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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
humanity,” it boldly and accurately captures that the challenge ahead of us is not just about carbon emissions, but for the future of our businesses, our economy, our people and our planet. Now is the time for bold leadership, swift... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
more optimistic than in prior years about the future of human space exploration via non-government firms. Mission Statement: VIRGIN GALACTIC “Our mission, to be the Spaceline for Earth, means we focus on... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
of Cote and his leadership team and asks them to consider the choices they would have made in the face of the extreme uncertainty surrounding future business conditions in the fall of 2008. Cote joined Honeywell as CEO in 2002. The... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition
solving critical challenges.” Katjana Kammin (MBA 2023) further highlighted the need for more students to focus on impact investing: “Especially in emerging markets, entrepreneurs face critical challenges that require patient capital and... View Details
- Profile
Mireya Iglesias Ayala
a masterful literary work, ensures that our experiences in the dynamic sections and moments of introspection contribute to our evolution as future leaders. Just as readers immerse themselves in the plot with curiosity, our journey at HBS... View Details
- Web
Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
that entrepreneurs experience harassment, typically from investors, in this report we focus on women employed full time in organizations, excluding founders as well as independent contractors and independent directors. * We asked men and... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
east of the Mississippi. Green construction and green operations are the wave of the future and the United Sates is far behind Europe in this regard. Finally, American real estate investors have traditionally been pretty parochial... View Details
- Web
Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
Discovering Customer Jobs to be Done Focus on what causes your customers to buy your products and why, and achieve differentiation, better margins, and avoid disruption. Highlights The Jobs to be Done Pyramid Disney California Adventure... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
with a focus on gender. A few years ago, the two of them decided to team up on a laboratory study on the value of sponsorship. “We took her applied interest—how companies are actually using sponsorship programs to address [the gender... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
strategy with a focus on social inequalities and status hierarchies, reveals that whether consciously or not, white coaches and black coaches subtly favor players of their own race. That, in turn, can hurt the league overall. “When you... View Details
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
changing definitions of success and diversity, barriers faced by women at work, the expectations of work and family, and present-day implications for the pipeline of future women leaders. Students consider the role of the School in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
present over the future in a manner inconsistent with an endowment's fundamental purpose of maintaining intergenerational equity. The University executes on this obligation in determining each year's endowment payout rate—that is, the... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
effective and efficient in the company’s core business. The focus is improvement, not exponential growth. Improvement is always possible. Yes, it may be small, but even extremely small improvements can be worthwhile. Look at the example... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
Patrick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. L. Rafael Reif, Harvard Medical School Dean Dr. George Daley, and Biogen Co-founder Dr. Phillip Sharp. More on the John Hawkins Collection CREATING A Sustainable Campus FY21 marked a decade of intense View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
FY19 174 FY20 211 FY21 227 FY22 247 FY23 Harvard is obligated to preserve the endowment’s purchasing power by spending only a small fraction of its value each year. Spending more than that over time, for whatever reason, would privilege the present over the View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
This metric incorporates the benefit of free rent and other concessions they receive from landlords on the front-end without disclosing the future costs the company will incur when these concessions burn off. Among several items detailed... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
turned down a date from her future husbancd (classmate Jonathon Jacobson) because she didn't want to be distracted from her studies. Soon after arriving at Soldiers Field, Jacobson realized her ability to listen and express herself meshed... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
trucking-tech company, has a simple goal: Get goods where they need to go as efficiently as possible with a limited labor force. For TuSimple, that means a focus not on the cities themselves, but rather on the long stretches of highway... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services