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- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
invests in companies providing services, products and technologies for the energy industry. They have traditionally focused on services for the Oil & Gas industry but are now committing capital to companies operating to monitor and... View Details
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
article, which he co-wrote with physicians Lisa Rotenstein, assistant medical director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston; and Christine Cassel, professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco. For many... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
reallocated for city delivery work. That’s going to make things more efficient and strengthen supply-chain security.” Just Charge It That EV section of your nearby parking lot is only going to grow, says Molly Middaugh (MBA 2018). She’s View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
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HBS - The year in Review
students. Following extensive experimentation, HBS launched the academic year with new hybrid classrooms that could seat up to 25 students in person and the rest remote, optimizing the experience for both groups through the addition of View Details
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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About
as needed. The Dean’s Office will use the annual reporting process and periodic audits to monitor compliance. Definitions For the purposes of this policy statement, the following definitions apply: A faculty membe r is anyone with a... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
director of operations told us. They complemented this broad messaging with daily meetings before each shift focused entirely on safety protocols involving both operation managers and employees. Employees participate in View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Monitor , and the New York Herald Tribune . H. I. Day of Electrical Research Products, Inc., impressed with the presentation, stated, "Land has solved a problem that every physicist working with light has struggled with for nearly a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Video Management Policy | About
Services and the Associate Director of Security and Emergency Management. HBS Operations is responsible for ensuring compliance with the University policy on installation and use of video cameras. The school maintains one video management... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
people to lie and game the system. Turbocharged incentives require turbocharged controls. Board Oversight One of the mysteries in the Enron case is how Enron’s board of directors failed on so many levels to detect or deter questionable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Helping Startups Give Back
“If you really want your company to be associated with giving back and having a social mission,” says Janie Goldstein (MBA 1991), “it needs to be baked in from the start.” But while most startups want to be philanthropic, Goldstein, the cofounder and former executive... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
that corporate governance activists focus on things that can be seen from the outside. The reality is that what makes boards effective—and this is the point we make in the book over and over again—is the behavior of the directors inside... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
expertise in quality control and volume manufacturing in the automotive industry (where he does double duty as managing director of Sundaram Brake Linings), Mahesh launched Sundaram Medical Devices in 2010, won the NVC, and built a better... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
As you read this, the HBS campus will again be bustling with students as well as with alumni returning for fall reunions. During the summer break, the Board of Directors remained active, holding its annual executive committee meeting in... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
however, most boards have focused on CEO succession, giving short shrift to systematic leadership development. After all, there was little risk of a calamity occurring if the board didn't monitor the leadership pipeline. There was also... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
and monitor the CEO, scrutinize the performance of the company's leadership team, oversee financial reporting and disclosure, and ensure compliance with laws and regulations. The recent failures triggered regulatory and legislative... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
of the arduous journey of building a successful venture,” said Jodi Gernon (MBA 1991), director of the Arthur Rock Center. “The winners and the participants have gone on to raise over $21 billion and have created over 15,000 jobs in such... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
job and getting banned from serving as an executive or director at any other company for five years. This consensual workplace relationship—forbidden under the iconic fast-food chain’s fraternization policy because of potential conflicts... View Details