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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow
here are immense,” says Murray. “Last summer I was reading Professor Bill George’s book on leadership, and two months later I was having lunch with him!” Murray was equally enthusiastic about the winter... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
Tax strategies used by top executives on their own taxes can also show up in the companies they run. Source: Melpomenem New research shows that top executives who prefer to reduce personal taxes appear to also influence the strategies of their companies, resulting in... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
focused now on this problem set. DM: In addition to teaching at HBS, Matheson is also a special partner at the Engine, an MIT-founded venture firm with heavy climate tech investments, and senior advisor venture partner at Breakthrough Energy, a View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
negotiation has become a key part of daily management. "Instead of being an important skill for special occasions - making deals and managing disputes - negotiation is increasingly a way of life for managers," notes James K. Sebenius, the School's Gordon Donaldson... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 31 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In “UBS and Climate Change — Warming Up to Global Action?” Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
Jensen chairs, Organizations and Markets. Each of the unit's five faculty members brings specific expertise to its mission - "to develop a modern theory of organizations and markets that is useful to both social scientists and managers." View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
In a 2006 case he prepared about the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), HBS professor Bill Sahlman quotes HSCI cochairman and codirector of science Douglas Melton as Melton pondered the management skills... View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
School Case 271-221, 1971. HBS Professor John G. McLean collaborated with George Albert Smith, Jr., Professor of Business Administration, on a consulting project for Polaroid... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
stores, or for cash withdrawals. Others finalists included George Hessler (MBA 1985), who pitched Magma Trading, a new kind of stock market for large block trades that he’s dubbed “the Costco of trading.” Aiden Feng (MBA 2016) introduced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
traditional balance sheet does not account for a company’s cost to society. For instance, airlines don’t figure in the environmental costs of travel, which can amount to billions annually. HBS’s Impact-Weighted Accounts Project, led by View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
comprised only a fifth of the entire student body (at 22 years old, she was also one of the youngest). “Because there were so few of us, it was easier to catch the attention of whichever professor, to have the chance to speak when we raised our hand,” she says. In her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
reckoning sparked by the killing of George Floyd. We formed a Dean’s Anti-Racism Taskforce to examine what we need to do and announced a plan to advance racial equity at the School. We must now implement this plan and show results over... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
two seasons. Another recent young head coach hire, 38-year-old Brian Flores, was lured to Miami in 2019 after being credited for helping Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots neuter the Rams’ potent offense in Super Bowl LIII. Young... View Details
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
Congress enacted legislation that had become known as "the Federal Express bill." It was designed to test the idea of deregulation by allowing air freight carriers to fly planes of any size on any routes, without federal price controls. The View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
HBS assistant professor George Chacko, and HBS doctoral candidate Geoffrey Verter that looked at how risk management theory could be applied to understand a biotech firm's decision to buy call options on its... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
on shifting the balance of power in the boardroom away from management. Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Shareholder Bill of Rights Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway executive compensation and excessive... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
government and corruption and trying to get rules that people abide by," adds Ray Goldberg, the George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, who conducts... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
consequences might be if the real concerns they identify become the basis for populist political legislation. Defenders of capitalism need to get busy solving the problems the Wall Street occupiers have spotlighted. —The authors, all View Details