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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
with vulnerable children. Recently, Brochu assumed a new position as the head of human trafficking programs for Geneva Global, a leading social enterprise that implements philanthropists' humanitarian goals at the grassroots level around... View Details
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
Summing Up The Dodd-Frank legislation provision requiring the publication of the ratio of CEO compensation to that of the average compensation level of all employees in public companies will have little or no impact on CEO compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
and the Underground Economy edited by John Edmunds (DBA 1977) Greenwood This easy-to-use guide covers the history, development, and current workings of cyber currencies and the underground economy, both in the United States and around the... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
Harvard President Drew Faust herself noted at the start of the conference, women are still underrepresented at the top levels of government and business, both in the United States and abroad. Only 4 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
ephemeral state of entropy we live in, called Digital." We're left with impression that changes in leadership required for success in the fast-moving information economy will be achieved with limited discomfort. And yet we are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
isolate the effects of channel expansion. We argue for advantages to using zip code level data for methodological and consumer data privacy reasons. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-043.pdf Multinational Firms, FDI... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
system generates such unequal access to opportunities for people, which leads to dysfunctions in the system and lack of meritocracy. I asked myself why this is happening and looked into the idea that we’re terrible at measuring the things that really matter: the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
levels of players, right? So when you think about the investors, there's foundations that have a different organizational structure and different culture and a different way of thinking. There is corporate investors who think differently.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
students were waitlisted. In April, Inc. magazine cited the class as one of its top ten entrepreneurship courses for 2011. Those feeling left out by the buzz on campus, take heart: Last year saw the launch of the Alumni New Venture Contest, which recognizes the high... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
what I was doing did not match up well with my core, with my soul,” he recalls. “At some level I’d lost my ability to read my moral compass. That created a certain restlessness and discontent with my life.” With the encouragement of his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
unemployed job hunters who attended targeted group coaching got jobs that paid the same or more than their last jobs. When networking, try to meet with people who are two levels higher than you are. The person in that role is in a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
organizations. With more than 18,000 members, Allen’s congregation is the largest in the state of New York; the 2,500-seat Greater Allen Cathedral, the organization’s centerpiece and the site of Reed’s office, regularly fills to capacity... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
those on the receiving end. However, our data do suggest a high level of psychological engagement that we did not anticipate based on conventional wisdom and our reading of prior academic literature. When we put these patterns together... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
that Blacks are entitled to some form of financial reparations, and I'm asking all of you to support it. So there is a level of optimism that I still have. I'm very guarded, relative to how effusive I will be, relative to, View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
"Step Change" by Julia Hanna. At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo's former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
consideration to how they deliver important information during earnings calls. Between The Lines The research team studied 11,436 conference call transcripts by 4,540 firms based in 41 different countries outside the United States between... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
businesses in the region, including meat processor OSI Group are finally rethinking their approach to sustainability by starting at the farming level and are no longer “agnostic” when it comes to climate change, said Nicole... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
added: "Predictive analytics could (provide) such specialized, repetitive solutions that society will become polarized into user niches that can no longer properly interact What a sad state of affairs." Philippe Gouamba... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett