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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
civil rights group protesting segregation in the Chicago schools. A Decisive Decade: An Insider's View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s, by Robert B. McKersie (MBA 1956/DBA 1959) "If there's no wind, row. Essentially,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
Corporation status—a third-party certification driving a movement to use business as a force for good. Certified B Corporations are legally required to consider the impact of their decisions on their employees, clients, suppliers,... View Details
- Profile
Pranav Kothari
reasoning behind management decisions and directions," he says. "At work, I learned how. Here, I learn why. I've been particularly struck by the whole movement around social enterprise. My professors have asked provocative... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
photo by Christina Gandolfo photo by Christina Gandolfo Dan Rosenfeld (MBA 1979) witnessed the birth of the modern environmental movement while growing up in Portland, Oregon, an experience that has shaped his perspective as a real estate... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
is that PELP participants can see the movement from creating a work-around solution—the campaign—to reforming HR into a strategically viable entity," he observes. Understanding how to recreate that progression could be a valuable... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
movement from this advisory-body model to the correct governance model, but with miles and miles to go. And a parameter of how many miles to go is the percentage of Fortune 500 companies where the chairman is a different person from the... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
eight experts and practitioners, all with ties to HBS, to examine the state of boards today, what lies ahead, and what needs to change in the context of an increasingly global world that has seen the complexity of corporations increase to a dizzying degree. “I do think... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy. In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series
interviewees have dedicated themselves to incorporating all of the above from individual businesses in order to create an altogether new, regenerative economic system with sustainability at its core – a vision made reality by the Sistema B View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
would be nice to do. This is something we now have to do.” Probably the single biggest impact we can make is to take all the long haul movement of goods off the highways of the world and get them on either boats or rail. Once you get the... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Britain has shamefully taken almost none, but the Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, and others who settled in Britain under rules of the European Union that allow the free movement of labor inside the EU. Hundreds of thousands of Britons live... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day exchange of perspectives on the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
bypass passwords, maintain purchase records from multiple sites, and link to customer service departments. Wallet advocates say that the technology gives consumers greater control, allowing customers more freedom of movement and choice... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
at the time. In Singapore, the government faced a serious threat from the left-wing political forces and some in the Chinese establishment—in media, education, and business—were sympathetic to the Communist movement in China. Many years... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
examples of how, by practicing judo principles of movement (not inviting attack, defining the competitive space, and following through fast); balance (gripping your opponent, avoiding tit-for-tat, and pushing when pulled); and leverage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
Africa, inspired freedom movements in several African nations. Although Mittal says Bharti would have moved into Africa anyway, these long-standing ties no doubt eased the Indian company’s welcome. But from early on, Mittal points out,... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
movement from cash to digital payment so that all people have the ability to improve their lives.” The work of the Better Than Cash Alliance is especially urgent in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. “As we showed five years ago during... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
they can adapt and adopt institutional practices already legitimized by counterpart industries in other parts of the world. The paper builds on existing community ecology and social movement perspectives on industry emergence and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
About IT: IT Planning and Service Delivery Team Profile | Information Technology
influenced movement away from IT’s disparate teams being siloed, encouraging cross-functional teams to work together, as well as IT with other organizations across HBS. HBS IT has a strong partnership with HBS Operations that began during... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
degradation; failure of the rule of law; failures of education and public health; state capitalism; radical movements and terrorism; and pandemics. But the business leaders were also disturbed by an 11th disrupter: the inadequacy of... View Details