Millennium Development Goals - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

relationship with them is important." Hayley Blunden That’s a problem, since rubbing powerful colleagues the wrong way could impact “every aspect of one’s career, from opportunities for promotion to abilities to develop one’s network to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

Date: May 5-7, 2008 Faculty Chair: Arthur Segel Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: Global Change in the Built Environment What were the overall goals of the colloquium? The goals of the colloquium were to... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

11 Oct 2019
News

Balancing Act

special-education company in early 2019. “You have to be very deliberate and proactive to achieve this,” says Eberle Walker, who set and accomplished the same goal in a previous CEO role. “But it is important. Business needs gender... View Details

Keywords: April White; Educational Services

01 Feb 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

of guidelines to help standardize the organization of these important events. Information Technology With a goal of developing a virtual alumni community, this committee is looking at practical ways in which... View Details

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Grace Kim | MBA

experience at the intersection of technology and business: Throughout high school, I led our Poolesville Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam, where we developed a patent pending device to help visually impaired individuals identify, sort, and handle... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

Consortium between Universidad de San Andrés, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and CEDES (a public policy think tank), Argentina Faculdade de Economia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil The HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE) was founded in 1993 with the View Details

05 Nov 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

items on my “wish list” for my summer internship was joining a board meeting. Thanks to video conferencing, and the Maverick and startup teams’ willingness to have additional observers, I was able to meet this goal – and then some! I... View Details

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

important questions in terms of its future strategy and mission. Should the Bank continue to focus on micro-level development initiatives, such as the Millennium Development... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2008
News

In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care

fourteen years later, Rwanda is looked to as a model for the rest of Africa, not the least for its successes with public health and health-care delivery. The goal of the Global Health Delivery Project is to make the first-ever systematic... View Details

Keywords: HIV/AIDS; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

Profile

Phil Strazzulla

other classmates. Where else can you do that? How did your overall HBS experience shape your goals & career path? HBS gave me a lot more confidence. Time and again the experience taught me that I could succeed in a competitive... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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The Anatomy of Fraud (TAF) - Course Catalog

for people joining or running companies, as well as private and public market investors. This course examines the most sensational global frauds of this millennium, such as Enron, FTX, and Lehman Brothers, with the following goals in... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

W50 Next Steps

than 6,400 alumni, Professor Robin Ely is readying a follow-up survey. Her goal is to better understand the complexities of our alumni population and delve deeper into the challenges and opportunities women face and the choices they make. View Details

Keywords: W50; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

America's Innovation & Development Team quickly realized that it would be very difficult to conduct a diverse array of experiments within the confines of a traditionally designed bank branch. Experiments require frequent changes in... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

01 Mar 2010
News

The Meaning of Ramadi

given, a day that so many of my dead comrades would love to have?” As an infantry officer, when every decision involves life and death, you develop greater patience with small inconveniences, an understanding of what really matters, and... View Details

Keywords: Donovan Campbell; National Security and International Affairs; Government

Profile

Cynthia Samanian

several alumni who have offered mentorship and career advice. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career path? To my surprise, the HBS experience has pushed me to take more risks than I would have ever imagined.... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

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Anna Wang | MBA

side, I encouraged myself to learn about the other parts of building solutions, and started considering the product and business sides of ventures. I joined Datamatch's business team and learned about growth and partnerships, and worked on View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Roads to Recovery

Step Forward: Incremental Improvement In 2000, Amtrak and the Pennsylvania Department of Trans-portation resolved to make the Pittsburgh-Philadelphia train route "auto-competitive" by 2015. That goal is within reach, thanks to modest... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

25 Feb 2020
News

The Past Informs the Future of Work

of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, who studies how companies and economies explore new opportunities and generate growth. “One of the lessons relevant to both students and practitioners is that this has happened before and will happen again,” Gross says.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

efforts are designed to reach employees at a deeper level. By engaging more of workers' total selves, organizations hope to develop staff who are more satisfied, productive, and innovative. Indeed, the manifestations of spirituality in... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

December 1998 (Revised May 2003)
Case

Vivendi (A): Revitalizing a French Conglomerate

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and John M. Turner

Examines corporate strategy for a diversified firm in the French business context. Issues include corporate governance, vision, and the management of unrelated diversification. After the company's first loss ever, the Vivendi board elected a new chairman who completed... View Details