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Brian Tockman
It's simple. Act as an agent for enthusiasm, passion, and ethics in the organizations I join and earn the right to lead others in business. Be an evangelist for the marvel that is nature and work hard to preserve the environmental... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
1998, and the “Love Our Local Business” program, which encourages growth for small businesses by giving grants to entrepreneurs. In India, Intuit’s free mobile application, Fasal, has connected 1.5 million farmers with agents to get... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Wind Shift
HBS professor George P. Baker, a finance expert, has in recent years become an alternative-energy change agent as well, spearheading community wind projects in Maine. Now on leave from HBS, Baker is the CEO of Fox Islands Wind LLC, which... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, and Kelsey Jack Abstract A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
thirty years. He first sailed to China at the age of sixteen, and later became the sole agent in Canton for Perkins & Co. He became the wealthiest foreign agent in China and for a time served as the American... View Details
- 11 AM – 12 PM EST, 25 Jan 2018
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Becoming Effective Change Makers: The Power of Networks
Instituting change in an organization or in a sector of society has always been the bane of leaders. However, some leaders do succeed--often spectacularly--at transforming their organizations and even whole sectors of society. What makes some change makers triumph in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with James Andrew Miller
The then 24-year-old didn’t know he had something big on his hands until his agent negotiated a publishing deal: “That’s your first peek at what the market potential is,” Miller says. Miller went on to write Live from New York, a history... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ali Nuger
where working mothers thrive. I will come home each night and prove to my children that they, too, can have it all. I will be a mentor, leader, and change agent in the corporate world. I will be a strong, successful working mother. View Details
Alfred B. Dick
& Company evolved into an international company with 1,700 workers, branches in practically every major U.S. city, and sales agents throughout the world. View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 09 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Meet The HBS Sound Society
managers and agents to campus for several Speaker Series events. These events were open to the broader Harvard community and beyond, and brought in music-loving students from Harvard College, Harvard Law School, Berklee College of Music,... View Details
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Ali Nuger
talking to the women who have found a way to make it work and figuring out how they did it. When I have children, I will raise them to believe normal is playing in the kitchen while wearing a suit and tie. I will go to work each day and create an environment where... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
India, for instance, it’s like having access to an agricultural extension agent at any time—at no cost. Most often, any given question that a farmer submits to PAD (by text or voicemail) has been raised before, so a response is pushed... View Details
LeRoy A. Petersen
customers and on building high quality products that came with a guarantee of equally high quality service and repair operations. He also expanded the firm internationally, acquiring stakes in other companies and erecting offices abroad, so that by the time he retired... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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Cathy Hutchinson
technology and entertainment/media sectors for the office. Cathy’s work experience includes roles in both the entertainment/media and technology industries and she’s available to work with students and alumni pursuing opportunities in those areas. Work Experience:... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion people who live on less than $2 a day by facilitating more secure, accessible, and reliable ways to store and transfer money than are currently available. The development of this ecosystem requires a network of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A defining global experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential
bridge year after high school, Global Citizen Year prepares them for success in college, careers, and our global economy. "I want to awaken young people to their own potential as agents of change in the world," she explains. Today, Global... View Details
Academic Excellence
manuscript of a book on the business history of Rolex, in which I explore the relationship between J. Walter Thompson's American advertising agents and Swiss engineers in the creation of a product that expresses social status. I then... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
documents as well as from private diaries, letters, and secret audio recordings. The book casts new light on Roosevelt’s concealment of what America knew about Hitler’s war against the Jews and explores suspicions that Soviet secret View Details
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Harvard Business School
Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit AGENTS OF CHANGE: A REVIEW OF HBS-AFFILIATED THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ON RACE AND BLACK BUSINESS LEADERSHIP Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of... View Details