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Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details

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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

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Aaron Mitchell

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Having a background in Human Resources, I thought it was absolutely necessary to have a broad understanding of business. Earning an MBA at HBS has provided me with not only a deep... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Services

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Frank Spencer

Frank Spencer (MBA 1986) helped to build his first Habitat for Humanity house in 1988. It was in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and, like many Habitat homes, was constructed over approximately 10 weeks, with... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Services

12 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?

control. Permissive parents allow for too much autonomy on the part of children. Negligent parents don’t allow for either control or autonomy—they’re simply absent or uninvolved. A fourth option is better suited for human growth than... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Air Transportation

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Warren Radtke

been a small business owner. Work Experience: General Electric, Right Management Consultants, Interim Executive assignments in Human Resources/Talent Management; Director of a nonprofit urban grant making... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing; Social Enterprise

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

style and personality; it could be language. Language is a barrier. I'm teaching in an executive program right now and the Koreans and the Japanese speak very rarely. It's not that they don't have a lot to contribute, it's that they can... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

January 1992 (Revised August 1992)
Case

Lexon Corp. (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine

A general manager at Lexon Computer Corp. must decide whether interception and surveillance of employees' e-mail is acceptable company practice, and whether to follow the advice of his computer operations manager who wants to fire the person who complained that the... View Details

Keywords: Information; Rights; Managerial Roles; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Ethics; Computer Industry

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17 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

forever? Not necessarily. “What it really shows is that whatever firms are doing right now, they could do better by eliminating discretion,” she says. But that doesn’t mean there might not be superior ways companies could better utilize... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

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Kanwaljit Bakshi

her dual law and business degrees to fight some of the world's most disturbing criminals. Since 2011, Brochu, 42, has been the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's Expert on Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking, a position she... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Nov 2024
In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

stations,” the Journal reported. “Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally.” Two months earlier, in July, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi published a note in the financial software firm’s... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

01 Mar 2025
News

Venture: Time Heals All

Health (named for the ward where Borkenstein worked) in 2022 with the goal of modernizing nursing workforce management. Their user-friendly mobile app, powered by cutting-edge data science, is being deployed in hospitals across the United States. View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

22 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52978 July 2017 Business and Human Rights Journal Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold By: Hsieh,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2014
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

don't know enough about the human brain to make hiring judgments based on monitoring activity within certain parts of the brain, or about the people who plan to use neuromanagement or about their motives I caution you to be careful what... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

January 1992 (Revised August 1992)
Case

Lexon Corp. (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Lexon Corp. lawyers must decide how to respond to two lawsuits challenging the company's interception of electronic mail on privacy grounds. They must also formulate a company policy on e-mail. One suit was filed by an employee dismissed from her job after asking that... View Details

Keywords: Information; Rights; Managerial Roles; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Computer Industry; California

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08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

With more data available than ever before, why would any executive gamble on a hunch—especially for decisions that involve their own employees? An emerging field that uses data to study human behavior at work, “people analytics” is... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

01 Oct 1997
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Theory & Practice

of a product you know will be controversial? Resolving such dilemmas often requires more than simply following the injunction to "do the right thing," says HBS professor Joseph Badaracco in Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Better Hiring Through Brain Science

Data-driven hiring practices have taken off. As early as 2010, Google was using talent analytics to help hire the right people. Research supports this strategy; in studies, algorithms outperformed humans in... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

Career Coach

Didier Dumerjean

for Human Rights & Global Justice (Human Rights & Translation), Harlem Educational Activities Fund (Board Member), Aspen Institute (Socrates Fellow - Thought... View Details

Portrait Project

Brooke-Logann Williams

food was being thrown into the garbage. I never forgot my running sneakers again. Becoming accustomed to evading rats was one thing, but we could never accept the sight of children in the adult prison, a place infamous for its violence and View Details

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