community development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2003
News

Alumni Bookshelf

Authentic Leadership by William W. (“Bill”) George (MBA ’66) (Jossey-Bass) Drawing from a decade of experience as CEO and chairman of medical technology company Medtronic, George analyzes the causes of the current crisis in corporate leadership and provides guidelines... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2009
News

Social Enterprise Visionary

John Whitehead Played a Key Role in Developing the HBS Initiative AUSTIN, WHITEHEAD, AND RANGAN: Social enterprise pioneers. In the early 1990s, legendary Wall Street executive and former deputy secretary of state John Whitehead (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

May 2011
Article

Challenge the Boss or Stand Down

By: W. Earl Sasser

This HBR Case Study includes both the case and the commentary. For teaching purposes, this reprint is also available in two other versions: case study-only, reprint R1105X, and commentary-only, R1105Z. Tom Green, an aggressive young sales executive at self-service... View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Personal Development and Career; Jobs and Positions; Conferences; Service Industry

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01 Dec 2015
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Launch Codes

“Too often, they’ll design something for what they think their customers’ needs are, and they haven’t developed plans to test these assumptions.” #2 Aiming for perfection: “You want to go to market with a minimally viable product and get... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

19 Nov 2014
News

Creating tools to help patients be better informed about costs

Kyle Schultz (MBA 2004) works with a software company that is developing ways to notify patients about the costs of their health care procedures and the ways insurance can be applied. (Published November 2014) View Details

14 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

was to supplement the customer-facing front-end in the developed markets, with a lower-cost back-end in an emerging market. That is, TCL was trying to buy a sales and marketing structure and a set of brands. Much like Tata is with Corus.... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

Brooks operated at the intersection of business and community, overseeing $11 million in cash and in-kind services annually and managing the company’s employee-volunteer program and community giving. She also View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Nov 2018
News

Showing Girls the Possibilities

Ann Fudge (MBA 1977) is the former chairman and CEO of marketing giant Young & Rubicam Brands and serves on a number of corporate boards. In this interview, she talks about another, more personal focus of her efforts and energies. “If I look for the common thread of... View Details

16 Mar 2015
News

Preserving a Musical Tradition

to develop their musical senses and abilities to a very high level.” When the academy’s students perform for their community, de Menil says, “There’s an extraordinary enthusiasm. They are playing songs that everybody knows and the crowd... View Details

11 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Career Resources to Consider Before You Arrive at HBS

and bosses? Broadening and solidifying your existing personal and professional relationships will be very beneficial to your job search, whatever path you choose. In fact, approximately 20% of the HBS MBA Class of 2015 reported to HBS Career & Professional View Details

Profile

Avi Kremer

millions of dollars into research, and removed critical barriers to the development of treatments. “Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS,” says Kremer, who was diagnosed in 2004, just weeks into his first year at... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Entrepreneurship

01 Mar 2018
News

Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

collaborative efforts across Harvard to integrate learning and leverage the University’s impact. Summer 2017 marked the seventh year for PRIMO, which was designed to develop research and writing skills, creativity, and a sense of View Details

22 Sep 2015
News

Getting New Ideas off the Ground

A serial entrepreneur and innovator, Nicholas Grouf (MBA 1995) helped create the technology for online personalization, cowrote the first policies around Internet privacy, developed bundled low-cost computers and online access, launched... View Details

15 Nov 2016
News

Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders

Associate Professor George Serafeim (photo by Susan Young) Michael E. Porter was an associate professor at HBS when he first developed his now-renowned five forces framework for strategy. Likewise, Clayton M. Christensen advanced the... View Details

14 Oct 2014
News

Banking on social impact by brokering public-private partnerships

Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001), director of the International Development Group of Standard Bank, describes the role of a traditional bank in providing funding to social impact projects in developing... View Details

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Fangfang Wang

In China, Fangfang Wang participated in a general management training program at Mars Food that allowed her “the freedom to customize my career path.” Through a series of rotating assignments, Fangfang developed a deep understanding of... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; CPG

01 Mar 2016
News

Delivering Trust

options.) To develop FertilityIQ’s assessment form, Jake and Deborah sought input from close to 50 other couples as well as three fertility doctors to ensure that they captured a full spectrum of concerns outside their own. In addition to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

1980
Article

R&D Performance as a Function of Internal Communication, Project Management, and the Nature of the Work

By: Thomas J. Allen, Denis M.S. Lee and Michael Tushman

Keywords: Research and Development; Performance; Communication; Projects; Management