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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Community, who is also chair of the School’s new Gender Initiative. Ely has long studied gender in business, focusing her research on professional services firms. Recently, though, several large tech companies have approached her on the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
purposes. Defense, hunting, whatever. And as we know in recent years, they've been used for bad things as well. So, every new technology has things that we can benefit from and things that we have to be careful about. I do feel that we... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
challenging work environments. This article focuses on two such contexts—health care and education. The authors theorize differences in psychological safety based on work type, hierarchical status, and leadership effectiveness. Consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
organization around it. Blogging, today, is increasingly common. In an informal poll in the School's General Management Program, which brings in executives from around the world, about 20 percent said they write a regular blog. Q: Care to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
SCHARPF: Seeking cost-effective raw materials in Rwanda. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07) is on a roll. Determined to put her MBA skills to work addressing socioeconomic and public health problems in developing nations, she has launched a social enterprise organization,... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
care at religious mass gatherings. However, in 2015, at the Kumbh Mela in Nashik and Trimbakeshwar, the state government extended its services to include a hypertension-screening program. We examine here the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
MaterialsColgate Max Fresh: Global Brand Roll-Out Harvard Business School Case 508-009 In February 2005, Nigel Burton, in his third year as president of global oral care at Colgate-Palmolive Company (CP), had every reason to feel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
HBSAAA. This is a rallying point. We’ve got so many energized, committed alumni who care about the association, the school and the community. We see them becoming more active beyond HBS, and having a much larger impact on our community... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
technological development, corporate strategy, and organizational change. Viewing cartels only as a "conspiracy against the public" short-circuits many important questions and obscures the great variations in objectives, type, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
transformational kind of leadership — deeper into the organization, and they will be inventing other kinds of leadership to stay on top of this incredibly fast-moving, discontinuous world that Gary describes. Q: Who is this course for? Hamel: The course will be... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
better equilibrium-but courage will be needed to put such reforms in place. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/06/the-price-of-wall-streets-power/ar/1 August 2013 European Business Review The Magic of Innovation By: Thomke, Stefan, and Jason Randal Abstract—Why do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services industries and ownership structures such as state-owned firms, business groups, and private and foreign firms. Detailed balance sheet and ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- November 2024
- Background Note
Social Enterprise in the MENA Region
By: Brian Trelstad and Ahmed Dahawy
This research note provides an overview of the socio-economic landscape of social enterprise in the Middle East and North Africa. It highlights the diversity of players in the region including social enterprise organizations (in their many forms) and supporting... View Details
Keywords: MENA; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Diasporas; Social Entrepreneurship; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Geographic Scope; Health Care and Treatment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Demographics; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry; Egypt; Morocco; North Africa; Tunisia; Jordan; Lebanon; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Middle East
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
of software-as-a-service apps for a wide range of business needs from customer management to human resources, while the portal service gives businesses the ability to manage all their apps in one place from user management to single... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
innovation has worked to create a vast array of valuable products, from cancer treatments to airplanes. But alongside it, Professor Carliss Y. Baldwin argues, there is a lesser-known model of innovation that is destined to become more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
through signature—e.g., at the end of tax returns or insurance policy forms. Yet even when people care about morality and want to be seen as ethical by others, they sometimes transgress when beneficial to their own self-interest, at great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Thinking Green
As part of the cross-University program Harvard Thinks Big, in December six professors from different Harvard schools offered their thoughts on climate change. University Professor Rebecca Henderson and Professor of Management Practice Robert Kaplan joined colleagues... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
undergird democracy There are several things businesses can do to strengthen democracy. Here are four of them. Encourage voter participation by providing employees with paid time off to vote, thereby addressing the barrier created by election days falling on weekdays.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
reflect the nature of the threat demands. I am again in proud service to this country. Frank Yang (MBA 2006) Founder, President, CEO Liatris, Inc. The most intriguing aspect of the IRA for me, running a start-up developing greener and... View Details