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  • 19 Jan 2024
  • News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2019
  • News

“The Star of the North”

generation of family. “That’s often the preferred method,” says founder and CEO Rick Bauerly (MBA 1996). But when that’s not possible, then we want to be the next-best alternative, which is a group of family... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: Historical Roots of Globalization

Globalization creates convergence that threatens what is distinctive about national societies. Living with institutional convergence pressures casts doubt on the legitimacy of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • Article

Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems

By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell

Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.

Data... View Details

Keywords: Perspective; Opportunities; Safety; Performance Efficiency; System; Failure; Conferences; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

and nonprofits positively influence corporate philanthropy. Interviewees in one of the cities we studied described how institutions such as the local community foundation and boards View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

February 1, 2018. “ Let’s Talk About Climate Migrants, Not Climate Refugees ,” United Nations (UN), June 6, 2019. “ Climate change and health ,” World Health Organization... View Details
  • Web

The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising 1865 - 1910 National Markets Advertising... View Details
  • 27 Nov 2012
  • News

The Beauty of the Network

Pao: A beauty business veteran leverages the HBS network to launch her own skincare line. Photo courtesy Patti Pao Patti Pao (MBA 1987) describes her two years at HBS as “spectacularly unsuccessful,” thanks in part to a culture clash with the section-enforced structure... View Details
Keywords: cosmetics; salmon; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Managing the Business of Life

however, Glover and her husband, Phil Stapleton, had dreamed of starting a business together. "Phil is one of the best thinkers and practitioners in the environmental health... View Details
  • Web

Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Senior Editor in Bain & Company’s global marketing team; and, prior to that, she was the Senior Vice President of Programs at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national not-for-profit focused on... View Details
  • 19 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

Harvard Business School, professor Ananth Raman discussed the importance of empathy in customer-facing business. "As we're talking about things like retail efficiency and profitability, this is a topic that I think needs more attention,"... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

New Idea: State of the Art

Photos courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum On the subject of art’s relevance in the digital age, Scott Belsky (MBA 2008) has never been one to mince words. “Art View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; Adobe; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions
  • 01 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

short-changed, or disappointed ” Other comments reflected the nature of the dilemma, with some advice about what she should do. Philippe Gouamba’s comment framed the dilemma nicely: “As this Nation still... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
  • April 2007
  • Case

Microfinance in Bolivia: A Meeting with the President of the Republic

By: Michael Chu
Herbert Muller, chair of leading microfinance bank BancoSol, has met with Evo Morales one year after the populist leader's inauguration as president of Bolivia and proceeds to write an email to his fellow board directors. The bank is world famous for pioneering... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Race; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations; Microfinance; Poverty; Interest Rates; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry; Bolivia; South America
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  • October 2019 (Revised February 2025)
  • Case

A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chairman & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Ellen J. Kullman, the retired Chairman and CEO of DuPont, describes how she guided the storied science and technology company through a contentious proxy battle with activist investor Trian Partners, which acquired DuPont shares in 2013 and sought to break up the... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Institutional Investing; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Transformation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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Current Boards

By: Linda A. Hill
-Board of Trustees of The ArtCenter College of Design
-Board of Trustees of Brigham and Women’s Hospital
-Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, Special Representative
-Board of Directors of the Global Citizens Initiative, Inc.
-Board of Directors... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

Limbaugh," Scher laughs. Through various Web sites, the company also helps coordinate volunteers with hundreds of nonprofit groups. Moreover, the Working Assets phone bill (which, Scher proudly points out, is printed on 100 percent... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 11 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

cosmopolitan business class is bringing these different worlds closer together. Despite national differences, these transnational road warriors frequently have a common grounding in education, professional background, and global popular... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

National Institutes of Health that spurred more women to become scientists and discouraged biases among men in the field, Koning says. While male... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias

Every year, specially chosen committees help the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) decide how to allocate massive—totaling more than $24... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson