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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
telegraph, the radio, and so forth) that had been every bit as radical in their time as the Internet had become in ours. I argued that all of these technologies had gone through cycles of commercial expansion and political response and... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
Summing Up Personal Predictive Analytics: Should We Be Careful What We Wish For? The world of continuous monitoring of numerous sensors for machines and humans, limitless information storage capacity, and big data combined with rapid View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
While in this role, I worked with executives across several companies and ultimately accepted a job offer from one of them, also an HBS grad. They became a demanding mentor who offered guidance, helping me to mature as a manager, develop... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 03 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Carol Fishman Cohen (MBA 1985) On Getting Back into the Workforce
we relaunched our careers. We were also asked to help create and present in the very first of the employer and university return to work programs. We co-founded iRelaunch in 2007 in response to these requests. The very first thing we did... View Details
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
marketing professor where I gained deep exposure to the management and decision processes of executives. While in this role, I worked with executives across several companies and ultimately accepted a job offer from one of them, also an HBS grad. They became a View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
volunteerism and "ownership." Those were messages in the very thoughtful responses to this month's column. Dianne Jacobs commented, "This builds on the real social need for people to connect in sync with a purpose."... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
significantly reducing their emissions over the next ten years. "It's a major accord because for the first time in history, both countries are making commitments to limit their carbon emissions," Kirby said. "It's part of China being a View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
policy epoch; second, conditional on the first choice, it has to decide on its local responsiveness strategy at the onset of each policy epoch. India, which experienced two policy shocks-shutting down to MNEs in 1970 and then opening up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring a business’s profitability enables it to serve society
utilities, and trucks—each with the best quality, fuel efficiency, safety, smart design, and value.” Global demand and increasing vehicle production in North America and Asia have resulted in the addition of thousands of jobs in order to... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
- Web
Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Land, "Chairman's Letter," Polaroid Corporation Annual Report 1976, 5. Polaroid advertisements featured the testimony of Polaroid users who claimed their cameras had made them "the life of the party." 78 "The entire process of pose, exposure, anticipation, and View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
socially responsible mission. There is tremendous inefficiency in the environmental community, and one of our goals is to facilitate the formation of strategic alliances between and amongst environmentalists and other sectors of society... View Details
- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
strategy is an aligned combination of set-up moves that occur away from the table, deal design moves, and tactics at the table, all designed to overcome the barriers you've identified. The best response to a barrier in one dimension may... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
of Stewart and Stewart, a Washington-based law firm that represents both domestic and foreign clients on issues of trade and international law, Stewart understands that such disagreements are the predictable outgrowth of a global economy's View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
skills by flying among Washington’s majestic Cascade Mountains. “We ‘screamed’ between 8,000-foot peaks — often at night and often flying barely 200 feet off the ground,” he recalls. Despite the exhilaration of such demanding maneuvers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
a Chaotic World by Michael Wheeler (Simon & Schuster) Wheeler, the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice, retired, shows how master negotiators thrive in the face of chaos and uncertainty. They understand negotiation as a process of exploration that View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
investment team, and the rewards can be scaled down accordingly. "One frequent manifestation of these confused objectives is a difficulty in killing projects” But in most programs, the demands on the corporate venturing team are... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
interact—everything from how people view the role of the individual versus the group to their attitudes, say, about the importance of time or relationships. In response to these challenges, a great body of literature has emerged to help... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
women who will say, "You know what? All my personal needs and all my family's needs are taken care of, and if I'm no longer enjoying the environment or the work, I'm gone." If there are other demands on women that are really... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace