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01 Sep 2003
News

Hail to the Chief

oil from these ecologically sensitive areas would fuel North America’s energy needs for just two weeks. That stark fact took on a human face when Sander met Santiago, chief of the Achuar, a rain-forest... View Details

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

11 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact

make an impact. An intern’s willingness to “go big” with a small company may be good news for recruiters of any size, creating an opportunity for more hands-on involvement and greater creative thinking. But few smaller companies, especially start-ups, have the View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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Patience Experience working with students and faculty What makes it challenging to work in the Healthcare Initiative? We are a small department with broad goals and high aspirations. Continuing to adapt to our stakeholders needs while... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

’59), and was moderated by PBS’s Charlie Rose. Whitman, former CEO of eBay, noted that most Americans are “deeply afraid” as they watch energy and food costs rise and their retirement accounts shrink. More must be done, she said, to reassure the public in the midst of... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

01 Mar 2003
News

“Culture Is Everything”

culture. As a student at HBS, for example, he didn’t take his courses in human behavior seriously. Now, he said, he understands that “culture is everything.” Culture, in fact, was IBM’s problem. “The behavior, values, and systems were... View Details

Keywords: IBM; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2001
News

Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business

religion, was a key factor in his decision to enter the ministry. “West spoke eloquently about what communities needed to be, not just what they needed to do,” says Lim, who received an M.Div. degree from... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

usual reasons have become clichés: Disruptive technologies, emerging global competitors, changing workforce expectations, and heightened investor concerns over immediate stock price have put pressure on boards to find reassuring, battle-tested candidates for top jobs.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

No Reason to Go Nuclear While I applaud the general thrust of Byron Wien’s “My Two Cents” contribution in the December issue, he wandered beyond his competency with the following statement: “We will need to generate most of our... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

among scientists that was unprecedented in human genetics research. A professor of genetics and director of Harvard Medical School's Lipper Center for Computational Genetics, Church noted that his own computer experience dates back to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

01 Dec 2004
News

The Future of Stem Cells

River.) In August 2001, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) announced a ban on federal funding for research on any human embryonic stem-cell lines created after that date. The decision reflected opposition to the use and destruction of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

13 Feb 2019
News

We’re All Going to Get Hacked

handwritten checks. They had burned it all down. And now they needed someone to help them rebuild it. In hindsight, Rothrock says, the answer to Sony’s break-in was to isolate and treat the affected area, not tear it all down. But he gets... View Details

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

All this makes for a case study of the moral courage of ordinary Japanese citizens in times of crisis. There are lessons to be learned here by the rest of us. W. Carl Kester, George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

School, who coauthored the study. “[It] means not only that the pool of potential human capital for startup companies began declining when COVID started, but also that the quality of the pool has deteriorated,” he says. “The incumbent... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

creating tangible impact in a social sense while also meeting my need to show future recruiters I was more than just an attack pilot with a bleeding heart? Things started coming together at Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA), a networking and... View Details

29 Apr 2016
News

The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

end, human dynamics are the only real lever we can pull, and they are incredibly hard to learn. A business can get everything else right, but if the human dynamics aren’t what they View Details

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

arguments about whether sea level rise is human caused or even if it’s real; we just need to invest with the probabilities in mind the same way we make risk management decisions under uncertainty about... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

and the impact that humans have on the natural world. Initially, I wasn’t sure what aspect of conservation I wanted to pursue, but after taking an undergraduate class on climate change I became fascinated by the science behind it all. I... View Details

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

analyzing research publications, we have found three basic trends. First, research has increasingly focused on economic performance. Second, research focusing on how organizations affect other dimensions of human welfare, beyond economic... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

19 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Bridges: Remembering the “Why”

on just ourselves to do it. We know the secret: if you really want to make an impact, you need help. This presents all kinds of problems, however. Just try to convince someone to do something they don’t feel like doing, and you can... View Details

July 2016
Supplement

Mahindra Tool: Project Economics

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton

The case describes Mahindra Lifespace Developers’ (MLDL), a unit of Indian conglomerate Mahindra and Mahindra, foray into the affordable housing segment. MLDL sees a huge opportunity in selling apartments to the burgeoning population of urban workers, which is badly... View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business Startups; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Housing; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Human Needs; Social Issues; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; India

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