Filter Results
:
(5,971)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(5,971)
- People (9)
- News (1,026)
- Research (4,325)
- Events (16)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (3,196)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(5,971)
- People (9)
- News (1,026)
- Research (4,325)
- Events (16)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (3,196)
- 2022
- Interview
Prime Venture Partners Podcast: #104 Tarun Khanna, Professor, Harvard Business School, on Creating the Conditions to Create, The Value Of Trust & The Power of Diversity
By: Tarun Khanna and Shripati Acharya
Tarun Khanna, Professor at the Harvard Business School chats with Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners regarding: Creating the Conditions to Create, State of Entrepreneurship: India vs China, The Value of Trust in Entrepreneurship, Working with...
View Details
"Prime Venture Partners Podcast: #104 Tarun Khanna, Professor, Harvard Business School, on Creating the Conditions to Create, The Value Of Trust & The Power of Diversity." Prime Venture Partners Podcast, Prime Venture Partners, 2022.
- Web
Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting
year, HBS Interns play an important part in driving the Emerson Collective mission. Joanna Lichter, Associate Director of Venture Capital, plays a key role in recruiting HBS students to the MBA Summer Associate program. She shared with us why Emerson Collective...
View Details
- 2015
- Report
Clusters and Regional Economies: Implications for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Region
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Region, covering eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces located around the lakes and waterways that have given this region its name, is what economic developers call a 'macro region'. It is an area of intensive economic interaction...
View Details
Keywords:
Clusters;
Regional Policy;
Great Lakes;
Economic Development;
Industry Clusters;
Economy;
Canada;
United States
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Clusters and Regional Economies: Implications for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Region." Report, Conference of Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers, Chicago, IL, August 2015.
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
concluded that “trust in leadership positively affects employees’ job performance, overall job satisfaction, and commitment to their organizations.” One study of 6,500 Holiday Inn employees concluded that when they rated their trust in their View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 28 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Master the Team Meeting
monkeybusinessimages No matter how much we hate going to meetings, there’s a generally accepted best practice that teams should meet with their managers on a regular cadence. More often than not, unfortunately, I hear leaders and their...
View Details
Keywords:
by Julia Austin
- Article
Know Your Customers' 'Jobs to Be Done'
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan
Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building customer profiles and looking for correlations in data. To create...
View Details
Keywords:
Customer Relationship Management
Christensen, Clayton M., Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan. "Know Your Customers' 'Jobs to Be Done'." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 9 (September 2016): 54–62.
- 2017
- Book
Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship between the nineteenth century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who...
View Details
Keywords:
Environmental Entrepreneurship;
Green Business;
Sustainability;
Entrepreneurship;
Ethics;
Business History;
Religion;
Environmental Sustainability;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Banking Industry;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Alternative Energy Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Africa;
Asia;
Europe;
Latin America;
North and Central America;
Oceania
Jones, Geoffrey. Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Web
Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online
(ESG) factors, and measure and manage impact investments. 6 weeks, 5 hrs/week Enroll by September 19 $1,850 Certificate Alternative Investments Professors Victoria Ivashina, Randolph Cohen, & Arthur Segel Take your finance knowledge to...
View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
emerging. Various units operated as independent fiefdoms. In 1998, Fahey was named CEO, and the task was clear: build an organization to thrive for the next 100 years. To do so, he "assembled a management team of diverse backgrounds...
View Details
- 2018
- Working Paper
Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970
By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
This working paper provides a new perspective on how businesses have responded to political risk in South Asia and Latin America over the last half century. The existing business history literature on political risk is focused on the experiences of Western...
View Details
Keywords:
Business and Government Relations;
Risk Management;
Government and Politics;
Business History;
South Asia;
Latin America
Jones, Geoffrey, and Rachael Comunale. "Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-102, May 2018.
- May 2011
- Article
Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information
By: Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun
Over the past decade, one of the most important developments in the corporate loan market has been the increasing participation of institutional investors in lending syndicates. As lenders, institutional investors routinely receive private information about borrowers....
View Details
Ivashina, Victoria, and Zheng Sun. "Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information ." Journal of Financial Economics 100, no. 2 (May 2011): 284–303.
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
Looking ahead to a career in hedge funds, Hughes is enthusiastic. "Analyzing companies from a qualitative and quantitative perspective is a natural progression from case studies at HBS," she says. She credits Lone Pine founder and View Details
Keywords:
Charlie Hogg
- November 1991 (Revised June 1992)
- Case
AT&T: The Dallas Works (A)
Describes the organizational challenges facing an AT&T plant a few years after the breakup of AT&T. In an effort to empower workers and to unite the factory behind change, management proposes an unusual team-based approach to driving the change. Teaching Objective: To...
View Details
Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Groups and Teams;
Organizational Culture;
Telecommunications Industry;
Texas
Jick, Todd D. "AT&T: The Dallas Works (A)." Harvard Business School Case 492-023, November 1991. (Revised June 1992.)
- September 1999 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
WebSpective Software, Inc. (A)
By: Michael J. Roberts, Joseph B. Lassiter III, John T. Gourville and Sun Ming Wong
Describes the situation at WebSpective, a software company that develops products to help companies manage the network of servers that support their Websites. Describes the use of "concept engineering" tools to interview customers, determine their needs and the...
View Details
Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Management Practices and Processes;
Customers;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Product Development;
Product Marketing;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Customer Satisfaction;
Marketing Strategy;
Information Technology Industry
Roberts, Michael J., Joseph B. Lassiter III, John T. Gourville, and Sun Ming Wong. "WebSpective Software, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-136, September 1999. (Revised February 2004.)
- 2007
- Working Paper
Evidence from Goodwill Non-impairments on the Effects of Unverifiable Fair-Value Accounting
By: Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts
SFAS 142 requires firms to use unverifiable fair-value estimates to determine goodwill impairments. Standard setters suggest managers will use the discretion given by such estimates to convey private information on future cash flows, while agency theory predicts...
View Details
Ramanna, Karthik, and Ross L. Watts. "Evidence from Goodwill Non-impairments on the Effects of Unverifiable Fair-Value Accounting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-014, August 2007.
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
opposite. The results showed that hybrid workers produced more novel work than the other two groups, with managers subjectively rating their work as higher quality than the others. Choudhury notes that the new working paper may be the...
View Details
Keywords:
by Ben Rand
- March 2007 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
The New York Times Co.
The Sulzberger family owns 20% of the New York Times Co. (NYT) but controls 70% of the board through a dual-class share structure. At the company's April 2006 annual shareholder meeting, Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) and other investors, holding 28% of...
View Details
Keywords:
Family Business;
Investment Activism;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Publishing Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Villalonga, Belen, and Christopher Hartman. "The New York Times Co." Harvard Business School Case 207-113, March 2007. (Revised October 2008.)
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical integration. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49893 forthcoming Production and Operations View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels
as the time a Starbucks manager called police to arrest two Black men for loitering, though they were merely waiting for an acquaintance. “There are a lot of very negative consequences,” says Feldberg. “At one basic level, companies are...
View Details
Keywords:
by Pamela Reynolds