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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
measure the environmental and societal impacts of companies, how we can analyze them, and then how do we standardize them to create a race to innovation instead of a race to the bottom. Because then you can actually start mobilizing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
districts and community colleges and creating apprenticeships. I'm not talking about jobs tourism, “Come on a field trip to my company.” I'm talking about compensated work to gain work experience and earn credentials. Such programs are the absolute gold View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
around the world. He set the very highest standards for himself and for all the rest of us. Hugo was always a great inspiration, support, and friend during all the years we were together.” Angela Q. Crispi (MBA 1990), the School’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
practices, such as the use of outsider-only boards. Acknowledging the difficulty of teaching ethics in a culture that increasingly views morality as private and relativistic, Mills still advocates a role for business schools in raising the View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
retirement security. Many of today’s US workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
be rectified.” Major changes included individualizing resource allocation and basing it on a child’s educational needs (“In Seattle, the schools with the smallest classes, the most teachers, and the most resources are the ones with the kids who are most difficult to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
ideas, explanations, and solutions for the smartest business readers.'" In 1996, after nearly twenty years at Fortune, Kiechel brought his high editorial standards and equally high regard for savvy business professionals to the Harvard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Heard in the Chapel
During a memorable night in early December, the Class of 1959 Chapel shed its quiet sanctuary aura to host a full-tilt concert staged by Heard on the Street, the twelve-member HBS a cappella men’s chorus. With a repertoire that spans pop View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
through software, and I “write” on it as the lesson develops. Actually, my cousins have told me they like this “virtual Sal” better than the real-life me. They can start and stop and repeat me at will. How does Khan Academy change the View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
This year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor have made remarkable contributions to their companies and communities while upholding the highest standards and values in everything they do. “These five distinguished alumni are role... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Harvard’s initiatives in stem cells, bio-inspired engineering, systems biology, chemical biology, and innovative computing. The colloquium featured a number of case studies about academic labs as well as private-sector firms that are setting operational and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
explains. “They were very entrepreneurial and had great niches. And now we have to pull all of them together to act as one company.” He reels off a trio of management challenges: retaining valued workers whose knowledge and entrepreneurial zeal powered their former... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
That Excel: Candid Insights and Practical Advice or Directors by Joe White (MBA 1971) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) This book argues that boards enable organizations to excel only when directors go beyond their standard duties of oversight... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
what matters most; facing conflict, adversity, and ambiguity with decisiveness and confidence; setting uncompromising standards for behavior and performance; and selecting and developing great people. Be Where Your Feet Are: Seven... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
better than the real-life me. They can start and stop and repeat me at will. How does Khan Academy change the standard classroom we all know? The nearby Los Altos school system, for one, is using Khan Academy on an experimental basis.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
fundamental deterioration in their ability to pay for goods and services from their wages.” Simultaneously, lending standards continued to deteriorate “until we got to the point where we had very lax standards, and we started to see... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Education Revolution
falling short, especially in science and math. “If we don’t take control of our schools,” Compton said, “we are condemning our children to a life of struggle and declining standards of living, and that’s not the life I want to give my... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
to make sure that the toilets that were constructed will be constructed to the right standard so that we didn’t develop the next problem, which is what we’re working on now, which is the treatment of sewage. Narrative: “India has 1.2... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
their employees, their communities, the financial community, and the public, as to what they stand for and what they're really about. Make it not only a touchstone for how a particular company conducts its operations but, more broadly, the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons