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- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Shell and American Can Company. "All the guys who were making the decisions in the corner offices had advanced degrees," he recalls. "I wanted to call the shots." At HBS, Harris learned about leadership and motivating teams, citing... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
Ecosystem” details the city’s evolution as a growing hub for startup activity. “Chicago has been called the most American of American cities,” Emanuel commented. “It’s a very big city but a small town.” He... View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
new product. While the Americans concentrated on ways to get the product out the door, his British colleagues "always wanted to do the extra study." Ironically, there are more biotech companies in Europe than the U.S., but they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness. The Business Roundtable was no less emphatic. “This is an unprecedented preemption of state corporate law that will turn boards of more than 15,000 publicly traded... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
active duty. I was shocked — I had already served two tours in Iraq, most recently in Ramadi, where I had led a platoon of forty infantrymen through seven months of some of the worst combat Americans had seen since Vietnam. Besides, I was... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
search processes that shape networks, cognition, and capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-106.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBanca Regional Andino: Facing the Globalization of Microfinance Harvard Business School Case 307-060 Three... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
He needed the kind of break that the typical American vacation week couldn’t offer. So in 2017, he took a sabbatical—which included a ten-day silent meditation retreat followed by a six-week walking pilgrimage in Japan. The experience was... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Organizational Behavior Over the past four years, Sheila Lirio Marcelo's alarm has rung at 4:00 most mornings, rousing her to start her day as a student at both Harvard's Business and Law Schools, a part-time consultant in Cambridge, and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
governments and have the capacity to recruit people from all over the world who will feel comfortable in your organization. You have to make them feel that they can contribute. That’s the biggest challenge, I think. American companies... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
44, has been charged by a bull elephant in the Congo, swum with penguins in the Galapagos, mingled with bison in the American West, and camped out among grizzly bears in Alaska. It’s all part of his job as head of a multinational... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
ensure that it is shared by all Americans. The American public has the will to change, the authors contend—all the nation now needs is lawmakers who will get down to the business of fixing what’s broken. + ONLINE web-only content Read the... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
‘How did you get there?’ ” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Jahn Karsybaev (GMP 26, 2019), CTO at ProSource IT and host of The Ivy Podcast MUST READ Can American Capitalism Survive? by Steven Pearlstein “Pearlstein challenges what has... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
before. And anarchy has always yielded back to law and order. In this excerpt from her new book, Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet, Spar looks to history to put the Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
to the benefits of being in the midst of the country’s leading public-policy thinkers, Moret will be near his mother — his “inspiration,” as he calls her — who worked her way from small-town Mississippi pharmacist to COO of the American... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
backlogs and delays in numerous Patent and Trademarks Offices, and litigation over IP rights is expensive with an uncertain outcome. Moreover, local governments can succeed in transferring value to local firms and influencing global market positions by using IP View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
Standard of Butte. While entrepreneurs and academics developed the industry, the American government also became deeply involved. Herbert Hoover, in particular, proved to be a big advocate of forecasting. He pushed the Department of... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Lisa Frankenberg
particularly for the English speakers who were suddenly flooding the country," says the young entrepreneur. With five other American backpackers, she helped start the country's first English-language newspaper, Prognosis, a monthly geared... View Details