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- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
the COVID-19 pandemic. “If ever there was a time for leaders to be authentic, this is it.” Fortunately, many of our corporate and scientific leaders are already stepping up, unselfishly taking action to stop the spread of the virus and...
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- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
Strategist? Published: July 16, 2012 Corporate strategy has become the bailiwick of consultants and business analysts, so much so that it is no longer a top-of-mind responsibility for many senior executives....
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
responsibilities as people trained to lead businesses are more important today than ever. You are graduating into a world in which trust and faith in business has declined significantly. In the U.S., unemployment may be at record lows,...
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- February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
- Supplement
Mistry Architects (C)
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Robert G. Eccles and Mona Sinha
This case is a follow-up to "Mistry Architects: Innovating for Sustainability (A)" (Case 609-044) and (B) (Case 609-064). In Case (A) Sharukh and Renu Mistry founded and run an architectural firm dedicated to being both client-oriented and environmentally responsible....
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Succession;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Community Relations;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Environmental Sustainability
Edmondson, Amy C., Robert G. Eccles, and Mona Sinha. "Mistry Architects (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-086, February 2009. (Revised April 2011.)
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
Corporations could do a good job of running corrupt Third World governments. Corruption rules in too many of the world’s democratically elected governments. From Achocalla, Bolivia, to Mayuge, Uganda, voters pick their leaders through the...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
Kim B. Clark in the Bulletin in 1997. "The future holds enormous promise." - Susan Young Ethics and Social Responsibility When Dean Kim B. Clark reiterated the School's commitment to a values-based...
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- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
Summing Up Stretch—its meaning, uses, and pitfalls—could fill a book, judging from responses to this month's column. First, there appears to be limited agreement about what stretch is and how it works. Some saw it as a variation on...
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by Jim Heskett
- 22 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Section Life: Your HBS Family
my section mates for help with anything from finding a job to meeting people if I move to a new city, and they would not help me without hesitation. Sections are also the basis of many HBS students’ social lives. Each section has elected...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
a wealth of real-company examples, the authors demonstrate a set of practical frameworks for managing a global innovation network. Corporate Catalyst: A Chronicle of the (Mis)Management of Canadian Business from a Veteran Insider by Tony...
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- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
the merits of corporate life. Such relationships could also allow companies to build institutional and personal connections that might later blossom into a more traditional employment arrangement. Since millennials list professional...
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by Joseph Fuller
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
getting lower-cost devices to those who might not otherwise be able to afford them? A $14B market would seem to have ample room for a niche player that focuses on corporate social View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
focuses solely on corporate culture and identity of the new workplace. There's a lecture about the firm's history and another about standard operating procedures. There's a packet of information from human resources, emblazoned with the...
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- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
for CEO Tim Cook. Responses to this month’s column provided a range of advice that centered around whether or not product security is as important as some other features of the Company’s strategy. Since the Government’s request for help,...
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- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
"The study of e-commerce has unfolded in much the same way that e-commerce thrust itself on the business world—with a great deal of overstatement," says Marc J. Epstein, Visiting Professor and Wyss Visiting Scholar in Social...
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by Marc J. Epstein
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
reducing poverty have generally been the same. More aid. More debt relief. More foreign direct investment. And, of late, more free trade. I agree with all of these. However, the greatest contribution Western countries and corporations can...
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- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
reflect the predominant opportunities pursued by social entrepreneurs focused on public education in the United States over the last decade. The book offers an overarching framework for creating and evaluating View Details
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Martha Lagace
- February 2011
- Exercise
Carbon Trading Simulation: Green Cement Inc.
By: Peter A. Coles
This simulation presents students the opportunity to experience firsthand the economics of carbon markets and permit trading. Each student has private role information about a company he or she manages. The student must make decisions about pollution-reducing...
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Ethics;
Investment;
Markets;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Production;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Government Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Pollutants
Coles, Peter A. "Carbon Trading Simulation: Green Cement Inc." Harvard Business School Exercise 911-051, February 2011.
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
violations. Moreover, we find evidence that KLD's ratings are not optimally using publicly available data. We discuss the implications of our findings for advocates and opponents of corporate social View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
The CEO of the Corporate Solutions Group at Jones Lang LaSalle Americas (JLL) is executing an organizational redesign to respond to its strategy goal of becoming more customer-centric. This case examines the dramatic View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Nohria Named Tenth Dean
faculty since 1988, Nohria had previously served as senior associate dean for faculty development and chair of the organizational behavior unit. “I feel a profound sense of responsibility for continuing Harvard Business School’s proud...
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