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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

University, 1920 A leading figure in the cooperative movement, after leaving HBS, W. C. Matney became director of the Bluefield Institute (today the today the historically black college Bluefield State) Department of Business... View Details

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Module 2 Driving Change at Scale: Moving Beyond the Firm Learn what purpose-driven firms are, the "Wheel of Change," and why businesses must act to solve large global issues, such as climate change and income inequality. Highlights Prisoner's Dilemma View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Brice Cutrer Jones

still on their stems. Inside the state-of-the-art winery, where the cellar temperature is a constant 48 degrees, the juice is aged and fermented inside barrels coopered from air-seasoned oak staves made in France, from trees Jones... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

Healthcare Initiative, with broad community support, with cooperation from the Centers for Disease Control, and with backing from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Also, we've been testing these ideas with our students: Kent in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

08 Oct 2008
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Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

Mistake Number 3: Passively sitting and waiting for a crisis (which many never come). A major problem with passive strategies is that nature may not cooperate by providing the right amount of lightning in the right place at the right... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

sensible, potentially quite lucrative and, in a word, simple. Altruism is just a nice by-product. Looking For Drivers The phenomenon of open source has roots in a long tradition of sharing and cooperation in software development (see... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

In today's global work environment, it's a given that companies need culturally diverse teams to succeed. Both scientific studies and common sense tell us that having people with different viewpoints onboard increases the creativity that teams will employ in solving... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Feb 2022
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How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip

and a community savings and loans cooperative in Migori County, Kenya. At Lwala I worked in Monitoring & Evaluation, Program Design & Implementation, and Development. After two and a half years at Lwala I took a position in Player... View Details

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Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

How to Post Your Commitment Why Hire a Summer Associate? HBS students offer exceptional talent, a record of accomplishment, demonstrated leadership potential, cooperative spirit, and a commitment to making a difference. As part of their... View Details

13 Mar 2005
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The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

organizations face a similar set of challenging questions as they enter the twenty-first century. How should they respond to the increasing number of complex emergencies? To what extent should they cooperate with national governments and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

04 May 2017
Cold Call Podcast

Leading a Team to the Top of Mount Everest

Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson

01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson

a microphone, and an extensive record collection with money earned working for their father. Ferguson moonlighted as a DJ in college on the weekends to earn extra money but never considered a career in the music business. Instead, he worked as an auditor and M&A... View Details

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

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Google Anita Borg Scholarship in 2015. Edward McFowland III : Winner of the 2015 William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award from Carnegie Mellon University. Antonio Moreno : Recipient of the 2015 Management Science Meritorious Service... View Details

18 Apr 2000
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Learning in Action

mock-ups of each piece of equipment placed on casters so that they could be moved easily. The learning process included elements of both competition and cooperation to ensure that Cardboard City produced a wide range of possible layouts... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

03 Jul 2013
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What Are the Limits of Transparency?

cautioned us not to expect too much from a policy of transparency, saying "If the company culture operates better within the founder's vision of transparency, all well and good, be transparent. But to trust transparency alone to engender trust in management and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

been adopted by more than 190,000 organizations around the world by 2020. To understand the impact of OHSAS 18001, the researchers obtained the cooperation of several global certification companies to access that data, and combined that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

02 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Gillian Hadfield, University of California, Gould School of Law

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

middlemen in the industry. The company works directly with Kenyan coffee cooperatives to source coffee beans that Kahawa roasts in San Francisco. Kahawa originally sold its beans to Bay Area offices, but when most of the region’s office... View Details

28 Apr 2022
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Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

developed strong bonds and community. Vugar Abdullayev (MBA 2023) explained: “I am very thankful for the diverse team from HBS and HKS for the hard work, cooperation and fun! I am also grateful for the impact investing community of... View Details

01 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

fresh milk to single-product producers, most of which are limited liability cooperatives of farmers, and most of whom outsource the maturation process to warehouse operators. Before it hits store shelves, cheese is matured for 18, 24, 30,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage

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