Policy Making - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2022
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ClimateCAP 2022

scientists and policy makers.” - Mariah Cushman (MBA 2023) “Attending ClimateCAP emphasized to me both the massive size of the climate problem as well as the equally impressive number of robust, innovative solutions to combat it. Hearing... View Details

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Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

innovation policy advisor in the Mayor’s office, Henry’s 2017 Fellowship year drew him into “ambitious tech projects solving big challenges in the city. This is not tech for tech’s sake, but to address issues like housing, transportation,... View Details

09 Jun 2015
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Building change from the ground up

endured years of poverty, conflict, and corruption. “I’m passionate about the difference technology can make in people’s lives,” he says. In six months, Khoja and his workforce of willing yet largely untrained workers had cleared roads of... View Details

Intriguing Questions

Growing up in Nepal at a time when the country was going through immense political turmoil, I wondered how the momentous events I was living through fit in with the broader arc of history. My urge to make progress on economic and... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

Brunell spent five years helping Vietnam transition to a market economy, instituting government transparency measures and a national competitiveness index. (© Whitehotpix/ZUMAPRESS.com) David Brunell (MBA 1962) is a master at making... View Details

13 Mar 2025
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Advancing Health Care Innovation and Impact with Anita Gupta (GMP 29, 2020)

experience. I needed a broader perspective, new strategic tools, and a stronger network to drive systemic change. What I gained at HBS went beyond business strategy or policy frameworks—it was a fundamental shift in how I saw leadership.... View Details

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Departments | Employment

University-wide financial processes, policies and procedures. Attributes of Successful Staff Members Customer service orientation Attention to detail Responsive Collaborative Flexible What makes it... View Details

28 Apr 2025
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How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs

shared expectations can become more complex.To reduce friction and increase mutual satisfaction in the workplace, Brennan suggests a variety of policies and perspectives that can make onboarding more... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

17 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 17

valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests suggest that, as predicted by the theory, this effect is driven by unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make quick decisions about founder... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Naiyya Saggi

analyzing opportunities in everything I do and seizing them. What are you most looking forward to in your career? I am very excited about working with diverse stakeholders from the industry, the government, civil society and citizen groups in View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Consulting

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1.14 Academic Review / Academic Withdrawal | MBA

1.14 Academic Review / Academic Withdrawal 1.0 Academic Information & Policies Academic Reviews are conducted by the Academic Performance Committee (APC) after Terms 2, 3, and 4, and are completed before the beginning of the subsequent... View Details

24 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

national security, and later allowed to be granted and published. Daniel P. Gross, assistant professor of business administration, learned of the wartime policy while conducting research at the National Archives. “I started reading about... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Funa Maduka

want to be loaded down with new policy ideas, but wanted to learn how to implement them, how to incent others to follow." "The section experience is management in a microcosm," says Funa. "You're in a classroom with... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Advance Racial Equity in the Office

Atlantic. To make workplaces a true meritocracy, leaders need to adopt the same kind of systematic approach that they apply routinely to every other area of the business—a process that MLT has outlined in its Black Equity at Work... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change

that bridges neurology care for Midtown, Emory University Hospital, and Wesley Woods.” Questions raised by the assembled group make it clear that getting from the point of analysis to execution will take some serious work. “This can’t... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2015
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Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders

one was looking at that, even as global organizations were rapidly moving toward making English their lingua franca.” Since joining the HBS Organizational Behavior Unit nearly eight years ago, Neeley has pursued pathbreaking research on... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?

always sets the accurate worth of a company—that so-called misvaluation is merely an illusion perceived by managers. But to him that point is an academic one. “Ultimately,” he says, “company managers are making these [cash policy]... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

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Negotiating the Impossible: Break Deadlocks and Resolve Conflicts (without Money or Muscle)

Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then there are situations that seem completely hopeless. Conflict is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. To top it off, you have little power or other resources with... View Details

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Mariama Keita

With a degree in electrical engineering, Mariama Keita was well prepared for a career in telecommunications. "But I realized early on," Mariama says, "that I can have more impact as a finance person, someone with the authority to set budgets and View Details

11 Oct 2024
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How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

can be painfully slow and difficult—and the decade-long surge of refugees and asylum seekers has left staff members scrambling to make timely placements, Paulson says. The war in Ukraine, coupled with ongoing conflicts and instability in... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

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