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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
of the Yale School of Management; under-secretary of state during the Nixon administration; chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange; and chairman and CEO of Aetna. Along with his impressive résumé, Donaldson brought a... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
Wells & Richardson Co. advertisement, Chicago Dairy Produce 23, no.2, May 1916 Thus, winter butter is whiter than summer butter. It’s also arguably less tasty. “Because the flavor of butter was richer in the summer, there was the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
clubs across the globe spent the last year recruiting teams, coordinating the pitch events, identifying judges and assembling impressive prizes of cash and in-kind services to find the best competitors to send to the final stages. For the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
"The School has continued to play a role in my life, long after graduation," adds Keck. She cites in particular one of her former HBS professors who, after the birth of her first child, helped her return to the workforce. Her ongoing HBS... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
governments that caused their misery in the first place. In such mismanaged countries—which number close to seventy—a way must be found to change the basic system. Globalization—seen by many today as a sort of cure-all—will certainly not... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
year and nothing outdoes it. So it’s the king of all of our sandwiches. But if you discovered Clover in say August for the first time and then you see the sandwich appear on the menu in October, there needs to be something that helps... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
to the Ten Commandments, the vast majority (eight) of which dictate what thou shalt not do. Meanwhile, in virtually every other aspect of business there is a focus on what to do. Do meet sales projections. Do outperform competitors. Do View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
From a course comes a movement. When the first Women on Boards (WOB) Executive Education program wrapped up in 2016, the cohort of 67 women from 17 countries, who had studied with HBS faculty how boards worked and the skills needed to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
detailed historical analysis is no less so.9 Schumpeter's Rhetoric—and Keynes's Schumpeter could be a very persuasive writer, but in Business Cycles he appears at his stylistic worst. Read cover to cover (a chore I do not recommend), the book conveys the View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Development in Rio de Janeiro (also known as the Earth Summit) - an event that brought together thousands of leaders from governments, businesses, environmental groups, and nongovernmental organizations to discuss global environmental concerns. The conference generated... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
companies, especially the ad-buying agencies, went through tough times because their large clients decided to leave the country. “The first question HBS faculty get when we do a custom Executive Education program in China and other areas... View Details
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
incredibly impressed by our founders’ ability to use tools that exist and apply them in a completely new way to create a business that works, makes a profit, and has this carbon impact in a way that simply wasn't possible before. In my... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
question for the month is that the leadership stars of today-Jobs, Bezos, Gates, etc.-should not cause us to change our time-honored ideas about great leadership. Among the notions advanced were that they: (1) are special, (2) are entrepreneurs View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
being too dogmatic about how you define your sweet spot as an investor; and (2) seek companies that seem extraordinary on some dimension, even if it is unusual or seems deficient in others. Rob Go (MBA 2007) NextView Ventures For the Birds Here’s what I wrote in my... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
buildings. Regardless of the season, the grounds are pristine. Landscaping crews are constantly at work trimming trees, mowing grass, patching holes in the pavement, and shoveling snow. In winter, before the first snowfall, the corners of... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
fail just when the region needed it most. The advent of coal mining more than a century ago (the first rail shipment of eastern Kentucky coal rolled out of Harlan County in 1911) transformed a sparsely populated rural area dominated by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
DEAN NOHRIA: Addressing his first reunion audience in Burden Auditorium, he outlined the priorities that emerged from many conversations over the summer. Photos by Stuart Cahill Related Links Upcoming regional alumni events with Dean... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
institutions - like the Bulletin itself - are enduring outgrowths of its solid foundation. Women in the Bulletin While the first women in the Bulletin sold cigarettes in colorfully drawn advertisements in the 1930s, an occasional article... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Eastern European Teachers’ Program (CEETP) offered by HBS during the summers of 1992 and 1993. But I did have the opportunity to meet him at the end of the first leg of CEETP. We had a short talk, and I was View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
unthinkable to the eight women who joined the program in 1963. This article is part of a continuing series on faculty research and teaching commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette