The Great Divergence - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Michael Maples

leap across the chasm, from startups to investing. In so doing, he became one of the most successful venture capitalists in the technology sector, with a unique investing... View Details

13 Jan 2021
News

Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

That was a great moment. Morrell: Nicole was no stranger to the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship when she launched Energicity in 2015. Until its IPO, she had been a part of US-based OPower, a... View Details

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

dean for religious life at Stanford University and a former senior lecturer at HBS, describe the hurdles as well as a practical framework to overcome them in their new book, Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Nov 2022
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Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future

European Alumni Summit in Berlin. “HBS used to host the Global Leadership Conference that took place every two to four years,” says Sami Busch (MBA 2004), president of the HBSA of Germany. “It was in a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Nov 2016
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Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

who are only involved with the organization to complete one or more transactions. Owners are like found gold; great organizations seek, develop, and encourage them even though they may sometimes seem... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

just two suppliers, while Great Britain has five suppliers to reduce the risk of supply disruptions. While fear of lawsuits has played a role, the fundamental problem is that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2007
News

Steve Schwarzman

equity is a very good business to be in. I think finance generally provides an enormous number of opportunities for young people. It’s a business that highly rewards and appreciates very smart, very analytic, very driven, and highly articulate people. In finance, View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

21 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

achieve that. Then I think the impact of what she is doing for girls, for homeless women, through an NGO (Mijwan Welfare Society) she started. She is having great impact there. Homelessness is a huge, huge... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

15 Nov 2024
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Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the... View Details

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Policy - Business & Environment

on their pollution) [16] While the U.S. federal government has not yet caught up with shifts in public opinion, many other countries and some U.S. states and cities are advancing policies to achieve net zero emissions of GHG emissions by... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Sister Soldier

on one side, and much quieter, more introverted individuals on the other, and show the events that led very normal people into extraordinary circumstances. In your descriptions of women commanding men, there... View Details

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

born that are still household names," including Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Mercedes, Sears, Nestlé, Marks & Spencer, and Bayer. To reach that level of success, she asserted, is extraordinarily difficult, demanding great diligence,... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

the proxy statements of 478 large U.S. companies, analyzing executive compensation between 1980 and 1994. "We built a database that enabled us to measure with great precision, using View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

01 Oct 1999
News

New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

students look at business ethics by studying literature and philosophy.There is a great deal of innovation in the elective curriculum across the board. What's View Details

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

Clubs News Clubs News HBSAB Virtual Case Event Explores Black New Venture Competition As second-year students at HBS, Kimberly Foster (MBA 2020) and Tyler Simpson (MBA 2020) created the inaugural Black New Venture Competition (BNVC) to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2018
News

New Ways to Stay Connected

For more information on any of the programs featured here, please contact us at alumni@hbs.edu. Alumni Dinner Series John Power (MBA 1974) and Todd Doersch (MBA 1983) hosted second-year MBA students at Remington’s restaurant in Chicago in... View Details

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

is even harder to measure than price. But there’s a great amount of price variation that doesn’t seem to be correlated to quality (at least to quality that we can measure). Which brings us to the question of... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

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Commencement 2017 Address | About

remarkable global political events: Great Britain’s surprise decision to leave the European Union, one of the most contentious American elections in our nation’s history, and,... View Details

04 Oct 2018
News

“A Shout Through Time”

something has been gone that long, but for those first hours, she definitely had it with her everywhere. I spent a great deal of time talking to my aunt not only about our family history, just trying to get View Details

09 Sep 2024
News

Basket Chase

I was just a person with a baby walking in. Search is a great thing to do while you’re having kids because your schedule is your own. RY: Well, maybe this is a good moment to talk a little bit about the... View Details

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