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26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

what we have learned about how best to accelerate innovation from industries like IT and pharmaceuticals - sectors in which the US leads the world and which saw enormous rates of technical progress over the last fifty years. The results... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

success will depend on your organization and execution as well as the basic concept. In the work that I'm doing with HBS alumni, I have found that women believe the greatest demand on their time—in terms of importance, rather than... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

ocean exploration. It’s an entire world that needs to be understood and is incredibly valuable to our existence. So that excites me a lot. This last year prompted me to think about the arc of life and death. I lost my eldest son in a... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

built his business up that way, and he prospered. But everything came abruptly to an end in China during World War II. We could very easily have just faded to oblivion as a company, but my father took over, moved the company to Hong Kong,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

do this,’” Ng says. “I’ve seen people submit formal presentations.” 2. Ask good questions Keep up with the big picture of what an organization does, what it’s been accomplishing lately, who its competitors are, who its key executives are,... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

25 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 25

Publications August 2013 Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World By: Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge, eds. Abstract—This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2023
Technical Note

Two Ways of Pursuing a Calling

By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman

Work can be a means to a financial end, a stepping stone to higher-level jobs, or a meaningful end in itself: a calling. The technical note provides an overview of two different ways people can pursue a calling: with an internal focus or external focus. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Happiness; Identity; Well-being; Motivation and Incentives; Human Needs; Satisfaction; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry

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12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

Leadership Initiative was organized to be a catalyst for research on leaders and leadership, and to design effective leadership development programs that are relevant for the 21st century. The goal of the Initiative is to support Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2010
News

Lords of Strategy

John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 Mar 2023
News

Carbon's Second Act

DM: To date, Brix's company has raised more than 6.5 million dollars from organizations like the US Department of Energy and the US Army to pursue this idea. The company currently has a prototype—or "cell"—which turns carbon dioxide... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

firefighters, teachers, nurses, and other sorts of workers. These people help build communities and keep them stable and functioning; they deserve to be able to live where they serve." Build It and They Will Come With the federal government's involvement diminishing,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

19 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

churches every three to five years. When that occurs, Parsons and his colleagues found, ministers who "poached" were less likely to be assigned to the highest-paying congregations. In a broader context the method of the Methodists spells out the necessity for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

organizations are taking advantage of "e-commerce," an entirely new distribution channel. EE: Can you give some examples of these cases? Nolan: We've recently put together a series of cases on Cisco Systems, Inc., perhaps the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Podcast - HBS Online

faculty members Sunil Gupta, Anthony Mayo, Christina Wallace, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and V.G. Narayanan–all on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI). V.G. Narayanan on How Accounting Connects the Business World 13 JAN 2025 | The Parlor... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

New Ventures New Gains

“HBS has always been good at running experiments — reinforcing the ones that make progress and killing the ones that don’t,” says HBS professor of management practice Joseph B. Lassiter, who, together with Sahlman, worked with student View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2003
News

These Are the Good Old Days

it was the right decision. When she was appointed CEO of Time Inc. in 2002, the rest of the world knew too. “I’ve always had a long-term view,” notes Moore. “You’ve got to choose a career you’ll be happy growing old in because time goes... View Details

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

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

recruiters, interview with companies, and have private conversations with clients and team members (more on that later). Companies monitor productivity and goals, but in a world where COVID-19 has turned many companies into “federations... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

January 2019 Perspectives on Psychological Science Educating Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract— No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55580... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

block, is clad in marble, some 325,000 square feet of it. More than 40 types of the stone were imported from around the world for the facade and the building’s vaulted three-story lobby. The windows—1,800 of them—are rimmed in bronze. Its... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

you challenged and engaged. Lisa Arpey Executive Board Member at Ford's Theatre Leverage financial statements and frameworks to assess strategy execution and compare organizations’ performance. In an ever fast-changing world, it is important to keep abreast with how... View Details

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