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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
she wasn't taking a bus—few come to the airport to do so. Sender tracked down her flight, which had already finished boarding, accompanied her to the gate where agents were screaming the woman's name, and got her on the flight. "I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
preserved, Bailey believes, because it is the right thing to do. And done right, it will be transformational. “Ultimately the tourist is the agent of change,” says Bailey. “When a tourist decides that a sustainability-enhanced experience... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
means “May”—is told by undercover SB agents and student informers; some of it is misinformation planted by Maj through friends who pretended to cooperate with the SB to avoid arrest or the beatings for which its officers were infamous. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Care Act move us any closer to that approach? I agree that the individual mandate is essential. But with Obamacare, agents who don't know our individual needs are selecting plans on our behalf, and that's not consumer-driven health care.... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup
Bend’s rebranding over its 100-year history, and its Spirit of the Silver Lining Award, which celebrates independent insurance agents for outstanding service to nonprofit organizations in their communities, and includes grant money to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
communicate with and motivate its citizens to make them agents of change to a market-driven economy? —Jaime Fortuño (MBA 1988) MORE Brunell offers an inside look at Myanmar’s historic transition on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Brunell... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
farm system, good scouting, shrewd free agent signings, and human judgment are as critical to a team’s success as fat contract offers. “ ‘Money ball’ is in vogue right now,” he adds, “and being here in Silicon Valley, of course we use... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
supporting the things that you believe in? If you're in an organization, whether you're a leader of that organization or aspire to be in a leadership position, be that value change agent in your business. You know what's coming—help your... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason, agents for corporate leadership in the social sector like Jackson, nonprofit executives like Britt, nonprofit board members, or even soup kitchen volunteers, more and more HBS alumni are finding that, as HBS professor James E.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
starting pitchers became free agents at the close of the last season, casting their return in doubt (as of this writing, only one, Mark Mulder, has been re-signed). That challenge aside, new players need to be signed in other positions,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
simultaneously. It’s a familiar juggling act in an erratic business that can see an actor suddenly drop out or a director lose interest. “My days are endless phone calls, e-mails, reading, and meetings,” says Zee, “talking to writers, studio executives, View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
brother-in-law. Gordon works with partners like Benedetti and the Kempinski to plan events and conferences at the hotel; today, they are discussing a joint US road show to sell Cuba as a travel destination to luxury and corporate travel View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
opportunities to become change agents for society by creating pattern-breaking approaches and sustainable solutions, explains HBS lecturer Stacey Childress. Unlike business entrepreneurs who are motivated by profits, social entrepreneurs... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
according to board member Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006). “It’s championing agents of change in a given country and pushing for innovation that’s in harmony with, and led by, people on the ground,” says Lemmon, an adjunct senior fellow... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
must be like to be a celebrity. I wrote a case study on Maria Sharapova, and her agent allowed me to shadow her for a day and a half. I saw her receive an award and give a speech at the United Nations, interact with sponsors, attend a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
management as an agent of shareholders and a servant to share price. Other stakeholders, such as workers and communities, no longer mattered. The rise of agency theory and its dissemination in business schools reflected, among other... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
as they struggled to understand why the protagonists acted as they did, they might soon be getting the answer firsthand. Consistently, Sahlman tried to focus on what he calls the “fomenting attack”—that is, the agent of change that was... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
chance to be an agent of empowerment in this process. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is available at iTunes or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
which employees act like free agents. The solution? Think of employees not as family or free agents but as allies. Both managers and employees must trust each other enough to commit to mutual investment and benefit. Such trust can be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
second election or, in rare cases, require the company to negotiate with the union as sole bargaining agent for the employees. Most companies will deny a union’s request to represent its employees on the basis of signed authorization... View Details