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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
present. My simple message to companies—simple to say but not simple to do—is that the future is now. The simplicity, you note, makes it easier to adopt. The book gives examples of groups ranging from GE to a church employing the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
CEO of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO), which supports its seventeen hundred members with a range of financial and business-related services for physicians in group and individual practice. The MGPO's mission is... View Details
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
were employed full time and reported high levels of clinical depression or anxiety, as well as those experiencing workplace distress, with signs of presenteeism or burnout. One group was given full access to the Happify platform, which... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
managers: "Can we teach [the people we serve] the importance of being self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?" Bread Means Business The bakery at Boston's Haley House is a case study in how one group has... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
this loss of land, mining-related environmental degradation, and allegations of human rights abuses, a coalition of five indigenous communities forged an alliance with a group of domestic and international NGOs to build their case against... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Ever Need (over one million copies sold); Fire and Ice (a biography of Charles Revson and Revlon); Getting By on $100,000 a Year (and Other Sad Tales); and The Invisible Bankers, an irreverent look at the insurance industry. He has won... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
brainstorm: Why not post a few signs on the highway promising free ice water to parched travelers on their way to the Black Hills? Maybe they’d buy something at the same time. Today, old-fashioned billboards and bumper stickers continue... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
using extremely precise readings over the past five decades and data from Antarctic ice cores going back hundreds of thousands of years. The data suggests that CO2 levels began rising after the Industrial Revolution and continue rising... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
alumni and guests attended the day-long conference, which featured a fireside chat, nine different panel discussions, and a post-conference networking reception. HBS Professor Amy C. Edmondson chats with Sir Andrew Witty, CEO of United Health View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
is the largest ice cream producer in Russia in 2002, but is facing strong competition from Nestle despite its success over other multinational competitors. Contains detailed exhibits, allowing deeper analyses. A rewritten version of an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Commencement 2016 Address | About
brightly in her Class day remarks yesterday. Beyond this remembrance of how your group dealt with an episode of profound sadness, I hope you graduate today with an equally profound happiness, with a deep reservoir of warm memories of your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
small group of private-equity investors, then there would have been few employee shareholders or any kind of shareholders at risk. Yes, the board failed all Enron stakeholders. Many of the private-equity board virtues Professor Salter... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
and investors and borrowers will keep on believing that they've been hoodwinked and fleeced. Moreover, he points out that only a thorough repair of the agencies that handle securities and banking regulation can prevent new crises down the road. I'll Have the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
PublicationsTrue North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development Authors:Bill George and Doug Baker Publication:Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2011 Abstract All too often, we find ourselves forced to confront life's challenges on our own. What... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
with Dreyers for ice cream and PepsiCo for the bottled Frappuccino," recalls Beeninga, who is now retired. "It was a time of exploring where we could take the brand, and Gerry would always ask, 'Where does the consumer give us... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
confidence for entrepreneurs, a group that had sometimes been considered quirky or marginal. These individuals reported to be more satisfied, wealthy, and energized by their jobs than their classmates who worked for others - and no more... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture; Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509050 Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1) Harvard Business School Case 109-013 Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge fund manager, seek to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
ice in January 1915. Legend has it that to attract potential crew members, Shackleton placed the following newspaper advertisement: “Men wanted for Hazardous Journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant... View Details