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Leading Toward a Better World? Filling the Gaps of Globalization By Prof. Rosabeth Moss Kanter Special Featured Contributor Seven months ago the horrible terrorist attacks on the United States precipitated a crisis addressed in the short-term by military actions and security measures.
However overused the aphorism may be, knowledge is power when it comes to negotiating your job offer. When you hear those reassuring words "We'd like to offer you the job," don't make the mistake of thinking your research is over. Arm yourself with all the relevant data to close the deal and achieve the best outcome.
Drawing to close a long, contentious relationship between the famous Black Studies professor Cornell West and Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, The New York Times reported Saturday that Professor Cornell West will leave Harvard for Princeton. Princeton University confirmed Prof.
On Friday, as the keynote speaker for the Mobius Forum, Deepak Chopra spoke to a crowded Spangler Auditorium on the subject of "The Soul of Leadership." Chopra, a world-renowned author on the subject of spiritualism who often relates principles of quantum physics to Eastern philosophy, told the crowd that "a leader is the symbolic soul of a group, and that group can be a family or a nation.
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/Books The MouseDriver Chronicles by John Lusk and Kyle Harrison Perseus Publishing, 2002 The MouseDriver Chronicles is a likable book chronicling the experience of two Wharton MBAs from the class of 1999 who started a company. If their learning experience came out of the dot.
My classmates and I are writing a paper on the Dabhol Power Project in India. We have been able to track events related to the project in the news but now we are at the stage where we are digging deeper into the details of the project. We would like to find analysis of the project in critically detailed articles-also the name of a major criteria Indian periodical would be particularly helpful.
We would like to address two key issues (the use of Quranic verses out of context and the definition of Jihad) in the Saudi Arabia case that are very offensive to the Muslim students at HBS and play to many of the negative perceptions surrounding Islam and the Quran.
Two weeks ago, Lord John Browne, CEO of BP, spoke to a crowded Burden Auditorium about the virtues of BP and global corporate citizenship. In his speech, he defended globalization and multinational corporations such as his own and suggested that corporations can play a vital, if limited, role in securing social welfare around the globe.
Last week, Time Magazine dropped a "B-Bomb" on HBS women and career-oriented women everywhere that makes the "H-Bomb" look like carpet static. In an article about the new book by economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, the author tells every reader what she wonders why her gynecologist hasn't been telling her for years.
A wave of prospective members of the HBS Class of 2004 will arrive on campus this Friday for Admitted Students Weekend. The weekend will provide for many the first peek behind the curtain at the place that they will call home for the next two years. As they embark on their journey towards an MBA, they leave behind them the most uncertain U.
As soon as I returned from Project Outreach on Saturday, April 6, I was in pain, but oh, it felt so good. After raking and bagging leaves and spreading mulch around a lawn for several hours with fellow section mates and partners from OB, my backache helped me realize that our efforts to help a local non-profit were tangible, observable and more importantly, fun! On Saturday, nearly 200 HBS students, partners and staff woke up very early to participate in Project Outreach, an annual HBS community service event, organized by HBS Volunteers.
