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Highlights SEPTEMBER 2024 HBR COLD CALL Uncle Nearest Cofounder Fawn Weaver and Her Entrepreneurial Journey in the Spirits Industry In an episode of Harvard Business Review's "Cold Call" podcast, Senior Lecturer Hise Gibson discusses the... View Details

16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

“birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement.” “And only 2 percent of the poorest residents ever managed to get out of poverty,” Hill recalled discussing in her conversations with Delta employees when researching and writing the cases. At the... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Practical Guide by E. Anderson & B. Schiano This book gives practical advice on how to teach with cases at institutions where it is not the primary pedagogy. 2003 McGraw-Hill/Irwin Socrates' Muse: Reflections on Effective Case Discussion... View Details

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1.4.3 Required Curriculum (RC) - MBA

students have up to 15 classes each week scheduled Monday through Friday, with three classes on some days and two classes on others. Most RC classes are 80 minutes long and a typical three-class day runs from approximately 8:00am-4:00pm (including morning View Details

10 Dec 2013
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The Payoffs And Pitfalls Of Self-Doubt

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HBS - The year in Review

change. The day’s agenda built on the coalition’s quarterly virtual forums and included in-depth discussions on advancing skills-based hiring that focuses on competencies and closing opportunity gaps. Harvard Business School is the first... View Details

22 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

Your personal attention is the critical catalyst to focus your entire organization on the strategic uncertainties that keep you awake at night. After all, everyone watches what the boss watches. I will discuss how you can use this... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

from 1970 to 2007, we find that better-performing teams are less likely to hire minorities to fill lower-level and mid-level coaching positions (as predicted by prior literature on labor queues), but that such teams are more likely to hire minorities into View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2023
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Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

and Dean Datar, followed by an audience Q&A. The discussion between Stavropoulos and Datar touched on the challenges the University and School leadership have faced after the terrorist attack by Hamas... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

management of UCCA wondered what they could do to achieve growth and financial viability while continuing to realize their mission. 2014 Discussion Paper The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say? By:... View Details

23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

range of variation in beauty and hygiene ideals. What Have We Learned from Market Design? Author:Alvin E. Roth Periodical:Hahn Lecture. Economic Journal (March 2008) Abstract This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

Leader Your Business Needs, Montgomery discusses when that disconnect happened, why it's a problem today, and how leaders can turn themselves back into strategists. (Read an excerpt from The Strategist.) According to Montgomery, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

March 2023
Teaching Note

Sustainability Reporting at Dollar Tree, Inc.

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-044. The case discusses the ESG strategy of Dollar Tree Inc., a U.S. Fortune 500 company in the deep discount retail industry and the shareholder pressure faced by the company. In 2022, the company faced a shareholder resolution from... View Details

Keywords: ESG; Sustainability; Shareholder Activism; Dollar Tree; Sustainability Reporting; ESG Reporting; Board Of Directors; Shareholder Engagement; GHG; Environmental Accounting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Trends; Communication; Announcements; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Reports; Business or Company Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Retail Industry; United States; Virginia

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28 Sep 2023
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What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups

decrease risk, in addition to highlighting the five forces that will shape our future (unsustainable government debt is No. 1). And regarding that bonus item—it has to do with culture, something Dalio is well known for: “Bridgewater’s culture is unique and authentic to... View Details

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Events - Health Care

This discussion will be moderated by Christiana Bardon MD, Co-Managing Partner of MPM | BioImpact Capital. Download to Calendar Nov 07 07 HBS Health Care Alumni Association Open to the HBS community 2024 HBSHAA Annual Conference The... View Details

25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

Working PapersA Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa Authors:Linda A. Hill and Maria T. Farkas Author's Abstract Through her efforts to recruit, hire, and develop minority executives at MTN, a South... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jul 2023
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Why Leaders with Big Egos Worry Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott

In a recent profile in the Australian Financial Review, Rob Scott (AMP 179, 2010), CEO of Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers, discussed his career path and management philosophy. “I actually think that one of the biggest dangers in View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

journey through the continent Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission Former Army helicopter pilot Matthew Brady (MBA 2016) , founder and CEO of Pershing Barracks Capital, discusses his... View Details

06 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 6

Harvard Business School Case 308-022 CEMEX grew through acquisitions from a Latin American to a global company under the leadership of a CEO who believed in the importance of a "one enterprise" culture and benchmarking against... View Details