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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details

01 Jun 2021
What Do You Think?

Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

current environment, CEOs need to continue to speak up and serve a role of accountability.” Patricia Caballero regards CEO activism as inevitable: “We have reached the point... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

achieve their goals. I've been especially interested in the pattern of succession in many entrepreneurial firms—specifically, that many founders are replaced by "professional" CEOs early in the life of the venture. My data shows... View Details

23 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

Authors:Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria Publication:Chap. 16 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana Harvard Business Publishing, 2010 Abstract What is the role of the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2020
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. HBS’s global outposts—15 research centers and offices spanning five continents—play a critical role in the School’s efforts to build deep expertise in business... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues

events provided a teachable moment regarding our role as global citizens and the importance of ending poverty." "We know that all the might in the world won't end the war on terrorism," added Neal Keny-Guyer, View Details

Keywords: War on Terror; Ronald Levy; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2008
News

Farm Boy

JEPPSON: With his wife, Marianne, a long, happy life at Oakholm, the family farm. Apart from his role as chairman and CEO of the Norton Company and service on the boards of numerous nonprofit and civic... View Details

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

and believe that it makes a difference, engagement drops off dramatically. When engagement falls, so does productivity. Message Not Being Heard Many senior executives have been focused on building mission-driven organizations for the last decade. The View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

11 Oct 2022
News

On Balance

gender pay gap for 25 years,” notes Wooldridge. “We need to speed things up.” Likewise, the proportion of women in CEO roles has increased steadily; but, at the current pace, it will take 80 years to achieve... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2001
News

Speaking for the Airlines

When the airlines sought government financial help in the wake of September's terrorist attacks, Delta Airlines chairman and CEO Leo Mullin (MBA '67) emerged as a powerful advocate for the industry, the Los Angeles Times (September 21,... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation; National Security and International Affairs; Government

26 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program

he became the CEO of Second Harvest Heartland. Zeaske’s experience mirrors those of alumni fellows who have benefited over the years from access to meaningful roles and close collaboration with senior... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

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Laura Sandoval

In the late ‘80s, Laura Sandoval’s mother emigrated from Peru to the United States to find a better a future. “We faced some tough immigration challenges,” Laura says. When her father later joined her mother in the US, she said, “My father went from being the View Details

07 Feb 2017
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Shaping Singapore

Trained as an architect, Koon Hean Cheong (AMP 173, 2007) was initially disappointed when she found herself in a planning role in Singapore’s Public Works Department after graduation. “It wasn’t where I wanted to go,” she told The... View Details

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Providing Scholarships for Impact on a Sector | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

sector. Mary Wooldridge, MBA 1994, was instrumental in launching the scholarship program 14 years ago; now Minister for Mental Health, Community Services, and Disability Services and Reform, she reflects on its impact: “Harvard Fellows are seen as View Details

29 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

organization, in which professionals who go down in the elevator one evening may not return the next morning. Together, these dynamics ensure that the CEO's role in the professional service firm's decision making is both constrained and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney

01 Jan 2017
News

Sphere of Influence

scholarships to study in Canada and the United States. Recently named a “Global Visionary” by the Swiss bank UBS, Balares is founder and CEO of Womensphere Foundation, a nonprofit that supports women’s advancement in leadership,... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Understanding the global economy from a new perspective

Henry Paulson (MBA 1970) has held public and private leadership positions, including roles as chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, and US Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. As chairman... View Details

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Events - Advancing Racial Equity

ameliorate racism, and the critical ongoing leadership role that business must play. Series Kick-off with Professor Emeritus James Cash By: Jim Cash & Nitin Nohria 20 OCT 2020 | Harvard Business School The first event of the Managing... View Details

14 Apr 2023
Blog Post

New MBA Course Asks Students: What’s More Important—Purpose or Profits?

Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). Over two days, 11 faculty members from across the School taught five new cases involving companies ranging from Microsoft to Sweden’s Northvolt electric battery maker, raising questions about the View Details

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

romantic relationships. Using a sample of romantic dyads, we identify a novel moderating role of mutual agreement, such that both members of a couple must agree that they have a ritual: different couples can see the same consumption... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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