Black Lives Matter - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

her own physician. Reflecting on his background, Shetty wrote on his Web site that he became a doctor because of the recurrent illnesses of his parents. As a child he lived in fear that he would lose his mother; his father, a diabetic,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

Snook: Our world changed in 1989. The Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed. Almost fifty years of living in a bipolar world had shaped a very strong and static sense of professional identity built around a Cold War... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

29 Apr 2016
News

The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

Why is the mission of ArtLifting so important? “We’re demonstrating how something as simple as optimism can change lives and create jobs. This is very powerful and very personal to me. My older brother has a rare metabolic disorder that... View Details

13 Jul 2016
Blog Post

How To Hire A Millennial

Connecticut is nothing less than a capitulation to an emerging business reality. For GE, leafy Stamford was simply too hard a sell to make to increasingly urban millennials, who not only prefer to live in cities like Boston, San... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

been missing is love," McLennan says. "I acknowledge that while it may seem inappropriate to talk about such things in an HBS classroom, they should remember that people on their deathbeds often say the only thing that mattered... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

campus is closed to most motor vehicles, a rule that encourages face-to-face encounters along the walking paths. Taxis, and often black limousines, patiently wait for their clients on the campus' margins. As the campus master plan... View Details

Keywords: Education

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

celebrated and learned of their new rights as citizens. As Black Texans moved to other parts of the country, they brought their traditions along with them, and Juneteenth continued to grow and develop. Juneteenth’s powerful spirit has... View Details

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

low-cost strategy, eliminating management choice going forward? And do such strategies have much longer lives than those associated with other forms of differentiation among offerings to customers? When does friction trump scale in the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

05 May 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

for the respondents. Further, data showed that women display greater satisfaction in their interactions with the police when they live in villages with a female council head (Table VIII, Panel B in the working paper). Women are slightly... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

09 Nov 2017
News

Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress

candidates in the upcoming months, splitting its support equally between candidates for the two major parties. Barcott grew up in Rhode Island and attended the University of North Carolina on an ROTC scholarship. During the summer before his senior year, he travelled... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Sep 2007
News

Getting Security Right

want to live very much the way Americans do. President Bush MBA ’75 believes that, and most, if not all, of today’s presidential candidates share the same view. We disagree. We think there are many people who have totally different values... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

path, clearly illustrating how the traditional power dynamic has inverted and why it matters for business survival. Bines offers six proven models you can use to cultivate and serve highly informed and empowered customers. Influence Is... View Details

08 May 2019
News

Lessons from the Ashes

brought in a new chief executive that increased operating profits by 80%, but it didn't matter because the interest was so big that it a bottom-line level, no matter what he did, it was never enough. By the... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

organizations facing disruptive and radical change. Martha’s Vineyard: Race, Property and the Power of Place by Richard L. Taylor (MBA 1976) Richard L. Taylor Martha's Vineyard is an exceptional community in America that has seen blacks... View Details

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

day face this dilemma: How do you deal with developments that are utterly and wholly…ambiguous? Living Up To Your Standards When you get right down to it, what choice do you have? You've made a commitment to openness and reaped... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

Profile

Michael R. Bloomberg

Bloomberg Philanthropies works to improve lives by focusing on the arts, education, the environment, government innovation, public health, and accelerating the pace of Black wealth accumulation. In 2017,... View Details

06 Aug 2014
What Do You Think?

What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?

futile." Alex added that "his crucibles of leadership ('difficult events' out of which leaders establish meaning in their lives and achieve distinctive voices) concept really resonated and still does." Philip offered the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

17 Sep 2024
Blog Post

The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)

emphasis on educating global leaders. I attended a few events organized by the HBS Hong Kong and Shanghai Research Centers before applying. Knowing that I would have a dynamic and large alumni base no matter where I ended up post-MBA was... View Details

Web

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting

that hiring is an important piece, but a focus should also be placed on inclusion. “Diverse hires are often junior hires and the people rising through the firm and reaching management levels are not the diverse candidates. Representation and mentorship therefore View Details

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