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- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
many African nations were gaining independence. British businesses operating there created a publicity strategy that couched their presence in less developed countries in terms of a commitment and a positive contribution to the progress... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
Donaher created the multi-generational panel event to highlight the progress at HBS around LGBTQ diversity and inclusion. Joining Donaher on the panel were Megan Chann (MBA 2018), Joseph Steele (MBA 1983), Ellen Bossert (MBA 1992), Paula... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
increasing inclusion in the workplace and gender diversity and reducing environmental damage and progress towards tackling climate change. The early results from his efforts were promising, but was there more he could do? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and organizational challenges ahead. He created a new narrative for the company in the era of Big Data, putting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
billion, split between McDonald’s and the franchisees. As for convincing the customer that McDonald’s is now a modern, progressive burger company—a turnaround shorthand CEO Easterbrook has often employed—Flatley says it will require new... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
will be opposed by some business interests, but making progress on such issues will improve society, and there is a growing recognition that business is not distinct from society. Healthier, more financially secure workers are more... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
potential choices, learning from small samples, using prototypes to test business models, tracking progress through nonfinancial measures, and knowing how and when to pull the plug on a new venture; 2) Find the best combination of old and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
progress in the public sphere of work, making it difficult to expose and undermine the social and cultural bases of inequality. Workers were warm and welcoming, generous with their time, conscientious in their responses to our questions,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
rebate. While this practice is common in the financial services industry, it is illegal. iTrust hopes that, as a new generation financial services company, it can influence progress in the industry. In a blog post, Varma observes that it... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
and others dismissing it as little more than a hiccup-or even celebrating it as a favorable development-in the progress of American capitalism. Despite numerous claims in popular venues that high inequality has slowed growth, precipitated... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
and progressive middle management. Rather than pursue shareholder profits, Anheuser-Busch suddenly became focused on stakeholder capitalism and the vague mandates of environment, social, and governance (ESG). This culminated in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Corp. in Tokyo recalled, "In my day, there were fifteen or twenty terminals in the basement of Baker Library. By comparison, what is now happening at the School is really amazing." Yet as Robert J. Barrett III (MBA '71) from Merrill Lynch in Palm Beach, Florida, noted,... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
disease William A. Sahlman: New treatment options for the next pandemic The crisis reveals the remarkable progress over the past 20 years in health science. There are hundreds of companies, big and small, working on better tests, better... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
around the globe. As he considers 3i's performance through the first quarter of 2006 (3i's fiscal year 2006), he must balance his satisfaction at the firm's results and progress in the recent buoyant market with the question of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
seen the least progress and the least visibility in society and legislation. Q: What does your research suggest about American business leadership in the future? A: Businesses that will succeed in the twenty-first century will be those... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
short, the modules have been sequenced to progress from markets to firms to institutions so that complexities are gradually layered on. The major decisions that managers confront in multinational financial management are addressed in... View Details
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
of our students who reminded us that, fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King, our society continues to be far from inclusive. The #MeToo movement has given us a powerful window into the ways women’s progress in virtually every... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
that hold back progress in resource mobilization research. We then propose a path ahead for future research guided by two overarching goals. First, we advocate for a process perspective, focusing attention on how an individual actor’s... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
region's burgeoning energy sector by attracting green-minded companies to the urban core and position Charlotte as a highly progressive business center. The idea was to make Charlotte the "new energy hub of America" and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel