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- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
following, lucrative corporate sponsorships, and paid the players relatively high wages. Around this time, Bruce Levy (MBA 1977) became the first ever agent for women's professional basketball, negotiating player contracts around the... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
first review the landscape of global talent mobility, which is both asymmetric and rising in importance. We next consider the determinants of global talent flows at the individual and firm levels and sketch some important implications.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
companies. 26 As head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, Bush enlisted Polaroid in the cause, and the company entered into a contract with the National Defense Research Committee to create a range of... View Details
- 20 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
India Conference 2015
need to tweak the Indian National Congress’s own communication strategy, considering the 2014 election results, he warned that “if the secular character of the country was disturbed that all bets were off”. This year’s conference was... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
midwife who turned to shea butter to help treat women and infants in her practice. Her mother, Eugenia, built shea-butter cooperatives and strengthened existing organizations; became president of the Global Shea Alliance; sat on the Ghanaian president’s View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
companies that have been deeply involved in these issues. In addition, the forum featured an interactive videoconference with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, participating from the White House. HBS professor and BLSS chair Rosabeth... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
was a senior partner for more than 25 years before selling the firm to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. At Garantia and later at GP Investimentos, Lemann invested in management talent and diverse acquisitions, including a retail chain,... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- Blog Post
HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans
the veterans group at the Kennedy School, Regan learned about The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit that “deploys” military veterans to community-impact projects to help them find purpose and to serve as role models to young people.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
first nine months of his tenure commuting from Minneapolis to Outward Bound’s Garrison, New York, headquarters, Read and his wife finally relocated to that scenic community in January. He now spends about half of his time fundraising,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49008 forthcoming Accounting Review Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality By: Khan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
management ploy that could only create a net long-term loss for the company, measured in part by its broken trust with its customers? In my book, the first group exhibited “renter” behaviors. The second group, on the other hand, were... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
construction and manufacturing with companies in dire need of this workforce. “Happy First Birthday, Greenwork!!” It’s been a bumpy two years for Sam Steyer. In February, 2020, Sam’s career as a campaign surrogate ended when his father,... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
and continues to be a lack of good leadership! . . . The politics of international labor interaction are extremely complex and will require tremendous leadership ability to negotiate win-win deals across countries so that employees of corporations in diverse View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation in the early 1980s. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
heartbreaking events, watching alongside the rest of the world as Ahmaud Arbery, Christian Cooper, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade were targeted in public places for the color of their skin. These were not the first... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
are thin. The sale of national companies to foreign multinationals weakens regional stock markets even further. Corruption is another issue that must be confronted in most countries. What is the purpose of the LARC? Our mission is to help... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age. The book weaves together insights from economics, leadership studies, history, geopolitics, and national security to make a case for strategic independence and improved leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
International Trade at the U.S. Small Business Administration; Steven Wolfe Pereira, CEO of Alpha & Company and former executive at Televisa Univision; and Liz Montaño (MBA 2009), Chief Operating Officer at NJ/NY Gotham FC, a National... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
and inclusive pedagogy at the annual meetings of the National Communication, International Communication Associations, Caribbean Studies Association, and as an invited speaker on civil rights and women’s leadership at the International... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance