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Reweaving Ourselves and the World: New Perspectives on Climate Change - Course Catalog
floods, droughts and fires, and threatening to make a significant fraction of the earth’s surface uninhabitable. What will happen? At least one major European government believes it likely that we will see partial systemic breakdowns in... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
Foods Market regularly stocks EARTH’s bananas, dried fruits, and cobranded coffee. Outreach and Impact In his current role, Condo spends about half of his time on the road, meeting with members of the school’s extended community in the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
institutions to leverage their procurement power to support entrepreneurs of color. As part of our work, we were able to triple our private institutions’ annual spend with local Black and Brown-owned companies, shifting over $15 million... View Details
- 11 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure!
spend time with us. Jesper got his Executive MBA from HBS this year and was a great guide who traveled with us and helped answer our many questions throughout the weekend. At our initial meeting, he went over what geothermal energy is,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
residents.” (Safe to say Draper’s envisioned government is smaller than what exists today, with fewer regulations in the business realm. “Libertarian” is one word that has been used to describe his politics, although he resists party... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
for Linux to take over Windows. The questions that we address are: Is Linux's superior demand-side learning sufficient to win out? What is the effect of forced procurement by governments and some large corporations on the long-run... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
involvement with the MD/MBA program at Harvard Business School is part of that belief. I personally think HBS has a huge contribution to make, because we spend our time studying how to manage things better to give better outcomes. Q: What... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
business of publishing technical papers. “I didn’t want to spend the next 5 to 10 years doing these little increments and never knowing whether, with the right effort, we could solve a big challenge,” Ferrucci told HBS Professor of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
they're going to spend a good part of their lives in the office, they'd like that time to be spiritually as well as materially rewarding." Leading experts on the topic, including Peter B. Vaill (MBA '60, DBA '64), a professor at the... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
impact coming from? Lisa Lewin: First, I think what we have seen from consumers has been incredible. Their increasing commitment to spending money on companies and brands aligned with their values has been an incredible, catalyzing force... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
example of what can push the system to a new approach. Another example, which I plan to visit, is Rocketship Education, a charter school system where students spend the first few hours of the morning in a computer learning lab and the... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
spending in the United States, accounting for less than 1% of prescriptions filled but nearly 28% of drug spending. Whereas traditional (chemically synthesized, "small-molecule") drugs have historically faced price competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
intellectual interests evolved in what many would say are pretty surprising ways, from a focus on governance and control, to design thinking and innovative problem solving, to data science and machine learning. And I know I could not have... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace, is a reference to this phenomenon. Companies are telling their marketing managers, "Get your advertising spend down by 20 percent over the next 12 months," and so the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
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Emotional Benefits of Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Ashley V. Whillans, Adam M. Grant, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—When does giving lead to happiness? Here, we present two studies demonstrating that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
when wealth and incomes are increasingly concentrated among very few, it is unfair to let the richest pay so little. Republicans, to put it mildly, disagree. They argue that taxing those with large capital incomes is discriminating against people who chose to save... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
2015 Research Handbook on Shareholder Power Thirty Years of Evolution in the Roles of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance By: Coates, John C. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
with the event. We will definitely be hosting more networking events in this format, as it looks like we’ll be virtual into 2021.” The HBS Club of South Florida welcomed 10 alumni to a virtual discussion about the Future of Work, sharing their insights from their... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley