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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
surprise: Human resources. We underestimated how important it is to be extremely aggressive about both bringing in super-talented people and getting rid of people who bring the organization down. What I’d like to do over: Act more quickly... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
Public company shareholders have long complained that corporate boards don't always act in the best interest of their investors. But does the addition of a shareholder-sponsored board member increase the market value of the firm? The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
tours, SAT and ACT prep courses, and scholarship opportunities. There are book clubs, discussion groups, adventure clubs, and Women of Purpose, a program created for women who have graduated high school and are now in a position to mentor... View Details
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Consumer Information The following links on a variety of subjects are designed to help visitors to the site locate important information about Harvard Business School (HBS). Presentation of the information complies with the Higher Education Opportunity View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
How to Write a Great Business Plan
Every seasoned investor knows that detailed financial projections for a new company are an act of imagination. Nevertheless, most business plans pour far too much ink on the numbers—and far too little on the information that really... View Details
Keywords: Re: William A. Sahlman
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, business in general and the insurance industry in particular are examining ways to manage the high cost of insurance against acts of terrorism. Appearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
the courage to reinvent yourself, not hold on to the past, and to act swiftly.” Proudly noting that corporate responsibility has always been integral to Avon’s identity, Jung stated that the company has raised over $450 million in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Grants Assist Veterans
Twenty-nine MBA students qualified last year for a new Yellow Ribbon grant program designed for U.S. Armed Forces veterans. Under provisions of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, HBS voluntarily provides veterans a... View Details
Keywords: veterans
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Kevin Nazemi
care IT startup in Boston. Once he completes his joint degree, he looks forward to “being a builder, someone with an operations role who can act as an entrepreneur.” View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
brought to the competition,” said HBS professor Lynda Applegate, head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “We are pleased that the contest not only is helping to identify promising new business ventures among our alumni but also is View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
predictable irrationality in citizens and consumers by "nudging" them by means of economic incentives to act in ways that regulators believe are in citizens' best interests. Lest we underplay the significance of this or somehow... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
revenue for their companies. "For many firms, it's possible to act sustainably and make money at the same time," says Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University who has a joint appointment in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
decentralize," he said in a recent Bulletin interview, "but rather which decision rights should be centralized and which decentralized." In the book, Jensen further argues that decentralizing decision rights creates control problems when individuals within the... View Details
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Veronica Pinchin
around the motions of apple-picking season, as I worked in the orchard alongside my family: moving ladders, picking apples, and pouring brimming baskets of fruit into bags. I fell in love with the small miracle of watching apples grow. That ordinary View Details
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Barr Even
had always cared about public health and environmentalism. On my old path, would I have acted on those passions? Now, with a traditional career no longer the default, suddenly it felt easy to dive in. Hard work and determination have... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
reliance on petroleum-based fertilizers and sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide in the ground. With his extensive background in green businesses, finance, and turnarounds, it seems almost inevitable that Wiviott would help found a business like SFP. The firm... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
behavior? Can we imagine firms mutually agreeing not to try and capture their regulators? To support appropriate environmental or social legislation? If a significant faction of the private sector started to act in this way consistently,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2010
- Op-Ed
A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM
too few consumers. Mulally's first act was to borrow $23.5 billion by mortgaging the entire company to give Ford the runway necessary to retool its aging lineup. Mulally moved fast, trimming unpopular lines, cutting management layers, and... View Details