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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

making hiring, firing, job placement, or promotion decisions You Should Be Worried About Your DNA Privacy The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one View Details

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IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities - Blog - Business & Environment

workers versus middlemen. Of course, ultimately, companies will have to evaluate efficiencies gained by automation against the benefits of job creation. Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Keeping the Beat

I play my drums. I share joy with people, and then I go home. The ability to actually be in quarantine fully alone—in my case, I don’t have roommates and my family doesn’t live in L.A., so I really have been experiencing the discipline of... View Details

Keywords: Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

my private and professional lives isn't a problem." Glover is quick to point out, however, that she and Phil are disciplined about keeping to a regular work schedule and about allocating time for the activities they enjoy: hiking, biking,... View Details

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

discipline to its operations. That direction enabled him to move forward with clarity. If the board is serious about its responsibilities, it should form a committee to oversee the company’s leadership development process, taking the time... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - Blog - Business & Environment

agree. This adventure was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience. After we visited with the minister, we made one last quick stop for lunch. Then, we were on our final bus ride of the weekend to the airport for our flight home—and classes the next day! Initiatives focus... View Details

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

these and many other disciplines (marketing, operations, etc.) into a coherent, internally consistent set of practices that collectively reinforce a higher- ambition mission. If financial considerations require cost cutting, what should... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

authors hail from various world regions and are themselves leading global historians. Collectively, they provide an unprecedented survey of what today is the most dynamic field in the discipline of history. As one of the first books to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

achievement. They had limited experience solving business or management problems. In dealing with the chiefs, Levy chose an approach that blended a strong dose of discipline with real-time, public reinforcement. He developed guidelines... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

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IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing - Blog - Business & Environment

communities with low-carbon intensity. Their work makes sustainable development in India feel possible and our visit made it tangible. SELCO’s approach serves as an example of inclusive climate action, proving that renewable energy can be transformative for economic... View Details

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

Underprice an innovation, and you leave profit on the table. Overprice an innovation, and you may not be able to sell it. Price discipline is another critical issue. “It’s very difficult to start with a high price and then go down because... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

28 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

prevention of being unethical. (The paper will be published in the academic journal, "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.") "Since the Enron scandal, there has been a lot of research across disciplines on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Gender and Work Symposium: The Master's Tools: Exposing, Rejecting, & Appropriating Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation Kasite Ugo-beke 24 May 2023 Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems Morgan Moncada & Hannah Truong Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are... View Details

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog

contributions to class discussions. High-quality interactive class discussions are critical to this course, because learning about power and influence is an exercise in rigorous logical reasoning, which we achieve collectively by wrestling with incomplete information... View Details

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

industry by talking to as many people as possible. That was a very good discipline that I still apply," says Machiels, a partner at private equity firm Pegasus Capital Advisors. "I also learned to work with scientists. They're brilliant,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

Plan Contest taught me how to ground a good idea in the reality of industry by talking to as many people as possible. That was a very good discipline that I still apply,” says Machiels, a partner at private equity firm Pegasus Capital... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

entrepreneurial and family-held businesses. For his part, Liles became an expert on venture capital and the entrepreneur. In the 1970s and 1980s, as HBS intensified its research and curriculum development in the area of entrepreneurship, the View Details

05 Nov 2014
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

by high levels of ambition and values or leadership behaviors at companies." Johnny added, "Neuromanagement will be based on electronic testing however it will not detect 'will-power.' It is our will that determines how View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

discipline to nationalized banks. Pharmaceutical Regulation in the United States and Europe Author:Arthur Daemmrich Periodical:Focus on Law Studies 23, no 1 (fall 2007): 8-11 Read the full paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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