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- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
research and strategy nonprofit founded by HBS professor Michael E. Porter, that strengthens inner-city economies. “It was my first introduction into the idea that business can propel social impact,” Kapila says. Her time at ICIC... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
a path to the future.” Lassiter, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, has spent several years studying the intersection between entrepreneurial finance and environmental concerns. He... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Z. Ahmed, and Charles Cohen Abstract We use yearly variations in the price of oil to construct a powerful new instrument to test the impact of an important but often-overlooked foreign aid channel: money given by wealthy OPEC nations to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2020
- News
The Future of Work / Global Networking Night
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a “disruptive innovation,” a term... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
a Professor of Management Practice at HBS who serves on the boards of ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs, told a forum of directors in 2008, “Serving on a board is about one thing: It’s about responsibility for the preservation and growth of... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found that companies performed better when they appointed insiders to the job of CEO. Other researchers, including Jim Collins in "Good to Great," have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
former partner and current HBS assistant professor Myra Maloney Hart (MBA '81, DBA '95) - Stemberg created a company whose sales of $3.1 billion in 1995 are expected to surpass $10 billion when a merger with Office Depot becomes official... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
idea for this book rose to the fore. The Times was eager to have a prominent individual as the editor, so when Nancy Koehn agreed to do it, that was a big selling point for everyone.” As the September Bulletin was going to press with excerpts from her new book, we... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
answers—and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it harder to motivate ourselves." Senior Lecturer... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
When Serena Williams took Centre Court at Wimbledon on July 3, 2004, few gave her opponent, 17-year-old Russian star Maria Sharapova, much of a chance. But Sharapova took the Ladies' Singles championship in straight sets, catapulting her... View Details
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
HBS, Maples was deeply influenced by a course called “The Coming of Managerial Capitalism” taught by renowned business historian Thomas K. McCraw. In that class, Professor McCraw asked his students to don the shoes of the 19th... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
reviewed and directions for further research are discussed. How Concentrated Is the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality? Authors:Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III Publication:Journal of Current Issues and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
rewarding and valuable to society. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, who conducted the survey, met many of its respondents at Charting Your Course: Alumnae Career Choices and Transitions, a prereunion program she launched last spring. Hart... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
end to be a Faustian bargain for managers and employees. Arthur C. Brooks (@arthurbrooks) is the William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
be approached from the perspective of competitiveness, and it must be based on business opportunities in the inner city that are genuinely profitable," observes Porter, who was named Bishop William Lawrence University View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
concern with the role of firms in creating markets, shaping policies, and diffusing globalization," says Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. In this... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
many users but also multiple types of users. For example, it's not enough that many customers want to book taxis by smartphone. Drivers must also be willing to accept smartphone bookings. Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne