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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
structure will help them manage their businesses more efficiently and responsibly.” The GRI is emerging even as institutional investors, NGOs, and governments intensify their scrutiny of firms in areas such as environmental impact, human... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second, region-wide structural constraints on the types of linkages that states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions.... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
governments on the cost savings her program can provide. She says Reset is working to scale up toward a cost structure that is more affordable than prison {which in some states can cost more than $100,000 per year per inmate), with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
an excellent public-private partnership model that provided the right incentives for investment and the flexibility to attack the problems in service delivery. This was key. How did you structure Manila Water’s concession with the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
little envious” when he compares the cost structure of his son’s operation with his own. “I’m a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club,” he stresses, “but I have to acknowledge that some regulations create a disincentive to manufacturing... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
investors and our society. This is what Michael Porter refers to as ‘shared value.’ I believe in the power of capitalism and the power of human ingenuity to get us out of the holes we’ve dug for ourselves.” Another B Lab–inspired idea that Coupounas propounds is a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
being active participants. All forms of illicit financial flows are assisted by a global structure that comprises 72 tax havens, secrecy jurisdictions, millions of disguised corporations, anonymous trust accounts, fake charitable... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
other," according to one respondent, and significantly affected "the basic structure of the family," added another. "Other" ruminations included this reflection on the rise of high technology: "In the past, people saw a need and tried to... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
30,000 Indian businesses and created nearly 1,000 jobs. “It’s really structured in the exact same way as a small venture capital or private equity firm,” says Chorengel. “It’s a proven model—you get a group of talented fund managers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Rosabeth, you mentioned the structure and design of the organization as possibly contributing to the current problems. What improvements can be made? Kanter: We need more external information — both financial and nonfinancial — about the... View Details
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- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
again. April: When we think about these type of big structural social changes, we're often thinking about federal government action. Do you think there's also a place for the business community to lead this type of change? Sheryl: Oh,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that focus on the perceived cause of the most recent crash. These efforts have ignored the enduring cultural problems of CEO-board collusive relationships and the lack of shareholder power. The result is the imposition of ineffective, costly, or counter-productive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
overseeing the safety and efficiency of UP's track structure in some of the 23 states where the railroad hauls freight. "And it has a physical aspect that I like. We do real, rigorous work. If a train derails, we'll work 24 hours a day... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work―there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when change abates.” Most company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
flexible framework of an annual review process on the child’s birthday, combined with a structure for increasing permissions, responsibilities, and conversations. Entitlemania: How Not to Spoil Your Kids, and What to Do If You Have by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
Photographed by Luciano Munhoz From her São Paulo office, Claudia Sender (MBA 2002) has a clear view of the Octávio Frias de Oliveira Bridge, a spectacular 450-foot-tall structure of yellow steel cables laid over an X-shaped support tower... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
structure organizations; how organizations are built to create certain behaviors; and how they can succeed or fail. Both of those courses addressed those themes in nearly every module.” Jackson Lehr (MBA 2007) Director, Distributed Energy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
places like HBS are fortunate,” she says. “We have a responsibility to take on issues we see around us. Wherever I am, I like to identify problems — or voids — and work with others to create structures and channels for addressing them.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
driven into the ground and see the structure rise from its foundations. Walking across the campus allows for many chance conversations with people who readily share both what is working well and what’s not. I love Harvard Business School;... View Details