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Drone Policy Purpose Statement HBS community members have requested information on using UAS or drones on campus. The FAA maintains strict regulations on commercial UAS flights; the purpose of this policy is to help clarify acceptable use... View Details

15 Sep 2011
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High Ambition Leadership

underdeveloped.) Nokia's CEO knew, however, that the passion and capabilities of the company lay in its cell phone business, and that there was a unique market opportunity to transform [cell phones] from an expensive tool for the rich to an affordable and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

November 2010
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Esquel Group: Building a Sustainable Partnership with Cotton Farmers in Xinjiang (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Jason Cheng Qian

Details and evaluates results in Esquel's 2002 initiative to negotiate long-term partnerships with often-exploited farmers in Xinjiang (western China) to procure a superior cotton variety. View Details

Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Leasing; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Hong Kong; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu

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01 Sep 2013
News

Passion & Purpose

photography by Susan Young See full profiles and more photographs here. In August, five HBS alumni returned to campus to accept the School's highest honor. This year's award recipients have contributed significantly to their companies and communities. They are... View Details

Keywords: awards; Finance; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Rawiah Abdallah

grassroots campaign that engaged students with Cairo's slum communities." One objective was to build a bridge between the privileged students and their less-fortunate neighbors. "The other goal was to develop the community, to improve lives," Rawiah... View Details

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Mike Monagle

an ongoing community of language learners, a social network online and off.” In addition to testing Lingua, Mike plans on continuing to test himself. In his FIELD 3 experience, he and his teammates are experimenting with a men’s... View Details

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Jake Johnston

position. You don't usually get a chance to see issues from so many different points of view. The variety of people and interests at HBS exposes you to a truly global perspective." International community While based in Germany, Jake... View Details

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Filippo Mezzanotti

and excellence in research. Studying at Harvard places you in the best possible position to take advantage of what the intellectual community of Cambridge offers, such as taking classes at MIT, or attending a seminar at the NBER. The HBS... View Details

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Lucky Ones Coffee: Employing People with Disabilities | Information Technology

business better and you can make the world better by reaching out to a different community for employees than you have before. Richard S. Ruback ; Baker Foundation Professor Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus... View Details

26 Apr 2022
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Leading on Climate Change

discussed the climate change agenda as an opportunity for economic growth, which attracts new skills and new jobs,” says club Saleh Abdullah Lootah (GMP 10). Almheiri emphasized that leaders in the UAE are accessible and caring, and View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 Feb 2020
News

Style for Everyone

space, and just fundamentally believe that there must be something wrong on the supply side. It cannot possibly be that such an incredible community of women is any less interested in looking and feeling her best, and so we set out to... View Details

Keywords: Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2018
News

What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)

pleasure and purpose aspects of the organization are reconciled in a thoughtful way. If we’re having amazing events to showcase the best of American food, in the same breath we should be talking about what we mean by an equitable food system. The penny has really... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

01 Oct 1997
News

Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction

proceedings was the presentation of the first-ever Dean's Award for service to the HBS community (see sidebar below). In the late afternoon, a ceremony featuring the remarks of John Crowley (MBA '97) and outgoing HBSAA president Catherine... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Sparking Internet Commerce

college and HBS, Grouf held jobs at McKinsey and at Goldman Sachs, where he worked on M&As for clients in communications and technology. During his second semester at HBS, after hooking up with some software visionaries at MIT, Grouf... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2006
News

Not a Regular Joe

Wilson was a principled and driven executive who transformed a small company called Haloid in Rochester, New York, into one that became synonymous with photocopying. Ellis, former managing partner of Greenwich Associates, offers a portrait of a business mogul who... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Joe Wilson; Xerox; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2004
News

Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)

operating style. Effective communications also means knowing how to listen. My family means a lot to me. Since I married U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, Kentucky has become my home state. We are in Kentucky pretty much every weekend. My... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 2011
News

My First HBS Class

slip into communications jargon, my only takeaways — are Professor Abdelal’s comment that the model of U.S. capitalism operative for the past ten to fifteen years is going away, and this gnomic formula: I = (S)+(T+G-TR)+(M-X). Given my... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

Summing Up Fixing the Way We Work There is a lot wrong with the way we work, but very little of this is due to new networking capabilities or communications technology. Neither can we blame increasing globalization and the demands of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

04 Dec 2023
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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

Care Units. I came to school passionate about access and equity in health care, and curious about systemic barriers to resources that allow communities to live healthy lives. As soon as I got to campus though, I realized I had no idea how... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Dec 1998
News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

through a community service mentoring project. At first, O'Neill took his young charge to a succession of museums and sporting events in an attempt to show him a reality outside his troubled neighborhood and family life. "After some weeks... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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