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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
been a favorite moment? I'd say the Cash House dedication. That entire day, and the few days leading up to it, were really special. It was my first in-person event as a member of our community. I was able to spend time with Jim and his... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
and suddenly, there's no doubt it's the 1990s: "Mr. Davis, how much money do you make? What kind of car do you drive? How many houses do you own?" It's a fact of life these days that when kids, or fans of any age, look upon a professional... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
Development at the Base of the Pyramid" explores a 2012 sanitation initiative in which Indian Union Minister Jairam Ramesh advised women not to marry men whose houses lacked toilets. (As of the 2011 census, only half of households in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
a project that will complement the Biopolis. To be called Fusionopolis, the initial complex will house IT and new media companies in 2007. Phase II, focusing on research in semiconductors, data storage, and nanoscience, will open about a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
last summer, by the House in legislation passed in December, and by Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) in his original draft bill. While the ultimate legislation must be even tougher than what has been proposed thus far, the true danger now is... View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
use this as a natural experiment to test whether a waiting period would impact homicides and suicides in states that were subject to the policy. The federal law—named after former White House press secretary James S. Brady, who was shot... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
2016 Gurgaon, India: Penguin Random House Win-Win Corporations: The Indian Way of Shaping Successful Strategies By: Shah, Shashank Abstract—Why did Ratan Tata decide to pay for all the victims of 26/11 whether injured in the Taj or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
common struggle for firms to get innovation investments right, says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. On one hand, firms large enough to house their own research labs too often... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
several options in managing a trachoma initiative. These options including housing the program internally, partnering with other organizations, or partnering with Clark. In the end the group recommended a partnership with the Clark... View Details
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Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society
institutions have helped to harness the benefits that the foreign investor--here, the giant De Beers company--has brought. Also, examines how Botswana was able to avoid the natural resource curse that has haunted so many other resource-abundant countries. View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
“There’s a lot of relationship-building behind a development like this,” Oakes says of the housing project. “I’ve always wanted to be the bridge between ‘hard’ business skills and nonprofits — and since I didn’t always speak the language... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
military social aide assigned to the White House under President Johnson. "While we weren't greatly accepted in Cambridge at that time," he recalls, "it wasn't uncommon to have a military background and to be at the Business School. The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
produced a number of tableware and specialty items as well as art-glass, on which artists—most of them immigrants from central Europe—did painting and engraving. Westmoreland was the country's leading glass-decorating house for more than... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
steps and re-calculations. As he finds a sports auction house to consign his collection, he watches the auction market and reports on his findings as well as his strategies and successes. While dealing with the disappointments of parting... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
expect Republicans in the House and Senate to resist any populist measures that threaten the ability of corporations to compete globally and hurt the US economy in the long run. Let’s talk about the number 20,000. Is that a meaningful... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
leadership of Professor Jim Cash in whose honor we named Cash House on the campus. And Jim has helped us assemble a phenomenal advisory board. And the board consists of individuals like Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck, Ken Chenault, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
for 23 years. We're having a great life together with our three sons. The family takes two interesting vacations together every year. I'm also involved in some nonprofit activities, including the Fish House Foundation, which raises money... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0809.html#wp09-108 Corrigendum to 'Resource-Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems' Authors:Bettina Klaus and Lars Ehlers Abstract Ehlers and Klaus (2003) study so-called View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
recycled pellets. A visit to Dharavi in Mumbai, one of the world’s largest informal housing communities, demonstrated how markets can be an effective lever for waste management in a huge way. We crossed a tiny recycling business,... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
if city regulators wanted to see the impact of licensing three new businesses on a particular block, they could monitor changes in Google Street Views, cross-referencing that data with online reviews in the neighborhood and housing... View Details