Public And Private Organizations - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

tireless student president also trained for and completed the Boston Marathon (a feat he repeated in this year's centennial anniversary of the race). How did he accomplish it all? "I got about three hours of sleep a night," smiles Dobron,... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path

robust public and private sector institutions? “That didn’t convince me 100 percent,” Tercek says, “but it did make me think more carefully about the trade-offs View Details

01 Jun 1996
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New Releases

whether in organizations or as individuals. In Wise Choices: Decisions, Games, and Negotiations, edited by HBS professor James Sebenius; Professor Richard Zeckhauser of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of... View Details

05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

many of the artists that Joyner and her husband, private equity investor Alfred Giuffrida, collect are enjoying increased visibility. Major museums in the United States (and beyond) are reevaluating the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

23 Oct 2019
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Training Principals to Build Great Schools

(HGSE). Spearheaded by Grossman and Mary Grassa O’Neill, a senior lecturer at HGSE, the Certificate in School Management and Leadership is designed to give principals the tools to build View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations

25 Feb 2020
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Turning Point: Network Effects

together people from the private, nonprofit, and public sectors to open up the dialogue around mental illness and help build awareness of the five indicators of emotional... View Details

Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)

01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts

sociology, were married. While at RCA, Djelic had heard from colleagues about Harvard's first-rate schools in both business and public administration and decided to enroll in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine

a virus the company had not seen before and start the timer. Bancel was eager for the chance to show off the company’s agility. The organizations settled on the spring of 2020 for this “outbreak”; the first... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jun 2007
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Letters

corrections, parole, and prisoner reentry programs. The next step is to mobilize the business and faith-based communities to become involved. Business executives will provide the funding View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

flight, hop onboard, conduct business in the private cabin, attend their meeting, and fly home later the same day. The same would hold true for a Boston–New York traveler using the area’s smaller, regional... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

of the largest users of petroleum products.” Robert Tichio (MBA 2005) Principal, Riverstone/Carlyle “I’m partner and managing director at Riverstone Holdings, one of the world’s largest private equity firms... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

01 Jun 2006
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Bridging the Success Gap

explains that he didn’t so much leave his career but start on his longtime dream. “I was coming back home,” he says. Navarro launched the program with private foundation support after spending a year researching the concept View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

"Soul." "Spirit." A host of organizations - among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines - have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982

x-ray machines. Today, under Immelt’s leadership, GE is a $173 billion organization that still has roots in its past, even as it rides a wave of 21st-century innovation in clean energy, water treatment, and... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Books

and professor Josh Lerner draw on their extensive research on venture capital organizations to illuminate the workings of this important industry. In a series of interpretative essays, the book expands on... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

12 Apr 2011
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Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

insulated, eco-friendly composite tile, enabling electrical interconnection and assembly with other tiles via “plug & play” connectors. Crossover Energy is an energy services company, helping organizations... View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

workweek is filled with staff meetings, conferences, public events, negotiations with government officials about programs and their implementation, and donor-relations work... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2009
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Alumni Books

The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

the money management organization even closer to the ultimate consumer, with extensive information, research, and thousands of mutual funds to choose from, all with a few keystrokes. It's already happening."... View Details