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- 24 Feb 2011
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Show Time
noting that “over the last 100 years they have been about storytelling, and good stories are born out of social relevance.” Despite technological advances in home and computer viewing, Lopez said, the “sight and sound” advantage of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial success with View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
after leaving HBS and have continued their entrepreneurial journey in the marketplace. Will this year’s new ventures follow in their footsteps? You be the judge. Here’s a quick look at the traditional and social enterprise business plan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
Illustration by Neil Webb About a year before he reached retirement, Frank Chapman started mapping out the travels he and his wife envisioned for their golden years. A career accountant for British telecom companies, he thought it best to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
investments, and their responsibility to investors? Legislation mandating reform can be passed quickly compared with the time needed to change people’s behavior. Some believe that things won’t really change until we have a new generation of directors. The problem is... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
politics, rarely appear in consumer marketing campaigns. To be sure, marketers of breath mints and antidandruff shampoos play on social anxieties; Volvo raises automotive safety concerns. But the fear level never approaches that raised by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. An effective business culture can account for up to half of the performance differential between organizations in the same business. Drawing on field research and case studies,... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
1,500-person division is a leader in the emerging field of personalized medicine, which treats cancer and other diseases with customized therapies that take into account the patient’s specific genetic traits. With HBS professor Richard... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a family will sacrifice for its children to thrive. Direct Selling: A... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
revive manufacturing that I don’t buy. One is that it is somehow more valuable to make real (tangible) things than provide less tangible services. That’s silly. Another is that the “rebirth” of manufacturing will suddenly solve America’s jobs problem. That’s wishful... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
as a virtue. "It was a remarkably nimble organization," she explains, "with revolutionary principles and a transformational agenda that focused on supporting local organizations and leaders and bringing a business approach to effecting economic and View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
concert promoters very smartly, and that helped propel her into stardom. They also used the Internet really well, communicating with fans on social media and using YouTube videos and other types of visual media much better and more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
that is dwarfed by the museum's immense airy inte-rior, or experiencing the overwhelming scale of the Met's grand entryway. Not surprisingly, maintaining these enormous older structures can be a challenge, particularly when taking into View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
and geopolitical change and uncertainty; compete on a global scale; and operate in a socially responsible and accountable manner. Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth by Regina M. Abrami,... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
policy. "I loved that course because it really had the general manager's approach in each case. It allowed me to experience being a general manager, taking the whole business view, not just the accounting aspect, positioning the company,... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
abilities. “I liked the compete-and-cooperate culture at HBS,” says the social chair of Section B. “You help each other and you want to be the best.” McNerney furthered his education through positions at the gold standards in marketing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
social change and very conscious that I was going to use my HBS training in different ways than most of my classmates,” America explains. “In class, I appreciated the pro-labor side in cases that had a union-management component. I was... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
human brain is defective," says Jensen, whose life's work has reached out beyond his research in economics, finance, and accounting to include psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and history. Jensen explains that upsetting information... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Dec 2013
- News