Step Processes - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2019
News

Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth

Mehta saw them everywhere, piled along the roadsides to dry—or rot—as prices for fresh tomatoes plummeted. She came to HBS with an idea for addressing the problem she had witnessed: Nigeria needed a functional tomato processing plant. A... View Details

Keywords: April White; Crop Production; Agriculture

10 Mar 2021
News

Shattering Glass

downs, all the way from first admitting eight women in 1963 to today. It’s a process for every organization—two steps forward, one step back. And when you View Details

Keywords: April White; gender equity; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

21 Dec 2018
Blog Post

The Dedication - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

the outside of the buildings, but in the work and training on the inside.” George F. Baker, Dedication Address, June 4, 1927 Aerial view of Campus during Dedication Ceremonies, June 4, 1927. The celebration of the new HBS campus on June 4, 1927 began with an academic... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Enron’s Legacy

class-action suit against the corporation) had adopted the salient structural characteristics and processes of experienced private-equity boards, I believe that many of the red flags signaling Enron’s economic woes and ethical drift would... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance

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Field Course: Investing for Impact - Course Catalog

experience with the impact investment process and working directly with business founders. Further, we hope that students will provide the small business owners the experience of a thorough due diligence View Details

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

lofty target of commercial space travel, where he hoped to change the New Space sector as dramatically as Amazon was changing retail. His timing was characteristically prescient, since NASA was in the process of winding down its space... View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

rethink their business models and radically transform their organizational capabilities. The implications for organizations and management are profound. Let's take one example. At the heart of most modern corporations are information, planning and control systems, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

03 Jun 2022
Blog Post

HiHome Sweet HiHome

Massachusetts, while Parker had recently gone through the process of buying a new home. “Tony really understood me,” said Parker, who graduates from the MS/MBA program this week. “He was able to articulate the pains that I had felt as a... View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

draw people in, using more social media, employing jargon-free language, and “making everything simple and straightforward, from our registration process to the questions we ask,” says Giusti. Better Data Crunching The investment required... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

16 Feb 2018
Blog Post

Out of PE, Into Africa

the planning process so that they feel engaged and buy-in. Even our 8-year-old was able to express preferences that we incorporated which gave him something to look forward to when he was fatigued from our long travels. While you don’t... View Details

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

structures and systems should be configured to ensure that the firm delivers superior value to these (and only these) customers. Making this critical decision involves two steps. Step 1: Identify your constituents The first View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

01 Mar 2010
News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

of values. The fundamentals I experienced as a new faculty member — the engaged classroom where students actively participate in the learning process, the dedication to ideas that have power in practice, the real sense of community you feel when you View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
News

Books

steps of successful change previously identified in Kotter's Leading Change. (An introductory chapter offers enough background for those unfamiliar with the earlier work to appreciate the instructive and often inspiring anecdotes.) For... View Details

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

assurance that decision-making will be transparent and participatory, particularly for those that are marginalized in the domestic political process and (d) assessing the political risks faced by those who participate in its consultation... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

02 Jan 2013
What Do You Think?

Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

importance of measuring the quality of the contribution that individuals make to a team. Tom Dolembo pointed out that "Teamwork isn't about falling backwards into a mattress, it is about a specific skill Unless teaming is approached as a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Develop and disseminate research and course material on advancing racial equity in business. - Advancing Racial Equity

support, HBS will take four steps to encourage new research and course development. First, we will empower the Racial Equity Initiative to serve as a hub for HBS faculty and doctoral students, visiting scholars, and others who study race,... View Details

Blog

How We Are Keeping HBS—and Our Program Participants—Healthy

University Health Service has implemented comprehensive procedures for case investigation and contact tracing. We have also stepped up cleaning protocols and upgraded ventilation systems to improve airflow. In addition, we've tapped into... View Details

14 Nov 2024
Blog Post

Weekend Sprint: Accelerating Climate Solutions

This fall, Professor Jim Matheson offered the inaugural "Launching Climate Ventures" Sprint, a one-day program that provided students with an understanding of the process of launching a climate-focused technology venture. This was a... View Details

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