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- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
Bad "side effects" produced by goal-setting programs include a rise in unethical behavior, over-focus on one area while neglecting other parts of the business, distorted risk preferences, corrosion of organizational culture, and reduced intrinsic motivation. One... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
Ford Foundation (A) (220026) by Shawn Cole , Michael Norris and T. Robert Zochowski FEBRUARY 2020 (REVISED JANUARY 2022) Darren Walker and his staff have been preparing for months to present the final proposal for Mission Related... View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
took off by the mid-1960s, and in 1956, along with a syndicate of other banks, Lehman Brothers made an initial public offering of the Ford Motor Company. Lehman Brothers also entered the field of commercial paper, issuing short-term debt... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
Ford v Ferrari. Only judges from the sound editing branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vote in the category. Interest is confined to a small group of experts, much like a group of VCs used to talking to each other.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
(although the existence of the canal remained important), and the guarantee of the Neutrality Treaty, then the Panama Canal treaties start to look like a no-brainer and that is why Harry Truman first proposed "ditching the Big Ditch," andLyndon Johnson,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
which opened in late January, stars Brendan Fraser as Crowley, Keri Russell as Aileen, and Harrison Ford as Dr. Robert Stonehill, a composite of the doctors who treated the Crowley children and researched a treatment. Extraordinary... View Details
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Screen Time
iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to enjoy one another’s company in person, the group didn’t miss a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity
Technology and Operations Management course. Professor Myers studies the economics of innovation. His... Das Narayandas Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration Das Narayandas is the Edsel Bryant View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech
enough to join Ford as a Machine Learning Researcher. I wrote software, generated intellectual property, and talked about autonomous vehicles in international industry conferences. In late 2018, I realized that commercially launching... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
and Labor created Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 Ford doubles factory wages and shortens workday Labor Secretary position created Worker shortage: Unions double membership and increase wages Influence: Medium-Low 20 1920 s 19 Union... View Details
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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Coney Island Prep Connecticut Office of the Governor Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Detroit Economic Growth Corporation Dillard University Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Endeavor Global Environmental Defense Fund Equal Justice Initiative Federal Bureau of... View Details
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
crucial projects we really need to get done. In fact, when we are distracted from a task, it can take 19 minutes to refocus on what we were doing, according to creativity expert Teresa Amabile, Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
managing teams within the project. Before HBS, I was an engineer at Ford Motor. As a project leader on a team of engineers from both Mazda and Ford, I experienced many of the organizational challenges described in the case—working across... View Details
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
programs of treatment providers like Hazelden Betty Ford and Caron Treatment Centers. His ultimate message is one of hope. That’s what he didn’t know in the beginning: “I wish I had known that there was hope, a lot of hope, and that... View Details
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
what the boss is doing all day. For all of the minute-to-minute monitoring of employee performance from the time of Henry Ford onward, it's amazing how little any of us really know about how CEOs of major companies spend their time.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
1989 about service in the auto industry, Ford Motor Co.: Dealer Sales and Service, puts it best: “Nothing much has changed over 25 years. The experience is still generally awful.” Sure, there have been pockets of customer-service... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
Katherine Miller. When Koehn recently taught "Madam C.J. Walker" in her MBA course Entrepreneurial Leadership: Past, Present, and Future, her students in turn discussed Walker's rise against a historical backdrop dominated by hard-driving industrialists such... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, reflected on her research and its impact in an essay in Perspectives on Psychological Science, Educating Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World (pdf). More recently, she... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
many others. However, much of the focus of policy and media is on manufacturing and the workforce, especially with electric vehicles. One recent example is that the Loan Programs Office in the Department of Energy announced a conditional $9.2 billion loan for BlueOval... View Details
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
Finance, Financial Innovation for Social Change Introduction: Ford Foundation, the Other 95% Show Hide Details Concepts Pay for Success Leveraging the Entire Institution for Change The Evolution of Capitalism Featured Exercises Assess... View Details