Far East Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2014
News

Leveling the Playing Field for all Learners

Sal Khan (MBA 2003) is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy. In this video, he talks about new partnerships his organization is forming to bring the tools and advantages of online learning to wider audiences. “I’m the founder and executive... View Details

02 Nov 2020
News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

hunger-relief organization in New England and among the largest food banks in the country. I had an opportunity to speak with Catherine D’Amato, GBFB’s CEO, and I was incredibly impressed with the organization’s vision for the future. It... View Details

12 May 2022
News

Turning a Moment into a Movement

Even though Aisha Dozie (MBA 2002) had served on the boards of several private and nonprofit organizations over her career, her two-year search for the directorship of a public board proved to be a “pretty tricky and convoluted” process.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Article

Business Investment in Education in Emerging Markets Since the 1960s

By: Valeria Giacomin, Geoffrey Jones and Erica Salvaj

This article examines non-profit investments by business in education in emerging markets between the 1960s and the present day. Using a sample of 110 interviews with business leaders from an oral history database, the study shows that more than three-quarters of such... View Details

Keywords: Economic History; Oral History; Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business History; Emerging Markets; Reputation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Education Industry; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Middle East; India; Chile; Colombia; Sri Lanka; Kenya

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26 Jul 2018
News

Running the Numbers

enviable connection with its avid New England Patriots fan base. Other sports and entertainment organizations took note, and, in 2016, KAGR was spun off to help outside clients such as Ticketmaster, the NBA’s Philadelphia ’76ers, and the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2013
News

Alumni News | Bookshelf

those hidden barriers. The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World by Frans Johansson (MBA 2000) (Portfolio) This book is about two simple ideas: Success is far more random than we think, and individuals and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Fellowship winner. The organization is based in New Delhi, India, where it provides economically viable housing solutions for under-served populations, starting with India and for communities around the world. (Watch Mehra explain how... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

agree to abide by the HBS Community Values and the MBA Honor Code (pdf). The venture must be a standalone effort and operate independently of existing organizations (including, but not limited to, resources, governance, management, staff,... View Details

20 Dec 2024
News

Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024

To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

ideas. Assignments to projects can make a big difference, too. You want people to have work that they're going to find appropriately challenging — not so far out of their skill range that they just can't do anything, but certainly... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2013
News

Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century

University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and Patrick J. Barry look at three of the largest debacles so far in the 21st century—the BP affair, the mortgage meltdown and resulting crisis, and the use of lead paint in children's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; oil spill; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 May 2018
Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

determines the value of sharing would be low and “the distraction it would cause would be significant.” This prompts the subject of our conversation today: Should compensation data be shared inside organizations? On what should a decision depend? How View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

After HBS, Hussein will work and gain experience in private equity and venture capital in New York or London, with the long-term goal of setting up his own firm in the Middle East to connect Israeli and Arab companies and help the region... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

analyzing research publications, we have found three basic trends. First, research has increasingly focused on economic performance. Second, research focusing on how organizations affect other dimensions of human welfare, beyond economic... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

17 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

Spring 2018 Journal of Cold War Studies The Enemy of My Enemy: The Soviet Union, East Germany, and the Iranian Tudeh Party's Support for Ayatollah Khomeini By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article examines the strategy of the Iranian... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?

let go. Finding a happy medium is far from easy. Diana Baumrind, a pioneering research psychologist, observed that parents often behave in ways that are either authoritarian, permissive, or negligent, with a tendency to bounce among the... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Air Transportation

Portrait Project

Derrick Leung

that connect our communities to one another. Roadways and power plants are the arteries and organs of our living society. But what I see is far from an image of good health. The skeletal remains of our... View Details

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

KineticsEkhi Muniategui, MBA 2009With virtually unlimited power in a singular design, the DKS radioisotopic battery solution offers an unprecedented, technological offering — an ultra-light power solution that lasts for decades and goes View Details

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

employee loyalty in organizations with large numbers of workers in direct contact with customers. The new movie Moneyball (and the book on which it is based) extol the virtues of employing nontraditional thinking and measurement in major... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Aug 2017
Blog Post

From Germany to HBS

Despite growing up in a small village in southern Germany, I have always had a strong sense of curiosity that drew me to places far away. As a young boy I often gazed up at the airliners cruising 36,000ft above and wondered what their... View Details

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