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03 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Energy & Environment Club

change. At HBS I took on a leadership position in the Energy & Environment club motivated by a desire to help others increase their impact in the fight against climate change, and to engage with a vibrant climate community. My... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

career harnessing the power of business to effect positive social change. Bef... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

The Network Effect

COVID-related trials needing over 858,000 volunteers. “Every week, every day, every hour we can decrease the time for developing COVID-19 solutions will make a tremendous impact,” says Kapoor, who notes that the platform will soon begin to match COVID View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2015
News

Cracking Conferences

you don’t have a local family.” That need to connect served Molloy well as she established herself in New York and moved on to positions at Siebel Systems, Gerson Lehrman Group, and Velocidi before landing at Siegel+Gale. Being Irish... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

14 Apr 2014
News

The Puzzle of Life

"Nothing is more exciting to me than the ongoing insights that the life-sciences industry is generating," Farquharson says of these and other discoveries that VentureHealth is funding. "In my lifetime, we will apply those insights in ways that will View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; crowdfunding; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid

governance benchmarks based on objective, third-party assessments. Once eligible, countries put forward their own proposals showing what they need money for and how they will use it. Overall, of the Western donor countries, I'd say the British have the most effective... View Details

Keywords: foreign aid; Government

01 Sep 2004
News

Survey Spotlights HBS Experience

persuading others (68 percent). The survey confirmed the expected with regard to the senior positions held by alumni. About 34 percent identify themselves as officer/chairman, and 25 percent as president/principal. The data also show the... View Details

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

09 May 2016
Blog Post

What To Know For An International Job Search

look beyond these strong connections and utilize weaker ties, the acquaintances that move in different circles than you and your friends. It’s actually the weaker ties who may be in a better position to connect you to a wider world.... View Details

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

what-if and formal optimization approach). We discuss pros and cons of these approaches and illustrate them through applications and case studies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-069.pdf Positions of Power and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2012
Background Note

Managing the Layoff Process: India

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This note is an overview of the context for managing layoffs in India. It describes the legal responsibilities of managers in conducting layoffs, recent unemployment trends, and the financial, health, training, job placement, and other benefits that laid-off employees... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Resignation and Termination; Compensation and Benefits; Ethics; Management; Employees; Governance Compliance; India

March 2012
Background Note

Managing the Layoff Process: The United States

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This note is an overview of the context for managing layoffs in the United States. It describes the legal responsibilities of managers in conducting layoffs, recent unemployment trends, and the financial, health, training, job placement, and other benefits that... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Resignation and Termination; Compensation and Benefits; Ethics; Management; Employees; Governance Compliance; United States

November 2010
Article

Wealth and Jobs: The Broken Link

By: Nitin Nohria

This article discusses the weakening connections between business growth and job creation. The industrial economy of the 20th century ensured that growing firms would need to add workers, but the increasingly globalized and information-based economy of the early 21st... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Economic Growth; Jobs and Positions; Employment; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; Value Creation

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01 Sep 2017
News

HBS Fund Supports Core Priorities Including Financial Aid

“I want to help put others in a position to choose careers based on impact and enrich ment, not just a paycheck.” —Monne Williams (MBA 2012) “I want to help put others in a position to choose careers based... View Details

February 2018 (Revised September 2018)
Case

Huawei: How Can We Lead the Way?

By: Elie Ofek, Tian Tao, Eden Yin and Nancy Hua Dai

On September 12, 2017, just as Apple’s Tim Cook was unveiling the iPhone X, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group (CBG), and Glory Cheung, his Chief Marketing Officer, were discussing some key strategic issues regarding Huawei’s smartphone business.... View Details

Keywords: Product Launch; Product Positioning; Marketing Communications; Price; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy

August 2007 (Revised March 2008)
Case

Fiyta - The Case of a Chinese Watch Company

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Luc R. Wathieu, Gao Wang, Fei Li and Tracy Manty

Fiyta had long been on of China's foremost watch brands. However, as China's economy began to improve and the livelihood of many Chinese rose with it, their tastes began to change. Exposed to more luxurious foreign brands, many Chinese strived to purchase a Swiss or... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; China

Profile

Kine Seck Mercier

enjoyed the work, she felt a need for something more. “There wasn’t much room for growth,” she says. “And the impact I had on the countries I was working in was limited. I wanted to have a more positive influence on local economies.” An... View Details

17 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

understandable, generalizable, and robust. The consulting leaders sustained their thought-leadership positions by creating an ecosystem with senior executives at pioneer corporations and academic/thought leaders. The paper also describes... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

networks as we know them, with their devices, will cease to exist within the next decade. These bit based clod machines will yield to a kind of biologic environment, where the systems are secondary to the need constantly adapting and rebuilding I am View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

speculates about whether Microsoft or Adobe would be better positioned to establish the dominant ebook standard. The possibility that the world’s biggest bookstore might eventually win that race hadn’t dawned on me. Social networks. We’d... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

countries, the conversation has to shift from talking about whether diversity affects performance to talking about the conditions under which you'd expect diversity to have a positive effect on performance." This article is part of a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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