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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
idea (no business plan necessary) in thirty seconds, with the two best ideas getting a second, longer hearing of two minutes. The winning concept was an online site that encourages teachers to share lesson plans and best practices. The event also presented a career... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
Fair edited by Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Michael Wheeler (Jossey-Bass) Professor Wheeler and his coeditor have assembled a collection of essays from experts on ethics in negotiation. The editors and contributors examine why ethics matters... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
for-profit B2C company that offers fair wages and provides education and retirement funds to its 7,500 registered pickers in the region. She later launched Mother’s Shea. As they have landed in retailers like Anthropologie, Credo Beauty,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
Sales Operations Manager, BellSouth Business. Atlanta, GA. Eva M. Plaza, AB '80 cum laude; JD '84, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Department of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
(Sergey Nivens/iStock/Thinkstock) Starting a business, says HBS professor Tom Eisenmann, looks glamorous in The Social Network. “But a fair amount of it is moving boxes around. Not org chart boxes—actual boxes.” That’s the kind of insight... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
as chair of the SEI Advisory Board until April of this year. This year’s Social Enterprise Conference, the tenth such student-run event, drew a stellar lineup of speakers and panelists, and the career fair filled the Williams Room in... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
identities, so there’s a fractured sense of self out there. And the moral bar has lowered. We no longer trust the media to be a fair watchdog, nor our elected officials to act with integrity. Detecting deception is not a parlor trick;... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
positive motivational value, how employees at lower levels viewed the fairness of incentive plans, and whether incentives had an effect on corporate performance. The results were surprising. Most noteworthy: making pay contingent on... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
are already working behind the scenes to build businesses; and her angel investing network offers capital to some, such as Krakakoa, a women-owned cocoa startup that has been helping smallholder farmers in Lampung through fair trade and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
students to consider: Is it possible to generate competitive returns through sustainable investing? “Generation Investment’s approach challenges the conventional reasoning of how to achieve financial perfor-mance if you’re an asset manager,” Sucher notes. “There was a... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
the 1970s. She wanted to give families in these villages the same educational opportunities she had enjoyed in America. Offering fair prices, as well as educational and retirement benefits, to her shea-nut pickers in West Africa is not... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
collateral business. For long-term strategy, the company is weighing two options. One, invest in expanding their client base and extending it beyond the sports market, targeting all kinds of community events like fairs and festivals. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
particularly interested in branding, luxury marketing, symbolic consumption, consumer self-control, and fairness and ethics in marketing. A member of the faculty since 2007, she currently teaches the second-year MBA course Luxury... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
at an international trade and investment fair in China, he informed the gathering that between 2005 and 2010, China was the fastest-growing source of foreign direct investment in the USA. Said Johnson, “Companies invest in America because... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
according to a 2020 TD Ameritrade survey. Nyamumbo says that if 10 percent of Kahawa’s customers are willing to pay more to support fair labor practices, it could be life-changing for the women of the Kenyan coffee industry. Already,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
thing to do, but it also contributes to a feeling of fairness on the part of the people who remain. What are some of the things you've learned from your international experience? I used to think that Cummins should have a controlling... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
Customers in this field are, rightly, skeptical of performance claims. The price comes after the proof. Otherwise, it’s like asking what’s a fair price for a car before knowing what the car is. —Mark Chussil (MBA 1979) Got a case? To take... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
States needs to remain an attractive destination for foreign investment. Right now the US corporate tax rate is among the highest in the world. Do we have to make the same mistake with respect to capital gains? Third, using the notion of View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Conversation with Dean Nohria
Under your leadership, there seems to be an emphasis on involving HBS alumni in advancing the School's objectives. Is that fair to say? We've long benefited from alumni engagement in the work of the School as case protagonists, student... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
now. Only Iraqis can secure their country. Give a date for Coalition withdrawal. Any date, even distant, would calm sensitivities. Hold immediate free and fair elections - open to all comers, including former government and Islamists.... View Details