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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
and CEO Thompson terms "satellite infrastructure" (technology that enables people to conduct business activity anywhere on the planet). Before reaching its fifteenth birthday this spring, Virginia-based Orbital will have surpassed $450... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Authority, and it's locally based in Accra, with a governing board made up of top figures from government, business, and civil society. That, I think, is a very serious advance." "We have enormous respect for a principle we call country... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
case, product divisions). And just as obviously, no one likes to give up power. Leadership from the top, aimed at promoting a "one-company" mentality, is often the only way forward. One of Oosterveld's conditions for taking the job at Philips was that the... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
operational underperformance. We transformed it into a service operating according to world-class standards. At the time you took over, 63 percent of Metro Manila’s water was either lost or stolen. Did you have a hard time convincing your View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
present, the business of stem cells remains a fledgling enterprise. Spar says that figures for 2003 reveal that only ten U.S. private-sector firms were actively involved in embryonic stem-cell research, spending just $70 million. For its... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
resulted from focusing on securing the preferences of active voters. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50427 Commuting with a Plan: How Goal-Directed Prospection Can Offset the Strain of Commuting By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
community members know where they are going. On average, some 70 percent of students reside on campus. Second-year students are slightly more inclined to live off-campus than first-year students, but many remain on-site. In executive-education programs as well, most... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
What might be most intriguing, however, is the activity beyond the halls of government that has focused on the corporation's role in society. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have worked tirelessly in recent years to establish... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
companies, and later served as a director at the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr, LLP, before joining Genzyme in 1997. While at Hale and Dorr, she assumed leadership roles on the boards of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
translate for us, willingness to donate isn’t so different—and so my strategy class has also been very helpful. I use accounting to evaluate finances and develop budget documents both here and in my role on the board of the organization I... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
force it through the organization from the senior management level." Unlike Harad, who rose through the ranks of one corporation following his graduation from HBS, Paul Charron, who came to HBS after five years of active duty in the Navy,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
nonprofit—foundations, governments, donors—are usually different from the people benefiting from the work of the nonprofit. There are some exceptions in situations where fees are paid for services. But generally speaking a nonprofit CEO or View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
affiliations vary with the degree to which exposure drafts issued during their terms are perceived as decreasing accounting "reliability" and increasing accounting "relevance." Among other results, we find that members' and commissioners' length of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
the firm to shift from a "product and waste" mentality to a "product and product" mentality, and thereby actively manage the quantities of both products to maximize profit. Conditions in the two markets determine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609056 Odyssey Healthcare Harvard Business School Case 809-052 In January 2001, Dick Burnham, CEO of Odyssey Healthcare, and Odyssey's Board of Directors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
institute laws regarding the minimum percentage of women on a company's board, while research suggests that women enter executive positions earlier and work harder than male counterparts. Other topics include a discussion of a female director's strengths in fields like... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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organizations and an additional $103 billion in event-related expenditures by their audiences. This activity supports 4.6 million jobs. A report by the Conference Board noted that in addition to the enormous... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
six years ago. “It started as a simple gathering, and has grown into a must-attend event in the region,” says HBS Club of the GCC President, Goulam Amarsy (MBA 1981). “We continue to be very active in the region and we owe this to a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
activated under certain conditions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-083.pdf Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization Around Newcomer Self-Expression Authors:Dan Cable, Francesca Gino, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
describe the new conjoining of responsible environmental practices with sound business principles. Defined in 1984 by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development as business and development activity that "meets the... View Details