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11 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

life through a massive corporate effort designed to weave environmental thinking into every aspect of the business. "We believe that being environmentally conscious makes good competitive sense," he explains. "For example, we aggressively... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

if the fog of achievement and expectations has muted your passion's voice. If so, find opportunities within your overscheduled life to experiment. Keep at it until something inspires you. Second, integrate who you are into every aspect of... View Details

19 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

case study of a project in a Scandinavian life insurance company where the value network, an alternate value configuration analysis tool to the established value chain, was used to represent the company's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

landscape. Book: http://hbr.org/product/harder-than-i-thought-adventures-of-a-twenty-first/an/10332-HBK-ENG Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization Around Newcomer Self-expression Authors:Cable, Daniel M., Francesca Gino, and Brad Staats... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

times—get started on the right foot. “It really is possible to bottle up life experience and tacit knowledge and deconstruct it to accelerate the learning curve,” he says. Ng says that unlocking the best career opportunities requires job... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

of Hazleton Laboratories Corporation, a Virginia research and laboratory-services company, Nielsen returned to his native Washington State. “I had retired early and decided to devote the balance of my working life to something totally... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

23 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?

make big bets on projects I believed in." The implications for video retailers are a bit clearer. "As a retailer, you should expect that many titles will not sell at all, or in very small quantities, and organize... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Nov 2020
News

Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

evolution in the contract between employees and employers. The conversation also considered how the post-COVID workplace will be different, as technology and work modes continue to evolve. The next day, on October 21, HBS clubs around the world used The Future of Work... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

31 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 31

confident of the market potential for mobile payments, they recognized the challenges they faced in scaling their current business model. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811029-PDF-ENG Office of Technology Transfer—Shanghai Institutes for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

and want to make a difference on some of the world's big problems. We're close to finishing the first year and getting ready for the second year of fellows. I'm also working on "Smarter Cities, Smarter Communities," a project... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

second role, Takatsuka is in a project management position overseeing the work of two interns. The company provides an education program for the top 5% of engineers graduating from college in Nigeria to connect them with top worldwide... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship

23 Aug 2018
News

Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming

from fellow health care leaders,” says Jon Puz (MBA 2008), who started the VRT program. “What started as a pilot project involving around two dozen alumni attendees, is now entering its eighth year with several thousand alumni having... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Health, Social Assistance

23 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

porous as possible.—Karim R. Lakhani The result has been a product that even academics regularly consult. In late 2005, the scientific journal Nature conducted a study comparing 42 science articles in Wikipedia with the online version of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

presided over the development of the empirical social sciences to address questions of labor regulation and control within manufacturing industries. Next, we look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

could have been a satisfying coda to a project that had begun more than a decade prior. As it turned out, though, her research also led to a groundbreaking and successful lawsuit against the British government; an upcoming feature film;... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

approach. The authors draw on years of research and teaching to deliver a truly interactive learning experience. The case studies cover all areas of corporate finance, including capital structure, financing needs, and project and company... View Details

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

Nohria explained his belief that people's life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical equipment manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life and reduce social inequality” (JohnfrmClevelnd). Or, it prompts... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy

our wind, solar, and battery storage development efforts in a few different regions. I got a lot of really amazing experience from an operator perspective, and I learned about how renewable energy projects are built and all of the... View Details

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