Millennium Development Goals - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Feb 2023
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Meet the Black Investment Club

challenges to raising capital, being empowered to make investment decisions, and accessing the mentorship and resources to promote our talent.” Each of the Co-Presidents brings unique experiences to the leadership team, serving to further strengthen their ability to... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

November 1996 (Revised June 1997)
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Harvard Business School Publishing

By: David A. Garvin and Artemis March

Linda Doyle, president and CEO of Harvard Business School Publishing Corp., has succeeded in turning around the organization after several difficult years. She has launched several strategic and organizational initiatives, and has instilled a new philosophy and vision.... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges

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11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

meaningfully to strategy development. Making It Safe To Be Critical Chief among the responsibilities of a corporate board member is to develop and share an honest assessment of the company's performance, including the performance of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2004
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors

Fischer I am happy to report that the HBSAA Board of Directors is off to another great start. This dynamic group of more than forty alumni — including class secretaries, club presidents, and other devoted volunteers — has outlined a number of View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2016
News

Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?

and deliver those dollars directly to people in need, no strings attached. The initial response to the idea was lukewarm. GiveDirectly and a handful of other groups experimenting with cash payments were a direct challenge to both the generally accepted wisdom of... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 1998
News

Women at the Top

world's most influential women business executives gathered at Soldiers Field for Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum, the first-ever HBS Executive Education program developed for businesswomen. Anchored in the School's... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

wealth. The focus of Investment Strategies is financial markets, principally equity markets, taking the perspective of an institutional portfolio manager and considering the efficacy of value investing, arbitrage, and other active investment strategies. Educational... View Details

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

fuel its own business. P&G has set a stretch goal of having 50 percent of its new project portfolio come from outside its own four walls. And IBM and P&G also allow others to license their ideas for their own business. IBM... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1997
News

Banking on HBS

Executive Development Program (EDP), a special executive training course for the Bank's upper-level managers. "I felt that the World Bank's top people should have an intensive exposure to the latest ideas and techniques in the management... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

their employees for complex conditions and bring in house care for common conditions. Key Action Steps for Employers Set the goal of increasing health value, not minimizing health benefit costs Develop... View Details

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social and financial goals at the same time. Social enterprises have a great deal of experience dealing... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside the Bestseller List with Charles Duhigg

2012, which harnessed science to understand and change habits, and this year’s Smarter Faster Better, on the science of productivity. Both were bestsellers, and both have lessons for aspiring writers. After researching the science of goal... View Details

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Business and Geopolitics - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Business and Geopolitics Course Number 1155 Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Project Educational Objectives The goal of the course is to examine the ways in which firms not only... View Details

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Jan 2023
News

Forged in Fire

might say that's what you're doing at Harvard. But I've been doing it since I was a freshman in college, trying to help people and encouraging them to go into leadership roles and build organizations—like I did at Medtronic—of leaders. And that's what I've been doing... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Investing in Innovation

priorities." In September 2013, Faust launched the five-year, $6.5 billion Harvard Campaign. The financial goal for The Harvard Business School Campaign is $1 billion. As of April 25, HBS had raised more than 50 percent of that goal, with... View Details

Keywords: HBS Fund; Educational Services

15 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Molly DeCastro

How long have you been working at HBS? I have been at HBS for almost 5 years now. I guess time flies when you are having fun. What did you do before coming to HBS? My entire career has been in career development and I truly love the work.... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entertainment / Media / Sports

Portrait Project

Lincoln Alabaster

film can lift the spirits of a down-trodden soul or inspire a person to lead a more productive life. To get from here to there, I need to further develop my directorial, acting, and writing abilities. Why attend HBS, then? Honestly, I... View Details

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Olivia Staffon Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

New Ways to Stay Connected

20 alumni volunteers; it addresses the challenges and personal goals of senior executives through a series of immersive and introspective learning experiences. The Reflective Leader program will be offered again in June 2019. “I found the... View Details

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