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- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
is creating a path for the next generation of business leaders to engage in nonpartisan political reform (photo by Stephen Voss) In 2017 Ballou-Aares cofounded the Leadership Now Project and left her...
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- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In mid-June, weeks after protests against racial injustice spread globally, the Leadership Now Project—founded in 2017 by HBS alumni to fix American democracy—released the...
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- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
provided excellent comparative data of the kind that we have seen all too little in the public debate on the matter. And nearly everyone admirably avoided the political rhetoric that has clouded rational thought about a truly complex...
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- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does disaster change leadership goals? What signals should leaders send...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy by John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz (HBS Press) Professor Quelch and Research Associate Jocz demonstrate marketing's critical role in the growth and governance of societies and how good marketing improves the View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
School’s Dylan Minor, visiting assistant professor in the Strategy unit. But before you rise up tall in the saddle against politicians, consider another of Minor’s findings: The connection between risk taking and corruption is likely to apply just as well in many types...
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by Roberta Holland
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
character and leadership qualities of several prominent figures, past and present — including President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) — whose work has had broad social or political implications. “It’s not a...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Man with a Mission
he hired him to head OU’s leadership programs and to work with its International Programs Center and other campus initiatives as an inspirational role model for students. And who wouldn’t he inspire? A helicopter pilot and now a major in...
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- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
of these economic differences and differences in the principles that people believe most deeply in, we are seeing large and increasingly firm political differences,” he says. “The majority of Americans appear to be strongly and...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these systems challenge the...
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- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
well known for decades: general management. The old way, centered around cases involving the leadership of large corporations, was not working. (I can speak from experience, because I led one of the unsuccessful efforts.) Student...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Field 2 Gives Students Hands-On Exposure To Business Practices In Malaysia
capital as part of FIELD 2, the second module of the required course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development. She and her five teammates helped Groupon Malaysia explore the potential for developing its own loyalty program....
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- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
agency is also feeling growing pains. Its 9,000 employees and $1.95 billion budget are straining to meet the demands of technological and global change. It has lost key senior managers, and low morale is a growing problem. Can the FDA retain its View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
meetings with heads of major European companies in which questions about American leadership have been raised. What's new, at least in my experience, is that the questions aren't confined to political...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
In the early 1970s, as Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) graduated from HBS, Islam was flexing both religious and political muscles that had long been dormant. It came to a head with Iran’s 1979 revolution, an uprising against the ruling View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
and 2020—will see other young men and women enter the political arena. I’m a longtime student of Howard Schultz and what he’s done at Starbucks. His leadership and how it is expanding the social and View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
foundering parent as CEO in the early 1990s. "Both Bain and the SLOC were dispirited organizations suffering from leadership crises," Romney observes. "Both had financial problems and needed new clients. And both were negatively affected...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
outstanding private-sector success story: Professor Kanter. Samuel F. Heffner III (MBA ’70) Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Right Wing, Left Wing, West Wing HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter cites 25 years of right-wing ideology as contributing to today’s so-called View Details
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- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
the discouraging trends she sees are political and religious attacks that stifle science and innovation; growing unease and pressure in the workplace; too few companies recognizing obligations to their communities as well as to their...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
Education classes,” he notes, “we often focus on the actions and strategies of political leaders because they offer compelling examples that are familiar to everyone.” Mills’s new book, Masters of Illusion: American View Details