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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Africa produces 20 percent of Africa's GNP, an astounding figure considering its population of 41 million represents less than 6 percent of the continent. "South Africa is a regional superpower," echoes HBS associate professor Robert J.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- Profile
David A. Frankel
his wife, “I need a total change and this HBS thing is unfinished business.” He packed up, flew to Boston in the fall of 2001 and arrived on campus with the words of his peers echoing in his head. “A lot of people said `You are a lunatic.... View Details
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
his writings on color theory echoed the language of educational policies, racial segregation, and civil rights court case transcripts. As she has said, “Color theory and human rights are conceptually interwoven in my paintings. I find the... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
viewing everyone as a customer, you fundamentally change the nature of the value proposition that exists between you and the entities with whom you interact."2 This theme is echoed in another recent book, Everyone Is a Customer:... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
for finance professionals striving to make well-informed financial decisions. Political homogeneity creates potential risks in the workplace. When decision-makers share the same political views, they risk creating echo chambers that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)
driven. There need to be systems in place to drive the change forward and create the broader messaging that assert its importance and relevance. Those are the issues that really drove me to do this work and still stand as true. Holly: I View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Traveled,” moderated by HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise associate director Margot Dushin, and a panel on manufacturing, moderated by HBS professor Janice H. Hammond. At the end of the day, the enthusiasm of conference attendees seemed to View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
a future that complements the past: the new green formed between Aldrich and Spangler echoes Baker Lawn as a focus of campus life. That green is a central feature of the future vision, along with a continued, southerly build-out along the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
limitations and failings of his country's other companies. "It's not enough to do research on the 'can' aspect of Japanese management. There must also be work on the 'cannot' aspect," he said. "We have difficult problems, so this is a good time to do research."... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
internal surveys conducted to find the answers. The learning that took place resulted in new beliefs that the firm's culture was inhospitable to women, and that "the problem was a 'firm problem' not a 'women problem'"—a conclusion View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
echoing Peter Glick's remarks on benevolent sexism as well as Amy Cuddy's on the stereotypical view of women as warm but incompetent. During the "Organizational Change" session, MIT Sloan School professor Katherine Kellogg (HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
understand the delicate interplay between negotiation and coercive power. Speaking of the U.S. failure in Vietnam, Henry Kissinger said, "Treating force and diplomacy as discrete phenomena caused our power to lack purpose and our negotiations to lack force."2... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
so long.” * * * * * As president of Echo Lake Productions, Douglas Mankoff (MBA 1995) is doing his bit to foster movies that might fall through the cracks at a big-budget studio. In 1997, Mankoff raised a private equity fund to finance... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
to take the information revolution very seriously. Echoing Rudenstine's re-marks on the aptness of the word "revolution," McFarlan declared, "The changes are that fundamental and dramatic. Products, services, and industry structures are... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
School Case 719-002 Donald Trump and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act In January 2018, President Donald Trump was full of optimism. He had just signed the most substantial legislation of his young presidency, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), making major changes to the tax... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
the students' was 0.60. The students estimated that between 21% and 42% of U.S. jobs are potentially offshorable. Echoing Blinder, the student data suggested a positive correlation between offshorability and education. The student data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
into Moss’s analysis and recommendations. Warren and two Democrats embraced Moss’s views on the need for a systemic risk regulator. But the two Republican members issued a dissenting minority report. The partisan clash of views foreshadowed the political debate now... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
Badaracco, Jr., the School's John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, sums it up this way: "I wouldn't want a Fortune 500 company bringing me religion." Echoes Vaill: "Talking about spirituality in the business context feels... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso