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- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
stand. As uncomfortable as the conversation was for me, it helped create space for dialogues that brought more awareness and understanding. Together we made a Hate Awareness Quilt, with the names of people who were victims of hate crimes,... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
Teams: Managing SPLIT to Bridge Social Distance No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-014 Rana Plaza (C): Primark and Victim Compensation On... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
including waiting periods,” says Luca. “This 17 percent is a big effect for a single policy—one that doesn’t eliminate anyone’s right to own a gun and that has the potential to save lives.” “This is not just about the 17 percent of would-be View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
seeking advice from a potential board member and your goal in that interaction is to establish a relationship, you should be aware of these effects so you’re not falling victim to the negative consequences that may come from not taking... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
there is anything he could have done to reverse the decline. In essence, Blackberry fell victim to a challenge that affects many companies in fast-paced, technology-based industries. Once they achieve market leadership, they focus their... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
It's June 1996. Black churches are burning in the South, and up North, in Long Island, New York, a young African-American man named Shane Daniels has lain for several weeks in the hospital teetering between life and death, the widely publicized View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
deteriorated, and crime increased. "I remember feeling that my parents and neighbors were victims of forces beyond their control," Jones says. Later, while earning a degree at the University of San Diego, Jones, at age 23, became chief of... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
world. The law enforcement agency counters that its interest is strictly in this case. Clearly many interests have a seat at the table in this dispute: Apple, its customers, and a portion of Silicon Valley on one side; the FBI (and essentially other governmental... View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
Administration Practice (AdPrac) course in the mid-1950s titled, “The Foreman: Master and Victim of Doubletalk.” Responses to last month’s column brought out reminders of the importance of middle management, regardless of the growth of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
a technical one." On April 1, 1993, he became the first CEO of IBM hired from outside company ranks. When Gerstner arrived, he found an organization that was, in some respects, a victim of its own success. Thanks to its longtime dominance... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Charmer: The True Story of Robert Reldan—Rapist, Murderer, and Millionaire—and the Women Who Fell Victim to His Allure by Richard Muti (MBA 1971) and Charles Buckley (TitleTown Publishing) Leverage (a thriller) by Tom Spears (MBA 1991)... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
policies or engage in misconduct that harms the company’s reputation or finances,“ she notes. 8. Do we understand what rights victims of harassment have today? A huge firm with an internationally recognized name and publicly traded... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
choice of resisting or leaving, as we will be inevitably be the next victims of the repressive policies we did not confront but ended up supporting by complying." Some offered more highly-textured advice. Saurabh Gautam said,... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
has dramatic impact," he said. Philanthropy can be a victim of fashion, Chu argued, citing the "Save the Whales" campaigns that rise and fall from time to time. Microfinance, on the other hand, sees the poor not as aid... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
innovation, they sometimes go into a victim routine. "They say, 'Oh, they don't listen to me. I don't have a seat at the table. When I try they tell me to get out of here, so I regress to my role as a little bureaucratic turtle guy... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
has called it “genocide.” The UN says that in Texas-sized Darfur, some 2 million black Africans (who, as it happens, are almost all followers of Islam) have been displaced. As many as 300,000 may have died, the victims of a campaign of... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
economic systems in ways that could well present unknowable threats to many of us. The threats are not certain. The victims are not known. But a fire is burning, and the smoke is swirling. The EIA/IEA reports also tell us-by country and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
victim of foul play. Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003) HarperCollins Leadership With women leading only 24 Fortune 500 companies, female founders receiving only 2.2... View Details