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How to onboard recently graduated MBAs - Recruiting

perspectives, new dimensions — and sometimes new challenges — are naturally introduced: evolving what is familiar means that establishing and promoting shared expectations can become more complex. To reduce friction and increase mutual... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

assist the city's children. It was during this time that he became involved with the Outward Bound USA organization, which he saw as an educational resource for the Boys and Girls Clubs. After participating in the program himself, O'Neill... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Dear Future Author…

(OPM 30, 2001), former Immigration and Naturalization Service attorney and coauthor of How to Get a Green Card, now in its 12th edition “Know your motivation. Know what drives you to write and publish. You don’t have to want to change the... View Details
  • January 2002
  • Case

Noranda Inc.: Mining, Smelting, and Sustainability?

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Noranda is a $7 billion international mining and smelting company headquartered in Canada. It has been cited for its fine environmental record. This case explores the issue of sustainability--in this case, for a mining company. Over time, and under nongovernmental... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Mining; Cost Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Environmental Sustainability; Mining Industry
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  • 21 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

emerging market entities as imitators. (Cases of bio-piracy indicate the opposite.) From a practical perspective, they wanted to suss out factors that might thwart bio-piracy altogether. In a series of new papers, the researchers trace a significant historical shift in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • News

Hungry for Change

technical solution or a cure for something that isn't scientifically possible or known," says Zeaske. "We have a resource scarcity and distribution problem, not a production problem." That last point is particularly true in agriculturally... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • News

Tapping into Opportunity

of some nebulous wish to do good, however. She's doing it because being smart about water will save these organizations a lot of money. "Providing dramatic improvements in how much water we use, and the natural View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 21 May 2019
  • News

Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest

by climate change by managing resources more efficiently, pursuing new strategies in the wake of climate change, and bringing climate-ready products to market. On May 15, over 100 Harvard Business School alumni and local and regional... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

firms to alleviate capital constraints and increase capital expenditures. Yet we also find instances in which governments use their minority positions to intervene in the management of firms, especially in natural View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 May 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

Summing Up Where are the leaders that can help elephants avoid a stall? Like a good case study, this month's question divided respondents nearly down the middle on the question of whether or not organizations naturally "stall"... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 21 Dec 2016
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CPP Investment Board

in our Private Investments and Real Assets group, with a particular focus on Direct Private Equity, Principal Credit Investments, Natural Resources and Infrastructure.  What recruiting tactics have you found... View Details
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Betty J. Diener Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

cabinet position because there's a natural conflict between economic development and environmental protection. Interview by Livingston Grant, March 27, 2000. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Oral History Project ,... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Competitiveness Recruit Alumni Recruiting MBA Recruiting Recruiting Resources Alumni Bulletin Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Business History Review Harvard Business Publishing Harvard Business Review HBS Working Knowledge Close Harvard... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

of enablers, such as education, has the potential for leading directly to the development of ideas that actually expand the limits of even those kinds of growth that rely on physical resources with supposedly finite properties. If all... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Jun 2019
  • News

A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

and Prevention. “We spent the first year understanding the landscape around gun policy and research,” says Luca, whose research largely focuses on applying insights from behavioral economics to improve managerial and policy decisions. “We knew we had the View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

wings battle over who gets the biggest piece of the pie, while paying little attention to expanding the pie of social resources for all. Q: If I recall my political science studies, lawyers and career politicians are disproportionately... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.

second of these annual awards. Ms. Ekiru explained: “Our pastoralist communities in northern Kenya face environmental conflict on a daily basis, often driven by land degradation and increasing pressure on the scarce natural View Details
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IT Strategy: HBS IT Website Provides Easier Access to News and Support | Information Technology

scenes and not always easily visible to the community. Given the technical nature of the work, it can also sometimes be hard to clearly demonstrate its impact to the community. In the past, information was shared in different places and... View Details
  • February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs

By: John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr and Fan Zhao
Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also government policies supporting a rival technology. Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Service Delivery; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Utilities Industry; China
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  • 06 Oct 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

forms of innovation: process innovations ... innovations in the way we think ... innovations in organization structure ... and so on." These comments pose the question of whether too many elements, many of them counter to human View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett