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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
forthcoming Harvard Business Review Press Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—Part of a manager's job is making tough...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 1994
- Case
Marks & Spencer: Sir Richard Greenbury's Quiet Revolution
By: Joseph L. Bower and John B. Matthews Jr.
Marks & Spencer (M&S) is one of the world's greatest companies. In 1994, its management was chosen the most admired in Europe by 637 peers. The case explores how Sir Richard Greenbury, appointed the new chairman of the company in 1991, transformed his inheritance into...
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Growth and Development Strategy;
Business or Company Management;
Business Strategy;
Management Teams;
Global Strategy;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Europe;
United States
Bower, Joseph L., and John B. Matthews Jr. "Marks & Spencer: Sir Richard Greenbury's Quiet Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 395-054, September 1994.
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
September 2016 Harvard Business Review How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather...
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Carmen Nobel
- 2024
- Chapter
Corporations as the Central Institutions of Society
Mark Twain observed that, “Prediction is very difficult—particularly when it involves the future,” and he was right. One way to reduce the risk of becoming an infamous forecaster—like the experts who told us the Internet would quickly collapse, that Apple would never...
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Badaracco, Joseph L. "Corporations as the Central Institutions of Society." Chap. 4 in Justifying Next Stage Capitalism: Exploring a Hopeful Future, edited by Michel Dion and Moses Pava, 87–106. Springer, 2024.
- July 1991 (Revised September 1992)
- Background Note
Company's Ethical Climate
Explains what a company's ethical climate is, describes the forces that shape it, and ways managers can work to alter a firm's ethical climate.
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Badaracco, Joseph L. "Company's Ethical Climate." Harvard Business School Background Note 392-004, July 1991. (Revised September 1992.)
- 15 Jan 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance
difficult than another. Can I Resist The Temptations Of Success? Resisting the Seductions of Success "The basic problem with the flow of success is that life can look very good when it really isn't," writes Harvard Business School's View Details
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- Research Summary
Reflection
Corporations as Critical Social Institutions
My current research examines the extent to which corporations are emerging as critical social institutions. Over the past century, and especially in recent decades, firms have taken on...
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Reflection
- June 2021
- Teaching Plan
Karin Vinik at South Lake Hospital
Teaching Plan for HBS Case Nos. 320-071, 320-072, 320-073, and 320-074.
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- Article
How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions
The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts and have done the best analysis they can, but they still don’t know what to do. Then judgment—a fusion of thinking, feelings, experience, imagination, and...
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Badaracco, Joseph L. "How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 9 (September 2016): 104–107.
- July 1991 (Revised August 1991)
- Background Note
Understanding Context
Badaracco, Joseph L. "Understanding Context." Harvard Business School Background Note 392-003, July 1991. (Revised August 1991.)
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
PublicationsFlying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success Author:Thomas J. DeLong Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss and change, even the brightest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
Participants assigned to recall a purchase made for someone else reported feeling significantly happier immediately after this recollection; most importantly, the happier participants felt, the more likely they were to choose to spend a windfall on someone else in the...
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Carmen Nobel
- June 2021 (Revised June 2024)
- Teaching Plan
PepsiCo, Profits, and Food: The Belt Tightens
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 314-055.
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- July 1991 (Revised June 1993)
- Background Note
Conflicting Responsibilities
Presents a framework for resolving issues in which managers' responsibilities--to shareholders, employees, other stakeholder groups, and to their own values and commitments in life--conflict with each other. The framework analyzes these issues in terms of duties,...
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Ethics;
Employees;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Management Practices and Processes;
Organizational Structure;
Personal Development and Career;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations
Badaracco, Joseph L. "Conflicting Responsibilities." Harvard Business School Background Note 392-002, July 1991. (Revised June 1993.)
- November 1981 (Revised November 1991)
- Supplement
Proposition 11 (C)
Keywords:
Laws and Statutes
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Proposition 11 (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 382-077, November 1981. (Revised November 1991.)
- March–April 1998
- Article
The Discipline of Building Character
Keywords:
Personal Characteristics
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "The Discipline of Building Character." Harvard Business Review 76, no. 2 (March–April 1998).
- November 2005 (Revised July 2006)
- Supplement
Two Tough Calls (B)
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Two Tough Calls (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 306-028, November 2005. (Revised July 2006.)
- October 2001
- Teaching Note
Individual and the Corporation, The: Kathy Levinson and E*Trade (A) and (B) TN
Teaching Note for (9-301-057) and (9-301-058).
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- August 1985
- Supplement
Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc., Video
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc., Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 886-506, August 1985.
- May 1992
- Teaching Note