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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
hosted a virtual reunion in March to mark the 10th anniversary of the Immersive Field Course in Japan since the pandemic prevented the course from being offered this year. The gathering, organized with the assistance of the Japan Research... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
and Climate Change.” This winter, HBS researchers and I canvassed investors, funders, and businesses in East Africa on this topic, which I presented to colleagues at the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability in March.... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
If people smile, nod, and say "yes" at your company, maybe it's time to start an argument. According to HBS professor Michael Roberto, the lack of good conflict—constructive conflict—within an organization makes it that much... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
the environment." While the Field has plans to build a new wing on a vacant plot nearby, the Met's main building on the Upper East Side in Manhattan has a fixed footprint. "We have to be very creative with our space," says Deborah Winshel... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
of Business Administration; Emilie Billaud, assistant director; and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej, research associate. The case explores how Unilever, the UK-based consumer goods giant, has implemented an initiative to accelerate the speed of change throughout the View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
Foods, joined Colgate in 1988 as head of its Far East and Canada operations. "How do you take an idea or product that may work in Latin America and introduce it into Asia or Africa, instantaneously? All... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
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Career Journey | MBA
Coaches 150 Career Programs 882 Hiring Organizations Career Statistics More Career Statistics Summer experiences and post-HBS career paths are top of mind for many of our students, and understanding the career choices of recent HBS... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A social enterprise visionary
the School are pursuing careers in social enterprise, and other business management schools have followed HBS’s lead. “This has resulted in the management of nonprofits gradually being improved,” Whitehead once said. “I am very proud of what the School has... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
''How long can this be sustained without effective push-back?" Others noted the benefits of scale in fostering success for the foreseeable future. Robert Duque suggested that the organization will learn from its subsidiaries, such as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Maine. His work at two of Common Good's partner organizations — Stone Soup Foods and East End Kids Katering, both in Portland, Maine — focused on evaluating new business opportunities and developing... View Details
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Global - Global Activities 2020
Billaud; and research associate Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej. It explores how Unilever, the UK-based consumer goods giant, has implemented an initiative to accelerate the speed of change throughout the organization and prepare its workforce... View Details
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Student Clubs | MBA
Student Organization Latter-day Saint Student Association M Management Consulting Club Marketing Club Middle East & North Africa Club Midwest Student Association O Outdoors Club P Partners' Club Pickleball... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
more than 10 percent, and India's more than 6. It won't be long, says Daniel Pinto (MBA 1993), cofounder and chief executive of Stanhope Capital, one of the largest independent investment firms in Europe, before the West falls to the East... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
could not afford them. The executives were far from naive, however, about how tough it can be to create the corporate conditions that also foster social good. When a CEO tries to extend the company mission beyond short-term quarterly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
Diagnostics Division's operations in East Africa, noted, "We don't even have set policies on testing for HIV." We can donate drugs. But if there is no infrastructure to distribute those drugs, we can't do any good.— Ngozi... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
applications, particularly in the food industry. Although a stroke in 1992 left Murray with extensive left-side paralysis, he can often be found mending fence on his farm. He is excited to be undertaking an ozone-based treatment for relief of stroke-induced paralysis... View Details
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Questions for Evaluating Company Culture and Community - Alumni
prescriptive, but rather to be used as starting points for a conversation to understand how a particular organization is thinking about and responding to issues of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging. The thoughtfulness and authenticity of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“The variety, nuance, and humanity of the Middle East are being obscured.” — Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, lamenting negative stereotypes of the Middle East, in a keynote address at Burden Auditorium. (Harvard Arab Weekend, November... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
better together than people who haven’t—and most organizations could do a far better job of exploiting this simple but powerful insight,” he says. Huckman’s research points to five factors that make team... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
providing unrestricted HBS Fund support can have. “The deeper I got into the Harvard ecosystem, the more I saw the power of flexible funding,” he says, citing the School’s ability to develop hybrid classrooms in response to COVID-19 as an example. “What better way to... View Details