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  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

they possess or in the ways they are treated. While interventions derived from these approaches, such as training and executive development, affirmative action, and work-family policies, have achieved significant equity gains for women, their View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

companies that rely on employees from around the world to help the firms capitalize on the promise of their global reach and resources. Global teams, however, face significant challenges; physical separation and demographic differences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

reference points and it’s made me a better leader in navigating these issues.” To tackle issues facing his company and employees, Soo considers the impact of policy, social change, health, and education in... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

ever-growing e-commerce site, and fierce competition, Amoruso wondered what opportunity to tackle next. Should she concentrate on product line expansion into lingerie, swimwear, cosmetics, and fragrances? How would a brick and mortar store View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo

work, she’s continued to drive impact through her current five Corporate/Non-Profit boards helping to strengthen their governance and commitment to diversity and inclusion. So I knew at an early age that I wanted to go to business school... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and enforcement of government regulation. In this paper, we argue that the considerable moral hazard associated with private regulatory monitoring can be mitigated by understanding conflicts of interest in the monitoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)

out really well for me! Where are you currently working? Can you describe your role? I graduated from HBS in 2017 and have since raised ~$100M and co-founded three companies: one battery metals mining company and two oil and gas... View Details
  • April 2010 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

The Dannon Company: Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility (A)

By: Christopher Marquis, Pooja Mehta Shah, Amanda Elizabeth Tolleson and Bobbi Thomason
At the end of 2009, The Dannon Company was considering pro actively communicating its CSR efforts to consumers. With the strong connection between Dannon's production of health foods and its commitment to health and nutrition-based CSR activities, communicating these... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Nutrition; Marketing Communications; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 2015
  • Chapter

Leading Socially Responsible, Value-Creating Corporations

By: Daniel A Brown, Rakesh Khurana and James O'Toole
We explore the role of the corporate leader in creating value for stakeholders throughout three eras: one of naïve idealism, one of naïve cynicism, and an emerging era of rugged idealism. We explain how the role of the corporate leader and society's perceptions of this... View Details
Keywords: Stakeholder Management; Value; Shared Value; Institution; Business School; Stakeholder Engagement; Value Creation; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Alignment; Business Education; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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  • 11 Oct 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

"Short term, the solution is to require companies to fully fund and expense their current retirement contributions/obligations. Ouch!" Gerald Schultz agreed, saying, "I believe that in the end it comes down to 'pay as you... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Web

Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020

interactive exhibit exploring how it affects companies and the business innovations that can mitigate its impact or facilitate adaptation. The exhibit’s aim was to shift the paradigm of “business as usual”... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2023
  • News

Leading the Way

Foundation (BALF) has impacted the lives of thousands of underserved youth like Trejo in Arizona, and currently serves more than 14,000 middle, high school, and college students annually. Be A Leader programming—offered in partnership... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Firm Foundation

you’re focused on is maximizing short-term value, we tell a family or founder-owner, go hire a banker and sell to private equity. That will maximize your dollars today,” she says. “But if you really care about where your company ends up,... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

David M. Upton Abstract This paper examines how a company sets out to build an operations-based advantage. In particular, we investigate the implementation of a lean operating system at an Indian software services firm. By studying the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Mar 2021
  • News

Leading with Heart

share with everybody that at the end of the eight-week marathon, I would typically ask a couple of students to tell their story about their company or about themselves. And in my class, I remember your sharing that journey of yours. By... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

What are you doing, and how are you training these people who are creating these disasters? MORE Hear Professor Luca discuss how platform companies like Airbnb can reduce bias online in this episode of Cold Call. MORE: Hear Professor Luca... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • 02 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

business practices, allowed businesses to connect with students at the individual level. At the same time, the creation of platforms for business-education learning brought system-level improvements. In particular, MCBRE's board of advisors meetings brought together... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Full Court Press

On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • July 2019 (Revised November 2022)
  • Case

Momofuku Ando and the Globalization of Noodles

By: Geoffrey Jones and Megumi Takada
This case examines the entrepreneurial career of Momofuku Ando, the Taiwanese-born Japanese entrepreneur who pioneered instant boodles with his Chicken Ramen (1958) and Cup Noodle (1971) products. It begins by reviewing his many previous unsuccessful ventures,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Failure; Success; Globalization; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan
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  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

consistency between instrument, research question, and context. Paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1838538   Working PapersGrowth through Heterogeneous Innovations Authors:Akcigit, Ufuk, and William R. Kerr Abstract We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel