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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
kind of generosity. Royalties from this book go to Christian ministries focused on spreading the Gospel and providing for those in need. Global Risk Agility and Decision Making: Organizational Resilience in the Era of Manmade View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Erica Diamond demo the "modlet" View a list of alumni working in green industry What does it mean to be green? It’s a trendy color these days, but over the years HBS alumni have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to environmental... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
skills to attract funders for his ships, lifeboats, supplies, and food. He also recognized the importance of assembling a team that could work together and embrace high levels of risk and uncertainty—qualities that proved particularly... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
competition frequently requires previously agreed-upon issues to be renegotiated." Add in the risks of costly misunderstanding and conflict from globalization and a diverse U.S. workforce, Sebenius continues, and it's clear why students... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
carry out our mission.” Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has sponsored a Leadership Fellow almost every year of the program’s existence. “Any established institution runs a major risk of becoming staid, stodgy, complacent, and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
says. “And that was overly optimistic; it worked only when everything clicked.” The subsequent national conversation about minimizing risk through reshoring—that is, bringing American manufacturing facilities back to the United... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
observes Conforti, who is now Finale’s president. Their HBS credentials, recalls Conforti, were “also very helpful in convincing investors that we were going to manage the inherent risk of running a restaurant better than others might.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“With the MJFF sharing some of the initial risk in funding projects,” Hood explains, “the hope was that if positive outcomes emerged, industry would get involved where it might not have before and would take it the rest of the way. So... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
only on their financial returns, but also on their social and environmental leadership,” says the down-to-earth Rhode Island native. Prior to HBS, Gertsacov, a former Fulbright scholar in Chile, founded a nonprofit business association in... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
ahead of its time. Ecomagination was an internal program dedicated to sustainability and reducing the company's environmental impact. Now it launched in 2005 and it has been, as you note, one of the most successful commercial efforts in... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
practices and sustainable products. They're the ones checking the packaging and labeling to ensure that there is a positive social and environmental impact message as well, specifically on consumer products. And they prefer to work for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
handle in good conditions, let alone for four months in the open ocean. Sometimes you’re a thousand miles from the nearest ship or point of land. Other times you risk getting run over by ships or crashing into things in the water: whales,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
may be “extraordinary,” but it runs the risk of missing the mark. Studying “meltdown,” “executive pay,” “reporting,” and “liquidity” could be useful. Those subjects, however, are consequences not causes. Please give some thought and study... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
expanding his Coosawattee Foundation, an educational organization he founded in 1986 dedicated to preserving Georgia’s archaeological sites and environmentally sensitive areas that combines Langford’s passions for history and the natural... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
books and articles, went to seminars on the weekend, and learned everything he could about being a grass farmer. Grass—and grass alone—was the key, he learned, to producing beef that is delicious, environmentally sustainable, and healthy.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
was the kind of place in which an internal memo might list people on a first-name basis. But it has since grown into a massive organization, with vast logistics and all the risk that comes with that. McKenna sees her task as stewarding... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
national security, and increased competition for land. The $1 trillion global financial loss is staggering. Despite these challenges, the authors call attention to the extraordinary social and environmental opportunities created by... View Details