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Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

Purpose-Driven Board Leadership Lex Schroeder Author tag Board Diversity Getting to the Boardroom There’s an immediate warmth one feels while in conversation with Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990). Sanchez’s home office is in sunny Arizona, but... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Making Change

What's been most surprising? As with most entrepreneurial plans, the projections in my original business plan were orders of magnitude more ambitious than what was realistic. I'm learning that sometimes we must "go slow to go fast." Down... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

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Tools | New Venture Competition

Social Enterprise Pitch Deck Baker Library Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard Innovation Labs Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project HBS Working... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. She chose... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

School who sat on one outside public board during his tenure at Arrow and has since served on four other public boards and five private boards. "There has been a tremendous shift to the better over the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 May 2016
Blog Post

5 Lessons from Business School

time management, feedback and coaching, and creating a community among diverse people. Second year, working on an independent project requires you to learn in a different, self-motivated way. While important, things like reading financial... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops

have been a huge mistake. Two years earlier, she and her partner, Peter Strugatz, had purchased the assets of Great Harbor Design at public auction for $26,000. The former owner had invested $4 million in perfecting a durable building... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2012
News

Corruption 101

investment firm seeking a high-impact agribusiness project in rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem:... View Details

Keywords: Crop Production; Agriculture; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Mar 2007
News

Letters to the Editor

The concept of a private-equity board’s “long-term” being beyond the next quarter fails my giggle test, however. In the public perception, even the reputable buyout shops, such as Carlyle, Blackstone, and KKR, exist to reorganize, to... View Details

09 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 9

Publications September 2014 Cambridge University Press Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare By: Trumbull, Gunnar Abstract—Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

Working PapersProduct Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard Abstract The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

current tax rates or government benefit programs in retirement and health care—a big "if". Stating that net debt (financial liabilities minus financial assets) levels of 200 percent of gross domestic product are unsustainable, the authors View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty

take them. DJ created the Sabbatical Project to explore questions like this through interviews with individuals who have experienced sabbaticals, as well as with companies which offer them to their employees. During these interviews, DJ... View Details

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

the US Midwest and one from the US South, Cromwell demonstrated the analytical impact of overlaying the heat index forecast on these two locations. The bonds have nearly identical credit ratings and yields, even though the Southern location is View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

17 Nov 2015
News

Carbon Neutral

HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s “Climate Change 101” The Kennedy School’s Harvard Project on Climate Agreements HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s website for alumni Follow the HBS Business and Environment Initiative on... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding

27 Aug 2019
News

A Shot at Success

in Harvard Business School. “I knew I needed more education to even figure out what the solution should be,” she says. Rebecca Feickert (MBA 2018) with Trey Athletes cofounder Brian Reynolds Rebecca Feickert (MBA 2018) with Trey Athletes cofounder Brian Reynolds It was... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2010
News

Innovation Takes Center Stage

DEAN NOHRIA: Addressing his first reunion audience in Burden Auditorium, he outlined the priorities that emerged from many conversations over the summer. Photos by Stuart Cahill Related Links Upcoming regional alumni events with Dean... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

customers notorious for labyrinthine procurement processes and glacial sales cycles. At the same time, Weiss reasons, if approached in the right way, selling to the public sector can amount to a huge opportunity for the right business.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

30 Jun 2017
News

Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

the Girl Scouts of the USA, helped launch the ambitious G.I.R.L. brand platform to increase public awareness of the hundred-plus-year-old scouting organization beyond those ubiquitous boxes of cookies. When it comes to the Girl Scout... View Details