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- 22 Jul 2010
- News
An Entrepreneurial Tile Tale
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Zobel de Ayala Photographs by Tom Epperson Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Green Day Related Links Watch Ayala discuss sustainability Sixteen years... View Details
- April 2013
- Teaching Note
New Resource Bank: In Pursuit of Green (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis and Juan Almandoz
This case involves the founding and early life of a new bank enterprise in San Francisco with a commitment to the cause of sustainability. It illustrates the opportunities and challenges of banking on values and of specifying and making explicit the practical... View Details
- March 2016 (Revised May 2021)
- Supplement
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Kelsi Stine-Rowe
In early 2016, Stanley Litow, IBM's Vice President of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs and President of the IBM International Foundation, made his travel arrangements for still another flight from New York to discuss possibilities for application of a new... View Details
Keywords: IBM; P-TECH; Stanley Litow: Robin Willner; Cuomo; Scaling; Innovation; New York State; New York City; Business Model; Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Growth and Development; Technology Industry; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Kelsi Stine-Rowe. "IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion." Harvard Business School Supplement 316-130, March 2016. (Revised May 2021.)
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Finding an Audience
Rene Solis (MBA 1958) is director of Musica en Mexico, a performing arts information service in Mexico City. In this interview he talks about how the group grew out of a personal mission to today serving a wide community of interest. “I... View Details
- November 2010
- Supplement
Esquel Group: Building a Sustainable Partnership with Cotton Farmers in Xinjiang (B)
By: James K. Sebenius and Jason Cheng Qian
Details and evaluates results in Esquel's 2002 initiative to negotiate long-term partnerships with often-exploited farmers in Xinjiang (western China) to procure a superior cotton variety. View Details
Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Leasing; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Hong Kong; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
Sebenius, James K., and Jason Cheng Qian. "Esquel Group: Building a Sustainable Partnership with Cotton Farmers in Xinjiang (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 911-032, November 2010.
- 01 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US
number of years, studying engineering and international relations at Stanford University and beginning his career in the San Francisco Bay Area office of Oliver Wyman after graduation. However, when an opportunity arose to transfer to the... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club
large part to its founder's emphasis on customer relations over shareholder value. Today, Siebel has over eight thousand employees in more than 34 countries. Fortune magazine ranked the company second in its 2001 listing of the "100... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
corporate world, taking on the role of director of community relations for John Hancock Financial Services. “It was a huge shift for me, learning that, in a big, bureaucratic corporate culture, anytime you... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
electronics industries were developing momentum. We took our leadership for granted, ignored this shift, and became complacent. Our problems became more serious when communism failed in Russia, Chairman Mao died, and reforms that were... View Details
Keywords: Byron Wien; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
employers can support LGBTQ+ employees. For example, Schlacks shared that his company "provides generous benefits for medical expenses related to family planning for employees (financial assistance for adoption and surrogacy). These... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
glasnost. The experience was mind-blowing and heart-opening.” After fulfilling a two-year military service requirement in Singapore, Lim studied international relations as an undergraduate at Princeton University, where Professor Cornel... View Details
- November 2017
- Case
The 'Wonder Drug' That Killed Babies
By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Tom Nicholas and Matthew Preble
In the early 1960s, a popular drug taken by patients worldwide for a range of maladies was found to cause severe birth defects and other health problems in babies born to mothers who had taken it during a certain stage of fetal development. As many as 10,000 children... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Product Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business History; Health; Government Legislation; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Pharmaceutical Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Australia; Germany; Europe
Krieger, Joshua Lev, Tom Nicholas, and Matthew Preble. "The 'Wonder Drug' That Killed Babies." Harvard Business School Case 818-044, November 2017.
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Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
Leading Race Work in Business Schools Leading Race Work in Business Schools 07 FEB 2020 Summary Speakers Speakers Robin Ely Robin Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on race and gender... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
share what we learn with a larger, supportive community of fellow entrepreneurs, professors, venture capitalists, and anyone else committed to entrepreneurship. We'd like this trip to be a growth engine for entrepreneurial practice... View Details
- Web
South Asian Business Association | MBA
Asian Business Association (SABA) provides a forum for students who want to participate and lead initiatives related to South Asia. Objectives include: Community unification Education Representation of South... View Details
- Web
Latino Student Organization | MBA
is to promote and support Harvard Business School’s Latinx students. Representing a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, interests, and Latinx heritage, LASO members spearhead initiatives related to MBA admissions, alumni, career... View Details
- August 1998
- Supplement
Cleveland Tomorrow, Video
By: James E. Austin and Rosabeth M. Kanter
As part of Cleveland's turnaround, Cleveland Tomorrow creates new investment funds to stimulate new business development. This development is designed to earn a profit and bring new benefits to the community. Part of the HBS Social Enterprise Video Series on Business... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Community Relations; Social Enterprise
Austin, James E., and Rosabeth M. Kanter. "Cleveland Tomorrow, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 399-507, August 1998.
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
Introducer: Mornings at 5 a.m., Bremer jogs around the “once-splendid gardens of Saddam’s former palace.” He is driven around Baghdad in an armored Chevy Suburban. His “wood-paneled office was once the epicenter of Saddam’s government.” A hand-carved motto on his desk... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
We have been working in Iraq since 1999. I have been 4 times in Iraq since June 2003, most recently last month, traveling all over the country, meeting ordinary people and staying in small hotels, often dining with locals. Things change by the week, yet there are few... View Details