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- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
scientist who can’t wait to get to the classroom to share the experiment. If you adopt this mindset, students will remain intellectually and spiritually in the classroom with you.” The Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice in...
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- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
their “agency” at every level will be in the best position to create change. Corporate social responsibility in action Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening Are product sales affected by the CEO's stance on...
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- 16 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Staying Under the 1.5°C Threshold: The Role of Government, Business, and Society
On Earth Day 2021, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative and the AMP199 Energy Circle co-hosted a conversation between Joan MacNaughton, Chair of the Climate Group and of the Advisory Board of the New Energy Coalition of Europe, and Professor Richard Vietor,...
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- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber and Talcott...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
for two reasons: 1) You can build dramatic tension by starting a list. How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs Malcolm Harper comments: Thank you, very much, for bringing this to my...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
For decades, the U.S. auto industry ruled America's economy, shaped the country's development, and influenced American culture and social mores. Now, buffeted by globalization and other powerful forces, it faces a moment of truth. The...
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- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
majority of them are not doing it effectively," says V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School. "If you look at the Fortune 100 companies, you'll find at least half of them could do...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
potential use of power, and motives. As Matthew Tuttle suggested, "Many of the traits are ... difficult to see in an interview." One answer to the challenge was suggested by Kirk Richardson: "There is only one true way to...
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by Jim Heskett
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
the world choosing a leader for an organization is a primary responsibility of a board of directors. But others tempered that judgment with a variety of cautions. Richard Belloff made the base case by saying "The Board should choose...
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- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
Ross to write the paper "Performance Pricing in Tough Times." Shapiro, an authority on marketing strategy and sales management, is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. Ross is a...
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- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
like to think we can gauge someone's sincerity and commitment by the look in her eyes or the firmness of her handshake. After all, a bargainer who yields to a demand is said to have "blinked." And if we reach agreement, it's...
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by Michael Wheeler
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus—nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy—are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or statistics. Yet as HBS professor...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
initiative's rapid progress has been aided greatly by the strength of the technology groundwork that has been established at the School over the past few decades. "This is not something brand new," notes Professor F. Warren McFarlan,...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi’s How to Be An Anti-Racist. I’ve been keen to re-read The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex...
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- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
Community training helps fight Ebola A new case study about Last Mile Health by HBS Senior Lecturer Brian L. Trelstad and V. Kasturi Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, outlines how CEO Raj...
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- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers struggle to match supply with demand. Many e-retailers are urging consumers to “buy early” this holiday season, citing concerns about postal services and shipping. Given capacity constraints placed upon retail stores by many...
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- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
other party and how that party viewed them. Wolfe is a research associate at Princeton, while McGinn is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In her office at Baker Library, McGinn discussed the...
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by Mallory Stark
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to writing a business plan, from how to market on social media to why...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 07 May 2015
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
The Low Risk Anomaly: Implications for Investment, Asset Allocation, and Corporate Finance
One of the basic principles of finance is that, in competitive and efficient markets, investors earn higher average returns only by taking greater risks. Asset classes follow this pattern: Stocks have returned more than bonds, and bonds have returned more than cash....
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