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- 13 Dec 2015
- News
How to deal with the ‘toxic’ workers who harm a business
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
management itself, the times seem ripe for reopening the question of what exactly this institution is for, what functions we as a society want it to perform, and how well it is performing them. Great Depression Rekindles the Drive for... View Details
- November 2009
- Case
Finance Myopia in a Systems Business
By: J. Bruce Harreld
This short case describes the tensions that often arise between finance executives attempting to curtail unproductive activities and strategy executives trying to optimize overall firm performance. View Details
Keywords: Finance; Managerial Roles; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Conflict and Resolution; Strategy; Competition
Harreld, J. Bruce. "Finance Myopia in a Systems Business." Harvard Business School Case 810-071, November 2009.
- 2022
- Book
Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies
By: Ranjay Gulati
This book offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right. Few business topics have aroused more skepticism in recent... View Details
Keywords: Purpose; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Performance Effectiveness; Organizational Culture
Gulati, Ranjay. Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies. New York: Harper Business, 2022.
- June 2, 2020
- Article
How to 'Re-engineer' Your Business for Safety
By: Hubert Joly
Process reengineering was a massive trend in the 1990s. By focusing on improving either cost, quality, or service, a company could gain benefits in all three categories. Today, the principles that underpin process reengineering can be applied anew, with safety as a... View Details
Keywords: Re-engineering; COVID; Safety; Performance Improvement; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Joly, Hubert. "How to 'Re-engineer' Your Business for Safety." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (June 2, 2020).
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2021, over 60 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
organizational values and business ethics, Paine focused on U.S. companies engaged in business principally at home. But faced with an increasing number of questions from international students about whether... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
America small-business owners moved quickly when COVID-19 started shuttering shops in March. Fine dining restaurants shifted to takeout. Book shops introduced curbside pickup. Gyms offered classes online. Business owners, it seemed, just... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
Lost sales. Friction. Inefficiency. These are dirty words in the world of business, and they are inevitabilities for companies that don't watch their language, so to speak. Harvard Business School Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- June 2016
- Teaching Note
N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business
By: David A. Garvin
N12 Technologies was a startup founded in 2010 that employed nanotechnology to manufacture a patented material to improve the performance of carbon fiber composites, which were used in a wide variety of products, ranging from bicycles to automobiles to aircraft parts.... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Organizational Structure; Nanotechnology; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Management Systems; Commercialization; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Bicycle Industry; Transportation Industry; United States
- Web
Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First Big View Details
- July 2019
- Case
Piramal Foundation: The Business of Philanthropy
By: Vikram Gandhi and Mahima Rao-Kachroo
The Piramal Foundation was launched by diversfied Indian conglomerate, the Piramal Group, to improve the healthcare services and quality of education of India’s economically and socially disadvantaged. The foundation operates under three verticals—‘Piramal Foundation... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Education; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Improvement; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; Health Industry; India
Gandhi, Vikram, and Mahima Rao-Kachroo. "Piramal Foundation: The Business of Philanthropy." Harvard Business School Case 520-011, July 2019.
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
McGinn, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, established a set of field studies in which female second-years researched the reasons behind differing academic performances between male and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities
The Africa Business Club hosted its first-ever conference at the School on January 30. The relatively new club, founded in 1997 to help increase awareness at HBS of business and career opportunities on the... View Details
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Interorganizational Alliances and the Performance of Firms: A Study of Growth and Innovation Rates in a High-technology Industry
Keywords: Organizations; Alliances; Performance; Business Ventures; Growth and Development; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology; Information; Technology Industry
Stuart, Toby E. "Interorganizational Alliances and the Performance of Firms: A Study of Growth and Innovation Rates in a High-technology Industry." Strategic Management Journal 21, no. 8 (August 2000): 791–811.
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Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
public sector organization, or for-profit social enterprise are eligible to apply to the Program. Eligible Organizations An approved tax-exempt organization in the United States with 501(c) (3) status of the Internal Revenue Code which View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- HBS Seminar
Teck Ho, University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description of the rise and impact of business models that are premised on harvesting and... View Details
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