human rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

alleged short-term nature of capital markets, and the way the human thought process works. Overcoming roadblocks requires public policies to be much more aligned with creating the right incentives to support... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

19 Jun 2017
News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

no career matches available because we hadn't built that side of the platform. So we learned interesting things about the general cognitive and emotional traits that we all have as human beings but not the career matching. And,... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom

lot since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. At sort of its most basic level, how has this crisis changed how we communicate? Rachel: Well, this is an important time for human connection, a great opportunity for leaders to innovate in... View Details

Keywords: Zoom

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Sebastian Vargas

career at P&G, however, I learned that even the greatest technologies can fail without the right business model and organizations to support them. I knew I wanted to be a leader in technology so I thought an MBA would be a perfect way... View Details

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

2001) Note: Selecting companies for good to greatness may be just as difficult as selecting leaders. One of the 11 companies that Collins cited as going from good to great went on to bankruptcy in just seven years after the publication of the book. Malcolm Gladwell,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

25 Aug 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

particular action it takes is right for their business. Constructing those arguments, however, is precisely what they would be doing. Human beings are profoundly subject to confirmation bias. They look for... View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda

27 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

humans but do influence the behavior of LLMs. Marketers could use such machine-learning techniques to determine the best strategic text strings to include in their product information pages for desired results in almost real time, the... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

01 Dec 2009
News

Alumni Books

Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (MBA ’86) (Knopf) Calling the oppression of women and girls in the developing world today’s most pervasive human rights violation, the... View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

program known as "Sound Global Enterprise," he undertook a series of wide-ranging initiatives that permeated every corner of the company, from improving corporate governance and restructuring the corporation to improving the management of View Details

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

a promise to myself to commit these two years to experimenting, learning, and iterating to the right startup idea. It’s been a wild ride since then, but one of the most fulfilling parts of my HBS experience. What is the problem that you... View Details

13 Feb 2019
News

We’re All Going to Get Hacked

technical gobbledygook, as I like to call it. Basically, this was a well-maintained company. They had all the right proper protections and policies and what have you. And they have a HVAC system, and it needed to be serviced, and so the... View Details

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

Connection is an example of one step in the right direction. Initiated last spring, IBM has brought together an initial consortium of seven major companies, including Caterpillar, Pfizer, Bank of America, Citibank, and AT&T, to... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

21 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

insufficient. Fulfillment of community needs such as clean air and human rights is every bit as important. This concept offers multinationals a mechanism to do well with minimum risk and maximum efficiency.... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson

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Class Profile | MBA

18 (3%) The Department of the Interior via the Office of Civil Rights provides federal guidelines for maintaining, collecting, and presenting data on race and ethnicity. HBS is required to follow these standards which allow students to... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean

because of—the challenge: “It was basically a small manufacturing company but with an output of one product each time, because every unit we process is unique,” he says. “With each garment, there are 20 opportunities for us to screw up—maybe we didn’t schedule the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; career; life experiences; dry cleaning; leadership; music; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services

14 Aug 2019
News

Leading from Within

Leng Lim (left) and Arjan Overwater Leng Lim (MBA 2001)—a partner at Mindkind Institute, Episcopal priest, and practitioner of Vipassana meditation—considers himself an oddity among HBS alumni. So when he met Arjan Overwater (AMP 164, 2003)—a former senior VP for... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

16 Sep 2015
Op-Ed

The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

capital. These rights are free from the burdens of ownership. Shareholders thus become temporary, while the corporation is permanent—controlled not by shareholders, but by the board of directors. Under a legal doctrine known as the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans

01 Oct 2000
News

Three Promoted to Full Professor

foreign direct investment and the impact of investment on human rights and labor standards. Spar is the author of The Cooperative Edge: The Internal Politics of International Cartels and coauthor of Beyond... View Details

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Working at Harvard Business School | Employment

(Chief Human Resources Officer) enjoys the event and interacting with longer service colleagues. “The stories they share are priceless, the memories are heartfelt, their affection for the School is infectious, and the laughter reminds you... View Details

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

are often natural and subconscious individual behaviors, making it easier for a person to make the right choice. The 2008 book Nudge, written by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, piqued their interest. (The book also inspired the... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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