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- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
threats that Brazil faces?" Nonprofit/for-profit Collaboration Professor Diana Barrett teaches Entrepreneurial Management and the course on Leadership, Values and Decision Making. She conducts research on the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
in the belly that makes you get up and get going every day.” SUNRISE near Parker's Sarasota home. For Parker, the decision to attend HBS required a detour from a secure career path with IBM. He landed a sales job with Big Blue View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
that "... corporate law grants directors a wide range of protection from liability for decisions that sacrifice shareholders' immediate financial interests while serving the interests of other corporate 'stakeholders.'" Margaret... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
Transparency, accountability, and local buy-in and commitment are key ingredients. “The MCC’s mission is to reduce poverty through economic growth, and it’s been very effective,” says Bloom, who has been with the MCC since 2004. Previously, he worked at the World Bank... View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Learning Curve
career in the field but instead found herself in quasi-retirement at age 35. “Life has a way of getting in the way,” she notes. Melcher’s first child, Katie, struggled in preschool with learning disabilities, and Melcher made the decision... View Details
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corporate governance ecosystem, you will learn about the work boards do and the critical decisions they make; how boards select company leaders, shape strategy, and oversee performance; the complex dynamics among boards, executives, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Important Life Decisions by Jaja Jackson (MBA 1999) and Jennifer Grimes (Jennifer Grimes) The authors demonstrate that it is really how we make important decisions that will determine how happy we are. A... View Details
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When Generations Learn Together
these two Executive Education programs at the same time? (JS): Bracken has had an accelerated career path compared to my career process. It took me a long time to figure out what I wanted to do, but he was buying and selling businesses View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
nurtured in different educational and institutional settings. The question, then, is this: does China have a good institutional framework for innovation? Our answer at present is no: the governance structures of Chinese state-owned enterprises and universities still... View Details
- Web
Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog
many of the decisions taken by PE firms have a direct parallel to the strategic and financial decisions taken by companies more broadly and by other types of investors. The majority of cases will integrate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
opposite: He delegates decision rights and makes functions and business units accountable. "What companies are doing at this stage is refocusing their strategy from an inward perspective to an outward... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
enforcement, and intelligence—that had never been brought in a systematic way to the business world. We all make high-stakes decisions that can punctuate the course of our lives—who to hire, who to work for, who to vote for, which deal to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
the shoes of executives, directors, shareholders, and other players in the corporate governance ecosystem, you will learn about the work boards do and the critical decisions they make; how boards select company leaders, shape strategy,... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
clear, immediate, and direct, 3) the tendency to ignore unethical behavior when ethicality erodes slowly over time, and 4) the tendency to assess unethical behaviors only after the unethical behavior has resulted in a bad outcome, but not during the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
that I won’t be able to lead if we’re not transparent.” “As leaders in purpose-driven organizations, we have to remember that it’s not always driven by a hard business decision or legal decision; we have to look at our values and find the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
Making the best international trading decisions may be as easy as taking a stroll around the local neighborhood. A recent research paper states that it's possible to predict whether a US firm will trade with any given country by studying... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
the big things from the small; I call them high stakes, low stakes and no stakes decisions. No stakes decisions are not worth any of your time. So what I do actually, when it's literally choosing that sandwich flavor, it's sort of like I... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
of his childhood. A classmate introduced Westphal to a friend in VC in Brazil and immediately, the VC partner knew the right person to introduce him to, Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999), founder of Facily. A Non-Linear Path to Entrepreneurial... View Details