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- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing... View Details
- Profile
Shaun Miller
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning an MBA has been a career aspiration of mine since my undergraduate studies - I had always looked forward to the idea of not only expanding my technical skill set, but also learning about the broader business... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
over the past few decades has generated more wealth than any previous period in human history. But if you look, percentage-wise, at how much of that has gone to the new middle class in Asia, India, and China, and not to the working View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact." Harvard Business School Case 318-089, March 2018. (Revised June 2018.)
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
doesn't distinguish between different levels of income. Wealthy, middle class, or poor, you pay the same rate. Also, a flat tax system is often completely free of deductions, exemptions, and exceptions. These efforts aim to make the tax... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
Jones Industrial Average soared amid a “bonkers” real estate market. Professionals have been looking around, and recruiters have data and stories to grab even the most contented employee’s attention. "You could have a two-hour meeting in the View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series
Markets project? As the largest online database of academic interviews with renowned and longstanding business leaders from emerging markets in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, the Creating Emerging Markets project... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
effect in 1992, new companies inundated the marketplace. By the middle of the decade, the effects of overcapacity and a flood of imported consumer goods led to many companies declaring bankruptcy. “There was a huge amount of pain at the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Spangler Center Groundbreaking
Harvard's long-standing relationship with the city of Boston. Menino cited the importance of higher education to the city's economy and praised HBS volunteer programs that benefit the nearby Taft Middle School and the Brighton-Allston... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Education Sector Opportunities at HBS
Technology Innovations in Education, Managing Human Capital, and an independent project through the Social Innovation Lab. She was also able to examine the economic forces around teachers unions through her group paper in the Role of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
(think data analytics) as global competition for skilled workers increases. Matthew Breitfelder’s (MBA 2002) transition to the field came midcareer, after stints as an international economist at the US Department of Commerce, a corporate strategist, and a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Classroom and Field Work: Methods of Instruction | Baker Library
Program for Management Development, centered on the needs of young executives in middle management, opened to women in 1963. Women could now be members in all HBS educational programs. Roberts, A Short... View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
Consumers today have more control than ever over the way they choose goods and services—from browsing freely at grocery stores to managing their own financial assets. Perhaps consumers should also have a greater sense of empowerment when... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
to outside obligations should be as important to those at the organization's highest levels as it is to middle managers. Q: We often find that work obligations overwhelm our best intentions when it comes to spending time with family. How... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- April 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Teaching Note
Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?
By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger, James Barnett and Stacy Straaberg
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-096. View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Management Style; Media; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Expectations; Performance Productivity; Creativity; Business Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Video Game Industry; North America; California; Canada; Europe; Middle East; Africa; Asia; Latin America
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
the largest countries by population in the world. "Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Eastern Europe will be responsible for a growing share of our business," he asserts. "To drive top-line growth,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia
says, explaining that China is a good place to conduct research on the topic. “China is in the middle of a political and economic reorganization, and we don’t know what will happen next,” she observes. “The backlash against China’s global... View Details
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
1998 as part of its management of an apparently ongoing crisis. The reaction of the international financial community—and some of my students—was severe. The capital controls were labeled "unorthodox" and "heretical,"... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Think Globally, Teach Locally
was selected as one of the first faculty team members to teach in the new International Senior Managers Program (ISMP), an eight-week Executive Education course that was offered by the School in Vevey until 1983. “It was a remarkable... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
underpowered compact hatchbacks like the Nissan Leaf and the BMW i3, neither of which could go more than 100 miles without needing to recharge. But there’s a reason that so many auto executives are now pinning their hopes on that long-dormant View Details