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Christine A. Hefner

The daughter of Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, Christine was responsible for the elimination of the company’s massive debt and the dramatic restructuring of the organization. Hefner eliminated a number of money losing ventures and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

01 Sep 2010
News

Portrait Project’s 2010 Edition

For the past nine years, scores of graduating MBAs have taken the challenge to write 200-word essays in response to one simple question: “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” The students’ revealing essays are... View Details

Keywords: Photography

01 Mar 2017
News

Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact

this past fall with an open challenge: choose an organization whose operating model will be significantly affected by climate change, and tell us what it should be doing to address it. Students posted responses to the prompt on HBS’s Open... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 2003
News

HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report

it is important they understand how their contributions are being used. The report explains the School’s strategic and flexible rolling five-year plan, which is responsive to changes in the operating environment. “During a year of... View Details

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

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

Summing Up How will sustainability be achieved? To sum up responses to this month's column, the question is not whether global sustainability will be achieved but how. One school of thought could perhaps be characterized as enlightened... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Anthony Terrizzi

stray from the behaviors we know are right. I am responsible for my choices, and I have an obligation to align my capacity for independent thought with my moral compass. I’m committed to actively monitoring my behavior so I’ll know when... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Gotta Dance

by a sassy song (“Eyes Lips Face”) composed and recorded for the campaign. Over 3 million TikTok users (including many unsolicited celebrities) posted videos in response to the campaign, generating 4 billion views and counting. “Brands... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2016
News

@Soldiers Field

by the African American Student Union, the conference also featured panel discussions on the business community’s response to social injustice as well as the challenges and opportunities unique to African American entrepreneurs. View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Leaders must be strategists first

even its core competencies, its continued existence depends on finding and continuing to find a compelling reason for it to exist. “It’s the defining responsibility of a leader,” Montgomery says. “If the clarity isn’t there, employees at... View Details

Robert D. Stuart, Jr.

Joining the family firm after serving in World War II, Robert Jr. was responsible for Quaker Oats’ biggest diversification since his Uncle John was president. Much of Stuart’s expansion came in non-food business areas, his most notable... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

01 Dec 2007
News

All Aboard for Board Members

vacancies. But now, in response to many requests, HBS alumni may do so, too, says Chris Sullivan, director of Alumni Career Services. Graduates may access the information at www.alumni.hbs.edu/careers/. View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Aug 2014
News

A Shared Sense of Identity

As Participation Committee Section cochair for her 20th Reunion, Stacy Enxing Seng said she was inspired by the positive response and generosity shown by her classmates, who achieved 45 percent participation. "While the experience we had... View Details

11 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center

call centers, with their attendant voice response units (VRUs—also known as automated voice response systems), need not be so inefficient. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service; Financial Services

Philip Lehman

Lehman was responsible for forming a profitable alliance with Goldman, Sachs that marked the beginning of a new type of investment house. Together they managed 114 negotiated offerings for 56 issuers. Their premiere interest was on the... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
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CalPERS' Emerging Equity Markets Principles

By: Robert G. Eccles and Aldo Sesia

The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and external money managers were... View Details

Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Value; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; China; California

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07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

surveys that get very low response rates. Instead, we’ve been focusing on angel groups that have systematic processes for looking at would-be companies and evaluating them. In particular, we have a forthcoming working paper looking at 13... View Details

Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking

27 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

Samantha Cristoforetti, a captain in the Italian Air Force and the first Italian woman in space. Suffice it to say, it's an experienced group of self-starters. "If you have a team like this, you let them produce the ideas and get out of their way," he said,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Aerospace

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

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities

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