Human Capital Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

and potential often fail for one simple reason―the enormous challenge for investor relations and fundraising professionals to raise the necessary capital to make the fund profitable. Marketing Alternative Investments builds on the... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

venture capital and adapts them for established organizations, leveraging these two distinct skills as a form of management for building in a future that is uncertain. Faculty Books Disciples of the State?:... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Alumni Books

for Kibera (CFK), a pioneer in participatory development showing how with the right kind of support, people in desperate places will take charge of their lives and create change. Later, serving as a human intelligence officer in Iraq and... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; National Security and International Affairs; Government

16 Jul 2020
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Accounting for Real Change

environmental record. Cohen, who serves as chairman of the Portland Trust and the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS, is a philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator. He is also the author of Impact: Reshaping View Details

01 Sep 2010
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School’s 100th MBA Class Graduates

School. The day’s principal speaker was Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69), a widely recognized father of the European venture capital industry who now devotes his time to social enterprise in England and the Middle East. Cohen (center), chairman... View Details

Keywords: Graduation

01 Jun 2005
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Transforming the IRS

over the next five years transformed almost every aspect of the sprawling agency, from its antiquated IT systems to its internal management structures. Many Unhappy Returns (HBS Press, 2005) is his insider account of a mission that seemed... View Details

Keywords: Ann Cullen; IRS; Many Unhappy Returns; reform; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

28 May 2021
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To Retain Women, US Companies Need Better Childcare Policies

26 Mar 2020
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Oprah Winfrey and the Power of Empathy

01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue

Each day, the chaos that is one sliver of modern India arrives in the form of 13,000 phone calls to the tranquil 37-acre campus of the Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) outside Hyderabad in the southern state of Andhra... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

01 Mar 2005
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A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue

receive a plaque from the Humane Society, and to tell me that Harvard paid out quite a lot, at 25 cents per clipping from around the world, to its clipping services. Dean Fouraker was funny and very nice. The most interesting piece of... View Details

Keywords: Jim Hawes; heroism; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future

of Boston, she had a half dozen jobs (lawn mowing, farm stand, newspaper delivery) by the time she was 15. “Once I learned I could make money and have freedom, I was all about capitalizing on opportunities,” she observes. She attended... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2001
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Q&A: John Quelch

management problems that business leaders will face in the future. How do the HBS research centers in Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, and elsewhere fit into this effort? The research centers you mentioned — along with a new European Research... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip

managers who benefited from laws such as Title IX become senior managers, we may be on the cusp of more change. What about people who became successful despite their lack of access to traditional paths to power? We found four ways that... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2022
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You’ve Made Some DEI Progress. Don’t Stop Now

17 Nov 2021
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5 New Rules for Leading a Hybrid Team

27 Jul 2021
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Building Successful Hybrid Teams

01 Oct 1998
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New Releases

Smart Choices by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School Press) Decision-making is a major part of life for every human being. Where should you live? Which house should you buy? Is it time to change... View Details

05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

with HBS professor William Kirby and Regina Abrami (PMD 76, 2001) of the Wharton School. In addition to teaching in several HBS Executive Education programs, McFarlan has been a guest professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and View Details