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- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
Until recently, people looked to the United Nations to set the climate policy agenda. No longer, according to Trumbull. As the cost for renewables has declined, governments now see renewable energy and decarbonization technologies as... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
companies within most industries adopted an increasingly similar set of sustainability practices. This study by by Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim examines the interplay between common and strategic... View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
honest answerers than the humblebraggers. The takeaway: Don't humblebrag in a job interview. Deconstructing The Humblebrag The next set of studies measured the efficacy of pure... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Image by Edmon de Haro The US Postal Service prides itself on delivering through rain, sleet, and snow—but what about serious debt? After 11 straight years of losses and declining first-class mail volumes, the USPS saw one glimmer View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
Stephen Johnston (photo by Gary Laufman) For a mobile-focused business entrepreneur, Stephen Johnston (MBA 2002) is more than a bit of a contrarian. Unlike many of his peers, Johnston, 41, has his sights... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
Illustration credit: iStock / Topp_Yimgrimm Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At the HBS reunions in 2019, the Skydeck team set up shop on... View Details
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
identity, ancestry, and American history in his works. In Strive , Lovell used an image from his personal archive of family, vintage, and historical photographs as the source for his expressive drawing of a... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
Want to gain more respect at the office? Consider wearing red sneakers to work. OK, so maybe it's not quite that cut-and-dried. But recent research does find that people who wear offbeat clothes in a professional setting are often... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
In the midst of a global pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice, the fashion industry can seem pretty frivolous. Fashion-industry leader Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
nearly double that, $32.51. Objectively, that discrepancy makes little sense. "Those are the easiest people to recruit, since they are already Methodists," says Parsons. From the perspective of members View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Manny Medina (MBA 2003) didn’t set out to found Outreach, the Seattle-based sales-engagement unicorn. He never expected to become an entrepreneur. When he quit a frustrating role in business development at Microsoft in 2011, he didn’t... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
Division I college coaches, she had to get inventive. “I made a homemade highlight tape,” Feickert recalls. She sent the video, set to cheesy pump-up music, to the nation’s top basketball programs. Soon, the coaches she dreamed View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
wanted to use her new skills in the business world. After training as an executive coach, she set up the executive coach and career consultancy Thinking Potential. Working with women who faced the same type View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
knowledge you have, the more connections you can make.” This certainly seems to make sense in a football context when considering the most successful coach of all: 67-year-old Bill Belichick of the New... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
You've just been asked to relocate from New York City to work on your firm's new operation in Singapore. You have less than a month before the assignment starts, and part of your job will be to acquire suitable permanent office space. In... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
within a set of constraints, both direct and indirect (For example) (A) recent Labor Department proposed rule just reiterated that the duty of (ERISA retirement) plan... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
larger purpose of motivating value creation. Healy: One of the things that strikes me is we have a whole set of alumni who are really outstanding... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
institutions, the authors note how business needs to use data and analytics to their advantage, to deal with such issues as reconciling different data sets and how to leverage economies of scale while... View Details
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
Summing Up Are there too many "hostages" in the work force? Before turning to responses to this month's column, let me note that this marks the tenth anniversary of "What Do You Think?" I want to thank all View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Art Nature Business
ice from Spy Pond in the town of Arlington, Massachusetts. Established by Frederic Tudor in Boston in 1806, prior to the age of refrigeration, the Tudor Ice Company transported... View Details