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- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Heard on the Street (HOTS) - bringing the HBS community together through harmony
say hello and residents of SFP2 cheering us up from their balconies. Rehearsals are both musically and socially fun. Hearing beautiful harmonies when we strike the right chords helps us forget about all the stress and worries we may have... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
was a source of stress for the system's stability. Today, banks are better capitalized, rely less on short-term wholesale funding, and make available much more detailed information about their portfolios, while the amount of "shadow... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
describe a resulting decline in credit ratings that will impose financial stress on those institutions that have written credit protection, which will in turn cause their credit ratings to decline and thus create further View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
challenges as opportunities and we really meet the occasion with our effectiveness and with a greater ease. And then there's leader B mode, when we are less effective, when we're resisting the moment and we're just a little more stressed... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
minimize risk of stress and loss of time dealing with claims and costs to their reputation and future employment. On the other side of the equation, a cap on damages through tort reform can influence whether or not a doctor is sued in the... View Details
- 31 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management
virtually. The Women in Investing Summit and the Investment Club Conference are also effective ways to get in front of students and participate in the student conversation around investing. With regard to timing for Investment Management recruiting, Jonathan View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
population, from water stress and land use to the extreme impacts of drought and disease from climate change. A key part of their sustainability strategy is working very closely with all stakeholders in their value chain to ensure... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
Stressful and uncertain environments were familiar to Kiernan from his time in the Marine Corps. He spent most of his military career in special operations, serving as a scout sniper, Pashto linguist, and deployed to Afghanistan where he... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
need to be clear what the goals are we are stressing when people work in groups,” says Gino, who was happy to be proven wrong about the positive aspects of loyalty, even as the ultimate vision of loyalty emerging from these experiments... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
large, but we have not made progress in measuring it. That is a future question for research." Despite the difficulty of assessing the effects of regulation, Srinivasan stresses the importance of continuing to look for ways to do so,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
"Cases help to develop 'pattern recognition' skills that are very important in decision-making ...." Dave Schnedler added that cases help develop "critical thinking," teach that "digging hard pays off," View Details
- 11 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact
with goals in mind,” says Cotterman. “Make sure you know what these expectations are and manage them from day one.” Close cooperation “creates a better relationship and helps you get a better work product.” 2. Assign a point person: Like Piemonte, Cotterman View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
presentation stressed ways in which Germany's culture and history shaped its adoption of the model, a relevant concern for many Asian nations with similarly distinct corporate-governance traditions that need to blend with newer models.... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
the Internet "is the result of a product based society." All of this is notwithstanding the fact that manufacturing in our "product based society" represents less than 20% of U.S. gross domestic product these days. While View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)
loans. Did you have any anxiety or stress related to debt or how you would pay for HBS? If yes, how did you manage those feelings? I had confidence in my post-MBA earning potential. So for me, any anxiety was probably around deciding to... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
for the betterment of their families and future generations. People often talk about the United States as a “melting pot” of immigrants, but you don’t like that metaphor. The “melting pot” metaphor stresses the homogeneity of the US... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
of the School’s California Research Center. “Arthur Rock epitomizes the mission of Harvard Business School,” said Dean Clark, who stressed the importance of Rock’s professional example as well as his achievements. “We are dedicated to... View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
difference, stereotypes, organizational change, and work/family. In her presentation on difference, Dartmouth's Ella Bell stressed the importance of multicultural gender studies. "It's not just about white women," she said,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
out one or more major owners. It's a good stress test for a business. "It's an emotional process." Buyouts in family companies are not just about the money. Lots of emotions can surface in a buyout, even if all parties get... View Details
Keywords: Retail