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- 07 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West
teamed with Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche to present a conference on "mindful leadership," a secular process to explore the roles of self-awareness and self-compassion in developing strong and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2012
- News
Larry Page's Lost Voice Provokes Widespread Worry
- 2019
- Working Paper
Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to Environmental Sustainability. Past Roads and Future Prospects
By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Shawn A. Cole, John Ehrenfeld, Andrew A. King and Auden Schendler
This working paper examines key barriers to business sustainability discussed at a multidisciplinary conference held at the Harvard Business School in 2018. Drawing on perspectives from both the historical and business literatures, speakers debated the historical...
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Keywords:
Environmental Sustainability;
Problems and Challenges;
History;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Opportunities
Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, Shawn A. Cole, John Ehrenfeld, Andrew A. King, and Auden Schendler. "Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to Environmental Sustainability. Past Roads and Future Prospects." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-067, January 2019.
- 17 Nov 2008
- News
Team 'Chimerica'
Aticus Peterson
Aticus Peterson (apeterson@hbs.edu) is a PhD candidate in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on how entrepreneurs and investors can... View Details
- June 2004 (Revised September 2006)
- Case
Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO
The large food service company SYSCO has decided to purchase business intelligence (BI) software, a technology intended to provide superior monitoring and analysis capabilities. Twila Day, assistant vice president of technology and applications, is in charge of the BI...
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Change Management;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Decision Making;
Management Systems;
Distribution Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
McAfee, Andrew P., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO." Harvard Business School Case 604-080, June 2004. (Revised September 2006.)
Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of...
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- December 2021
- Case
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Assessing Risk in Carlos Ghosn's International Escape
By: Eugene F. Soltes, Grace Liu and Muneeb Ahmed
In 2018, automotive tycoon Carlos Ghosn was arrested in Japan on financial misreporting charges, followed later by charges of improper payments and misappropriation of funds. Over a year later, still awaiting trial, Ghosn organized his escape from house arrest in Tokyo...
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Crime and Corruption;
Decision Making;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Ethics;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Law;
Courts and Trials;
Rights;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Auto Industry;
Japan
Soltes, Eugene F., Grace Liu, and Muneeb Ahmed. "Should I Stay or Should I Go? Assessing Risk in Carlos Ghosn's International Escape." Harvard Business School Case 122-051, December 2021.
- 23 Aug 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
CEO Personality and Firm Policies
- 2016
- Working Paper
CEO Personality and Firm Policies
By: Ian D. Gow, Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina
Based on two samples of high quality personality data for chief executive officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits:...
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Gow, Ian D., Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker, and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina. "CEO Personality and Firm Policies." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 22435, July 2016.
- Other Article
Leadership, Innovation, and Strategic Change: A Conversation with Michael Tushman
By: Michael L. Tushman, Sorah Seong, Yeongsu Kim and Gabriel Szulanski
Continuing the emerging tradition of the Knowledge and Innovation (K&I) Interest Group at the Strategic Management Society (SMS) Conference to interview foundational scholars in strategic management, we invited Professor Michael Tushman from Harvard Business School...
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Innovation;
Technological Change;
Management Education;
Technological Innovation;
Leadership;
Change Management;
Business Education
Tushman, Michael L., Sorah Seong, Yeongsu Kim, and Gabriel Szulanski. "Leadership, Innovation, and Strategic Change: A Conversation with Michael Tushman." Journal of Management Inquiry 24, no. 4 (October 2015): 370–381.
- Summer 2013
- Article
A Tale of Two Stories: Sustainability and the Quarterly Earnings Call
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
One of the challenges companies claim to face in making sustainability a core part of their strategy and operations is that the market does not care about sustainability, either in general or because the time frames in which it matters are too long. The response of...
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Sustainability;
Communication;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Investment;
Environmental Sustainability
Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim. "A Tale of Two Stories: Sustainability and the Quarterly Earnings Call." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 25, no. 3 (Summer 2013): 66–77.
- November 2000 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
Alaska Airlines and Flight 261 (A)
Weeks after the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, 64 mechanics claim that they have been "pressured, threatened, and intimidated" into taking shortcuts. After briefly describing Alaska Airlines' history and CEO John Kelly, the case details how the airline responded...
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Safety;
Air Transportation;
Crisis Management;
Labor and Management Relations;
Air Transportation Industry;
Alaska
Watkins, Michael D., and Kim Slack. "Alaska Airlines and Flight 261 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-113, November 2000. (Revised March 2001.)
- January 1994
- Case
ABC Sales and Service Division: A Case Study of Personal and Organizational Transformation
By: D. Quinn Mills, Brock W. Orwig, Janet M. Pumo, Todd C. Stilson and Richard C. Wei
In the midst of dramatic changes in the information systems industry and declining profits at the ABC Co., the vice president in charge of the sales and service division, Jeff, and his managers attempt to transform their division. The transformation gets off to a good...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Transformation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Resignation and Termination;
Communication;
Business or Company Management;
Information Technology Industry
Mills, D. Quinn, Brock W. Orwig, Janet M. Pumo, Todd C. Stilson, and Richard C. Wei. "ABC Sales and Service Division: A Case Study of Personal and Organizational Transformation." Harvard Business School Case 494-075, January 1994.
- 25 Nov 2019
- News
Harvard Nears Selection of Allston Development Partner
- October 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
The Financial Crisis: Hank Paulson in 2008
On the afternoon of Monday October 13, 2008, Hank Paulson Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, walked into the large conference room across the hall from his office in the Treasury Department. Joining him were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,...
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Keywords:
Bailout;
Regulation;
Financial Crisis;
History;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Decision Making;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
United States
Sunderam, Adi, Robin Greenwood, Sam Hanson, and David Scharfstein. "The Financial Crisis: Hank Paulson in 2008." Harvard Business School Case 219-037, October 2018. (Revised January 2019.)
- 14 Apr 2020
- News
Begin with Trust
- 12 Feb 2012
- News
The horizon vocabulary
- 14 Nov 2014
- News