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- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
content themselves with thinking that even if there isn't an immediate payoff for doing the right thing, then at least the goodwill they build up with the public will provide a buffer to offset negative publicity when something goes...
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- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
ability to ask open-ended questions, listen to the responses, and lead a productive discussion free from superficiality, rigidity, or miscommunication. At American Express, for example, CEO Harvey Golub tells his direct reports that he is "less interested in...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
letting your convictions guide an urgent effort to do right by everyone. We used federal money and funds from the Dalio Foundation (Ray Dalio, MBA 1973) to buy 121,000 laptops and became the first state to close the digital divide for all...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Smith. Not only has Starbucks created a "third place" for the customer between work and home, but it has also launched a number of environmental and community-oriented initiatives. "We have a great culture in this company," Smith observes. "Our partners are given the...
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- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
Digital Studios this past summer. Johnson’s rise to the top in Hollywood and his unrelenting drive to achieve what Garcia and Johnson call “benevolent world domination” is what attracted the attention of Harvard Business School professor...
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- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
come from the mistakenly named "bottom" up, from faculty at the top of their fields. Having an institutional structure to support this is rare anywhere, and in Chinese universities today it is rarer still. Can world-class universities...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
brand values (the employees’ work environment embodies the organization—beanbag chairs in the conference room and walls full of Post-its); and environment and sustainability (a less-is-more mentality and environmentally conscious furniture). By offering a look into the...
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- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
schedules slip and targets are missed...." Above all, leadership is generally thought to be critical to the successful application of stretch. Edward Hare reminded us that "the essence of great management, leadership even, is applying the View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
“cash for information” may not be the right way to talk about it, because it comes across as if someone is making a lot of money without any costs. It’s more like an insurance payment. Whistleblowers incur a lot of costs and get some...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
that HBS provided the ideal preparation for launching a new company. “You become familiar with all the roles in a startup, from CEO to HR director,” he says. He and his business partners also benefited from HBS faculty advice. “It’s like having a team of View Details
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- Profile
Jackie Burgos
leaders who make a difference. I met a number of alums who all spoke highly of the HBS experience; their stories sold me right away.” With HBS in the back of her mind, she explored a number of career opportunities that would expand her...
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Jackie Burgos
leaders who make a difference. I met a number of alums who all spoke highly of the HBS experience; their stories sold me right away.” With HBS in the back of her mind, Jackie explored a number of career opportunities that would expand her...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
and alternative energy development. China is capable of steady growth over the coming years and will continue to be a key component of GE's global strategy, he added, provoking a question from one audience member regarding the propriety of doing business in a country...
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- 02 May 2023
- Blog Post
From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job
about careers in the music industry. Through these events, I met executives from music labels, event and music tech companies, and even top artist managers. This allowed me to have a much more nuanced point of view about the types of...
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- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
to create a “routineness score” by layering them on top of seven-day periods. For example, the model groups someone ordering a car at 3 p.m. and someone ordering a car at 4 p.m. as more likely to have similar routines than two people who...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2
As a college student you’re probably thinking about your future, what career path might interest you, whether an MBA might be worthwhile to pursue. For most top MBA programs you’re going to need some work experience before coming to...
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Sarah Wolfolds
of Governors where I jumped right into a section investigating Financial Stability and Regulation during the middle of the financial crisis. This time spent working made me realize that the goings on inside of a firm and the relationships...
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Africa - Global Activities 2020
Growing and Scaling Businesses Ike Kyei, MBA 2019 Yeboah and Kyei acknowledge that the impact they’re having right now—helping to grow and scale existing businesses by working at Peak—wouldn’t have been possible without the GO: Africa...
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- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
conventional rules for success aren’t enough. There is another set of expectations that determine who gets ahead and who doesn’t. Top performers follow these patterns without realizing it—and managers expect them from employees but often...
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- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
hour-long discussion driving around the city. Young Kapur had just joined the firm Ogilvy & Mather after a brief stint at Citibank, where he’d decided he needed a more creative career. His conversation with Ogilvy confirmed that he’d made the View Details