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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About

different kind of adaptability: the proactive vision to anticipate changes before they happen, and the courage to act on that vision quickly. Here, I might highlight as an example how Sal Khan of Khan Academy was among the first to see... View Details

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Medicaid.) Some contend that the Public Option’s low-cost premiums are falsely achieved by shifting Medicare’s costs to private insurers, but Medicare’s massive scale—61.2 million enrollees—delivers... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

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2.8 MBA Community Values Annual Report (2023) | MBA

academic activities. Refrain from giving or receiving unauthorized aid in class preparation or classwork, during exams, or in any other work to be used by an instructor as part of a course or as a basis of grading. Act as stewards of the... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

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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

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

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

reframing issues or setting up confidence-building mechanisms. The ability to foster productive working relationships is another key to managing conflict. Such relationships act as a kind of psychological buffer during difficult times. As... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

Portrait Project

Brian Tockman

It's simple. Act as an agent for enthusiasm, passion, and ethics in the organizations I join and earn the right to lead others in business. Be an evangelist for the marvel that is nature and work hard to preserve the environmental... View Details

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

Professor Jonas Heese. When local newspapers shutter, some businesses evidently treat the lack of press coverage as permission to act badly and end up committing more illegal violations, including pollution, workplace safety infractions,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

should "move rapidly to uncontested ground to avoid head-to-head combat. They need to look for opportunities where they can pioneer and then make it hard for other players to get in." Netscape acted on this principle in the opening round... View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice

08 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

micro-financing. “As CEO,” Kloeblen says, “I’m responsible for the culture, for defining what’s important. We can do more than just make money; we have a responsibility to act positively in our communities.” Kloeblen believes the... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society

This report provides an overview of the history of industrial policy in the United States. It also looks at current policies, including the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS and Science Act, and discusses the private sector's uptake of... View Details

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal 4-5 May 2023 Home Speakers Videos Agenda May 04 Thursday, May 04, 2023... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Revitalizing America

environmentally sound reconstruction of decaying neighborhoods by training at-risk urban youth in construction and putting them in line for good jobs. City Year, an education-focused nonprofit on whose national board I serve, mobilizes young people to solve the... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2024
News

Turning Point: Make Your Life Count

Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details

18 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative

Initiative encourages future, current, and former students alike to engage in a meaningful, research-based conversation about diversity and inclusion and to act as change agents in their own organizations and lives. View Details

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FERPA Information | HBS Online

Privacy Notice SMS Terms Terms of Use FERPA Community Values & Honor Code Trademark Notice Cookies FERPA The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as amended ("FERPA") is a federal law that gives students certain rights with... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations

underestimate our ability to make more out of those we have .Stretching is a learned set of attitudes and skills that comes from a simple but powerful shift from wanting more resources to embracing and acting on the possibilities of our... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World

On the regulatory front, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and a relaxation of restrictions on multiple ownership of media outlets are realigning and consolidating the power of media ownership. Lastly, in the economic arena, a wave of... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Dec 1999
News

Now Hear This

(August 20, 1999), the voiceover industry currently boasts some eighty thousand union members alone. Reasons for getting into the business vary. David Keane (MBA '70), whose day job is consulting, took it up "to challenge his artsy side," the article asserted. "I did a... View Details

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

that by drawing attention to these potentially disruptive forces and to the strategic opportunity they represented, we could inspire business leaders to act before it was too late. This new edition was triggered by the fact that after a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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