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- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
As more and more corporate executives have been paraded on perp walks these last few years, a question has repeatedly been raised: Where was the board? After all, isn't it the board's responsibility to make...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Adding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
conditions don't prevail, watch out. At risk of oversimplification, that sums up the responses to this month's column, in which most readers accepted to some degree author...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
RapidVisa to expand the types of cases it can handle.) The company’s online immigration applications function much as TurboTax does for IRS filings, translating the arcane language of government documents into easy-to-answer questions...
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April White
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
The timing is an unfortunate coincidence. Far from a response to any poll, the decision to include GMAT scores as one piece of an applicant's portfolio is based on systematic...
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- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
morality in business. In 1988, he set up the Lawrence D. Ackman Endowment in Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at HBS. This series is just his latest effort at lighting a candle instead of just cursing the darkness. “I’m doing my...
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- June 2013 (Revised November 2016)
- Case
Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa
By: Geoffrey Jones and Elliot R. Benton
This case considers the strategies of Charles W. Engelhard, an American mining magnate who made large investments in apartheid-era South Africa. Engelhard was widely believed to have been the model for the James Bond villan Auric Goldfinger. During the 1950s and 1960s...
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Political Economy;
Business History;
FDI;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
South Africa;
Mining;
Ethics;
Globalization;
Government and Politics;
History;
Mining Industry;
Africa;
South Africa
Jones, Geoffrey, and Elliot R. Benton. "Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa." Harvard Business School Case 313-148, June 2013. (Revised November 2016.)
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
program offers newly minted MBAs the opportunity to oversee a $50 million unit as a field operations director responsible for finance, strategy, and marketing. Yet all the mentoring and flexible schedules...
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by Joseph Fuller
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
workforce, benefiting the community while also getting closer to its customer base and spurring innovation. But idealized win-win solutions such as these are both difficult and relatively uncommon. Many...
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- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
recruiting for its fast-track leadership program. Among other options, the program offers newly minted MBAs the opportunity to oversee a $50 million unit as a field operations director responsible for...
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All Industries
- April 2011 (Revised March 2012)
- Supplement
U.S. Healthcare Reform: Reaction to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Supplement to "U.S. Healthcare Reform: International Perspectives" updating key events and disputes concerning the reform law, including the 2010 Congressional elections, legislative proposals, legal challenges, and responses by employers.
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Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Government Legislation;
Political Elections;
Health Care and Treatment;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Business and Government Relations;
Public Opinion;
Health Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "U.S. Healthcare Reform: Reaction to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010." Harvard Business School Supplement 711-103, April 2011. (Revised March 2012.)
- 01 Nov 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?
Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations? The right culture, hiring and promotion processes, peer evaluations, and firing policies will ensure that power ends up in the right hands in organizations. That’s the sum of most of the View Details
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by James Heskett
- 09 Jan 2024
- In Practice
Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year
will companies and their employees adjust to the new world of AI? Harvard Business School faculty members take a look at emerging AI trends and offer some advice for businesses on how to make the most of...
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- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
Photos by Joe Szurszewski “What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.” That observation, attributed to Plato, is inscribed on the Athena Leadership Award that graces Barbara Nick’s home office in Madison, Wisconsin. Nick (AMP...
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Margie Kelley
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
managers of companies is a quick poll to identify what sorts of collaborative obstacles they may face in their organization and then we provide them with customized feedback.
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by Mallory Stark
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
addition to writing and teaching about these larger issues, the School has the responsibility to focus society’s attention on them. The School will go from the periphery View Details
- September–October 2023
- Article
What Does 'Stakeholder Capitalism' Mean to You?: A Guide to the Four Main Types
By: Lynn S. Paine
Business leaders are being urged to adopt a multistakeholder approach to governance in place of the shareholder-centered approach that has guided their work for several decades. But through hundreds of interviews with directors, executives, investors, governance...
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Stakeholder Capitalism;
Corporate Governance;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Organizational Structure;
Trust
Paine, Lynn S. "What Does 'Stakeholder Capitalism' Mean to You? A Guide to the Four Main Types." Harvard Business Review 101, no. 5 (September–October 2023): 108–119.
- June 2020 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Time Out: The Evolution from Media to Markets
By: Kate Barasz and Eva Ascarza
In February 2020, Time Out’s chief executive officer Julio Bruno is evaluating the strategic direction of the company. Over the span of five decades, Time Out — the global media and entertainment brand — had gone from a self-published counterculture publication in...
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Branding;
Media Businesses;
Hospitality;
Hospitality Industry;
Digital;
Brands and Branding;
Media;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Strategy;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United Kingdom;
United States
Barasz, Kate, and Eva Ascarza. "Time Out: The Evolution from Media to Markets." Harvard Business School Case 520-128, June 2020. (Revised July 2023.)
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
Global Failures Create a “Lodestar” for HBS Research and Teaching From new cases to new courses and research projects, the HBS faculty’s response to the global financial crisis...
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