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- 15 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
conference and survey from Harvard's business and medical schools may prove particularly timely. Delivered by the Forum on Healthcare Innovation, which was formed last year with encouragement from the respective deans of the two...
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- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
Cirrus Foroughi, and Barbara Larson. Developing Novel Drugs This paper by Joshua Krieger and colleagues contributes to our understanding of how financing constraints affect the direction of innovation in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?
disconnect in the "leadership industry" between efforts and results? That's the primary question posed by Barbara Kellerman in her somewhat dramatically titled new book, The End of Leadership....
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by Jim Heskett
- January 2020 (Revised July 2020)
- Case
BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit
The case revolves around the actions that Barbara Novick, co-founder and Vice-Chair of Blackrock, and Michelle Edkins, Global Head of Investment Stewardship, would need to take in response to the controversial CEO letters from Laurence (Larry) Fink, Chairman and CEO of...
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Boards Of Directors;
Institutional Investors;
Disclosure;
Transparency;
Corporate Purpose;
Corporate Profits;
ESG;
ESG Disclosure Metrics;
Corporate Sustainability;
Engagement Strategy Of Institutions;
Stewardship Role Of Institutions;
BlackRock;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Institutional Investing;
Accounting;
Corporate Disclosure;
Mission and Purpose;
Profit;
Environmental Sustainability;
Climate Change;
Diversity;
Corporate Accountability;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Deshpandé, Rohit, Aiyesha Dey, and George Serafeim. "BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit." Harvard Business School Case 120-042, January 2020. (Revised July 2020.)
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) and David Rosales (both HBS MBA 2010) had been troubled...
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- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Management and author of Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Lessons from Other Sectors. The environmental challenges we face are among the most important issues facing business. If, as current scientific research suggests, it would be prudent to remove 80 percent of...
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- 2013
- Book
Business and the Environment: Critical Perspectives in Business and Management
By: Susse Georg and Andrew J. Hoffman
Over the past four decades, the concept of corporate environmentalism has passed through multiple iterations. Prompted by landmark environmental events such the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), the Santa Barbara oil spill, the Cuyahoga River fire,...
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Georg, Susse, and Andrew J. Hoffman, eds. Business and the Environment: Critical Perspectives in Business and Management. 4 vols. Routledge, 2013.
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Year in Books 2016
4.0], via Wikimedia Commons; via LinkedIn; Brian Stauffer; via alumni.hbs.edu; Brian Doben; courtesy Barbara Keck; Edward Sibley Barnard and Neil Calvanese; Robb Dickehut
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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
jointly develops an offshore tract-performs relative to a solo firm. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy based on bids in first-price sealed-bid auctions for the rights to develop leases. By focusing on leases where one...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work,...
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Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society
and the Quest for Perfection. Drew Keller Director Drew Keller is the Director of BiGS. He is in charge of setting the direction of the Institute, in collaboration with the Senior Associate Dean, and leads the implementation of BiGS’s strategy. View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
joined Goldman Sachs, and in 1975 was the second person for GS in Japan and all of Asia, enabling GS to become one of the first six non-Japanese companies to hold a seat on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He was recognized in 1998 by Newsweek...
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PRIMO Alumni Profiles - Doctoral
economics. Read more about Jo here. Stella Jia UC Berkeley, Class of 2025 Stella Jia was born in the Bay Area and grew up in California. The unique presence of technology in the Bay Area led her to study statistics and data science at UC Santa View Details
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Questioning, Listening & Responding - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
C. Roland Christensen 1991 With Open Ears: Listening and the Art of Discussion Leading by Herman B. Leonard 2003 Socrates' Legacy:The Primacy of Asking by Robert F. Bruner 1993 Asking Questions View Details
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Board Use - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Professor Garvin describes how blackboards can be used to help pull together multiple parts of a class discussion. Transcript Suggested Reading 1993 Tools for Teaching by Barbara Davis 2002 Technology and...
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HBS - The year in Review
learners they serve while further strengthening their individual positions and managing their growth and long-term success. FY22 was marked by a return to in-person learning. For Executive Education this meant welcoming over 10,000...
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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Barbara Gross Davis 1991 The Discussion Teacher in Action: Questioning, Listening, and Response by C. Roland Christensen 1991 With Open Ears: Listening and the Art of Discussion Leading View Details
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What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization - Recruiting
critical foundation of anti-racism work. “We’re not talking about things that happened that long ago either,” she said. “MLK would be the same age as Barbara Walters if he was still alive. My grandfather could not vote until his 30s. The...
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Chalendar. Managing Talent Pipelines in the Future of Work, Harvard Business School case, 2019. With William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg. The Caring Company: How Employers Can Cut Costs And Boost Productivity By Helping...
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- 14 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
New MBA Course Asks Students: What’s More Important—Purpose or Profits?
Image: Professor Debora Spar in the classroom. Photo courtesy Natalie Keyssar. In a milestone for the School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, all first year students last month completed a short new course on the Social Purpose of the...
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