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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
(courtesy of Susan Wolf Ditkoff) The philanthropy economy is booming. Last year, America’s charitable giving totaled $358.38 billion, equaling 2.1 percent of GDP—a number last attained in prerecession 2004. With that growth have come a number of new options, including... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
WSA Speakers Kick Off W50
All." Slaughter cited the importance of flextime and of having a longer-term perspective on the arc of one's career, adding that she believed a "huge norm shift" in attitudes toward work-life balance is entirely possible in a short period... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
it’s relevant, too. We’ve been studying markets where there has been a lack of reliable information. It’s unclear what the rules of the road are, unclear who’s going to enforce whatever minimum of societal norms have come into being. And... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
people with good intentions do things that look, for a lack of a better word, stupid,” he says. Finally, Soltes suggests creating opportunities for norm reinforcement throughout careers, allowing people to really live what they learn in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Managing the challenges faced by a local nonprofit
Norm Merritt (MBA 1988) talks about using his management expertise to assist his local Audubon Society solve some complex operational issues. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
sanctions on the offending students as a condition of graduation. It also recommended continued training for faculty, staff, and students on managing section norms and behavior more effectively, specifically in the area of sexual... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Leonard M. Harlan (MBA '61, DBA '65), president of Castle Harlan, Inc., who has been a guest lecturer in Poorvu's class several times over the years. Part of this understanding is learning how to make deals in a fragmented industry where nonstandard pricing is the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
than using more explicit cosmetics. In Shanghai, two women shade themselves as they walk past an ad for a skin-lightening cream. Powered globally by marketing, media, and entertainment, commercial beauty ideals may challenge local cultural View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
investments could help ensure that firms were tilted toward spending that excess cash on new projects within the United States. A reduction in the corporate tax rate that would bring the U.S. rate in line with worldwide norms would also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
@Soldiers Field
HAVING A FIELD DAY Above: Before diving into the rigors of the first-year curriculum, MBAs gathered on Harvard’s McCurdy Field to form lasting section bonds and establish cultural norms by participating in challenges such as the limbo,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
“Ramen head.” “These things are traumatizing for an elementary school kid—when you don’t fit in perfectly,” she recalls. And there were different customs and norms that required acclimation. The school had no janitors, so the students... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
day, a year of global immersion before college will become the norm rather than the exception.” — ABIGAIL FALIK (MBA ’08), founder and CEO, Global Citizen Year. (Christian Science Monitor online, April 11, 2011) View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
chance to experience before.” Khoja—who has defied cultural norms by hiring women—remains optimistic about Afghanistan’s future despite the country’s continuing instability. “You can’t erase the fact that in the past decade, one-third of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Look Again
Toilette (above) and Young Woman with Peonies (below) demonstrate the influence of social norms on artists’ choices, Murrell says: Frédéric Bazille’s La Toilette (right) and Young Woman with Peonies (below) demonstrate the influence of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
planning, she writes: agreeing on team goals; gaining clarity on each member’s role, function, and constraints; understanding the available resources, ranging from budgets to information; and identifying shared norms that map out how... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
sometimes glacial pace and antiquated norms of cancer research; doubled patients’ lifespans; and raised in excess of $165 million for research. Giusti urged graduates to set goals and build a plan around their passion; choose colleagues... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Authentic Leadership
their own leadership style and determine their inner compass. They are invited to draw up a contract establishing norms and confidentiality, allowing for openness about vulnerabilities as they share their life stories and confront... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
work through a set of norms known as the Novo Nordisk Way, Mulroney explains. “We talk about the triple bottom line from day one. Responsibility for financial goals, environmental goals, and societal goals are measured and taken... View Details