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- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Finding an Audience
agreed that the main reason is that people do not know about this. We realized that there were over 100 concerts of classical music in the metropolitan area every month, and they are not advertised in newspapers. “So we started to contact... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis by Bill George (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on his in-the-trenches experience and lessons from crisis-tested executives, Professor George shows what leaders must do to become strong and survive any crisis. His seven lessons include Face... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
work with agencies to execute marketing campaigns, with BollyX, I find myself doing everything from social media posts, website copywriting, event planning, and cold calling, to strategic planning and project managing. Without a huge... View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
After a tumultuous year in US politics, more than a dozen recent alumni have thrown their hats into the ring to launch careers in public service. “More and more people are feeling they need to step up and that they can, because they have the right skills to solve the... View Details
Keywords: politics
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
the company started in management consulting. After graduating from Harvard College in 2005, Surette joined Parthenon for three years before matriculating at HBS in the fall of 2008. Amid a global recession, his business school experience... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
Everest. Vescovo had reached that summit on his second try in 2010. The battered ice axe he had relied on during the climb was now secured within the the submersible’s body. It reminded him of the intense physical strain of those days on the mountain, the punishing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
clean up a beach, and no one is going to buy that plastic, the beach will just get dirty again.” Later, Goodwin would learn how bad the problem is, with 11 million tons of plastic garbage entering the ocean each year. Over 80 percent of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
managing director at Bain Capital. “It’s so incredibly important to the future of Harvard, the city of Boston, and the entire state of Massachusetts. When John Paulson made his transformative gift, the light underneath the project really View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
these things, people look on it as the most difficult country to change." And yet, a shift appears under way. A new reformist government has started treating agriculture as a problem to be solved by industry... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
just affecting China. Then in February, it started to get more widespread. March is when it started to get scary, and since then, our lives have not been the same. As soon as it became clear that COVID-19... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
were less likely to optimize their revenues. “There is no more biased instrument than the human brain.” “There is no more biased instrument than the human brain.” Fixing such problems will also be complicated, Zhang says. A good place to... View Details
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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
Download our guide to learn more about this limited-time offer. Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability $1,850 Next 6-week session starts August 13th Enroll Now Develop a toolkit for making tough leadership decisions with... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
enacting the rule, which it has been mulling for years. In October 2013, the SEC posted a request for comment on the idea of pay ratio disclosure. Subsequently, the agency received more than 126,000 letters, which were posted publicly online. This provided Mohan with... View Details
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Africa - Global Activities 2020
matters most for me is having the chance to help solve the ‘brain-drain’ problem plaguing many African countries, where some of the best talent ends up staying in Europe and the US after graduate school primarily because of the financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
based upon international cooperation; the opposite extreme, Haass said, would be a modern Dark Ages of failed states and disharmony. But he speculated that the most likely scenario would be the rise of a Cold War–style competition between... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
like a renewed democratic process and appropriate regulatory regimes. I believe that these problems are usually best dealt with by the state, but in many cases that is not happening." Moreover the private sector has resources and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
that's really where the problem lies. Q: We've seen this phenomenon recently where wages are stagnating or declining What are the retail implications of a shrinking or bifurcating middle class? Alvarez: Traditionally the US economy has... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
client-facing people when service problems are systematically tolerated. The cape starts to feel heavy when it's overused. Great service, it turns out, is not made possible by running the business harder and... View Details
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Sarah Zia
Coming to HBS is... An adjustment, and it takes a bit to settle in. But once you get the hang of it, time starts to fly by. The first 6 weeks of the first semester felt like 6 years and the second 6 weeks felt like 6 minutes. What is your... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
an "invisible hand" that was largely beyond the control of individual firms. Competitive theory has been advanced at Harvard Business School, shown here under construction. The scope for strategy as a way to control market forces and shape the competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat