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Being a Student at HBS | MBA

leaders through a process of active participation and shared learning. Its goal is to create an environment in which students learn how to tackle difficult, complex problems by probing issues, expressing and challenging ideas, and integrating information from a View Details

June 2010 (Revised August 2010)
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State Grid: Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Christopher Marquis, Nancy Dai, Dongning Yang and Hong Wu

In October 2009, State Grid, the largest utility company in the world, and a pioneer and leader in CSR practices in China, was planning its 2009 CSR Report and long-term CSR implementation. Some of the specific challenges faced at the time include: How could the... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Management Systems; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Accountability; Behavior; Change Management; Global Range; Employees; Utilities Industry; China

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01 Mar 2017
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Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact

Digital Initiative to facilitate online and offline conversations around classroom topics. Responses ranged from oil companies to ice-cream makers and almost everything in between. We’ve excerpted a few of them here. Shake Shack Data... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

03 Mar 2003
What Do You Think?

Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?

Summing Up Responses to this month's column lead one to conclude that we can expect that more major accounting scandals are in our future. Causes, according to these thoughtful comments, range from the consolidation of the major View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Accounting; Financial Services

01 Dec 2002
News

Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

teaching about the management of social-purpose organizations and business involvement in the social sector. In June 2001, HBS globalized its efforts in this area by organizing the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN) in Latin... View Details

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Taxes worldwide

(Organization for Economic Development) In the OECD iLibrary database, click the menu to Browse by Theme then click Taxation. On the left-hand menu under Statistics, click Databases then click OECD Tax Statistics. Click to view the View Details

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Entrepreneurship by country

How can I find data on entrepreneurial activity in different countries? Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM): GEM is a consortium of academic institutions responsible for collecting data and producing reports. ... View Details

15 Apr 2014
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Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize

Harvard Innovation lab (i-lab), which leverages the entrepreneurial spirit throughout the university and shows the unlimited possibilities unleashed when individuals from a wide range of fields but with a shared passion are brought... View Details

Keywords: i-Lab; Harvard Medical School; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Aug 2001
News

George C. Lodge

focused on America's burgeoning trade deficit. Lodge taught a wide range of courses in the MBA and Executive Education Programs at the School. In addition to his work on BGIE with Scott and former HBS professor John W. Rosenblum, he... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Stanley F. Teele; Ezra F. Vogel; John W. Rosenblum

June 2008
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The Multiunit Enterprise

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque

A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic groupings (districts, regions, and divisions). Although this organizational structure has become... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Global Range; Research; Business Ventures; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Business Headquarters; Organizational Design; Talent and Talent Management; Goals and Objectives

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01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

(such as failing health, fears of growing older, and grieving lost loved ones) and shares positive ways to meet your financial needs. And “Fresh Maps,” complete with advice from a range of role models, provides insights for changing... View Details

11 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Business of Saving the Planet

During Globalization WavesCapitalism has created much wealth, but at the cost of massive ecological destruction. This has been particularly severe in Latin America over the past century. Yet the last three decades have also seen a wave of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology

30 Mar 2016
News

Alumni in Middle East Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

Alghanim (MBA 2002); Janet H. Cahill (AMP 189, 2015), Executive Director, HBS External Relations; Global Leaders Circle member Mohammed Al Faisal (MBA 1996), and Ali Osman (MBA 2015). On March 30, more than 100 alumni and guests from... View Details

05 May 2015
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Alumni in London Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

Scott D. Malkin (MBA 1983), vice chair for Europe and a member of the Global Leaders Circle delivered remarks at The HBS Campaign London Regional Event, May 5, 2015. Alumni and friends of Harvard Business School from across Great Britain... View Details

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Field Course: Business of the Arts (BOTA)

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Ratings of nonprofits based on their Accountability & Transparency and Financial Health. Advisory Board for the Arts Global network-based learning organization in the cultural sector. Statistics... View Details

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

20 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

globalization and liberalization have increased the competitiveness of product markets, one explanation for the trend towards decentralization could be increased competition. Of course there are a range of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 May 2017
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Hilton

Why We Recruit is a series of interviews with our recruiting partners covering a variety of topics ranging from their experience working with HBS to what they want students to know. New interviews will be released throughout the year to... View Details

Keywords: Hospitality

22 Jun 2021
News

Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada

Michelle Banik, Heather Stark (MBA 1999), Penny Collenette, and Jen Lee Koss (MBA 2008) When the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender Gap Report came out at the end of March, the news was grim. The significant economic impact of the... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings

Subjects related to globalization and finance top the list of courses added this year to the elective curriculum for second-year MBA students. Notably, seven of the twelve new offerings are half-courses that require only fifteen sessions... View Details

Keywords: curriculum

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