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January 10, 2023
Editorial

Climate Change: Why Business Schools are Failing

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

We are faced with an existential challenge that requires radical action. Tomorrow’s business leaders must learn to think critically about their role in society and how they will practice their craft in order to bring about change. View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Climate Change; Business Education

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30 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 30

Africa Project (B) David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. CrearyHarvard Business School Supplement 412-028 This case continues the story of the evolution of GE's business initiatives Africa. Between November 2010 View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2019
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More CEOs were forced out for ethical lapses in 2018 than poor financial performance

11 Jul 2016
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Big U.S. investors strive for edge in private CEO meetings

23 May 2016
Blog Post

Advice for Prospective Students from Africa

and I was involved with the planning of the conference last year. We are a very close-knit club so through that I have always felt like I had a family at HBS. My involvement with the club has kept me busy but it has also helped me... View Details

September 2014 (Revised November 2017)
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Sustainability at IKEA Group

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael W. Toffel, Vincent Dessain and Jerome Lenhardt

By 2014, IKEA Group was the largest home furnishing company, with EUR28.5 billion of sales, and planned to reach EUR50 billion by 2020, mainly from emerging markets. At the same time, IKEA Group had adopted in 2012 a new sustainability strategy that focused the... View Details

Keywords: Furnishing; Sustainability; Supply Chain; Wood; Customer Value and Value Chain; Supply Chain Management; Environmental Sustainability; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry

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March 2005 (Revised May 2005)
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Even Bigger Change: A Framework for Getting Started at Changing the World

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Presents a framework for leading change in institutions or society, showing leaders how to manage political, economic, or social change by mapping their targets (policy, programs, or people/culture) and choice of action vehicle (single organizations or coalitions of... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Leading Change; Society

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31 Oct 2006
HBS Case

Governing Sumida Corporation

course Leadership and Corporate Accountability, Paine notes that she often looks for opportunities to bring a global perspective to the classroom. "Masako found this particular situation," she says... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Electronics

11 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

Shamlu Dudeja

Keywords: Textiles, education

05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

leadership dynamics and team performance and find that the psychological effect of power on formal leaders spills over to affect team performance. We argue that a formal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 May 2018
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HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans

participation across the country in 2018, and of furthering engagement in our cities by having more veterans take on volunteer leadership roles. I’m also working with our national team to bring our... View Details

Federico Braun

Keywords: Supermarkets

14 Dec 2021
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Trustees Capital

Hemendra Kothari

Keywords: Financial Services

28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union

is creating a path for the next generation of business leaders to engage in nonpartisan political reform (photo by Stephen Voss) In 2017 Ballou-Aares cofounded the Leadership Now Project and left her... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

10 Mar 2021
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COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

end to be a Faustian bargain for managers and employees. Arthur C. Brooks (@arthurbrooks) is the William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Apr 2001
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Harvard MBAs Rule?

“Harvard Business School graduates are literally ruling the world,” gushed an article in Fortune (January 8, 2001). The magazine observed that in the last year alone, a whopping number of HBS alumni had taken over the corner office at some of the country’s largest... View Details

October 2013 (Revised January 2015)
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Americhem: The Gaylord Division (A-1)

By: David A. Garvin

The Gaylord Division of Americhem, a large chemical company, is in the midst of the first use of a new zero-base budgeting system. The general manager of the division leading the process is experiencing disagreement and conflict among the members of the senior... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges

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