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- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
hallelujah. But if you’re not, then you have to think about some ways to improve that.” Engaging in meaningful corporate social responsibility can boost a company’s trust factor. Partnering with a company in a more trusted field or employing groups of workers with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BRADOO: Mining old tech for gold by Constantine von Hoffman When most people's phones break, all they see is a problem. Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) sees an opportunity. Bradoo is the cofounder and CEO of BlueOak Resources, a company dedicated to finding safe ways to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Ashish Dhawan (MBA ’97), founder and senior managing director of ChrysCapital, a private-equity firm based in Mumbai. Even so, Dhawan believes that a growing awareness of the outside world and a sense of competitiveness in the Indian... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size distribution thickens... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
formation, and innovation. He is also a partner of the international management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he is a leader of its Innovation practice. Chakravorti has advised over 30 Fortune 500 companies on innovation,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
Sikh-founded, $100-million group of service and product companies (including Sun & Son, Inc., a national Lotus Notesbased computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
possible for them to take the long- and proper-view." Yadeed Lobo articulated the problem faced by corporate boards when he commented that "it is very difficult for board members to judge relative performance (it also) involves measuring (such things as)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get
surface the underlying skills. “Ideally,” says Kristen Fitzpatrick, Managing Director, HBS Career & Professional Development, “applicants would articulate their accomplishments by broader functional skills, rather than within the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
building a successful community - vulnerability and giving without expectation on return - during their 2019 Class Day speech. View Video 8. A Lesson in Strengthening Community to Create Global Impact Each year, Dean Nohria selects students to receive the Dean’s Award... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
computing, deep sensing, simulation, analytics and application services with the fabric of buildings and infrastructure. The hope is that a smarter building process results in smarter buildings, and smarter buildings result in smarter... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
of companies that are helping create the conditions for the industry’s growth by amassing knowledge about best practices, influencing the development of regulations, exploring new uses for drones, developing a professional workforce, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes After HBS, DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010) immediately launched a startup: The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, a credit-testing firm for small businesses in emerging markets. But after... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
director Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001)—around how to respond to the government's insistent request, relatively late in the planning process, for increased community services in areas such as education, water and sanitation, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Second Acts
When Glen Meakem (MBA ’91) couldn’t persuade his employer, General Electric, that he was on to a hot idea to revamp corporate purchasing using the Internet, he quit and started his own firm, FreeMarkets, which charted the way for successful business-to-business... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- News
Why Top-Down Management Doesn’t Work in the Fight Against Ebola
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Tata Open for Business
The architects employed open spaces and glass walls in an effort to give Tata Hall a visually light and airy feel. Ratan Tata (second from left) at his namesake building with Dean Nohria, William Rawn, and C.D. Spangler. Photos by Susan Young In 2007, as Dean Jay Light... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
All photos by Webb Chappell From the Charles River, the newly renovated Baker Library looks very much as it has for the past seventy-some years — stately columns, enormous windows, the signature bell tower. But a closer inspection reveals a few subtle changes. The back... View Details
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
professionalize and create formal systems and structures. Module 5: Reinvention Reinvention is a process whereby established organizations respond to external environmental shifts that threaten to upend their core business model,... View Details