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moved from New York to Washington to become an appointee at the State Department... Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Katie Rae Mulvey, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation Katie Rae Mulvey 22 Jun 2017 During the year, we’ll be connecting with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
needed for the most important problems of our time.” The opioid epidemic is devastating our country and undermining our economic competitiveness, from the streets to the C-suites. It is a scourge whose View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- Profile
Roniesha Copeland
business, VLC Contracting. Watching them navigate a complex landscape through shifting fortunes became Roniesha’s foundation “for what I understood about business growing up.” Business management might have remained Roniesha’s exclusive... View Details
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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Microsoft, and American Express. Within four months of completing the program, 85 percent of graduates (who now number over 5,000) are employed or attending college, earning an average of $32,000 per year. “The reason we’ve grown is because those young adults are View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
complex organizational patterns that emerge in lieu of genuine mirroring when actionable transparency allows people to "break the mirror." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-058.pdf Criminal Recidivism after... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
chair of the Negotiation and Decision Making unit. Indeed, the field has grown so important that in 1994 HBS became the first major business school to require a full negotiation course for MBAs. In that popular new course, which draws on View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
The controversial topic of offshoring U.S. jobs may have been shoved out of the headlines by recent events, but it remains front and center for senior business leaders operating in an increasingly global, competitive economy. To give MBAs a deeper understanding of this... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details
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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
developing the Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for Canada . In 2020, she launched a 5-course Specialization on Coursera: Gender Analytics: Gender Equity Through Inclusive Design which is aimed at building skills to do intersectional... View Details
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Transportation - Business & Environment
Battery costs for electric vehicles have dropped 85% since 2010. [38] Challenge Globally, transportation is the fastest-growing source of GHG emissions. Reducing GHGs from this sector is difficult because economic growth usually requires... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
for a permit or license, it is tempting to just pay up. As the "Against the Grain" case suggests, pervasive corruption entails a spectrum of complex personal, societal, and economic phenomena without an... View Details
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
American Competitiveness site where resources, commentary, and solutions are showcased. Harvard Business School's US Competitiveness Project is another must-visit-site to better understand the complex problems facing the US. One good way... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Introduction: New Perspectives on Corporate Capital Structure By: Acharya, Viral, Heitor Almeida, and Malcolm Baker Abstract—The National Bureau of Economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
problem.” But when a partnership works, the experience can be highly rewarding. That’s why Chia has been sharing his insights with HBS professor Dorothy Leonard, who is studying the mentoring process. Chia hopes her research will improve understanding of the View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
supply of skilled workers. Since unemployment rates for college graduates are much lower than for non-graduates and average incomes materially higher, more young people would presumably move down the path to economic independence.... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
Two weeks into his Leadership Fellows position with the Detroit’s Office of the Mayor, Nikhil Patel (MBA 2019) was summoned by the Mayor for a car ride. Among Patel’s mandates – which included economic development, housing, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Capitalism Constrained: Public Policy and the Manager, examines the role of the state in five economic sectors: energy, communications, transportation, health, and the environment. "Deregulation, with roots in the U.S. political economy... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
Summing Up Neuro economics is here to stay, according to a majority of those responding to this month's column. Its promises are too great to ignore. But it may be too early to know whether the promises will be realized in practice. And... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
LED lighting? Pisano: Semiconductor companies were not thinking about the future of lighting. That's not their business. But that's a challenge, and that's the complexity of this. It also suggests a role for public policy in terms of... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Here then are our most-read stories in 2006. Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win? Using formal economic modelling, professors Pankaj Ghemawat and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell consider the competitive dynamics of the software wars between... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne