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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

career and am looking for a path to becoming a chief sustainability officer or sustainability manager with a company I can align my values with. This class seemed like the perfect opportunity to give me the right tools to learn more about... View Details

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Medium-High 60 1960 s 19 Civil rights movement gain strength Antiwar sentiment divides electorate FDA approves oral contraceptive pill Influence: High 70 1970 s 19 National Organization for Women mobilizes for Equal View Details

17 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

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Research - Health Care

Right Incentives. By: Susanna Gallani and Derek A. Haas Health care organizations have long tried to enlist physicians in their effort to control or reduce costs. One effective means for doing so is to create an incentive system that... View Details

15 Jul 2019
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Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

managers from pursuing value-destroying opportunities within the firm just for the sake of deploying capital or because they want to run larger companies. And, distributing cash through buybacks can help reward loyal shareholders who believe in the long-run View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging - Recruiting

employees at the same job band so there isn’t salary inequality around race and gender,” said Eliason. “Also consider who is being promoted within the organization and equity of departures. If you do identify equity problem areas, build a strategy and View Details

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

of HBS to global startup regions. FALL Is becoming a joiner right for me: Attend Rock/CPD career panel What does a startup job search look like? Meet with a Career and Professional Development (CPD) entrepreneurship coach (login required)... View Details

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

lives got flipped-turned upside down. And we’d like to take a minute, just sit right there. We’ll tell you all about our Section D love affair. It all began on the first day of RC year, when we learned we’d be seatmates. In true HBS... View Details

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

and helping customers figure out automatically how much to buy. But that's baked into the $25 a ton that users pay. So right now, that's how we make money and actually for an app of our size it means that our revenue model is pretty... View Details

Portrait Project

Phil Black

5-year plan (pre-HBS) start a business with two HBS classmates grow sales to $500 million in first three years IPO within 5 years get on cover of Entrepreneurship magazine with cofounders repeat sleep (optional) Revised 5-year View Details

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Enrico Ferrari

Accelerator program. Taking the time to do it right Even with successes under his belt, Enrico still saw investing two years in graduate studies as a necessity. "It takes a lot of energy to run a company. I want to take the time to... View Details

Keywords: Tech

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

vuvuzelas competes with the arena’s mix of American hip-hop and regional hits. It is a distinctly regional take on an iconic American export. The league is a core pillar of NBA Africa, a two-year-old venture whose value NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has estimated at... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

are on the same page. The final thing I’ll say: Remote companies have well-established processes where people are socializing and no one is feeling isolated and falling through the cracks. That’s really important right now, especially... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

perpetrators of the genocide now stationed in refugee camps and planning to return and continue the violence. This had a negative impact on the NGO community, and some NGOs chose to withdraw. Another potential setback is that while a... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

Cherokee, as well as those born into unions of the two groups. The Freedmen had struggled for decades to establish their rights as Cherokee citizens, and briefly gained those rights in 2006; in 2007,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

urgent systemic changes needed to address climate change. By doing what’s right for people and the planet, pep+ will help position our company as a consistent top market performer by generating stronger, more loyal connections with our... View Details

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

here. Although planning is considered a core competency of corporations, nonprofits were often more effective in planning their social actions. This is a difference in degree rather than kind. Corporations... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

09 Sep 2015
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Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

now have to survive on ten percent less for a while. That’s a hardship. I think it’s more manageable than being suddenly out of a job, but it’s all in the eye of the beholder.” FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE For Honeywell, furloughs were the... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

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Recent Alumni - Alumni

Volunteer Recent Alumni OPPORTUNITIES FOR RECENT ALUMNI Recent alumni support the School and the global alumni community by volunteering in a wide range of important roles, from reunion planning to fundraising to writing Class Notes, as... View Details

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