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12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Challenges BIO The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global tragedy that continues to affect tens of millions around the world. Some call it a black swan event. However, through this adversity, we have seen remarkable examples of human ingenuity and collaboration that have,... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Development Center, and advising the student marketing association. In 1965, Fitzhugh moved to Pepsi-Cola, where he led the development of targeted marketing strategies. Fitzhugh consulted with major corporations and helped launch the... View Details

04 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Mar 2008
News

THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY

Creativity’s reputation as a mysterious, unknowable trait (something of a myth in itself) has led to some erroneous ideas about what it is and how it functions in organizations. Here, Professor Teresa Amabile quashes some of these... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

Illustration by PJ Loughron Illustration by PJ Loughron How has your experience as Dean of the School differed from your experience as a member of the faculty? Being on campus and engaging with faculty, staff, and students is something I have done for many years, and... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Bridgette Slater

breast cancer survivor. She served in the Arkansas State Legislature and her advocacy led to the passage of the state’s Breast Cancer Act in 1997, which later facilitated the creation of BreastCare, a program that provides free... View Details

2024
Working Paper

The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It

By: Malcolm S. Salter

What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer is not entirely clear, I argue in this essay that any effort aimed at restoring... View Details

Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Systems; Trust; United States

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01 Oct 1996
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Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

in business economics in just two years, Porter devoted the next decade to developing the seminal ideas that remain the cornerstone of his life as a professor. His marriage in 1985, however, led to some changes in perspective. "My wife,... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

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HBS - The year in Review

session. And, throughout the year, the External Relations group curated lifelong learning programming and rich content to alumni around the world through 13 virtual events led by HBS faculty, reaching 37,000 participants. Bringing Alumni... View Details

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

collective practice has led us to understand that the individual development has to take place in the context of a larger change process motivated by the senior team. Just calling HR to say we have a strategy, we want to be more safe, do... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

executives, led by Ken Lay, created an extreme performance-oriented culture that both institutionalized and tolerated deviant behavior. It's a story about a group of executives who created a world that they could not understand and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Feb 2021
News

Andy Jassy Named Amazon’s New CEO

last final exam at HBS on the first Friday of May in 1997 and I started at Amazon the next Monday,” he tells host and Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever. “I didn't know what my job was going to be, or what my title was going to be.” Jassy goes on to discuss his time in... View Details

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Recent Alumni - Alumni

and participate in CPD activities and exercises. This could include serving as a Career Team Leader where you would guide a group of four RCs through Career Teams exercises. To be a Career Team Leader, an alumna/us must have participated in or View Details

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

certified to the OHSAS 18001 standard led to a 20 percent reduction in overall illness and injury cases in the ensuing six years after adoption, compared with the six years prior, the researchers estimate. Less severe cases—those that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Jan 2016
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Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

long-term strategy and culture. David Wittenberg led the way in making the argument for an inadequate strategy as a primary cause of the problem. He suggested that bad timing is related to a lack of “strategic frameworks to assess the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion

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Connell House | About

Partners. The Connells’ legacy of support for HBS has had a profound impact at the School and in the world at large. Work supported by the gift has led to the Leadership Initiative’s cutting-edge research and course development, including... View Details

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

interestingly, the loss of my daughters always led to a pivotal change in my career. So when I lost Tanya, I had this deep sense of feeling very inadequate that I didn't have the financial means to do whatever it took to save my... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

You Are: 15 Harvard Professors Tell Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind). I was probably the lowest-paid member of my class, but that experience led to writing about careers and leadership for HBR, the New York Times, the... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

Peggy took advantage of Harvard’s flexibility and explored courses at the Graduate School of Education. Her desire for "visible impact" led to tutoring through the Harvard Allston Education Portal and working with Teach for... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

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