human rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

and shareholder expectations, and is investing well in its people and information resources. To help companies ensure that the board receives the right information about company strategy and performance, as well as feedback about the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

26 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Video: Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access

other part of diversity and part of the human experience. Landon Hollingsworth (MBA/MPA-ID 2024): And it is a facet of a person's identity. It's not a condition. It's not something to be solved. It's something to be celebrated. Teresa... View Details

Web

Real Estate Investing - Course Catalog

deal structuring, property types, negotiation and sourcing techniques. Stakeholder Motivations – Students will learn to understand the various stakeholders’ economic incentives, legal constraints, moral and ethical motivations and fundamental View Details

07 Jan 2016
News

Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

pass along to their tenants—and provide a better working environment as well. “California is where it all started. That’s not surprising, given the nature of California. It is where the largest opportunity is right now from a business... View Details

14 Jun 2018
News

Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa

We can invest in areas like agriculture, sustainable forestry, conservation, and tourism, and blend together development capital and financial capital so that everybody has the right risk-reward profile for their project. At the same... View Details

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

top-management counsel, hiring the most qualified staff, and an apprenticeship process that built excellence. For example, Marvin Bower, founder of McKinsey, preached that partners had to focus on serving the right senior clients on their... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details

Profile

Sebastian Vargas

career at P&G, however, I learned that even the greatest technologies can fail without the right business model and organizations to support them. I knew I wanted to be a leader in technology so I thought an MBA would be a perfect way... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

WATER Ltd.

point is not whether public or private providers deliver the service but the efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness of that service,” says Jeremy Pelczer (AMP 162, 2002), president and CEO of American Water. “We agree that water is a View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

03 Feb 2020
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?

answer was “it depends.” Arie Goldshlager, for example, commented: “If the organization is on the right track, it certainly can have too much rebel talent. In this situation, the rebel talent could prove largely disruptive and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Sep 2024
HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

John Stuart Mill, philosophers have wrestled with the age-old questions autonomous vehicles are now raising—in new and urgent ways—for businesses and their leaders. “And by genuine ethical decisions, I mean decisions about the rights of... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

01 Dec 2014
News

Book Review: My Lunch with Warren

investment research in the right order, starting with least-biased sources. He observes that “the order in which I read the materials matters greatly since whatever I take in first will affect me unduly.” But Spier’s biggest life’s... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2009
News

Alumni Books

Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (MBA ’86) (Knopf) Calling the oppression of women and girls in the developing world today’s most pervasive human rights violation, the... View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

program known as "Sound Global Enterprise," he undertook a series of wide-ranging initiatives that permeated every corner of the company, from improving corporate governance and restructuring the corporation to improving the management of View Details

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

The economist John Maynard Keynes was right about the ultimate mortality of human beings ("In the long run, we are all dead," he once said.), but when it comes to places, it may be precisely the... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

08 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day

want you to join us in building. Thus, this campaign was born: to reclaim the word feminist to mean “a believer in equal rights for all genders,” without regard to race or religion or ethnicity, sexual orientation or sex assignment at... View Details

16 Oct 2018
News

To Lead and Serve

stayed in five years. And some of us, like myself, stayed in 38. But I didn't pass my grandfather, who did 39 years in. My concept of service to the country really came from my grandfather and my father talking about their careers, but really their fundamental notion... View Details

29 Jan 2021
News

Holding Business to Account

the naming rights to the team’s Maryland stadium and, in 2003, FedEx’s CEO became a minority owner in the team. In protest of the shipping-services giant’s involvement with the football team, a group of impact investors—including the... View Details

22 Sep 2015
News

Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda

and grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid (an Afrikaans word meaning ‘the state of being apart,’ literally ‘apart-hood’) years, so issues of human rights and social justice have always been important... View Details

16 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

Publication:Annual Review of Psychology 60 (2009): 475-499 Abstract As technology has simplified meeting basic needs, humans have cultivated increasingly psychological avenues for occupying their consumption energies, moving from... View Details