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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog
net zero, and the need and ways to build a sustainable future. Students will explore the balance of maintaining basic development goals, such as improving infrastructure, reducing poverty, energy access, housing, transport services,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Download Carroll profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1956 Born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1978 Earns BS, Geology, Skidmore College 1982 Earns MS, Geology, University of Kansas 1982 Joins Amoco Production... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
reunions, and online products and services. Deborah Farrington (MBA ’76) supervised the programming subcommittee, which recommended that the School offer an MBA “renewal” program to deliver the latest thinking in five critical areas of a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
association, fair pay practices) and whether these codes have affected their business outcomes (e.g., staff turnover and absenteeism, product defect rates, sales growth). In this paper, we review the existing evaluations of other private... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers will pay premium prices to bring into their lives. Entrepreneurs in... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
actually built by these firms? Many would argue that answers to these questions are irrelevant. As long as services are performed and products manufactured, they say, such organizational configurations are beneficial. They allow companies... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
moment of great opportunity. Business has been an engine of prosperity in countries around the globe, lifting millions out of poverty and bringing vital services and products to markets and people in ways that have enhanced their lives.... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
succeed in that context. The "graduates" of this school would have finely honed operational skills in managing quality programs, process improvement teams, and cost-control efforts. Even the most senior manufacturing executives... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
weakening the conditions of credit supply (especially in a slowly recovering economy) and improving the soundness of the financial system. The interaction between regulators and the private sector is a crucial ingredient in getting these... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24
interviewing hundreds of microfinance clients around the globe, the authors were able to identify five tools drawn from management accounting where improved knowledge would have a substantial impact including cost management, throughput... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
seeing real innovation in business, not in products but in what business does." Economic Facts Of Life There are three key characteristics of information technology markets—three economic facts of life, said Upton, that can help show... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
corporations and governments alike need to focus on. Consequently, the career opportunities for MBAs are now unlimited- you can shape sustainability strategy at traditional companies and banks, drive products and operations at startups... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
estate costs, to improve hiring, to get people with more diverse skills—those are the companies that will emerge as winners from this. I feel that’s the big lesson. Instead of just focusing on whether or not View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
competency and its ability to move up the value chain that will allow it to share the positive gains. If labor tries the old tactic of strikes, management will just outsource the staff from somewhere else ... " Globally organized labor may benefit from View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
to disrupt the financial sector to materially improve financial services, including expanding access to financial products to underserved communities through the use of new technologies. Salas, who studied... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
inspires the innovative products and superior services that create lasting shareholder value. Did we expect too much from CEOs over the past decade? During that period, we saw the rise of the imperial CEO. They were treated like rock... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
positively related to performance when teams are dispersed geographically, have less human capital, or are faced with particularly complex tasks. Our findings offer insight for theory and practice into how accessing stored organizational knowledge can View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
differently from the norm, too. Martha Lagace: What observations or experiences have driven you and your colleagues to study uncompromising leadership? How and why did you select the CEOs in your study? Michael Beer: My colleagues and I have been working with many... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
April this year for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. And that was very much overshadowed by the new global crisis of the pandemic. It affected us in that we did a much smaller launch of our new version of the app. We still put our View Details