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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
students straight from undergraduate programs and promoting internally without requiring an MBA. The global economic crisis only added to the chorus of concerns about the MBA degree. The Carnegie Corporation and Ford Foundation reports in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
University Elections
institutional excellence to which Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
subsidiaries, and affiliates. Transfer pricing is legal, but when it becomes abusive — serving no legitimate business purpose and with tax evasion as its only intent — then you are breaking the law.” Opinions differ, however, over what... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
those folks are not going to be part of an organization that does not have good values. And, you know, we try to build in corporate values that just briefly they’re respect, integrity, genuine caring, hospitality, teamwork, excellence and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
organizational capabilities. "These approaches are guided by very different assumptions by corporate leaders about the purpose of and means for change," they write. In a book that could have been subtitled... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
what sorts of activities do you oversee? Allen’s corporations provide myriad social services and operate a school, a resource center for battered women, senior-citizen complexes with 630 units, a for-profit transportation company, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
Further, the voting cycle truncates long-term progress. "Government is an interest-group groupie," she said. "Who speaks for the less fortunate? The homeless, for example, are not a powerful interest group." Businesses, she added, "will sponsor social issues only if it... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
in Cambridge “I believe that after achieving financial success, most people want to have an impact on society. That’s what brings meaning and purpose to my life.” Having built and sold an Internet company in the 1990s, Chertavian launched... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
fundamental purpose that’s meaningful both to customers and employees,” he says. “You strive to be the best version of your customers.” That goal was relatively easy to attain in his previous role as CEO of the trendsetting headphone... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
and to the institutional excellence to which Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
opportunities, measuring and analyzing purpose inside organizations, ESG data analytics and strategies, and the role of leadership and governance in corporate scandals and misconduct. Key takeaway: “We are... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
Alumni Books Boeing Metamorphosis: Launching the 737 and 747, 1965–1969 by John Fredrickson and John Andrew (MBA 1959) Schiffer Military History Welcome to the world of corporate decision-making, workplace gambles, and myriad human... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Leviathans Multinational Corporations and the New Global History edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Bruce Mazlish (Cambridge University Press) In this collection of articles gathered by HBS professor emeritus (and Pulitzer Prize-winner)... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
University Elections
Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to Harvard affairs through the varied... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
to share ideas with MBA students next semester when he joins the HBS faculty to teach the new required first-year course Leadership, Governance, and Accountability. Did the recent parade of corporate scandals inspire your book? No, I had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
about the fact that you’re at HBS. Raise your hand when you hear ‘Who’d like to start?’ and give a common-sense analysis of the case. You’ll freak everyone out.” Professor Dick Vancil published more than 20 books during his tenure at HBS and became an expert on how... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
incompetence, and negligence by a corporate board. The board at Merrill Lynch was so disconnected from the company that when shareholders met in December 2008 to approve the company’s sale to Bank of America — after five straight... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
more complex world, and to increase our scale and reach to bring our mission to even more people, requires a relentless dedication to innovation." John Hess, CEO of the Hess Corporation and chair of The Harvard Business School Campaign,... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
interests. Are there lessons that are transferable to other male-dominated, corporate settings? Well, there are two aspects of this environment that would be difficult to replicate. First, these men live where they work, at least for two... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
the social impact bond, an innovative approach to marrying social purpose with financial returns for investors. Still in the pilot stage in the UK, social impact bonds already have enthusiastic supporters determined to bring them to the... View Details