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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development
efforts are having a real impact, with fewer allegations of corruption appearing in the media. Companies with low anti-corruption efforts, while enjoying faster sales growth in corrupt markets, have lower profit margins and return on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Getting Smart About Philanthropy
Seven HBS alumni are among more than 50 philanthropic leaders who share their strategic thinking, insights, and wisdom in a unique set of video interviews being showcased on the new GiveSmart.org website. The "Conversations with... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
research shows, are lonely, stressful, jagged yet ultimately rewarding ladders of opportunity.” “Teaming up is a mindset,” Stewart observes in a recent Bloomberg article. “We have a lot of experts in our community, but we need to share... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
is the acknowledgment of the importance and value of sharing information itself and of adopting common technology standards to further this end. Thus, IBM in computers, RCA in television, and AT&T in transistors, to cite three examples,... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
entrepreneurs succeed. Yet most of us learn them only the hard way. Green shares inside secrets and proven tactics for launching a business, explaining how to locate sure-bet opportunities for improving products, get serious about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
aerospace sector, proposed a different approach for Aero, one that took its cues from other profitable airlines that own their fleets: “We’re a low-cost carrier on the back end and a premium service on the front end,” she explains. Mikael... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
and fire” companies don’t. So what factors in the family and work environments foster the creation of leaders who share the founders’ entrepreneurial fire? How do some firms manage to bypass or work through family conflicts, disparate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Carroll has increased operating profits and decreased debt. “Once we started partnering with the local communities, unions, and governments, we saw a positive change in performance,” she observes. A mother of four whose husband gave up... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
links between gender and ethnic diversity and profit, finding that “companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on their executive teams were 21 percent more likely to experience above-average profitability than companies in the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
since women control or influence a lion’s share of household buying decisions. That includes cars, vacations, electronics, health care, and more. We also see a lot in the media about work-life balance and the difficulties working mothers... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
work a lot harder and requires us to have a lot of creativity and it requires us to try a lot of things that don’t work and make some mistakes but keep plugging. DM: In this episode of Skydeck, associate editor Julia Hanna asked this year’s recipients of the 2025... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
Herculean task of getting EMRI up and running in six months. When he accomplished the nearly impossible in seven months, launching the service on August 15, 2005, Indian Independence Day, Raju pointed out that he was a month behind schedule. And just like at Satyam,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
widely used? Merton: One answer is, simply, that it filled a need. It wasn't intellectual interest that made people want to apply it. In the 1970s, profit margins to options dealers were driven down, competition was going up, and options... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
know is this has hurt the Black community in so many ways. Specifically, it hurt Black banks, because Black banks were not able to prosper from these securities that are extraordinarily profitable in terms of them being mortgages, and we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
threatening to organizations—or entire industries—that they are best described as “wicked.” Wicked Strategies offers a comprehensive framework for identifying, responding to and profiting from wicked problems. Aston Martin DB4GT by... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
building a network of community leaders to establish and maintain these arisans, and share in the profit of any sales. It was another way for entrepreneurs in Indonesia’s villages to build wealth and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
firm." It was a reminder that what's right for America may not make sense in Asia - an obvious point, perhaps, but one worth repeating in any forum on cross-cultural issues. The second day of the meeting produced equally profitable... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
environmental improvement efforts. Encouraged by Mankiller, he applied to Harvard as a joint degree candidate at both HBS and the Kennedy School of Government, but deferred admission for a year to help the Omahas reinvest profits from the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Crest and Pampers, for example, have regained market share after losing their number one positions in the United States several years ago to Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark, respectively. Crest won back the top spot recently by... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
businesses that were going to be a source for good, and that really aspired to both, to profit and to purpose. You know, the whole premise or conceit, if you will, that's sort of taught in business schools, is that the private sector and... View Details