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Tony Cragg Over the Earth 2014 | About
investigates the complex internal formal constructions and geometries that give rise to exterior forms. In Over the Earth , Cragg explores not only nature and the forces of energy found in the organic world, but also how our reality is... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Wiviott. “We’re the first scalable version of this model. Because it’s bigtime American agriculture, we can do a series of these $100 million funds. Each fund is the equivalent carbon offset as if we had built an $86 million wind farm.” With demand for View Details
- 10 Mar 2016
- News
Can Doug Lemov Save US Soccer?
Lemov’s work with the coaches, employing the skills that he detailed in his 2010 book Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College. (For more on this, read the Bulletin’s 2013 article detailing Lemov’s work as director of charter school... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
In Brief
counter basic assumptions. Several HBS professors consider the cost to organizations when dissent does not or cannot surface, and suggest ways to make sure it does. To the Rescue. In India, there’s no such thing as calling 911 in an... View Details
- January 1996 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
First Community Bank (A)
First Community Bank, a bank-within-a-bank at Bank of Boston, was established in 1990 as a unique venture to serve urban communities. By 1995 it has achieved profitability but must manage relationships with the mainstream at Bank of Boston, serve as a change agent and... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business Ventures; Business and Community Relations; Agency Theory; Change Management; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Banking Industry; Boston
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "First Community Bank (A)." Harvard Business School Case 396-202, January 1996. (Revised December 2005.)
- March 2014
- Module Note
Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Operations
Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainable Supply Chains; Sustainable Operations; Environment; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Environmental Management; Environmental Operations; Environmental Performance; Environmental Policy; Environmental Protection; Environmental Strategy; Environmental Regulation; Operations Management; Operations Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Operations; Supply Chain; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Safety; Social Enterprise; Quality; Production; Working Conditions; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Buildings and Facilities; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Toffel, Michael W. "Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Operations." Harvard Business School Module Note 613-090, March 2014.
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
PublicationsTeaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Jossey-Bass, in press Abstract Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
happening in terms of management practices in their hospital. What I see in my studies mapping the adoption of basic management practices across hospitals is a wide dispersion: There are some points of excellence where organizations... View Details
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
Lagace: Your work highlights the pros and cons of hiring high-performing or "star" employees. How and why did studying the career trajectories of star football players give you a window on better management of organizations and careers?... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
Lydia Marshall is more comfortable talking about the impact that CARE -- the international relief and development organization -- has had on her than what she has done for it. If pressed, however, Marshall, a CARE board member for... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
attend HBS. Together, they have launched PowerUP, a nonprofit organization that gives disadvantaged Atlanta youth new opportunities for personal development by providing scholarships to pay for martial arts training. Learn more about how... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
International Management Entrepreneurial Imagination and a Demand and Supply-side Perspective on the MNE and Cross-border Organization By: Jones, Geoffrey, and Christos Pitelis Abstract—This article explores the role of entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
success will depend on your organization and execution as well as the basic concept. In the work that I'm doing with HBS alumni, I have found that women believe the greatest demand on their time—in terms of importance, rather than... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- Fast Answer
Pharmaceuticals: drug retail prices
href="https://www.msh.org/resources/international-medical-products-price-guide">International Drug Price Indicator Guide -- Provided by Management Sciences for Health WHO Medicines Price Information -- Sources collated by the World Health View Details
Maggie L. Walker
Walker first organized an insurance company within the Order of St. Luke to help curb the problems suffered by many families when their major income-earners passed away. Capitalizing on the success of the insurance company, she went on to... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Students and Business Leaders Look to Africa's Future
"Africa in the New Millennium: Invest in the Future" was the theme of the 2000 HBS Africa Business Club conference, held on campus the first weekend in April. More than six hundred students and representatives from over two hundred View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dean Clark Visits Alumni in Europe
European Research Center, on the rue François 1er in Paris’s eighth arrondissement. In London, he met with recent HBS graduates for an informative breakfast where he discussed the School’s expanding Global Initiative. The Dean’s Frankfurt agenda... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lab Work
After 16 years at the Australian technology-transfer organization UniQuest, managing director David Henderson (MBA 1989) is moving on to new challenges. Looking back on the experience of shepherding technologies from the university to the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2013
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Understanding Customers
Addiction to Service Heroes In their new book, Uncommon Service, coauthors Frances Frei and Anne Morriss show it is possible for organizations to reduce costs while dramatically enhancing customer service. The key? Don't try to be good at... View Details
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- Portrait Project
Kevin Omwega
people in Kenya face every day. I want to be there for them like Eric was for me. I want to help the single mother who works twenty hours a day to provide her family with basic needs, such as food and water. I want to help her children who are forced to beg for money... View Details