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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
the Public Corporation, and Greater Commitments to Sustainability: Signals from the Corporate Board By: Eccles, Robert G., J. Herron, and George Serafeim Abstract—This book is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
become a nonprofit in the past six years. And it's really a wonderful tribute to the founders, who began it and then ran it for years, carrying the liability themselves. So they formed a corporation originally for insurance purposes, but... View Details
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
and Opportunity (CEO) at The Wharton School. She is also a visiting faculty fellow in the inaugural cohort of the Harvard Business School Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society and has been selected for the Thinkers50 Radar... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
aware of the potential ramifications if the player-safety issue is not resolved satisfactorily. "At the NFL level, it's a priority to make the game better and safer through rule and equipment improvements," O'Reilly declares. He speaks proudly of his role overseeing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
guy, one idiot—that's me—and millions of earthworms," he explains. Romantic notions of the simple life disappear during a visit to Wolf Creek Farm, which encompasses 1,600 acres of land and over 600 head of cattle at the edge of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
on a committee in the midst of crafting a national housing policy. And he’s part of a planning group for the city of Kandy, which, in addition to being Mawilmada’s hometown, is a sacred and heavily visited UNESCO World Heritage View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
the loss of my father taught me perseverance, independence, and hard work,” he observes. “It prepared me for later challenges.” After a charismatic West Point recruiter visited his high school, Sundy applied for and received an... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
since you're always asking, I just met two cofounders, and we're going to start the Starbucks of health clinics in Egypt.' " Enan was interested; in Egypt, about 5 percent of the population has private health insurance, mostly as a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
otherwise difficult to get an interview. I also had a cubicle at Intel in Santa Clara for fourteen months, and I also visited some of their sites including their fabrication facilities, which are incredible... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
unexpected changes to work processes are discussed. The case also allows for discussion of how to plan a phased implementation with adequate time for organizational learning to occur between the time that various sites "go... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
2018, I left my corporate job and decided to explore opportunities with a social impact-driven food organization, particularly one focused on food access and hunger relief. What made the Greater Boston Food Bank stand out among the... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
like investing in sustainability or anything that is an impact fund. So a corporation B, where it’s not just about return on investment, but it’s also about having an impact in our environment, in our community. There’s so much data out... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
workshops; conducting site visits and practitioner interviews; working as a practitioner; and developing a practitioner advisory team. I describe several ways that scholars can convey relevant research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
things like that. And we decided to put both our, let's say, our technology behind it, our financial resources behind it, but also our reputation. And that was risky, because we also owned the biggest Superfund site in the US, which was... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
subsequently developed a great career as a marketing professor. Thank you, Professor Salmon, for a wonderful experience. Jose M. Faustino (MBA 1963) Professor Walter Salmon was, perhaps, the member of the HBS faculty who was most memorable to me. My wife, who View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
customer visits to those facilities. That doesn't tell you anything about the social impact—it doesn't tell you whether people's health has improved as a result, or whether environmental and sanitation conditions have improved, though... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
frontier innovators share? Lack of resources. Lazarow: There's a lot less capital, there's a lot less depth of trained startup human capital, the been-there-done-that crowd that have already scaled with businesses. There's less corporate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
ultimately interviewing hundreds of parents in the corporate sector, as well as in medicine, the military, nonprofits, education, performing arts, academia, and in frontline service jobs. In 2016, Dowling used her findings to launch... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
useful when collecting information on a problem, Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein and his fellow researchers found, but it can be detrimental in solving the problem, leading people to a consensus before all the solutions are explored. With data from the crowdfunding... View Details