructured that... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Fieldhouse to develop a workable concept for a launch of the program. Fieldhouse connected with Specialisterne to help build Dandelion, and formed an external pro bono advisory board that included fellow HBS alumnus Kerry Clarke (AMP 167,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
Brian Kenny: Here's a hypothetical for you. Imagine you're sitting at your favorite coffee shop when a teenager pulls up a chair and asks you to share a bunch of personal information. He wants to know your birthday, what kind of food you... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
companies, primarily in the computer and health-care realm. In the four decades since, Johnson has helped build the biotech industry and earned a reputation as a thoughtful investor, trusted adviser, and generous philanthropist. Among his many passions are opera—for a... View Details