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- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
in place, then it becomes about speaking truth to power, and artists are so good at that. In fact, it's one of the very few asymmetric systems of power that exists. One person with a guitar, Bob Dylan with a guitar, can have more View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
no longer being used as just a tactical resource, it's now fundamentally influencing business strategy and competition," says Richard L. Nolan, MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, who teaches in the School's Management... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
the joy and excitement I experienced when I began to understand technology and to see how it opens up the world. In trying to balance work and family, I have been influenced by a talk Mitt Romney (MBA ’74/JD ’75) gave at HBS when I was a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
the forces affecting attitudes and behaviors in each generation and analyzes the implications of organizational and technological changes for their future. Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probability and Statistics on... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
is the prestige and favorable reputation the Games will create for Atlanta and the Southeast," says Frazier. "It will influence people's thinking in terms of where they will choose to locate a business or make an investment." But with so... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
gained influence. Influence transcended power, and power politics contrasted with quiet service. Canadian Women in the Sky: 100 Years of Flight by Elizabeth Gillan Muir (HRPBA 1958) (Dundurn Press) This is the story of how women in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
it happen in practice. That’s on the private market side. On the public side, the question is how you can influence the behavior of a company to reflect your values, or protect the long-term value of your investment—or both—while only... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01) and Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) What makes nonprofits great? The authors studied twelve nonprofits that have extraordinary influence —... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
keep the faculty engaged in something that is interesting and important.” McArthur’s influence outside of HBS is also significant, focusing on large-scale institutional reorganization. In the 1970s he served as a Trustee in Bankruptcy of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
Lastly, to be self-sustaining, HBX requires a robust economic model." "Our approach and offerings through HBX are directly influenced by the School's distinctive case-based learning model, which is rooted in the principle of active... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
intensive discussions of the spiritual dimensions of leadership and how their personal beliefs govern their lives and positively influence the roles they play in society. Sessions use relevant excerpts from religious and classical... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
numbers of stakeholders potentially influencing decisions, with teams and flatter organizations, and with command, control, hierarchy, and authority systems often unable to elicit crucial cooperation and commitment." In addition, he notes... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
of the factors that drive success in an industry that attracts 65 percent of MBA graduates from leading business schools — many of whom eventually leave to run organizations of their own. With revenues approaching a trillion dollars, professional service firms wield... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
affect interactions between teachers and students outside the classroom as well. "There are often vast differences among cultures regarding whether or not you should go to talk with your professor. In some cultures," Light explains, "you don't do that because it's seen... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
good student and a reasonably good athlete, but when I went to Yonkers orphanage, I decided my ticket out of this situation was private college. How do you get to private colleges? Good grades and athletics. Those were the two things that I focused on. People are View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
political interests," says Andrews. "Without their efforts, the country's peaceful transition to democracy would not have occurred." For its part, the HBS Club of South Africa, by virtue of its members and its stature, has been an organization whose actions exercise... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
influence an organization can have on social factors beyond its boundaries." Most research on organizational performance focuses on cause-and-effect situations that assume degrees of linearity and control that exist only in limited... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
Workforce Transformation program. Then there are the many published reports that can be broadly shared and disseminated. JF: One publication getting significant traction that I’m excited about is The Caring Company, a first-of-its-kind study that looks at how... View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Hitting the High Notes
at the age of 13 to study the cello at the Julliard School in New York and later studied with the acclaimed soloist Lynn Harrell (also a student of Lev Aronson) at USC's Thornton School of Music. “That makes Ben a third generation artist View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
shaping the business environment and, in turn, influencing performance at the industry and firm level. Since joining the faculty in 1989, Emmons has conducted extensive research on the interaction between government policy and business... View Details