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- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
ultimately be reflected in long-term earnings and benefit for shareholders? Should they resolve the dilemma in some other way? What do current trends and experiences say about the future of stakeholder management? Is it becoming too...
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by James Heskett
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
despite cost-effective FinTech alternatives, many European migrant communities continued to rely on expensive money transfer operators for monthly remittances averaging around 200 per migrant. This puzzling trend emerged due to two key...
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- 11 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Perfecting the Project Pitch
course for several years, says that the project pitch concept has evolved over time with several clear trends emerging. One is that there is a significant subset of students who have very good, well-thought-out ideas, but they have a...
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by Dennis Fisher
- 19 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business
at West Elm as a buyer, analyzing trends in the market and developing our Bedding and Bath products, before moving into buying at Bloomingdale’s (just like Rachel from Friends), where I selected and oversaw merchandise from several...
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- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
their families, neighborhoods, or social clubs. “The same trend showing up in the workplace is worrisome because it means we have even fewer opportunities to interact across partisan lines,” she says. “It could accelerate the growing...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
issue." Just how the idea might be implemented more widely was a concern of several. As Michael Hogan put it, " absent a revival of the organized labor movement it is boards who are best positioned to reverse this ultimately fatal trend...
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by James Heskett
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Career Support - Business & Environment
Industry Highlights Newsletters Each newsletter provides summaries of important news items with links to the full text. Articles are selected that provide significant news about major players and HBS recruiters, analysis of trends in the...
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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
percent of its work is in the area of high-level executive search. In his more than forty years in the business, Zehnder has seen many trends come and go in management practice, but the qualities he and his partners value in a prospective...
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- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
their focus to consider systemic interests beyond self-interest, a trend that Ramanna and Henderson think has potential to help change the prevailing mindset. "Ethical norms don't shift in an instant; these are the kinds of shifts...
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by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
challenging spot, since their responsibility to their shareholders is to make money, and their go-to way of doing this has been by selling junk food,” she says. “But, you can see this trend where they’re trying to juggle their product...
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
to use social media platforms to proactively seek out talent. This is especially true for technology-focused firms. This trend doesn’t seem to be slowing. Digital employment platforms have emerged that allow companies to pinpoint...
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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment
U.S. Green Bonds Supplementary Readings Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2019 Lex in depth: the $900bn cost of ‘stranded energy assets’ Climate risk and...
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- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
Dave Cote and his team brought to managing their company during the Great Recession. The shift to managing companies for short-term financial interests has been an increasing trend among US businesses, leading to a focus on actions that...
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- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink...
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- 12 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)
historical – and the ways in which these Africa-specific trends impact the opportunities and challenges in undertaking business and entrepreneurship ventures on the continent today. Drawing upon the active participation of prominent...
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PK–12 Education - U.S. Competitiveness
leaders best partner with educators to transform America's schools? May 2014 Report The Brink of Renewal: A Business Leader’s Guide to Progress in America’s Schools This report focuses on the current state of U.S. PK-12 education. It highlights the converging View Details
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By: Karim R. Lakhani
Can America Invent Its Way Back?
BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008
Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
retailing? What do you think? References: James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger, “Leading for the Future of Services,” Chapter 8 in What Great Service Leaders Know & Do (Oakland: Berrett-Kohler Publishers, Inc., 2015), pp. 191-224. M. P....
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
"Complete" Activities and Societies: Leave blank Description: Digital Marketing Strategy is a 7-week, 35-40 hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School. Digital Marketing Strategy equips professionals with the tools, mindset, and View Details
- February 2014 (Revised August 2016)
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Strava
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Sid Misra
Strava is a new fast-growing social network for the avid cyclist and runner. The Strava case traces the entrepreneurial journey of two serial entrepreneurs who have been co-founders in a prior venture, and who have co-founded Strava 3 years ago. The protagonists must...
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