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  • 28 Feb 2019
  • News

New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

firm based in Boston, where he served in a wide range of roles, including managing partner and Executive Committee member. He also served as board director of more than 30 public and private companies. He recently retired from Summit and... View Details
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

strong digital payment infrastructure, and a willingness to pay subscription fees. At the same time, winning in U.S.’s education market, where most students attend public schools and many ed-tech companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 14, 2017
  • Article

Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It

By: John A. Deighton
United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs and empower its employees to put customers first in the wake of a video showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. Of all the U.S. air carriers, United should have known the power of social media and... View Details
Keywords: Crisis Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Training; Air Transportation Industry
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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

A few years ago, HBS Executive Education unveiled the program Women on Boards: Succeeding as a Corporate Director, designed to introduce executives to the process of joining a corporate board. Since that first session, hundreds of female... View Details
  • Web

Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

students. HealthLab: A new University-wide accelerator for student ventures, HealthLab brings together students and postdocs from across the Harvard ecosystem to solve challenges in public and planetary health. Legal support: Harvard Law... View Details
  • June 2022 (Revised August 2023)
  • Case

Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems

By: Frank Nagle, Elizabeth J. Altman and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2021, Gina Lucarelli, leader of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs, prepared for a meeting with UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. The two planned to discuss the future of the Accelerator Labs, a network of social innovation labs located... View Details
Keywords: Change; Disruption; Transformation; Change Management; Education; Learning; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Local Range; Geopolitical Units; Country; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Information Technology; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Psychology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Society; Social Issues; Welfare; Strategy; Cooperation; Adaptation; Public Administration Industry; North and Central America
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  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

civil society scrutiny that activates these firms' latent vulnerability. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,484 public companies in many industries, headquartered in 38 countries, during 2005-2008, when environmental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Hawes Hall | About

educated in Hawes Hall would use their knowledge “to serve their fellow human beings.” Her husband, the retired chairman and CEO of Connecticut-based Life Re Corporation, also emphasized the link between business View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

empirical framework, which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public firms located close to where they reside. Using this empirical observation, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

and, eventually, through its decision to execute a management buyout to exit the public market. Explored at the corporate level is the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits and achieve excellent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment

stewards for the future. Contact: David Havelick Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) The Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) encourages research and education about the environment and its many... View Details
  • Web

Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

higher education and beyond can realize change by working with, not against, change-makers even when board members and community leaders stand in opposition. Bold collaboration, significant due diligence, and persistence are integral to... View Details
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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Evan Marwell (MBA 1992), Educational Superhighway Chris McKown (MBA 1981), Iora Health Shara Ticku (MBA 2017), C16 4:15–5:30 p.m. Frameworks & Insights Join faculty and practitioners for presentations and discussions on various topics... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

inhabitants of Seoul, a sprawling metropolis packed with boutiques, nightclubs, and skyscrapers. Kim left Korea in 1974, at age 11. Educated in the United States, he returned as COO of Asia-Pacific investment banking at Salomon Smith... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park
  • 28 Jan 2020
  • Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

change that seems perfectly benign. I tell the story of Carol Hallquist, a talented corporate executive with an interest in accelerating improvement in public education so that every school is great. She... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Building a Better Brazil

educational platform. The gift was made through the Lemann Foundation, a nonprofit organization Lemann and his family created in 2002 to enhance the quality of public education... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
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Loeb House | About

reunions as well as meetings and conferences. Loeb’s son, John L. Loeb Jr., is a financier, philanthropist, and distinguished public servant. A 1952 Harvard College graduate, he is an Air Force veteran who served as a senior partner at... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Consultant at McKinsey & Company and Program Associate at the Education Outcomes Fund. Jake Sweed (MBA 2024, Section G), Summer Internship: Chief of Staff to the CEO, TS Conductor While the electricity system is the backbone of the... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

metrics. Unfortunately, the effects of different types of coupling are somewhat hard to distinguish. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52349 Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing Primary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne