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John H. McArthur | About

ground in entrepreneurship, leadership, ethics, strategy and a host of other areas. McArthur excelled at identifying promising generators of ideas and placing large institutional bets on them, leading colleagues to dub him “an... View Details

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

at Stanford, would evolve over time; its membership and public presence did, too. Today the PRIDE group is an association of 190 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) students and partners. It serves as a social and professional network,... View Details

05 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

Ron Johnson's latest undertaking has the makings of a perfect business school case study. As the new CEO of J.C. Penney he's charged with transforming an aging department store chain with lagging market share. The sweeping plan begun... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American business education over the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=33313&i=33315&cs=0fce70d96a0fde28d25d9feec060c2e7 August 2013 Business History Making 'Green Giants': Environment Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2021
News

Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)

life, says his widow. A few days before classes started, the Bowmans welcomed their third child. “As a young family, we were thrilled to receive fellowship support. It was a big deal for us,” says Brittanie. “Whitney wanted to make sure... View Details

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

would JD/MBAs describe their relationships with HLS classmates and HBS classmates? JD/MBAs usually find that being part of two different schools strengthens their overall networks. Both schools place students into a section for their... View Details

05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

Beginning Makes Ethics Salient and Decreases Dishonest Self-reports in Comparison to Signing at the End Authors:L. Shu, N. Mazar, F. Gino, M. Bazerman, and D. Ariely Publication:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

work less.” Empowerment through financial access Conducted in partnership with state and bank authorities, the study, which took place from 2013 to 2017, looked at 5,851 married couples in 197 villages in the northern India state of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2023
News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons

the recent boom in service stocks, he still claims to "spend more time thinking about how to minimize risk than about how to make more money." Twenty-five years into his career, Simmons finds his priorities essentially unchanged. "I still... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

02 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

for COVID. “When governments ask citizens to make sacrifices,” adds Rouen, “they’re inclined to overstate the positive effects of those sacrifices.” Along the same lines, countries with less stringent policies underreported at a lower... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work,... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

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Data Storage - Research Computing Services

If you are logging in to the HBSGrid to do work via the NoMachine GUI or terminal, you are automatically placed in and are using this home folder. This is located at: /export/home// For example faculty member John Harvard's home folder... View Details

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

Strategic Leadership Development. The mission of the CDC is to improve the capabilities of clients' in-house legal departments, such as by making them better partners with the business units and improving their leadership skills. The CDC... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

capitalism is "an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

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Considering Retirement - Alumni

place for life after work, everything else about retirement – what we intend to do with our time – remains vague or utterly unexplored. Important considerations include: Identity Who will you be in retirement? What aspirations,... View Details

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

the wane. "I fear that social networks may make the problem worse," commented Gamaliel Pascual. "The technology may be hardwiring a younger generation to create virtual tribes where the congregation is based on shared biases/values."... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

for instance, might argue that capitalism ignores issues of fairness in outcomes—but they can't say that it doesn't exist. “Our task is not to take immoral people and make them moral. Our task is to add texture to the dominant ethical... View Details