Corporate Change And Sustainability - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement

Business schools also have to think carefully about their curriculum. We’ve been talking about the need for corporations to adjust to a changing environment, increasing pressures to dial down the... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago

club has a membership of nearly 530 alumni, and its calendar boasts nearly seventy events a year. While the backbone of its activities has long been breakfast meetings featuring top executives — a recent guest was C. Steve McMillan (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Amy Burton

01 Oct 2002
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Amy S. Langer

could bring to corporate finance, using good information to make informed medical decisions. Here I was — educated at Yale and HBS — and I couldn't figure out what my next move... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)

The 1970s New York contemporary art world that Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) knew, where painter Jean-Michel Basquiat tagged buildings and artist Keith Haring bartended, was a far cry from the corporate... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2002
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GE's Jeff Immelt

violations. “Are we better off having China be part of the world or isolating them?” Immelt responded. “In order to drive change, you have to be inside, not outside, the house. You have to become part of the culture and demonstrate... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal

business. “I knew it was a great fit for me,” he says. During the fifteen years he has worked at Merrill, O’Neal has proved himself again and again, moving from various positions in different divisions of the firm — financial services,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Merrill Lynch; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

03 Feb 2021
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Power Play

a partner with Energy Capital Partners, saw it as the perfect foundation on which to build a dedicated private equity firm. So in 2018, he founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable investments, View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Dec 1997
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Arthur Rock (MBA '51)

product could change the world, and the drive to make it happen, they merely needed the money to get a new company started. The "traitorous eight," as they became known, enlisted the help of a visionary... View Details

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to the 62-year-old icon. The redesign is part of an initiative by McDonald’s corporate to modernize the customer... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

01 Dec 1999
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

A change of seasons often means new beginnings, and I am delighted to report that the Alumni Association Board of Directors got off to an energetic start at its first meeting of the 1999-2000 term, held on... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Faculty Updates

Change (2000). He led the development of the School's first required course in human resource management in the 1980s and then cowrote Managing Human Assets (1984), the first book to frame human resource... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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What's Cookin'

Diego–based chain of more than ninety buffet-style restaurants serving fresh salads, soups, pastas, and breads, CEO Michael Mack has implemented a flexible system that allows hourly employees to change their... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

01 Mar 2016
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Case Study: Paper Chase

them as complementary. FTD, 1-800-Flowers, and other online marketers could see this as another quality product they could market alongside their own—or maybe a pop-up valentine paired with chocolate manufacturers or [with retailers like]... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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One-on-One with Thomas Riley

groups, I may never convince them that we’re doing good things in Iraq, but the fact that we’re interested enough to talk and listen to them is really important. How does your business background translate to the world of diplomacy?... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

01 Oct 2002
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Ann M. Fudge

probably not surprised at her subsequent headline-making ascent in corporate America. “I learned how to balance and prioritize early on,” says the Washington, D.C., native, whose unique combination of... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

photographed by Susan Young; edited by Julia Hanna and April White See full profiles and more photographs here. Recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award reflect the broad influence of HBS alumni as... View Details

01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

of social responsibility." CURRENT READING In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg When Minoru Makihara was named president and CEO of... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Meditations on the Bottom Line

orchestrating major changes in organizational design and culture. Then, in 1995, feeling she had taken "values-based management" as far as she could within a large corporate... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector

academics, and business leaders, including former Goldman Sachs cochairman and Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/'47), the driving force behind the Initiative on Social Enterprise at HBS.... View Details

05 Apr 2018
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50 Years After King

In a recent interview in National Geographic, Ann Fudge (MBA 1977)—former chairman and CEO of Young & Rubicam and a longtime corporate leader—spoke about the legacy of Rev.... View Details

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