Tag: Business
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Two HBS professors win prize for sustainability issues in curricula
HBS professors Forest L. Reinhardt and Michael W. Toffel share the 2009 D. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for sustainability issues in business curricula.
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HBS professor named fellow
Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner has been named a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute.
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Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face — and What to Do About It
Richard Tedlow, the M.B.A. Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration, says denial is everywhere — even in business. He examines why leaders let denial threaten companies, and provides case studies of organizations that have met challenges head-on.
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Kanter honored by Good Housekeeping Magazine
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair/director of the Interfaculty Initiative on Advanced Leadership, has been named one of the “125 women who changed our world” over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping in the May 2010 issue (released April 13) for the magazine’s…
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One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy
Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Robert G. Eccles and his co-writer explain how business’s use of integrated and transparent reporting of financial and nonfinancial results adds value to companies, their shareholders, and the overall sustainability of society.
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Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry
From the emergence of the beauty industry in the 19th century, Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, traces such beauty bastions as Coty, Estée Lauder, and Avon, and how they made beauty a full-time fascination and business.
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Deadline approaches for John T. Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is accepting papers for a thesis prize for a graduating Harvard College senior.
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Seventeen faculty honored
Seventeen Harvard University faculty members are among the 229 leaders in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector who have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Battling climate change on all fronts
Harvard’s research spans the gamut from the sciences to the humanities, examining key questions about this critical challenge facing humanity.
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HBS faculty win McKinsey Awards
Three Harvard Business School professors, Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration; Willy C. Shih, professor of management practice; and Clayton M. Christensen, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, were recently honored with 2009 McKinsey Awards, presented by the Harvard Business Review and the management consulting firm…
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(Re)(Organize) for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business
The customer is always right, but we’re always getting taken. Ranjay Gulati, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, prods businesses to readjust their resilience and mend the bridge connecting consumers with companies.
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Finance expert Gordon Donaldson dies at 87
Gordon Donaldson, an influential Harvard Business School (HBS) professor, mentor, researcher, and administrator from 1955 to 1993, died on Feb. 12 in Parkland, Fla., at the age of 87.
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Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace
Holder of dual appointments in Harvard’s Business and Law Schools, Subramanian utilizes theories of negotiating and auctioning to deliver this guide to successful transactions in today’s marketplace.
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One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making
The Harvard Business School’s Marco Iansiti teams up with Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky to disclose collaborative knowhow on strategizing and mobilizing large-scale operational projects, using 2009’s unleashing of Windows 7 as a prime example.
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Scott Duke Kominers receives 2010 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize
Scott Duke Kominers ’09, a student in the Harvard Business Economics Ph.D. program, was awarded the 2010 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student on Jan. 14 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco.
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Michael Jensen receives AFA award
Michael C. Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS), has received the 2009 Morgan Stanley-American Finance Association (AFA) Award for Excellence in Financial Economics.
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A tale of two continents
English professor Elisa New found her great-grandfather’s cane, and that spawned a twisting journey to find her family history, now relayed in a book.
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Around the Schools: Harvard Business School
Two Harvard Business School professors, Nancy F. Koehn and Rajiv Lal, have weighed in on the Harvard Business School Web site with their best estimates of how the holiday shopping season will play out. One sees a flat or slightly improved sales period, while the other is guardedly optimistic.
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Business journalist fellowship funded at Harvard
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University has received a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to establish a new fellowship for business reporters.
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Lorsch recognized by Directorship magazine
Jay Lorsch, the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at Harvard Business School (HBS), was named to Directorship magazine’s Corporate Governance Hall of Fame.
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Web Ads Hidden Under Cloak of Invisibility
Kraft Foods, Greyhound Lines and Capital One Financial have bought some strange ads on the Internet lately. What’s so strange about them is that they’re invisible.
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Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Business is about adapting and acting — and in an uncertain world, these authors prove that if you want to be a leader, you’ve got to have skills.
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HBS study goes inside the boardroom
A new report from Harvard Business School offers an inside look at some of the challenges facing the boards of directors of corporate America.
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If You Need to Work Better, Maybe Try Working Less
When members of 12 consulting teams at Boston Consulting Group were each required to take a block of “predictable time off” during every work week, “we had to practically force some professionals” to get away, says Leslie Perlow, the Harvard Business School leadership professor who headed the study.
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Harvard trio launches ‘collegiette’ guide to life
In March, the three Harvard students along with senior Kelly Peeler, who has since left the group because of other commitments, were among several winners at the university’s business plan competition.
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The Adventures of an IT Leader
Austin and Co. team up to create Jim, a fictional IT manager, who stumbles in his first-year duties only to (what else?) save the day. You’ll never look at your computer guy — or gal — the same way again.
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HKS presents Roy Family Environmental Award
Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS) will present the 2009 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership to the Mexico City Metrobus, a bus rapid transit system that reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions while improving the quality of life and transportation options in one of the largest cities in the world.
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Business not ready for flu, study says
Many American businesses are unprepared to deal with widespread employee absenteeism in the event of a swine flu outbreak, a Harvard School of Public Health study says. The survey, released yesterday, found that two-thirds of more than 1,000 businesses questioned said they could not maintain normal operations if half their workers were out for two…