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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

business leader. This course explores different business models that companies use to drive change and explains why purpose driven businesses are in the best position to tackle the world’s biggest problems.... View Details

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

the positive effects of transparency—highlighting a possible tension between promotion-based strategies designed to influence and transparency-based strategies designed to inform. Competitive advantage... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Brian Kenny | About

where he engineered a branding and marketing program to help propel the university into the top 100 nationwide. Previously he oversaw global marketing for management consultancy The Monitor Group and led... View Details

01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

by providing loans for large capital expenses. And finally, we have no debt. In a high-risk business like this, where things ranging from bad weather to national security concerns can wreak havoc with the best of plans, that puts us in... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Toward a Life Well Lived

Illustration by Valerie Chiang Illustration by Valerie Chiang In many states, you’re required by law to get your car inspected annually, and if there’s something wrong, you get the car serviced, says Professor Leslie Perlow. But how many of us bring that level of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

“Women in Steel,” featured photographs by Margaret-Bourke White illustrating women at U.S. Steel plants in a variety of positions traditionally held by men. 28 Harvard Business School’s Baker Library holds 27 U.S. Steel albums View Details

22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

Silence is associated with many virtues: modesty, respect for others, prudence, decorum. Thanks to deeply ingrained rules of etiquette, people silence themselves to avoid embarrassment, confrontation, and other perceived dangers. There's... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

26 Sep 2024
HBS Seminar

Garrett Van Ryzin, Columbia & Amazon

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction

held a memorial service for his grandmother. Since then, several members of his family have been considering returning home. “A lot of people involved in the pro-democracy movement have moved back and are making View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; democracy; family; technology; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

organization was not eligible to receive nonprofit status—which meant donations would not have been tax-deductible and likely caused many potential donors to not contribute. "The One Fund team made it known we would proceed without... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jan 2013
News

Thai Lee, MBA 1985

and books her own travel. "Thai has always worked hard. That's just who she is," says Celeste Lee, her younger sister whom Lee persuaded to attend the Harvard Kennedy School. Celeste now sees her sister's skills in action regularly in her... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2004
News

Derek Ferguson

less positive messages of rap and hip-hop. He describes how he and others at his church have been supporting a Christian hip-hop group called Corey Red & Precise. “I don’t... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

March 2022
Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (B)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco

In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details

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03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Megan Maloney

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I prayed about it a lot and went with my gut. Like so many, I want to positively impact the world. It felt like a good time to come up for air View Details

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Prineeta Kulkarni

interfered with survival, but also with how patients integrated into their communities." After graduation, she took a position with a boutique consulting firm, L.E.K. Consulting, that concentrated on a portfolio of life science,... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

who joined the Climate Circle one year later, teaches children ages 3-11 about climate in six countries. They were recognized as a UNESCO Green Citizens Initiative for their positive and empowering approach... View Details

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Nov 2019
What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

use should be further restricted or they should be redesigned. But just how to redesign them poses a further question. In a nutshell, that’s one reading of reader responses to this month’s column. Russell Beck commented that “based on both personal experience View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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