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- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
students.” Triage and Focus Just prior to his current job, Kennealey held a post with the Archdiocese of Boston, working on strategic initiatives for more than 40 Catholic schools under the leadership of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
expectations with promises of same-day delivery, the logistics industry is looking to completely new models, like crowdsourcing, autonomous technology, and on-demand delivery. Robert Reisner (MBA 1971), who led the Postal Service’s technology and View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
inept or complacent management drew the attention of raiders. "I give credit to that 1980s movement as a whole for having created the profit machine that we see in the 1990s," Hayes says. "We now have an M&A; movement driven by strategic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause
Ph.D.'s from the Divinity School." During his term, Stern has worked to continue long-standing traditions and to initiate new ones. The Leadership Program, a top-notch executive course run by HBS professors, is now in its fifth year. This... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
the firm was bought (by Merrill Lynch), he and two colleagues decided to branch out on their own and founded Gollust, Tierney & Oliver in 1978. For the next eighteen years, the firm grew, expanding from its initial focus on financing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
high-value innovation that was conceptually and strategically right for us." An initiative launched by Lafley calls upon P&G to find half of its new products outside its walls, up from 20 percent four years... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative advisory board. Fleishman is a founder and faculty chair of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John Whitehead (MBA 1947), the SEI was... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Zobel de Ayala Photographs by Tom Epperson Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Green Day Related Links Watch Ayala discuss sustainability Sixteen years... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
John Whitehead Played a Key Role in Developing the HBS Initiative AUSTIN, WHITEHEAD, AND RANGAN: Social enterprise pioneers. In the early 1990s, legendary Wall Street executive and former deputy secretary of state John Whitehead (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
and HBS professor Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Over the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Initiative to apply innovative business practices to drive high-impact social change. 1994 Building on his earlier work, Michael Jensen advances “agency theory,” the underpinning for compensating executives with stock and stock options.... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
articles, and books; and MBA courses and seminars such as Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector, Business Leadership in the Social Sector, and Effective Leadership of Social Enterprise. Two Executive Education programs have also been developed under the aegis of the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
Room sessions to connect HBS alumni mentors to Singapore’s startups and small and mid-sized enterprises (SME). “Our vision for the NVSC is to create a positive impact on the local startup and SME network by creating opportunities for community engagement,” says... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
$18.9 billion in 2003, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. From Boston to Silicon Valley, top firms are competing for deals again. And the initial public offering market — the favored exit for venture-capital investors — rallied last... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
with video "chapters." HBS Business and Environment Initiative - Check out HBS faculty research and news on sustainability efforts on the HBS campus With the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) now well established,... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- News
Is This Disney’s Next CEO?
A recent article in Bloomberg notes that Disney strategy chief Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) might be positioned to succeed longtime Disney CEO Bob Iger. The article highlights Mayer’s recent initiatives at Disney, including a 2015 View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
strategic advice to the environmental and transportation engineering and consulting industry. Perhaps just as important for Zofnass, EFCG allows him to “merge my vocational interests with my avocational passions, particularly with regard... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
indifference. Whether they are helping inner cities capitalize on their inherent competitive advantages, working to make assetbuilding financial services available to low-income families, analyzing the benefits of welfare-to-work programs, or inspiring MBAs to forge... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the Business and Environment Initiative Five years ago, as George Serafeim recalls, if he had walked into the classroom on the first day and... View Details
Keywords: April White