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- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
partner, Bruce, to meet my sectionmates at my first section party at the Head of the Charles. I was naive and assumed that it wouldn’t matter, but people were clearly taken aback and from that point on there was a real distance. This... View Details
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John H. McArthur | About
Boston region as well as organizations and institutions around the globe, including in his home country of Canada. McArthur’s association with HBS began in 1957 when he arrived on campus from Vancouver. His standout performance in the MBA View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
bond is practical, based on sustenance, but also spiritual: In Native American cosmology, Mother Corn—Selu in Cherokee—is the first woman. After well over a decade in business, Keen found a new calling. It’s an epic history that has its continuing View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
first of 15 Jr. NBA programs focused on youth development; in 2017, it opened NBA Academy Africa, one of four NBA Academy programs around the world that features elite training... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
introductory finance course or equivalent at some point during their education and possess a basic understanding of investment management, capital markets, and asset classes. 5 hrs Module 1 Overview of Sustainable Investing Learn key... View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
last week that stuff that used to take four weeks to get from Vietnam into their distribution center is now taking eight weeks. What people are panicked about is, here it is October, if I ship something from China, normally I can make it... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
fundamental building blocks of the company's strategy. “The idea is to help businesses cross borders profitably by seeing the world as it really is.” Note that Toyota's starting point is not a grand, longer-term vision of some distant... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Career Support - Business & Environment
industry-focused programs with alumni and student leaders in energy, food and agriculture, and sustainability. Check the MBA Event Calendar for details. (Fall) Climate Symposium Each fall, student clubs host the Climate Symposium,... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
Management division. His second-year elective course, Founder's Dilemmas, was a building block for the book. Last spring, HBS offered four sections of the course to 272 students; it was so popular that another 170 students were... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
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HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
To inspire and support alumni serving on nonprofit boards 41% of HBS alumni currently serve on a nonprofit board 1 , and many more have or will serve on a board at some point in their career. To support this extraordinary number of alumni... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
support every low- to moderate-income family, says Tufano. Beyond valuable programs like Social Security, tax breaks for savers, or auto-enrollment initiatives, there are more innovative and exciting projects: Prize-linked savings... View Details
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
instruction, putting them significantly behind Hispanics (21 percent) and whites (38 percent). With significantly less support than white children, Black students go on to complete four-year programs at public institutions at a slower... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
Currently an adjunct associate professor at NYU’s Stern School, where he teaches about commercializing carbon-reduction technologies in the course Disruption, Entrepreneurship, and Social Impact, Carty points to the significant potential... 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
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
designed to develop leadership skills, self-awareness, and familiarity with pathways to postsecondary education. High school BALF programs provide students with critical skills and support to successfully prepare for, apply, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
Summing Up Summarizing this month's rich stew of comments regarding leadership is a hazardous task. The subject is far too complex for four paragraphs. So please bear with me. The strongest messages I received were that if leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In fact, for every worker with a depressive disorder, a company loses an average of 32 productive workdays per year. Depressed... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
retire but also felt a commitment to the communities that their outlets served and hoped to preserve these assets. Like so many owner-publishers around the country, the Healeys found few options: “It’s just very difficult to assemble the financing, and that need for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
argue your points in front of very smart people. I knew that I was going back to Africa and, as a young woman, I needed a name that would resonate.” Win, win: “My Negotiation class at HBS helped me in my personal and my professional... View Details
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Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision
about what we can do post-pandemic. We’ve already begun to experiment by inviting alumni to the hybrid classroom as participants in case discussions. Professor Karim Lakhani, for example, led a Short Intensive Program (SIP) last January... View Details