by Richard Nolan - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

the fight against COVID-19. Government-led innovation such as this is a subject that fascinates Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004), a professor of management practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow at HBS. Upon hearing that Singapore’s... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Slave importation from outside the U.S. prohibited 1834 First turnout of "mill girls" in Lowell, Massachusetts protesting wage cuts 1844 Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrates the telegraph 1846 Richard M. Hoe creates the cylinder printing press... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Letters to the Editor

from the wisdom and experience of the General, imparted by him through frequent contact and regular visits. Deryck Tweedley (MBA ’58) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Doriot Taught Standards of Behavior Your article on Professor Doriot brought... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

and what was once considered the province of nonprofit organizations are becoming increasingly blurred." Businesses, says Austin, are finding they can benefit in many ways by working to strengthen the communities in which they operate.... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

economic actors. Capitalist competition takes place in markets that exist in legal and regulatory frameworks and are governed by a political authority with the power and legitimacy to empower as well as regulate behavior and punish... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

must be adapted to the special needs of different types of healthcare organizations. Essays for my Father: A Legacy of Passion, Politics, and Patriotism in Small-Town America by Richard Muti (MBA 1971)... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette

there is a bustle of activity as the premises are readied to receive the three hundred guests who will arrive for an evening reception and book-signing party to celebrate the publication of a handsome new volume, Adventures with Old Houses. In residence is the volume's... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

19 May 2021
News

Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online

Applegate opened the summit’s first theme, Rethinking Governance, by leading a case study called Leading in Turbulent Times. Other featured speakers included Jim Bildner, CEO, Draper Richards Kaplan... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

Solve Our Most Urgent Problems By Mitchell Weiss, Professor of Management Practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow Harvard Business Review Press The huge challenges we face are daunting indeed:... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Sep 2021
News

Embracing Activism for Social Change

much of her first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from local stakeholders and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

Services cut the ribbon on its new, modern complex at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in the predominantly Black neighborhood of North Minneapolis. It was a high point in a journey that began five years earlier, following the death of founder View Details

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Complicity The Tazreen Fire Purpose of the Firm Show Hide Details Concepts The Changing Role of Business in Society Engaging with Harms in the Garment Industry SA Taxi: One Firm’s Response to Harms Long-Term Value Through Commitment to Society Featured Exercises... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific... View Details

22 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

we find the share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries that provide inputs to their parent firms) to be larger than commonly thought, even within developed countries. Most subsidiaries are not readily explained by the comparative advantage... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2002
News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

Beginning in late January, the School's student clubs host a series of annual conferences that explore a wide variety of specialized business issues. Organized and staffed by hundreds of hardworking HBS student volunteers, the conferences... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

projects and how to combat inertia, and one man’s craving to make lasting contributions. Faculty Books Private Equity: A Casebook by Paul A. Gompers (PHDBE 1993), Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration; Victoria Ivashina,... View Details

11 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

and early April, as COVID-19 spread worldwide, a study by Mind Share Partners in partnership with Qualtrics and SAP found that 42 percent of respondents said their mental health had declined since the outbreak. Six months later, people's... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

08 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 8

shareholder value in concentrated industries. By contrast, non-delay provisions have an unambiguously negative relation with value, and more so in concentrated industries. Overall, our analysis suggests that there are governance... View Details