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- April 2011
- Case
Felipe Calderón: Leading with Light and Power (A)
By: J. Bruce Harreld and David Lane
This sequence of cases explores how leaders get their team focused on framing, analyzing, and ultimately acting upon complex decisions. The A case provides an inside look as President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, works with his cabinet ministers to decide how to...
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Crime and Corruption;
Decisions;
Public Sector;
Leadership;
Conflict and Resolution;
Power and Influence;
Urban Development;
Welfare or Wellbeing
Harreld, J. Bruce, and David Lane. "Felipe Calderón: Leading with Light and Power (A)." Harvard Business School Case 811-024, April 2011.
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
in Miller’s hometown. Deindustrialization was leading to the large-scale loss of urban jobs, increasing poverty in the city. While many Whites began moving to the suburbs, Black residents mostly remained in the city. After all, Black...
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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
clearer and clearer that dysfunction in Washington was continuing to deliver poor results for America and high dissatisfaction with the U.S. political system. Together, they applied Dr. Porter’s tools for understanding industry...
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Winners & Success Stories - New Venture Competition
build their cars. New Leaders for New Schools Monique Burns, MBA ’93, Benjamin Fenton, MBA ’00 New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS) is a national nonprofit organization devoted to improving education for all children by attracting and preparing the next generation of...
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Past Issues - Alumni
advance urban school achievement marks a decade of progress Complete Table of Contents March 2013 Sizing Up Social Impact Quantifying results in the social sector comes down to the tricky work of measuring social good A Healthy Profit How...
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
confront the bigger decision of whether or not to invest in solar panels to generate electricity for her home. Although pre-disposed to pursue environmentally friendly alternatives, the project entailed significant up-front expenses and Telkes could not afford to make...
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Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
response and communication. Be Mixed Cristina Ros Blankfein, Jennifer Ross Business Track Runner-Up Natural and zero-calorie mixer for cocktail sipping anytime, anywhere. 2015 Social Enterprise Track Focus Foods Julia Kurnik, Geoff Becker Social Enterprise Track Winner...
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- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
prosperity for everyone." David Wittenberg added, "Experience shows that income inequality need not lead to disaster, provided that there are fair means for the poor to achieve their aspirations." Donna succinctly asked,...
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by James Heskett
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
campus change strategies for achieving equitable outcomes. Drawing from campus-based research projects sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern...
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- 14 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India
while aligning with the nation's ambitious goals for achieving net-zero emissions by 2070. Poor communities are usually at the receiving end of the worst impacts of climate change, coupled with unreliable energy, lack of timely...
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- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
imposes on society by securing subsidies, driving employees toward public welfare systems, creating urban sprawl, and destroying jobs in competing operations. Thus, juxtaposing these customer savings against the estimate cited by Fishman...
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- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
from Harvard Medicine's website. Troy Ameen Troy Ameen has set his sights on becoming a surgical administrator, a profession he thinks will well prepare him to one day run an urban hospital. In such a position, this rising fourth-year...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a high-quality urban institution, to serving on the Virginia Council of Higher Education, to funding the Batten Center for Entrepreneurship at UVA's Darden School of Business. Batten's biggest challenge these days, he says, is to...
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- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
take it to heart. Says Downing, a married father of three who has spent more than a decade volunteering in the poor urban neighborhoods of nearby Akron, “My true heroes are the pastors, social workers,...
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- 29 Sep 2015
- News
Juan Salgado Honored for Immigrant Education Efforts
Matthew Desmond also was honored with a MacArthur grant. His work has explored the effects of eviction on the urban poor and has exposed how eviction is actually a cause of poverty rather than a symptom....
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- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Sphere of Influence
Analisa Balares (MBA 2005) was born into a poor family, but her life path crossed different strata of Philippine society, from the ultra-wealthy to the urban poor. A student leader from the age of 13, she...
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- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Case for Coffee
Dixon, who is director of TechnoServe’s operations in Tanzania, explained the bigger picture. Noting that completely eradicating poverty is not a feasible goal for TechnoServe, Dixon observed that “if you are going to be poor, it is better to be View Details