Network Organizations - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

“This has to be a shared mission,” Obama told attendees at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University, where he signed the order onstage. “So much of our computer networks and critical... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

31 Oct 2019
News

Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup

bottom lines. The event, titled Collaborating Business Strategy with Local Communities, featured Peter Feigin, President of the Milwaukee Bucks, and Kevin Steiner, President and CEO of West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. Both shared their stories of how they built... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

09 Apr 2019
News

Finding a Fix for Food Allergies

they found not only a network of support and resources, but also many classmates with their own family’s challenges with food allergies. The group includes Ron Laufer (MBA 2000),who conducted scientific research and advised EAT on health... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

March 2005 (Revised April 2005)
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A Relational Approach to Self-Assessment and Career Development

By: Monica C. Higgins

Describes the main ideas in a module on relational self-assessment as part of a course on self-assessment and career development or as part of a course on leadership and organizational behavior for MBA students or executives. Reflects a "relational" approach to career... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Leadership; Organizations; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks

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25 Apr 2014
News

Raising the bar for financial literacy

before joining CEE, says that some financial lessons about choices and tradeoffs aren't about money: "An economist in my network in Memphis was asking kids what they had learned, and one said, 'I learned not to join a gang,'" she recalls.... View Details

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The Global Health Delivery Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated View Details

10 Aug 2015
News

Creating a Pipeline of Talent to Address the World’s Challenges

kind of organization Kapila would have benefitted from when she went with the disaster-relief agency CARE to help India emerge from the Gujarat earthquake in 2001. “I was trying to develop a business plan for entrepreneurs. I had a... View Details

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

23 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

"There is always a tendency in communities or in any social organization to have this boundary and say in or out," Lakhani says. "This might be happening in isolated places inside Wikipedia. The tension that they need to deal with is how... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

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U.S. Competitiveness Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated View Details

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Trade Publications - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Click on the links to see one or more sample issues. Report of sales of stocks and bonds ([Boston]: Boston Stock Exchange, 1852-1876, 1922 [Gaps]). Full text available as a networked resource. The Credit World: The Official View Details

10 Sep 2020
News

The Business of Access

nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for... View Details

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Education Club | MBA

networking events Fireside chat series with policy makers and professors Speaker events / panel discussions on important topics (eg. international education development, edtech investing, future of work). Startup pitch competitions and... View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

In recent years, I have been inside nearly two dozen turnaround situations, in various stages of progress, in which new leaders were bringing distressed organizations back from the brink of failure and setting them on a healthier course.... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

about the first ninety days? Michael Watkins: Leaders, regardless of their level, are most vulnerable in their first few months in a new position. They lack detailed knowledge of the challenges they will face and what it will take to succeed in meeting them. And, they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Alumni Board Wraps Up Year

development services. The Executive Education Alumni Committee, chaired by Laura Teller (MBA ’84), organized a series of focus-group discussions held on and off campus to identify ways to strengthen the School’s relationship with... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

20 Nov 2015
News

Room to Grow

inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England, an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots organizations... View Details