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Curriculum - Business & Environment
context of a company that provides a vital public service that has important environmental implications. The Role of ESG in Investment Strategy Marketing Aleph Farms: A New Culture of Meat Aleph Farms, an Israeli food-tech start-up, was...
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- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
sheet to provide immediate rewards to investors. Don’t nod off at this point. Agency theory is much more than just a dry concept; it has had a profound impact on the way corporations have been managed for...
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by James Heskett
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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Opportunities Upswell Forum The mission of Upswell is to accelerate the impact of social entrepreneurs moving their organizations from start-up to growth phase, with a focus on organizations serving communities of color. The Forum View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
in a thriving business when a job offer comes from a company you’ve always admired that’s on the brink of bankruptcy. The risks are tremendous but so are the potential rewards – to you and society. This situation brings to mind the...
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- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
department stores such practices are often tolerated. This leniency when moderately exhibited is widely seen as "good" practice, a small favor done to reward deserving employees, and as such qualifies as a moral gray zone....
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
a fixed cost, had increased even faster than sales. Despite the tripling in sales, margins had declined by one percentage point and the company had just incurred its first loss in decades. Rather than SG&A costs being fixed or even...
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by Robert S. Kaplan
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
management as its core educational organizing framework. The Required Curriculum has historically had a core course in general management and The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) provides a powerful context in which to learn about general...
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 17 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Section I Celebrates Parents, Mentors, and Partners Day
esteemed LEAD professor. Even students who did not have external guests present enthusiastically joined the audience, providing their support and applause for our guest participants. It was a celebration of collaborative learning and...
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
manufacturer. 68 Booth provided dealers with the "Polaroid Promotion Plan" that detailed the timing, logistics, and value of newspaper ads, training sessions, and demonstrations of the camera in order, Booth asserted, "to stage a dramatic...
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- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
simply providing a stretch goal. Additionally, there is a growing set of research that shows "learning or mastery" goals have much more positive effects on performance and internal motivation than "performance" goals. Q: Your paper is...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
provide quality products at a low price to low- and fixed-income consumers. Kmart, by contrast, couldn't seem to decide whether it was focusing on low- or middle-income consumers. What's more, it got distracted by a major foray into...
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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Teaching by the Case Method Diversity and Inclusion Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Pre-Class Arrival Diversity and Inclusion Openings Cold Calling Questioning, Listening & Responding Transitions Closings Timing Participation Engagement Board Use Teaching...
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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
person? Once this question is asked, it is quite amazingly simple to answer. Clearly, every job must provide an opportunity to fulfill, to some reasonable degree, all four drives. In other words, every job needs to View Details
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
The Harvard Business School MBA faculty and staff are dedicated to providing students with a global education in leadership to fulfill HBS’ mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world. From designing courses to...
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- 09 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs
Fortune 500 companies reportedly provide mentoring opportunities to new employees. Data on the effectiveness of these programs are thin, so Stanton and his colleagues sought to find out whether mentorship programs actually influence...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 11 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise
open doors and set me up for success. Networks are critical in providing exposure and access to opportunities — and without them, I would never have broken into or thrived in Wall Street or Silicon Valley as a woman of color. I came to...
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- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
academic approaches to date has provided an entirely coherent picture of the process, in part because of the contradictory models of the process that they generate. The article goes on to consider the planning processes that are involved...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder
sure employees were being honest in their beliefs about others’ compensation, the researchers, working with the bank’s HR department, offered monetary rewards for employees who accurately guessed the average salaries of others. They found...
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by Rachel Layne
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
stories. Indeed, all of these intermediaries are in the business of matching consumers with products. Trouble is, prior to visiting an intermediary, consumers are interested only in some products, which may not necessarily be the ones that yield the highest View Details
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by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien