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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
“reasonable” other than the directors’ consciences is a concern about shareholder reaction to excess compensation, but even well-meaning directors find it difficult to focus on shareholders. Shareholders are... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is on a mission to change the way New England eats. As executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, he is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food... View Details
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
payoffs to investors and tax authorities, can lower compliance costs of the corporate tax, and can allow for a lower corporate tax rate on a wider base. Concerns over greater alignment between tax and... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
how innovation that matters really occurs and aren't always helpful to long-term global or even U.S. development. Bhidé's conclusions are based on interviews with a large sample of start-up entrepreneurs as well as economic analysis. He's... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
With more data available than ever before, why would any executive gamble on a hunch—especially for decisions that involve their own employees? An emerging field that uses data to study human behavior at work, “people analytics” is... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
volunteer in Africa before attending HBS; thinking back to that time made him want to do "something useful and outrageous" once again. Particularly concerned about violence among young people, Seder decided that he wanted to "make a... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- News
Appreciating the Big Role of Small Business
“Why isn’t anyone talking about Joe the Plumber in this presidential election?” Dean Nitin Nohria asks in a new opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, in which he makes a case for the vital role of small business in the America’s economic landscape. In the article,... View Details
William S. Paley
After entering the media and entertainment field on somewhat of a whim, Paley grew his small radio concern into a media conglomerate with success in radio, television, music, media equipment and more. CBS... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
making money is the sole objective of the corporation. A: Their arguments should be taken quite seriously. In fact, we suggest that recognizing the significance of concerns on both sides of the debate is... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- Portrait Project
Dominique Baillet
I believe, but rather for the reckless delivery. I have never feared authority figures concerning matters of opinion. Although, as I have gotten older, I have experienced the harsher risks of speaking out. I have agonized in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Creativity from Many Angles
Upbeat, collaborative, and engaged.” That’s how Professor Teresa Amabile describes a gathering of 85 scholars and 15 business leaders held on the HBS campus in early December. The two-day Centennial conference, “Creativity,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
The football season is about to begin, a familiar signal that summer is over. The game is a huge money-maker on one level and a powerful societal binding agent at another — think Friday Night Lights. But... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
on IT services in 2018, and the direction of global tech trends, the shortage isn’t going away quickly. Berendt cofounded Talent Alpha in 2018 to fill that gap. The Kraków-based startup is building a marketplace to link central and... View Details
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2014 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Relationships Among Women: Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides Relationships Among Women: Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides 03–04 APR 2014 Home Videos Agenda Apr 03 Thursday, April 03, 2014 Keynote Paula Giddings , Smith College An... View Details
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Social Media Guidelines for Faculty and Staff | About
role at HBS positions you to frame or state positions on behalf of the School. Be thoughtful when straying beyond your areas of expertise and knowledge. If your content is School-related and you are View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
emissions. Perhaps, the opposite is also true. Are things that were once seen as quite dangerous now potentially relatively safe as result of new understandings and innovations? My own concerns about climate change have led me to put... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Business as a Force for Good
profitable. They're great companies from a traditional metrics standpoint, but they're also very concerned about and do a lot to improve their impacts in terms of how they treat their employees, what they give back to the community, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
recognize the problem, awaken your imagination, find patterns of meaning in your life, and take action for change. Drawing on stories of individuals, he provides a practical road map for moving past one’s immediate impasse and defining a... View Details
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in the Transportation Industry
This is a part of Baker Library's Sustainability Research Guide. Background Readings Future of Mobility White Paper Transportation is arguably experiencing its most transformative revolution since the introduction of the automobile. View Details