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management of real or perceived conflicts relating to Conflict of Interest, Relationships with Third Parties / Gift Policy, & Conflict of Commitment. Demonstration Policy Harvard Business School endorses the principles embodied in the...
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Blending Heritage and Innovation: Lisa Yan (MBA 2025) - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Output and asset price fluctuations
What are the sources of business cycles? How are these shocks propagated in the economy? Why are their effects so persistent? How can we explain asset price fluctuations? How are shocks transmitted internationally?To study these questions, I have developed a series... View Details
- January 15, 2019
- Article
Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?
By: Josh Baron
The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index...
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Ownership Type;
Business Strategy;
Organizational Structure;
Strength and Weakness;
Competitive Advantage
Baron, Josh. "Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?" Harvard Business Review (website) (January 15, 2019).
- 07 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization
which the largest chunk stems from embodied carbon in materials and packaging. “Stuff accumulation:” There are over 400 billion LEGO pieces on Earth (60 bricks per person)! This fact alone highlights the challenges faced by a company that...
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Getting a Peek Into the HBS Experience - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 13 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Veteran Spotlight: Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025)
theoretical frameworks, but also the practical experiences and a network of peers, mentors, and alumni who are embodiments of my 'cleats philosophy' – fully committed to their ventures and communities. It instilled in me the confidence...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
employee surveys and productivity data clearly showed that Champion had achieved the cultural transformation embodied in the Champion Way. Nevertheless, new CEO Richard Olson was faced with an uncomfortable reality. Though the company had...
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by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
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Taylor Walden
Coming to HBS is like... Sipping sweet tea on a summer day, y'all—it's refreshing, energizing, and reminiscent of home. Just as sweet tea embodies Southern hospitality, HBS offers a sense of belonging and community, ensuring you feel...
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- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones...
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- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
long history of admiring Professor Frei and doing the best I can to emulate her as a professor now, and to embody her, I don't know, zest for life, zest for teaching, and her interest in developing the whole person. And setting high...
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Mark McNeill
before themselves and even continued to form lines at unstaffed convenience stores in order to leave money on the store counter. I try to embody this spirit in my life and in the way I treat others. What has changed about your...
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- 27 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?
Easterbrook, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. Rife with bravado, New York Congressman Santos campaigned on being the “full embodiment of the American dream.” The only problem was that many of his personal claims—including tentpoles punctuating...
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by Bill George
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Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
to their book, Built to Last, advised us to "Preserve the core but stimulate progress." Phil Clark argued that commitment, embodied for him in habit, "gives us time to pay attention and think about what is happening around...
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by Jim Heskett
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
expand the spread between customer value and cost. It is useful to consider the risk embodied in various pricing approaches. Pricing that is openly based on costs plus a predetermined profit margin, and is often referred to as "time...
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- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
others. That was her north star,” says the Harvard College graduate and former McKinsey consultant. Palandjian’s embodiment of her forebearers’ values is a theme in all aspects of her life, including her leadership of Social Finance, a...
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Susan Young
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
sought new customers and strove to quash competitors. In the twentieth century, salesmen, far from operating on the fringes of society, came to serve as embodiments of American capitalism and society. Babbitt was a member of the Good...
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by Laura Linard
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
which democracy and capitalism are embodied need to be reinvented again and again.” His contribution attends to the role of public debt, other financial investments, and the reach of empire as elements in the maldistribution of modern...
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Manufacturing
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
Embodiments Of Ethnography Another way designers can gain fresh insights into their products is by observing consumers whose physical impediments make using them difficult. Engineers with Ford wore bodysuits that mimicked the vision and...
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by Michael Blanding