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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
internal evaluation of your values, your resources — financial and human — and your ability to communicate with your family. How should people’s values influence the way they manage their money? If you have money and don’t have good... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
Fast Forward edited with an introduction and epilogue by James Champy and Nitin Nohria (HBS Press) Fast Forward, the latest title in the Harvard Business Review Book Series, brings together some of the best ideas from the Harvard View Details
- Profile
Matt Segneri
applicants — who were effectively applying business principles to pressing public issues," Matt says. Worthy of applause The advice of Monitor colleagues, and a growing interest in cross-sector issues, led Matt to HBS. His first... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts
the charge of libel. 15 This decision secured the future of credit reporting. 13 Ingrid Jeacle and Eamonn J. Walsh, “From Moral Evaluation to Rationalization: Accounting and the Shifting Technologies of Credit,” Accounting, Organizations... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
Since the 1990s, the Balanced Scorecard system has cut a path in business as a more rigorous way to measure performance by quantifying what had been considered intangible assets, such as human capital, information, and culture. The system... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Evgeny Koudryavtsev
capital at the time. In the fall, TPG closed its first deal in Russia." International perspective Evgeny decided to invest time in an MBA to learn the best practices in general management. "In investing, it is important to View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
"stupid high." I hope we return to normalcy in less than a year. In the long run, innovative tech businesses will continue to be our main engine of growth. Key elements in evaluating a View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
what to do. You ask them questions, engage in dialogues. Key elements in evaluating a business proposal I look for something that has a major impact on the area that it's supposed to affect — major cost... View Details
- March 2014
- Module Note
Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Operations
Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainable Supply Chains; Sustainable Operations; Environment; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Environmental Management; Environmental Operations; Environmental Performance; Environmental Policy; Environmental Protection; Environmental Strategy; Environmental Regulation; Operations Management; Operations Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Operations; Supply Chain; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Safety; Social Enterprise; Quality; Production; Working Conditions; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Buildings and Facilities; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Toffel, Michael W. "Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Operations." Harvard Business School Module Note 613-090, March 2014.
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
requirement to know where you are on the playing field. Different firms can come at the business in very different ways. For Accel, historically we have specialized. Over time, those specializations continue to become more granular. At... View Details
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Nicola Leahy-MacManus
Why was getting a business education important to you? Coming from a consulting background, I was keen to pursue an MBA in order to expand my skill set, particularly in the areas of finance and marketing. I felt it was the pinnacle of... View Details
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Chris Wilson-Byrne
the environment," says Chris. "It reminded me of the things I liked about being on the college swim team – the fast pace, the excitement, and the energy." In his senior year, Chris began to evaluate his options. On the HBS... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
What does it mean for a nonprofit organization to be accountable? Nonprofit leaders tend to pay attention to accountability once a problem of trust arises—a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Performance Evaluation; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Strategy
Ebrahim, Alnoor. "The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-069, February 2010.
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John Whitehead (MBA 1947), the SEI was... View Details
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Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
education (K-12 and higher education) and business — whether that means starting a business in the education sector or being a board member or investor, to someone who wants to make a difference in the... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
not clear what exactly corporate accountability reporting is, or how to evaluate its usefulness to different constituencies such as customers, bondholders, shareholders, employees, and communities. It's not clear how it affects managers'... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
businesses should set aside time to ask themselves what widely held assumptions—in their lives, organization, or industry—they might benefit from challenging or discarding. “The impact of this simple exercise,” he says, “can be... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons I learned from HBS Peek
MBA from Harvard Business School does not teach you a specific way of solving corporate issues, but it does teach you to see the problem from all different angles and evaluate what approach is better for... View Details