State Engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

candidacy requirements and training programs. Promote constructive engagement in the workplace. Implement policies that encourage respectful dialogue and acknowledge diverse political views among employees. Provide training and resources... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

"The 'crucible' can help someone become better or more effective but the truly great were naturals." Steffen Nevermann stated the case for the affirmative, but cautioned, "To create crucibles from which leaders may emerge,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Aug 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

neighborhoods, right as they’re experiencing the problem? Do it! Pre-HBS, I worked for 5 years at a company called Blue State Digital, a communications agency born out of the Howard Dean and Barack Obama presidential campaigns. Blue View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Jan 2008
News

James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

“change of course,” he says that the United States and Europe need to pay closer attention to the emerging influence of India and China with regard to Africa’s economic and humanitarian challenges, global energy issues, climate change,... View Details

04 Feb 2016
News

From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl

and give middle school students a window into the tech future. Members of the HBS Association of Northern California's Community Partners Program worked with the Santa Clara Office of Civic Innovation (OCI) to launch the Technology and Innovation Challenge, an ongoing... View Details

Web

War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity - Course Catalog

the choices we make when there is no dominant strategy. Evaluate the role and limits of decision making in the context of political, historical, institutional, and other constraints, while also imagining and working to create future View Details

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

Healthcare, and Leadership. "The Initiative designation is meant to acknowledge a new phase of activity: one that we hope will engage the faculty, students, staff, and alumni in enhancing and extending both knowledge creation and... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

22 Feb 2019
News

Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

Enterprise magazine. “Then we had a very lively discussion about the current state of the media industry in general and its future, as more non-TV delivery methods—like streaming to your phone—take over. Professor McGee and Cèsar Conde... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2011
News

James McNerney Jr.

outside the United States view us, they look at organizations like Boeing, DuPont, GE, Johnson & Johnson, and Procter & Gamble as gold standard companies. We tend to lament that manufacturing is going down, but outside our country they... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Air Transportation; Transportation

24 Nov 2014
News

New York Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS

said Dinan, “is you get to learn what students, faculty, all these young, exciting alumni are doing. And I think, like all of you, I’m continually impressed how relevant HBS continues to be and what great things it is doing and how View Details

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

reforested each year in the United States during this same time period). Thirty percent of all indigenous mammals in Indonesia are threatened with extinction, while 13% of Japan's birds are threatened and 24% of higher plants in the... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

while full integration into stock valuation and engagement are considered more beneficial, but they are all practiced with equal frequency. Current practices of different ESG styles, especially screening, are driven by product and ethical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

organizations: Businesses focus on commerce, while charities engage in activities that support social welfare. Increasingly, however, founders of social ventures interested in improving society are pursuing hybrid business models, which... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 2001
News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

Getting Reality on the Table One of the country's foremost experts on money laundering and illegal flight capital, Raymond W. Baker (MBA '60) set out for Africa one year after graduating from HBS, seeking "a taste of international business." In Nigeria, as a consultant... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

years—an enthusiasm for investing abroad. Historically there have been huge differences in national propensities to engage in foreign direct investment. Britain held almost one-half of total world FDI before 1914. The United View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

Profile

Ryu Kawano

As a Japanese citizen who grew up in Indonesia, Ryu Kawano is certainly no stranger to multicultural diversity. But when it was time to get a college education, he came to the United States to experience even greater variety, despite a... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

build a community of engaged partners who share a common passion and are eager to provide the resources needed to change the world—not just money, but also time, talents, personal networks, creative thinking, and public support. A... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

community engagements as an important dimension of their association with a company. The closer interactions of the two organizations can create new opportunities for skill and leadership development. The integrative stage also can bring... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

07 Jul 2020
Blog Post

The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground

business and legal topics of the presenter’s choice. This year, we have presented and engaged with our peers on a wide variety of topics—ranging from the college admissions scandal to state intervention in... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Steven C. Watson

Massachusetts, classroom. Explaining the decision that led him to this radical midcareer transition, Watson, an engaging veteran entrepreneur with a long and successful record of cofounding and running early-stage companies all over the... View Details

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