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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
cofounder and COO of FarmTogether, a startup connecting investors to farmland investment opportunities. “There is a strong coalition of alumni working in various roles and industries here in New York City who are committed to generating View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
from the tragedy? For one, small decisions have big consequences. Key concepts include: Words and actions by leadership shape perceptions and beliefs of organization members. Leaders need to hold a delicate balance in nurturing... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
up and reveals the actual nature of being when one is being a leader and opens up and reveals the source of one's actions when exercising leadership. And ontology's associated phenomenological methodology (explained in [2] below) provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
Last week’s post by Roger Thompson featured “Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs”. To build on that, I thought I’d include some of the more quotable moments and insights from a recent panel featuring past participants of the HBS Business Plan... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
contrast to planning and planners, "What managers manage is largely invisible—processes and handoffs between functions...typically without data." Trevor Rose says that there is "less interest in implementing strategy. It's... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
RCS Offboarding Checklist - Research Computing Services
action on your part before losing access to HBS resources. We also highly recommend reviewing the Harvard Libraries Research Data Offboarding session (the session can be viewed at a higher speed and note that clicking "Show More" in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
source of America’s economic decline and fading international power and provide an action plan for restoring “true” democracy, in which politicians provide only the services people vote for within the civil... View Details
- Profile
Oliver Bladek
says. "But engineers in different functions don't like to talk to each other. So the drilling engineer specifies a four-inch hole, while the pipeline engineer plans for a six-inch hole. It took a lot of communication — plus rigorous... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
John Clayton
to textbook teaching – through the case method. But with cases, you interact with and engage your classmates to learn not just the ‘how,’ but the ‘why’. The case method puts you at the helm of the ship and forces you to think through your View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course
Stephanie Myles (fellow classmate, rockstar activist, and now dear friend!) and I were teamed up to support Cruz Companies, the largest Black-owned business in Massachusetts, with developing a five-year strategic plan for their property... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog
Sessions Paper/Project ‘Nothing happens until a sale is made’ Nothing happens until a sale is made. That simple point underlines the critical importance of sales. Every operating model and business plan ‘assumes’ a certain amount of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
longtime collaborators not only update their findings but also translate their earlier strategies into action to compose a complete picture of the issues, problems, and opportunities encountered in implementing a transnational strategy.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
project is chaired by Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, who are joined by a team of HBS faculty together with thought leaders from other institutions. It aims to inspire alumni, other business leaders, and policymakers to take View Details
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
automatically must be delegated to the damage control specialists. Plans and actions should always focus on others' hearts as much or more than their minds. If you are at a middle or low level in an... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
creating a good narrative in selling effectively. Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future by Leonard A. Schlesinger (DBA 1979) and Charles F. Kiefer, with Paul B. Brown (Harvard Business Review Press) In an environment where change is constant... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
tripwire that is often triggered before a person crosses the line and violates the law. A manager who becomes accustomed to disregarding his or her inner voice in the name of shareholders is more likely to rationalize other actions to the... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- Profile
Limor Moshkovich
few years ago. I asked them how they arrived at their current positions and was able to relate their career paths to my own." Reflection and action HBS, Limor notes, "puts a lot of emphasis on exposing us to the world, to the... View Details