Beliefs - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
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Positive impact that hits home

religious heritage. Not least among these is the belief that “you can be a highly performing business executive and also be a very religious person,” observes Seck Mercier. “Those two things can go together without any issue.” She is... View Details

13 Nov 2023
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4 Strategies to Cultivate an Authentic Corporate Purpose

01 Jun 2002
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In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data

information, it lacks advantages over the traditional model where the retailer just places orders. “When I started my research, there was a belief that these systems were unambiguously beneficial,” says Kulp, whose research on the topic... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)

01 Dec 2002
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What You Know Depends on Where You Go

world, though the words used for the numbers differ. If you're a chemistry instructor, whether in Beijing, Beirut, or the Bay Area, you can be confident that water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen. In business, however, things can be a bit more complicated. “My View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

strong belief in the individual," said Hawes, who explained that much of what he has learned in the insurance business has come from talking to those who don't ordinarily get a voice in a company. "Some of the best advice I've gotten has... View Details

11 Jan 2013
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A CFO Questions Business Values

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information

09 Aug 2017
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Finding a Path Out of Poverty

for Inspire Belief while studying in the HBS Advanced Management Program, in 2013. The CEO of Johannesburg investing house Momentum—who had once been homeless on the streets of the very same city—had reached the point in his career when... View Details

15 Sep 2015
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Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

our background check and credit review, and gets approval by an adoption agency, we will help them close the financial gap. It’s not a grant. It’s a loan based on the do-unto-others belief system,” he says. To date, Pathways has funded... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Simi Nwogugu (MBA 2004)

reaching more than 120,000 students annually and are undertaking an expansion of economic empowerment programs into northeastern Nigeria, which has been ravaged by Boko Haram. The belief in the north is that girls shouldn’t go to school... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2006
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Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders

event hosted by the SEI and several student clubs, Whitehead spoke with HBS students at a session titled “John Whitehead: A Life in Leadership,” moderated by HBS professor of management practice Bill George. George asked Whitehead about his View Details

01 Dec 2012
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Howard's Gift

"We can all use a wise man or woman in our lives," Eric Sinoway writes (with Merrill Meadow) in his new book, Howard's Gift. For Sinoway, a student at the Harvard Kennedy School, that wise man was HBS professor Howard Stevenson, Sinoway's adviser for an independent... View Details

18 Nov 2014
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Creating access to capital for the Muslim community

Aamir Rehman (MBA 2004) helps institutions and Muslims around the world build wealth in ways that align with their personal beliefs and principals. (Published November 2014) View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Road Work

space at the i-Lab, where classmates Wombi Rose and John Wise of LovePop and Michael Martin of RapidSOS were neighbors. To date, Camino’s loans have totaled about $70 million, with average amounts of $16,000 per member (Camino’s term for its clients). “We started with... View Details

Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance

23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

serve the emerging middle class in Mexico. IGNIA represents Rodríguez’s commitment to his homeland as well as his belief in tackling social problems with market solutions. “We support entrepreneurs because we want to have a positive... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2017
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Research Brief: Better Brainstorming

extroverted may have the most information to share,” says Koning. “But the best ideas are generated by open and creative people who are connected to these loud mouths.” This was not what the researchers expected to learn. “There is a strong View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

03 Nov 2020
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One Paramount Priority

than they have. The majority hate Trump’s tweets and believe that the media is biased,” she writes. In spite of this, our beliefs about the other side keep us inexorably divided. What to do about it? Presidential promises for unity aren’t... View Details

Keywords: Government

26 Mar 2018
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Funding Climate Change Solutions

are interlinked. And I think that this is really one of the core things that I got from HBS: the ability to not think about one issue in isolation of the bigger picture. Number two, the belief that there's not only one solution to a... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Profits and Purpose

Professor George Serafeim (left) and Professor Rebecca Henderson (right); image by John Ritter CEOs are increasingly being asked to take the lead on some of the most vexing problems of our time, from climate change and data privacy to issues of income or gender... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2017
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Removing Barriers

professionally and personally as I did.” With a strong belief that “funding shouldn’t be a factor” in the decision to attend HBS, Anita points out that it can be prohibitively expensive, especially for international students. “I want to... View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

Download Wendell Weeks profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1959 Born, Reno, Nevada 1981 Earns BS, Accounting, Lehigh University 1983 Joins Corning 1987 Earns MBA 2001 Named President, Corning Optical Communications 2002 Named President and... View Details