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- July 2012
- Supplement
Generation Investment Management, Video
By: Sandra J. Sucher
Examines the Investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide...
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Leadership And Managing People;
Accountability;
Investment Management;
Social Issues;
Investment;
Corporate Accountability;
Ethics;
Development Economics;
Natural Environment;
Financial Services Industry;
Energy Industry
Sucher, Sandra J. "Generation Investment Management, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 612-704, July 2012.
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
What is keeping you awake at night during this global pandemic? Over the past few weeks, we asked 600 CEOs that very question. Their responses were touching and instructive, but also daunting about the challenges leaders face at this...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
Summing Up Responses to the question, "Is this the decade of the investor?" offer little hope that the investor will get any relief soon, compared to the rewards realized by managers and customers. Nor do they hold out much...
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by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
corporations and governments alike need to focus on. Consequently, the career opportunities for MBAs are now unlimited- you can shape sustainability strategy at traditional companies and banks, drive products and operations at startups...
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- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
listens in closely to the phenomenon of "conversational blindness"—listeners' failure to notice such dodges and to socially punish transgressors unless the attempts are egregious. "More troublingly, listeners preferred...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
increasingly important but daunting challenge. The teaching of any subject is many-sided. However, discharging the responsibilities of a university educator is particularly complex. Teaching is only one of many activities expected of a...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Spaces: Convening Power
they look forward to the center serving as a hub for bringing together diverse groups for productive discussions on everything from the economy of the future to the potential of free enterprise to business ethics and corporate values. In...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
focused on a single industry or country and has not accounted for possible variation across social contexts. This paper advances an institutional framework and predicts that gender diversity’s effect on performance is determined by both...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
policy we consider concerns the level of future Social Security benefits. Specifically, we examine how an agent would respond to learning in advance whether she will experience a major Social Security...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
says Srivastava, recalling that he reached out to classmate and HBS associate professor Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999, PhD 2002) to get a better sense of whether academia would be a good fit. Now, Srivastava is following three streams of research on View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
target behavior is socially desirable, even when it is merely framed as such. Study 3 shows the paradox is driven by respondents’ concerns over response misinterpretation. A simple modification designed to...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Program Policies - HBS Online
the required deadlines. This helps ensure your cohort proceeds through the course at a similar pace and can take full advantage of social learning opportunities. A module is composed of a series of elements, such as faculty videos,...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
Alumni Books Boeing Metamorphosis: Launching the 737 and 747, 1965–1969 by John Fredrickson and John Andrew (MBA 1959) Schiffer Military History Welcome to the world of corporate decision-making, workplace gambles, and myriad human...
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What We Do | Research Associates
training in the social sciences and philosophy, and provides an excellent spring board for my future plans in and out of academia. The book that we are working on—a history of the globalization of the beauty industry over the last two...
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- December 2005 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Migros
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
In October 2005, Urs Riedener, head of marketing at Swiss retailer Migros, is contemplating the company's competitive position. Primarily a retailer for foods and near-foods products, the cooperative Migros, with close to 600 retail outlets in Switzerland (but only...
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Competitive Advantage;
Corporate Governance;
Corporate Strategy;
Cooperative Ownership;
Supply Chain Management;
Product Marketing;
Environmental Sustainability;
Social Enterprise;
Business or Company Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Retail Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Switzerland
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
& Learning Services ecodega@hbs.edu Ariana Cohen-Halberstam Growth Editor HBS Working Knowledge acohenhalberstam@hbs.edu Debra Cuoco Paper Conservator for Special Collections Special Collections & Archives dcuoco@hbs.edu Debra is a paper conservator View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
Here’s some bad news and some worse news for women who aspire to the executive suite. The bad news is that there’s a huge gender gap in top corporate positions, both in terms of the number of female executives and how much money they make...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
percent increase in new patents between firms in those places. "Even in a hybrid world, even in a world of work-from-anywhere, we still need to occasionally meet colleagues in person for social purposes." Choudhury and colleagues teased...
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Black Excellence: AASU’s 2019 Fall Retreat in Review - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering...
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