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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
question I asked our Alumni Relations team recently: “Why do so many people come back to campus for reunions? Is it the content or the network?” The promise of continuous learning is for us to provide programs, activities, and resources... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India is more Transparent
China, can I believe the financial information in a company’s annual report? “Not really, I say. The annual report does not serve the purpose it does in market economies, that is, to communicate reliable information. “What about analysts’... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk
the HBS community are already familiar with Lynn and her capacity for leadership at the intersection of business and social and environmental issues. Lynn initially joined HBS in 2017 to write case studies for a new course in impact... View Details
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
justify an excuse to give. Related Reading: Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things What... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2013
- Chapter
The Most Successful CEOs Come from Within
By: Joseph L. Bower
The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing shareholder value. Corporate leaders understood that reform was needed and that they needed to commit... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Business and Community Relations; Management Teams
Bower, Joseph L. "The Most Successful CEOs Come from Within." In How CEOs Can Fix Capitalism, edited by Raymond V. Gilmartin and Steven E. Prokesch, 124–127. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. Electronic.
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Corey, Lombard Remembered
Corey Lombard Photos Courtesy HBS Communications Last spring, the Harvard Business School community lost two of its most revered and distinguished emeriti professors. E. Raymond Corey (MBA ’46), creator of... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
taking people from unemployment to good jobs (in the case of FocusHope, in partnership with the auto industry). The US community college network, by instituting the kind of co-op program with industry similar to the kind Northeastern... View Details
- Web
Judging | New Venture Competition
look at both the strength of the concept and areas related to execution of the plan. There are three rounds of judging – a preliminary round, a semi-final round, and a final round – and a different set of judges for each round.... View Details
- November 2005 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
HP Nanotech: Partnership with CNSI
Stan Williams, leading nanotech researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, must decide whether to renew the firm's sponsorship of California NanoSystems Institute, spend the funds on internal R&D, or fund foreign universities. Illustrates the challenge of managing... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business and Community Relations; Financial Strategy; Technology Industry; California
Fleming, Lee, Marie Thursby, and James Quinn. "HP Nanotech: Partnership with CNSI." Harvard Business School Case 606-045, November 2005. (Revised May 2007.)
- Web
2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
few—all stemming from structural features and systemic pressures related to race, capitalism and democracy, our themes for today. And of course, we are also seeing how these themes are intertwined this year, with the interdependence... View Details
- Web
Eligibility | New Venture Competition
Note that the short description of your venture which you include with your entry form may be used in public documentation relating to the Competition. Abiding by Community Values & Academic Policies As... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
At an executive retreat in 2015, Hood lectured senior leaders on the need for more internal and external metrics to keep employees on a measurable path and communicate better to investors. Nadella and Hood hatched a plan to refocus... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
teaching and learning processes in business schools worldwide, Hunt was 93. Hunt was one of the first to bring to the attention of the academic community the problems related to the management of working... View Details
- March 1996 (Revised November 1996)
- Case
Supermarkets in Inner Cities
By: James E. Austin and Jaan Elias
Excerpts from five articles that present the challenges and opportunities inherent in opening and operating supermarkets in inner-city neighborhoods. View Details
Keywords: Urban Scope; Market Entry and Exit; Alliances; Business and Government Relations; Problems and Challenges; Development Economics; Business and Community Relations; Business Ventures; Strategic Planning; Cooperation
Austin, James E., and Jaan Elias. "Supermarkets in Inner Cities." Harvard Business School Case 796-145, March 1996. (Revised November 1996.)
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
are affecting not only how marketers communicate with consumers but also how individuals express themselves, and explore different parts of their personality in this public forum. I’m thinking about teaching a new course at HBS, following... View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events
By: Jiao Luo, Stephan Meier and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
One of the benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs, it has been argued, is that they build up a reservoir of public good will, shielding companies in times of trouble. In this paper, we test the view that CSR provides protection from public ire by... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Crisis Management; Media; Newspapers; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy
Luo, Jiao, Stephan Meier, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-091, April 2012.
- 26 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Baker Library's Latest Collection: Little Black Library
little free library—were installed in July. “Seeing classmates take books out of that bin a year ago was very exciting to me. Now, having it in Baker—knowing that they'll take care of it and communicate about it to the students—shows that... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
on the rest of your life," said Klemmer. Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap Learning Curve Yet the success he had observed at the charter school convinced him that top-quality education was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
place across sectors, especially health care. “We also witnessed inventions that went awry.” Weiss relates that in March, he had just completed the final draft of his new book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Michael Echenberg
splendor in love and marriage and children. My love of children has just become concrete like never before with the arrival of my niece and nephew, Anna and Jake. I want to seek the splendor in my career. I want to become expert at something View Details