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- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
began to change in 2009, when a community activist challenged Shumway to get more deeply involved in addressing the issue. He responded by applying the same evidence-based problem-solving approach Cicero uses with its corporate clients... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley merged the Atlantic magazine’s Boston operations with those of the National Journal and Government Executive, just 3 of 55 employees elected to make the move to Washington, DC. Nearly 150 years after its founding, the Atlantic’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
a giant in a way few have and redesigned what a major corporation can be," as one alumnus put it. Added another, "Welch's vision of a nonbureaucratic large organization makes GE the business everyone wants to copy or raid for talent."... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
retirement security. Many of today’s US workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and responsibility have shifted from... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
are today a lawyer, a corporate executive, and two CPAs, he notes proudly.) Six weeks after Freeman bought the company, the shop foreman and the head of marketing left, taking many staff and clients with them to set up their own competing... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
and broader interpretations of business's role in society surfaces throughout Keen's story. He wrote his HBS application essay about wanting to learn the tactics of corporate business for the good of tribal peoples—to be a sheep in wolf's... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
social entrepreneurial skills to a corporate board that wants a unique perspective. “I would love to see the day where we don’t have to talk about achievement gap, technical divide, or schools-to-prisons pipelines, because they don’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the way society at large views the role of nonprofit organizations and their management. "There's a growing willingness to work together across the nonprofit, business, and government sectors to build systemic solutions to problems," she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
was arguing that innovation “within the shell of existing corporations offers a much more convenient access to the entrepreneurial functions than existed in the world of owner-managed firms. Many a would-be entrepreneur of today does not... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
such as corporate governance, the relationship between values and leadership, corporate accountability and the challenges of financial disclosure, executive compensation, and the role of intermediaries in... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
False Claims Act, which rewards whistleblowers who report fraud against the federal government with a percentage of the money recovered. “We need to understand the costs,” explains Heese, “and how to empower the people who have important... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
Greatest CEOs of All Time." "I was glad to see that the article focused on Johnson & Johnson's values," he observes. Fortune praised Burke for reaffirming the corporate principles and values that later led to his decision in 1982 to pull... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
only on their financial returns, but also on their social and environmental leadership,” says the down-to-earth Rhode Island native. Prior to HBS, Gertsacov, a former Fulbright scholar in Chile, founded a nonprofit business association in Brazil that promotes View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
requires all publicly held corporate companies to increase board diversity, and the proposed NASDAQ listing rule that would require companies to disclose information about their board diversity and have at least two “diverse directors”—or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
Mark Fields (MBA ’89) was handed the keys to the Mazda Motor Corporation and, as its newly named president and CEO, asked to guide the faltering Japanese carmaker back into the black. At 38 (considered shockingly young to lead a major... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
much as it would have even five years ago is: Do we need to do this at all? MK: I think a lot of the reports that are, for instance coming out of the IPCC and other places now are helping to move the needle on people understanding that DAC has to be part of the... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
across the globe, where government rules, regulations, labor laws, cultures, and tax structures vary significantly. The consumer sees a cool product and an awesome brand, but there’s a huge amount of unglamorous business activities behind... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
is now an absolute focal point, meaning that flights typically serving leisure or corporate travelers—the latter accounting for more than 50 percent of current air travel in the country—will be reduced in favor of more site-to-site... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
us closer to freedom,’” Poznansky writes. APRIL 12 Corporate Responses to the War in Ukraine Tuesday April 19, 2022, 5:30pm, Virtual program How are businesses and business leaders reacting to the war in Ukraine? Senior leaders from three... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
cabdrivers, university presidents, corporate titans, custodians, athletes, motorcycle cops, tree surgeons. He thanked people profusely for their efforts on behalf of the School — his distinctive heavy scrawl jumping across a half-sheet of... View Details