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01 Mar 2021
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How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

data and US Census figures. The authors found that Black men from counties that ranked in the 25th percentile of the discrimination index were 90 percent more willing to volunteer than men from counties in the 75th percentile, where... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

28 Nov 2005
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Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

people in the higher ranks of Unilever, yet compared to most companies, Unilever was distinguished worldwide by competent and professional management. The challenge was to translate these strengths into a competitive performance that... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

27 Nov 2006
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What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?

interview than the interviewee." According to Wally Bock, "When I conducted research I found that the more effective supervisors spent the bulk of their performance evaluation meeting time talking about the future." Forced View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

31 Aug 2020
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Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

in the ranks that diversity and inclusion are in the best interest of the entire organization. The question posed—Why don’t more organizations understand the power of diversity and inclusion?—may have gotten ahead of the research to date.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Aug 2008
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Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

a company? A: The OSM is analogous to a military general's chief of staff. The general is responsible and accountable for developing the strategy to win wars and battles. But a general almost always has a chief-of-staff, often several View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

regulation as a factor in the financial crisis. In a 2017 survey by the Initiative for Global Markets at the University of Chicago School of Business, academics ranked financial sector regulation and supervision as the most important... View Details

September 2006 (Revised March 2010)
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Claudine Deborah Madras

How do companies develop a strategy that is both low-cost and differentiated without becoming squeezed in the middle? Describes how Teva, Israel's first and largest multinational, achieved its globally dominant position in generic pharmaceuticals, an industry that has... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Rank and Position; Competitive Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; India; Israel

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Tommaso Ruggeri

protectors of their town’s heritage, tirelessly preserving it over the ages, while generously welcoming new visitors in this journey through time. You are my guests on your next trip to Italy! What has changed about your understanding of leadership? “Leadership is not... View Details

01 Apr 2013
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First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

the new call agents completed an exercise ranking the individual strengths they would exhibit if stranded on a life raft at sea; they also spent time considering how their responses might differ from their colleagues'. Then, the agents... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

08 Aug 2005
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A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

expecting that the margin from a comprehensive set of services will transform the customer into a profitable relationship. Figure 1 shows how one insurance company managed its customer relationships once it understood its full costs of serving them. It View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

to the 6th century Why? In short, says Berman, the 1,500-year-old game makes kids smarter. (Berman’s own oldest son is ranked No. 11 in the country for his age group and his 6-year-old recently earned the No. 3 spot among kindergartners.... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

February 2011
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Jamie Turner at MLI, Inc.

By: John J. Gabarro and Colleen Kaftan

The case describes the evolution of an interpersonal mismatch between a previously successful manager, Jamie Turner, and his new boss, Pat Cardullo. Turner, a 32-year-old MBA graduate, has been recruited by Cardullo to be vice president of marketing and sales at Modern... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Interpersonal Relations; Superior ＆ Subordinate; Micro Organizational Behavior; Performance Management; Personal Strategy ＆ Style; Management Style; Conflict Management; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Rank and Position; Performance; Communication Strategy; Personal Development and Career; Acquisition; Distribution Industry; Consumer Products Industry; San Diego; Chicago

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30 Nov 2022
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Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

received an additional piece of information: a numerical ranking of the company’s workforce diversity. Zippia calculated a company’s “diversity score,” ranging from 1 to 10, based on a variety of data, including gender, race, education,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 May 2024
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Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

meaning they are more likely to deliver their expected GHG reductions (see FAQ for more detail). Calyx Global is a stringent carbon credit rating organization ranked as the best by Carbon Market Watch and recommended by Harvard’s Office... View Details

06 May 2021
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How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

and incubators at local universities, which themselves enjoyed explosive growth. By 2017, Miami was ranked the number one city in America for startup activity by the Kauffman Foundation. "Each one is changing something about the... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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Wilder House | About

to HBS, where the legendary Professor Georges Doriot became a key career influence. Wilder quickly worked his way up through the ranks of institutional sales and corporate finance at Wood Gundy & Company Ltd. He was named executive vice... View Details

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Cait Haught

case method. I visited two to three other business schools, and the classroom experience at HBS ranked thousands of times better. The professors are really good teachers who are passionate about their students. The case method brings... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

human beings have faced a litany of existential hurdles that individuals have struggled to overcome. The inability or unwillingness to address both the root causes and symptoms of poverty and inequality ranks among the greatest failures... View Details

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Join the MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

impact in their home regions. Prospective MOC affiliate institutions are evaluated based on the following criteria: Institutional Requirements Accreditation status of the university by either international accreditation standards or national ministry of education View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

Foundation. "I'm working hard on becoming a ranked senior tennis player to make up for my nonathletic youth," Brody says. "I also enjoy coaching my eight-year-old son's soccer team on weekends." Brody, who has always relished a challenge,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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