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Ann Chao
she had indeed become one of our family. Chun Yu’s life is embedded deep in my heart, in pain as well as hope. In the months after her death, I realized that she and millions of other children like her have the power to change the world,... View Details
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Initiative Welcome to the fourth annual Gender & Work research symposium. This year’s theme, "Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative," addresses the power of words: how what we say and how we say it—as View Details
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Benefits & Compensation | Research Associates
including options for child care, transportation discounts, and real estate and mortgage resources. To sweeten the deal, your Harvard ID card acts as your passport to a University-wide offering of libraries, museums, and events, as well... View Details
Business of Emerging Markets
100 interviews with top business leaders from emerging markets available for download. I have also accessed the plentiful resources of Baker Library as well as the larger Harvard ecosystem, including new archival material on female... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
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Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
and wellness company,” the kind that can thrive in a world where regulators may look at Butterfingers not so differently from Benson & Hedges. If this vision is realized, a visit to the family doctor in a decade’s time might end with a... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
South Africa Conference Preview
challenges that are arising from southern Africa's recent movement into the global marketplace. Conference sessions will look at public-sector issues such as employment, trade, industrial policy, and macroeconomic management, as well as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Networked Computers behind IT Payoff
the Internet Protocol (IP)." McAfee explains that because they connect people to vast pools of information, networks are extremely valuable tools for businesses. "It may well be that businesses benefit primarily not from the computer's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Accelerating Therapies
for Entrepreneurship at the ready, we are well positioned to make the most of this generous gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation." The fellowships will provide recipients with a stipend, i-lab residency, and specialized programming... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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Ideas: Books
analyze why such partnerships occur and show how they are improving social conditions across Latin America as well as creating value for businesses. The Social Enterprise Knowledge Network is a collaboration among HBS, the AVINA... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
says Mahesh. “I think our bed, in a very Adam Smithian way, showed how capitalism, when it focuses on basic human needs, means doing well results in doing good,” he adds. The start-up has completed two rounds of in-hospital tests and is... View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
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Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
Summing Up Where Is the Leadership Necessary to Regenerate the "Industrial Commons" In their book Producing Prosperity, Gary Pisano and Willy Shih pointed to the lack of long-term thinking and investment as well as education... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
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Where Is the Microsoft Board?
influence and pointing to the success of the company, Bruce Lowenthal said "...I would rather address the problem of board inaction when things are not going well even with a high percentage of outside representation." The views... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
connections, confidence, and cognition that individuals acquire or cultivate by virtue of working at a company during a particular period of time. It’s organization-specific as well as time-specific. Do all organizations leave an imprint?... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
company's long-term viability. The strategy paid off, with sales jumping well over 50 percent in the first year alone. Under intense scrutiny, Gerstner then reversed a plan to split IBM into independently operated "Baby Blues," choosing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
professor Lou Wells, who led the Rwanda IXP. Accompanying Wells were Laura Moon, director of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, and Dana Pratt from the School’s IXP office. “Participants have to think through issues that we often fail... View Details
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Ben Faw
prides itself as a leadership development organization — and the infantry is the epitome of that. Once ankle deep, I figured I might as well go up to my chest.” As a first lieutenant, Ben served as a platoon leader in northern Iraq from... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology
people with infertility was, as well as the potential commercial viability of this technology. Last fall, I made the decision to start a company that focused on the embryo selection problem, which I then pursued full time after... View Details
- 18 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative
scholarly community, as well as developing mechanisms to bring actionable research to practice. The Initiative hosts a conference every spring, the Gender & Work Symposium, bringing together academics and practitioners to share... View Details
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Meg Whittenberger
waste your time with these students,” one teacher had told me decisively, while “these” students were well within earshot. Had I said the right things in these moments? Did I make any difference in their lives? Honestly, I think doubt... View Details