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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
based on Outward Bound's educational philosophy. That path brought him to HBS, with the goal of gaining the organizational skills to put his plan into action. If Georgetown was the catalyst for O'Neill's dream of helping kids before they... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
long-term goals Agile programs usually include a session on the approach of Miyamoto Musashi, known as one of the greatest of all samurai. As a strategist, Musashi's insight was to create a style using two swords simultaneously: a long... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
maintain morale and focus, and to back up decisions with solid data on benefits and risks to different consumer populations. Q: What challenges does globalization pose to the FDA? A: The challenges are strategic and logistic. On the strategic front, the FDA has... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
National identities vary from society to society in two ways, says Abdelal: in their content and contestation. Content means self-understandings and goals that are cultural, political and economic. Contestation indicates whether the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values - Recruiting
their diversity and inclusion recruiting goals and to communicate their commitment to diversity and inclusion in the recruiting process, there are a lot of questions on how to do this work well. Jennifer Eliason, Associate Director of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
ask questions or to appear vulnerable, and pressuring coworkers to prove themselves through acts of physical bravery. The goal of this company’s training was to enhance employee safety and reliability in a very hazardous workplace. We... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
presentation by suggesting that talking about business and the public sphere was like "dancing about architecture." Business often has no incentive to grapple with public sector problems, and those businesses that choose to embrace a 'stakeholder' View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
August 2013 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness By: Rudd, Melanie, Jennifer Aaker, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Across six field and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
interns had a week-long orientation in the Grand Canyon, where I hung out with other people excited about sunrises, hiking, history, and government. Once I got to Colorado, I got to work with the absolute coolest group of researchers,... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
arts programming. To boost fundraising for the SPNM program, Panoff says the club has established the F. Steele III and Patricia H. Blackall Scholarship—named for the late F. Steele Blackall (MBA 1949), a club member who played a key role in establishing the SPNM... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
that superpower is, that is the cornerstone of how you contribute, whether that's in your contribution to the larger goal of some organization or in what you bring to the accomplishment of your own goals. Your capability journey lies in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
higher crop yields and reduced carbon emissions, the company's return on this investment has been estimated at $5 billion. The company was even more ambitious when setting its next set of 10‐year goals in 2006. In this statement, Dow's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
oriented school — who had entrepreneurship as a central focus.” Resolving the situation once and for all would become one of the major goals of McArthur’s administration. And he had an idea about who might... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
was René's notion that in Denmark, people had lost sight of Danish cuisine, and he wanted to see if it could be done inventively. The Noma menu is, to use a cliché, his canvas. His goal is to say this is what the earth has to offer around... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
inclusion goals and seek to make an impact beyond the balance sheet. He encourages investors to ask: “How do we make startups more accessible, both geographically and among different groups? How do we think about creating a playing field... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
during my time at HBS here, I started two organizations. Essentially the theme is, let’s take as many shots on goal as possible. Let’s get capital from as many places as possible to take those shots on goal. And so I started both a... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
through college one year faster than the national average, and we know we can attribute that to the fact that they know why they’re there. They know what questions they’re trying to answer. They know how they want to orient their... View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
objectives. First, this format allowed us to combine the active student orientation typical of case-based approaches with the systematic construction of cumulative theoretical frameworks more characteristic of lecture-based methods.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
a primary source of inspiration. Curiel, 18, walked away from that same deadly crash with minor injuries. He sees some symbolism in the fact that his father was making the trip from Oregon to California to take him to freshman orientation... View Details