Filter Results:
(832)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(832)
- People (1)
- News (291)
- Research (372)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (11)
- Faculty Publications (139)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(832)
- People (1)
- News (291)
- Research (372)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (11)
- Faculty Publications (139)
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
multiple centers for a broader exploration of a topic. For example, this past year, the centers coordinated more than 50 interviews in 10 countries to help Professor Rafaella Sadun examine how resilient businesses can effectively and View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
election in November,” says Wordham. “By promoting voter engagement, business leaders can demonstrate civic-minded leadership and encourage action across industries.” Helping Companies Promote Safe Voting The nonprofit, nonpartisan... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
work. Trips to tropical places are opportunities to secure new hotel customers. Summer beach time has been replaced with road trips to the Hamptons and Nantucket. I think the only safe place for a true vacation now is an iceberg cruise in... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
decisions that would not have made been made on purely financial grounds. It's like P&G's Children's Safe Drinking Water program. When P&G could not make a commercial market out of water purification powder, it created a nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
indoor spaces can make you sick—or keep you healthy. Fortunately, we now have the know-how and technology to keep people safe indoors. But there is more to securing your office, school, or home than wiping down surfaces. Levels of carbon... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
Fear—in Safety I mention to every class on the first day of class that my goal is to create a safe but uncomfortable environment. I want the students to be sitting on the edge of their seats, engaged in this learning enterprise. However,... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Raffaella Sadun’s examination of how resilient businesses can effectively and safely restart as COVID-19 abates. (Sadun’s findings are summarized in the report “Re-starting under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from around the World.”... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
exit the facility and we disinfect and clean the area for the next person who comes in at the top of the hour,” says LaRose. She details more of the changes that Shad has instituted to keep the community safe in this Q&A. AUGUST 27 The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
the leaders of Wall Street firms to find out what their plans were for opening the markets again and getting workers into the area safely.” The Sunday night before the markets reopened, CNBC broadcast live from the floor of the NYSE. “We thought it was one way to say,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
was designed to provide business expertise to places in need; Goodwin brought his emergency-response experience to provide safe water systems and support medical programs. Months later, he was alarmed by a cholera outbreak rapidly... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
cofounder of With Honor and serves on its advisory board. Barcott says he knows there will be hurdles to reestablishing a cross-partisan spirit in Washington, including structural issues like gerrymandering that protect highly partisan incumbents in View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
workplace disruptions all companies have faced. DreamBox, which is based in metropolitan Seattle, the epicenter of the first-known US outbreak of COVID-19, was among the first wave of companies to transition to a fully work-from-home model. For Woolley-Wilson, keeping... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
slum as defined by the United Nations: inadequate access to safe water and sanitation, poorly built housing, overcrowding, and insecure residential status (i.e., most people hold no legal title to their property). Despite these difficult... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Pflueger, Carolin E., Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose a new measure of the economy’s risk appetite based on the valuation of volatile stocks. Unlike proxies for risk appetite derived from aggregates, our measure is strongly correlated with View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
by maintaining a relatively large balance sheet, even when policy rates have moved well away from the zero lower bound (ZLB). In so doing, it can help ensure that there is an ample supply of government-provided safe short-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
acknowledgement of that. And that took probably a year to two. We still worked through that, but really almost a couple of years to lay that new foundation of trust. And then the other part was just proving it, was having Reddit be safe... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
the open source community are often intrinsically motivated. It is important to realize, however, that hackers are a diverse group. I have interviewed hobbyists, students, academics, software professionals, and government workers who identify themselves as hackers. It... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
became clear to me that seeing economic and social issues as separate agendas was not only wrong but counterproductive. To have a productive economy, you need people who feel safe at work, who are healthy, and who have a sense that if... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
food, shelter is perhaps the most basic human need. In modern society, stable, safe housing is more than a matter of comfort and convenience; it positively affects childhood development, individual self-esteem, and family viability.... View Details