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15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

for different groups, then the next big challenge is to garner support for experimenting with how people might do the work differently. Q: How can women create change in their organizations? A: Find allies—in other women, men, other "identity groups" in one's... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

notices around campus, discreetly inviting fellow gay and lesbian students to connect via an untraceable off-campus phone number. Those founding members launched what would become a decades-long tradition—a community within the community. The group’s name, originally... View Details

18 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Family Business Club

to network and connect with people of similar backgrounds, and have the opportunity to learn from distinguished professors and guests at our action oriented workshops and speaker series. Students also get to interact with classmates who... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

lower total cost. Further, cannabis businesses pay a much higher share of net income as taxes, compared to other businesses of similar scale. That’s because, according to the Internal Revenue Code, businesses that “traffic” in Schedule I... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

proprietary code, in the hopes that this will lead to greater value down the road thanks to new kinds of cooperation. As Lerner and Tirole explain, "This is similar to giving away the razor (the released code) to sell more razor... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

02 May 2016
Blog Post

5 Facts about Clubs at HBS

with each day. Luckily, clubs are a unifying structure to meet others with similar career or personal interests. 2. You can join an existing club or start one of your own While HBS boasts some large clubs with hundreds of members (e.g.... View Details

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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

returned to Nairobi, Kenya where she founded and launched Pacemaker International, an educational nonprofit similar to Teach for America. "Kenya is short about 70,000 teachers," says Peggy. "The people most affected by the... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

11 Aug 2021
Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

with similar interests together. I got coffee with a new Tech Club member every week, and every conversation left me feeling more inspired than the last. I’m excited to continue fostering community as one of Tech Club’s Co-Presidents for... View Details

23 Jun 2023
News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

the HBS MBA program have seen a similar trajectory, although there have been periods of plateaus, including the time we are in right now. As the world is rapidly changing, HBS is asking challenging questions about how the MBA can remain... View Details

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

Model-Linker to the open source community to help the Linux community write software to connect Linux with Hewlett-Packard's RISC computer architecture. This strategy is similar to giving away the razor (the released code) to sell more... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

01 Aug 2001
News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

Still involved with the firm as chairman emeritus, Fisher also serves on the boards of numerous arts and educational institutions. An art collector and avid amateur cook, he is an investor, along with his wife, Jeanne, in a new Manhattan restaurant called Craft. "The... View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

descendants of the town of Rosewood, which was destroyed in a massacre similar to Tulsa’s in 1923. View Video Video: Representative Goodwin says that "we never got back to what we could have been” after the Tulsa Massacre. The issue... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

question," says Steve Harris, vice president of ABS Consulting, Oakland, Calif. Risk can be viewed as the product of frequency times consequence. That means a high-frequency/low-consequence event, such as the regular fluctuation of currency exchange rates, can be... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

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Industry Information - Alumni

regulated funds globally, including mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), closed-end funds, and unit investment trusts (UITs) in the United States, and similar funds offered to investors in jurisdictions worldwide. They provide... View Details

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

also features recommended weekly deadlines to help ensure participants proceed through the course at a similar pace and can take full advantage of social learning opportunities. In addition to module and assignment completion, we expect... View Details

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Growing on the Job - Alumni

course will help you learn why goals matter, the different types of goals, and how to align your goals with your organization’s key objectives. Go to course Similar Resources Executive Education Programs for individuals and organizations... View Details

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

to break up illustrious companies like Standard Oil and AT&T to reduce their market power and thereby encourage competition. While not successful in similar efforts to prosecute IBM and Microsoft, the Government’s action may well have... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

26 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

positive image contributes to the success of their initiatives. Understanding and replicating this positive perception could be a valuable consideration for other similar entities globally. Their demand far surpasses their supply. So this... View Details

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

Services. To send you notices, updates, announcements, communications, and marketing and promotional content (whether by email, phone, pop up notifications, SMS text, or other similar methods) about the Services you have ordered or other... View Details

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

Prior research has demonstrated that skills acquired in a setting similar to the one in which they will be applied are much more durable. Yet relatively few organizations provide learning opportunities that closely resemble the realities... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

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