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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
how business and governments worldwide had worked together to resolve the ozone-depletion problem by tightening regulations and by eliminating the use of CFCs through improved and cost-saving industrial processes. Indeed, companies that are not View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
says. Over the next decade he proved that he was up to the task, so much so that in 1993, when the firm hit hard times, Bain CEO Mitt Romney (MBA 1974/JD 1975) asked Tierney to head the company. “The rational response would have been to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
environment, be that infrastructure, bureaucracy, or lack of established benchmarks in India’s corporate environment.” Less regulation clearly has unleashed market potential. Bharti, for example, has aggressively pursued the estimated 250... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
the norm for health care than the exception. They may not have ever taken a management course, despite the challenge of overseeing dozens of employees across a variety of functions. They’re responsible for their unit’s financial... View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Cure All
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 why: Why can an industry like this that is so important and massive continue to function with these markers of poor market performance?... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
and prepare San José residents who agree in advance to offer free disaster-relief housing to neighbors in need. “It’s the first program of its kind in the US,” he notes. “I’m grateful to have had the chance to help add another resource to San José’s robust emergency... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
part of that evolution—as the cofounder of a professional services firm, an investor, a developer, and a corporate board member. “The challenge and the opportunity is to work to ensure all Pittsburghers benefit from this transition,” he... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Dec 2019
- News
Breaking Up the All-Male Boardroom
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
has a triple bottom line philosophy, “people, planet, profits,” and is organized as a B Corporation, a new business structure that is legally required to consider social and environmental impacts. At the day-lit IceStone plant in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
graduating MBAs to engage in and influence the key strategic priorities of leading social sector organizations. Although the article cited the generous financial support that HBS and its donor base provides to fellows, it’s also worth... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
small and lacks fully dedicated resources. Goldman realized that if LEDA could not count on effective media placement, social media strategy, and student outreach, funding could dwindle (or worse), and students who might otherwise benefit... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
BAZERMAN: There are many examples of predictable surprises at the corporate level. In a succession of wakeful nights after the attacks of 9/11, HBS professor Max Bazerman began to ponder the question of how the terrorists’ actions could... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Effective Leadership and Decision-Making
necessarily guarantee effective corporate leadership. Instead, he said, modesty and restraint are largely responsible for creating effective moral leaders. Badaracco listed four rules for making wise... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- News
A Step Toward Making Your Company More Sustainable
- 05 Apr 2016
- News
Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.
Surveying the panic and pressure of college admissions season in the New York Times, Abby Falik (MBA 2008), CEO and founder of Global Citizen Year, suggests that few involved in this cultural pressure cooker realize “how little these outcomes matter in the long run.”... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
says Carol Markowitz (MBA 2003), a corporate finance expert from Los Angeles whom Wilkins recruited to work at Idea Village. "The alumni network has also been very helpful." After serving as Idea Village's COO, he left in May to start... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
come from low-income neighborhoods.” While his background is in commercial real estate and corporate finance, since 2012 Majors has served as a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
feet at all may rank among his greatest achievements. The simple acts of standing and walking represent triumph for Massie, as does the fact that he is even alive today. Fittingly, his life's work is all about “standing up,” as he forcefully advocates for higher... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” she launched Walden Capital Management in 1994 to pursue these dual goals of financial return and social change on behalf her clients. Following Walden’s... View Details