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- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
pass along to their tenants—and provide a better working environment as well. “California is where it all started. That’s not surprising, given the nature of California. It is where the largest opportunity is right now from a business... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
companies, on communities, and, most of all, on employees. "The initial drive was to build empathy around the decisions that are so core on a human level," Sucher says. "They wanted people to learn about that." Green... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Audit: War & Peace
QUESTION: “How did you ensure the talks didn’t fail because of internal strife?” —Alexandra Baranowski (MBA 2025) “I had to handle that with a lot of cold blood and not engage the opposition in every argument. I had to maintain the course, explain why we were doing... View Details
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Yong-yi Zhu
human race. Who knows? Maybe one day, a young kid will look out his window, and even with parents in different corners of the world, will still feel as though they are right next to him. View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
Humans can be self-destructive. We overindulge in food and fail to make time to exercise, and we delay saving for retirement. Associate Professor John Beshears, whose research focuses on behavioral economics, has identified hope: The idea... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
The economist John Maynard Keynes was right about the ultimate mortality of human beings ("In the long run, we are all dead," he once said.), but when it comes to places, it may be precisely the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
top-management counsel, hiring the most qualified staff, and an apprenticeship process that built excellence. For example, Marvin Bower, founder of McKinsey, preached that partners had to focus on serving the right senior clients on their... View Details
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
We can invest in areas like agriculture, sustainable forestry, conservation, and tourism, and blend together development capital and financial capital so that everybody has the right risk-reward profile for their project. At the same... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
thought were well behind us as well as some brand-new ones we may never have imagined: laws that limit women’s right to access reproductive health care and brazen attacks on principals of equity, equality, and social justice,” Ely said... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
China is not yet ready, he said, for national elections (although 680,000 villages have elected local officials), the country’s goal is that “the people supervise the work of the government.” China is committed to improvements in human... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
into a book, How Will You Measure Your Life? The following excerpt, adapted for the Bulletin by Allworth, presents a fresh look at what it means to have “the right stuff” at work and draws a parallel to good parenting. Helping your... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
John Stuart Mill, philosophers have wrestled with the age-old questions autonomous vehicles are now raising—in new and urgent ways—for businesses and their leaders. “And by genuine ethical decisions, I mean decisions about the rights of... View Details
- 20 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How HBS Prepared Me to Lead a Company on Day One
over time. Leading businesses has made me appreciate these lessons early: making decisions in ambiguous environments, considering the impact of your judgment on others, and listening to those in your organization to approximate the right... View Details
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applicant is unable to do so, the School reserves the right to cease consideration of the application, to withdraw any offer of admission already made, and/or to terminate one's status as a student. Applicants assume all costs for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
investment research in the right order, starting with least-biased sources. He observes that “the order in which I read the materials matters greatly since whatever I take in first will affect me unduly.” But Spier’s biggest life’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
answer was “it depends.” Arie Goldshlager, for example, commented: “If the organization is on the right track, it certainly can have too much rebel talent. In this situation, the rebel talent could prove largely disruptive and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
want you to join us in building. Thus, this campaign was born: to reclaim the word feminist to mean “a believer in equal rights for all genders,” without regard to race or religion or ethnicity, sexual orientation or sex assignment at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
different.” Have the Right Mindset From talking with HBS alumni, I learned about many cases in which people seemed to rush headlong into start-ups, hoping primarily to make a lot of money fast. That could lead them to ignore what seemed... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A) In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2018
- News
To Lead and Serve
stayed in five years. And some of us, like myself, stayed in 38. But I didn't pass my grandfather, who did 39 years in. My concept of service to the country really came from my grandfather and my father talking about their careers, but really their fundamental notion... View Details