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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
world are declaring a climate emergency and a growing number of whistleblowers are coming out to tell the truth. What would telling the truth mean for your business? Supporting people to engage in social movements. Ecosia pays the legal fees for their View Details
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Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen
Australia, but he seized an opportunity to change the culture of ConocoPhillips itself, becoming the co-founder of the company's first LGBT employee group. Over the course of four years, Sergio and his colleagues moved ConocoPhillips'...
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- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
she increased Nabisco Biscuit's profits by more than 50 percent. Astutely observing the public's growing concern about nutrition and health, she then led the 1992 launch of SnackWell's line of cookies and crackers, which pioneered low-fat...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped the girl off the bridge. And so John D. MacDonald (MBA ’39) begins another book, with an opening line so deft it makes other writers want to give up and call it a career....
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- 05 Jul 2021
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Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/skynesher) I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. My vehicle was the only Ford product in a sea...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
crossing a solid white line in order to maintain the flow of traffic. Transparency will build trust Ultimately, getting to commonsense AVs will involve more of a gradual process than a single testing event. Even after an AV is deployed,...
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- 20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink...
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- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust...
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- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
Flick reached the soccer Olympus in line with manager icons Sir Alex Ferguson, José Mourinho, and “Pep” Guardiola. Indeed, while the aforementioned legends led the superior soccer team at the time through a glory season, Flick took over a...
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- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
"Better to be quiet and thought a fool than to talk and be known as one." The social virtues of silence are reinforced by our survival instincts. Many organizations send the message—verbally or nonverbally—that falling into line...
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by Leslie A. Perlow
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
social distancing measures to keep the operations running and their employees safe. In addition to the use of PPE and temperature checks, PetFoodCo applied social distancing by parceling production workers into small teams that could run...
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- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
by the end of the year." Andrus's experiences and the strategy she employed dovetail nicely with the best advice we heard from a number of self-management experts. Here are their suggestions for overburdened managers. Get Out In View Details
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by Paul Michelman
- 03 Jul 2008
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Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
According to Mohammad Razipour, "In business, where we are talking about 'co-creation,' 'integration,' 'participation,' and 'collective wisdom,' we should not draw a sharp line between ... them (leadership and followership)."...
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by Jim Heskett
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
podcast. But since we have an entrepreneur-founder in front of us, I wonder if you can talk a little bit about what are the basics of that process? So you figure we need some capital in order to invest in the app and pay salaries of...
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- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
voice of the impartial spectator. With my coauthors I applied this framework to designing a savings product for a bank in the Philippines that helps clients act in line with their long-term interests. In this "commitment savings...
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by Ann Cullen
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
Yeah. And that's such an important question because it's easy to say that, but how do you do it? Because those who can afford it the least get impacted the most. Unfortunately that's how life works. So some examples of how we did that with compassion. We told all of...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
the Colorado Sun. The acquisition was backed by a mix of national and local impact investors. “While impact capital has made a huge difference in other social-problem areas, there has been no front door for impact capital in the news...
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- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
natural, conversational manner." One of the biggest challenges Stack and Burton faced was training Tate's hundreds of employees to produce digital content. They started with a dedicated digital crew, who worked with curators and...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
"performance-oriented culture" to the 117-year-old firm. "No one," she says, "wants to take on people who've worked [at the company] for 25 years." Why Nisa could challenge entrenched employees and the historical norms at Godrej...
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