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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020
Authority Ratnika Prasad, Environmental Defense Fund David Reiff, Social Finance Perri Smith, Boston Medical Center Liz Su, Boston Children’s Hospital Wendy Ying, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority...
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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
of an airliner. Hundreds of hours may go into gathering and analyzing data to sort out exactly what happened and what can be learned. Compare this kind of analysis to what takes place in most organizations after a failure. As noted above, View Details
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by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault
equally, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, The Loveland Foundation, Reclaim the Block, and The Bail Project.” The GoFundMe page for the newly formed Anti-Racism Fund raised $40,000 in less than 12 hours, with donations quickly...
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Pre-1950 Founder43% Family Business26% Other CEO31% US 1950 & After Founder32% Family Business14% Other CEO54% THE 20th CENTURY ZEITGEIST Six contextual factors deeply influenced the opportunities available to 20th century business leaders: Demographics Technology...
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
McDonald. Michael W. Toffel: Winner of the 2023 Case Centre Award in the Ethics and Social Responsibility category for “Global Sourcing at Nike” (HBS Case 619-008) with Nien-hê Hsieh and Olivia Hull. Michael W. Toffel: Recipient of the...
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- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World...
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- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
BREAKTHROUGHS PEOPLE THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE A YEAR AGO.” HOME REGION Wayne, PA UNDERGRAD EDUCATION College of William & Mary, Economics, 2014 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Verily, Google, Symplivety HBS ACTIVITIES Digital Impact Initiative, The Future Society, Health Care Club,...
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- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
States, Neeley argues that an organization’s lingua franca is the catalyst by which all employees become some kind of “expat”(someone detached from their mother tongue or home culture). Through her unfettered access to the inner workings of Rakuten, she reveals three...
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- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
strong foundation of facts and a very comprehensive search for the facts. At the same time, he was an incredibly systematic thinker and researcher, a social scientist in the truest sense of the word. If you looked at his desk at 1010...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Work-Family Research from the Boston College Center for Work and Family and Purdue University Center for Families for "Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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High Fives
he's wrong.' I did. The rest is history.” Investment outlook over the next five years: “It's hard to be bullish on the U.S. equity market, which continues to go up. We're not going to be in a permanent expansion with little inflation forever. So Sanford Bernstein has...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
Viruses are out there, waiting to strike, and vaccinations are our best defense. But that defense is a man-made system, and therefore subject to breakdowns. In a talk titled “The Significance of Vaccines in Global Health,” Merck CEO...
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- 12 Jul 2018
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In the Market for Environmental Change
Amendments to the Clean Air Act. “The Environmental Defense Fund derives its programmatic focus from markets. Markets, in their belief, can create much faster, more complete change than mandates from government agencies and others, not...
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- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
Negotiation to Gendered NegotiationsHow does gender affect negotiations within organizations or rather how do organizations affect gender relations? Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
important to the defense side as to the attacking side. Novartis has 138 drugs in its pipeline, more than any of its competitors. How has the company become so successful at creating a culture of innovation? Initially, we spent a lot of...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leadership Fellows
Defense Fund; Landon Dickey, City of Boston Mayor's Office; front row: Jane Silfen, The Trust for Governors Island; Megan Brown, Boston Redevelopment Authority; Miki Heller, Teach For America; Gena Haugen, Consumer Financial Protection...
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- 22 Mar 2016
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Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
important to support Harvard Business School on an ongoing basis.” After studying engineering at Georgia Tech, Bill George came to HBS because it was a school for business leaders. Upon earning his MBA, he and six classmates worked for the US Department of View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Taking up the issue of climate change
1988, we were thinking about bringing a child into the world and really became focused on the environment," recalls Horn. He subsequently joined the board of the Natural Resources Defense Council, "arguably the most effective...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
strengthen and scale three of the top nonprofit organizations in Rio de Janeiro. In February 2014, Goodwin took on new roles as Mattel's director of corporate affairs and executive director of the Mattel Children's Foundation. Previously, he held senior positions at...
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