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- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
improvement in the average produced a 2.5 percent improvement in unit revenue, or $250,000 in added revenue per hotel. In spite of the economics, organizations apparently are doing a poor job of building positive employee experiences, whether through trust or other... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
research on the link between the personal disposition of an entrepreneurial firm's founder, the firm's strategic orientation, and its performance outcomes. Also, there is lack of cross-national research on entrepreneurial firms' strategic orientations. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2020
- News
Six Experts on How Capitalism Will Emerge after COVID-19
- 12 Oct 2020
- News
CEOs Increasingly See Sustainability as Path to Profitability
- 15 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change
audience at Harvard Business School on Monday. "If you are a Republican, it's like a formal requirement to be a nonbeliever in climate change. And that's bad." In conversation with Harvard University Professor Rebecca Henderson,... View Details
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
in Oral Care Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 311-120 In 2011, Colgate-Palmolive (Colgate) was the global leader in oral care, with a dominant market share lead in toothpaste... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Question: How has the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
difference. If there’s a way to build collective commitment to continuing to move forward I think we’ll emerge in much better shape than if every firm focuses only on its own concerns. Rebecca Henderson... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
promising trends, the questions raised by economic inequality in San Francisco are not easily solved. Rose is teaching the case in a relatively new MBA elective, Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems, taught with John and... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
encouraging them to participate in case studies and other research. The School hopes that highlighting these higher-ambition efforts could act as a template for other companies to follow. "I do think you are very important," HBS Professor View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
Conduct, your jobs are secure. This decision was made with 100 percent support of the Firm’s Operating Committee. At the end of this year, we will know what we are dealing with, and hopefully, the economy will be on the mend by then.”... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Summing Up Does Common Sense Impede Change? Common sense is the decision-maker's friend when the decision has to be made rapidly, with a minimum of research or formal theory, with no more than moderate risk or consequences, and by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- September 2016
- Case
Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (Abridged)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby
A nonprofit in the healthcare arena explores strategies to achieve system-level impact. Founded in 1996 with a volunteer-staffed help desk at Boston Medical Center connecting low-income patients with basic resources like heating assistance, job training, and childcare... View Details
Keywords: Scaling Social Enterprise; Scaling Social Impact; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Outcomes; Health Care Reform; Nonprofit; Nonprofit Scaling; Social Enterprise; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; United States
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Sarah Appleby. "Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 517-024, September 2016.
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
multiple needs not only possible, but profitable. We conclude by emphasizing the role of business schools in socializing business leaders and how these schools, by incorporating a more stakeholder-centric... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2010
- Op-Ed
A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM
recalled almost 9 million vehicles—more than the entire number it sold the past three years. The irony is that Toyota gained significant market share in the past decade at the expense of its American competitors by offering superior... View Details