Informal Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 May 2015
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

will we reimagine this institution and leave it stronger than we found it?” "When I look at the challenges facing our world today, I'm convinced that now more than ever we need the type of leadership Harvard Business School can provide,"... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

initiative between MIT and the World Bank, he was sent to the Philippines to work with an informal settlement whose 12,000 residents were to be displaced for a resort. “It was a huge aha moment for me,” Mawilmada recalls. “This time, I... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Jun 2015
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The Giving Tree

Managing Director, GTCR Chicago “My father was a fireman and came from a large family; I was a financial aid kid in college. There is a sense of gratitude and obligation when you’ve benefited from an institution like HBS. I’m very focused... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2017
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HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age

multi week program has a remarkable 85 percent completion rate across cohorts. CORe is now offered at educational institutions in the United States and to students around the world. At HBS, CORe is playing an important role in... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four

school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating reality. It was a great way to give... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Sep 2004
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Salter New Head of External Relations

corporate, and institutional fronts, and I look forward to working with him.” An immediate priority, says Salter, is to complete the School’s $500 million capital campaign, which continues through 2005. Initially, he will focus on raising... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2010
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Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

When you became Dean, were there surprises for you nonetheless? It wasn’t a complete surprise, but one of the interesting things was to see how information dries up when you become the head of an organization. For years I had been a close... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2003
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Inside the Revolution

business, organizational, financial, and institutional problems,” West recalls. Since Harvard University, with its medical school, teaching hospitals, and Nobel Prize winners, is perhaps the world’s leading View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

Second, there’s a flaw in getting information from management, or maybe management doesn’t understand what’s going on. As a consequence, if management doesn’t understand, the board doesn’t understand. Rakesh Khurana teaches The Board of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

15 Nov 2016
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Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India

opportunities in relation to other countries. She also notes that Leadership and Organizational Behavior “opened my eyes to my own internal leadership strengths and weaknesses.” “I want to build a healthy future for India,” states Bhandari, whose first two jobs after... View Details

23 Apr 2016
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Tipping His Cap to Open Source

deconstructs the traditional software value chain at big tech employers like Oracle and IBM. “What are the boundaries of an organization going forward in a world where information and content are open or can be made open? View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Managing Change

from HBP and now HBX as well—Das has shepherded a process through which Executive Education has enhanced its reputation as a premier provider of executive development to leading firms and institutions around the world, while engaging more... View Details

20 Jun 2016
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Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

development challenges facing India and other emerging economies, through impact investing in areas such as affordable housing, financial inclusion, and access to energy. The other is VSG Capital Advisors, an investment bank that is bringing long-term View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

25 Apr 2016
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Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers

with five points of light: character, academics, organizational stability, family/scholar engagement, and college knowledge. “What’s constant is the aspiration to create a greater good,” he says. “We can prove the possible and create hope in communities where so many... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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INCAE Making Global Impact

transformative business (such as entrepreneurial start-ups, microfinance, and tourism). CLACDS is just one aspect of INCAE’s operations that will benefit from the Illuminate campaign, an important initiative for an institution that is,... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated

University in 1934. Fitzhugh became engrossed in his experience at Howard, which stretched into the next three decades and left an indelible mark on the school and its business curriculum. He worked diligently to build Howard's business program. Among other... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2009
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El-Hage Takes Alumni Post

of the reason we are such a great institution today is the generous support of alumni,” he continues. “It is precisely because of their support that we have been able to accomplish so much. We don’t expect, and we never have expected,... View Details

01 Dec 2005
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Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS

Mumbai. Light is also busy with faculty issues, including recruitment and development. He is particularly interested, he said, “in ensuring that the next generation of faculty is versed in the School’s rich heritage and is well-prepared to carry the View Details