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- 01 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program
year in the MBA program at HBS. This fall I will start the third year of the joint degree program, which combines courses at both schools. Prior to coming to Harvard, I worked for McKinsey & Company in Mexico and India, and then with the McKinsey Center for View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) was a government official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He served as assistant secretary of defense for installations and logistics and, from 1967 to... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
An education reformer and social entrepreneur
Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS), a cultural exchange organization that has served 1.5 million students worldwide. In 1987 he began working with the British government to establish charter-type schools that specialized in technology.... View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
value network, compared to the reactive posture they have taken in the past. Finally, we have seen a pervasive pattern in every industry that has been transformed through disruption. This same pattern characterizes what has happened to date with disruptive View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Working PapersRacial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives? Authors:Modupe Akinola and David A. Thomas Abstract Diversity continues to be a key focus for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
Pivoting in the Midst of a Pandemic By October 2019, the grant application was launched and in February 2020, the City Council began approving grants and distributing funds. “No other city,” Pasricha notes, “has launched an initiative... View Details
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Partners - Managing the Future of Work
works and lives. For more information, please visit their website . Grads of Life Grads of Life is a national initiative that catalyzes market demand for Opportunity Youth by transforming employer perceptions and hiring practices. Their... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
observes Malik. “Confidence in our government is at a 60-year low, and many people are looking to business to solve the problems facing our society.” Malik believes making election day a holiday is a way for businesses to allow their... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
long used corporate social responsibility initiatives and philanthropy to improve their standing with consumers. Now there is a new crop of companies that are making health and wellness a business imperative, not just because it is “the... View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
stifle innovation by worrying too much about short-term returns and thwarting management initiatives that require an outlay of investment. “Boards can encourage innovation, but they can kill innovation as well,” he says. If they are to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
management, innovation loses out. At best, leaders of core business units dismiss innovation initiatives as irrelevancies. At worst, they see the new businesses as threats to the firm's core identity and values. Many CEOs take a backseat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
that the affordable housing buzz started in India, along with the Indian president's call for a "slum-free India." Apprehensive about both government and real-estate developers, my husband, an architect from Italy, and I moved to Delhi... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Zobel de Ayala Photographs by Tom Epperson Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Green Day Related Links Watch Ayala discuss sustainability Sixteen years... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry corruption risk, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities
Harvard University President Drew Faust as part of the announcement of Bloomberg’s $32 million gift to the Harvard Kennedy School to form a City Leadership Initiative in collaboration with HBS. As many as 300 mayors and 400 top mayoral... View Details
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History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Co-hosted High-Impact Philanthropy Conference to engage individual philanthropists to examine models of high-impact philanthropy. 2008 The New MBA Elective Leading and Governing High-Performing Nonprofit Organizations is introduced. HBS... View Details
- July 2009
- Teaching Note
Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target (TN)
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Teaching Note for [709002]. View Details
- 27 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant
through Dharavi slum near Mumbai The company shared a presentation on their sustainability initiatives followed by a Q&A session with the students. We learned that JSW Steel is targeting net-zero by 2050, more aggressive than the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating,” says Sawyer, an assistant professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit who previously held the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
impact of business and government on society. After graduating from Stanford University in 1971 in the midst of demonstrations against the Vietnam War, she took a freighter to Peru to work for a government... View Details