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- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
study they asked, what is the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on management practices across the world? Read the paper: http://bsr.london.edu/lbs-article/611/index.html Mutual Fund Trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2022
- News
Can Entrepreneurs and Governments Team Up to Solve Big Problems?
- Web
2.2 Recruiting Standards of Conduct - MBA
resources, and reunion attendance. Notation of the violation on the student’s academic transcript or, if the student has graduated, in their HBS alumni file. If a student is considering reneging, it is imperative that they contact the CPD View Details
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The U.S. Job Search for International Students - 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... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
that people need to take breaks throughout the day, get enough sleep, and take vacations.” Yet many of us don’t practice what we preach, she acknowledges. So managers can set an example by taking breaks and... View Details
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Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
markets have tightened, it's the companies with highly differentiated products that will be able to not only weather this storm, but come out the other side" in a strong position, says Harvard Business School Professor of Management... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
practices which encourage managers to use accounting information to improve performance. In contrast, government organizations are publicly governed and are constrained in their compensation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
Albany (Oregon), Baltimore, and Chicago. “I wanted to know: what are the best practices in manufacturing?” HOME REGION Douala, Cameroon UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Georgia Institute of Technology PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE W.R. Grace HBS ACTIVITIES... View Details
- 2014
- Chapter
Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Corporations
By: Nien-he Hsieh and Florian Wettstein
A central question that arises from the perspective of global ethics is what standards ought to apply to the activities of multinational corporations (MNCs). This chapter surveys the contemporary theoretical literature on this question. The first section provides... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Corporation; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards
Hsieh, Nien-he, and Florian Wettstein. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Corporations." Chap. 19 in The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics, edited by Darrel Moellendorf and Heather Widdows, 251–266. London: Routledge, 2014.
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details
- April 2008
- Module Note
Improvement with Customer-Operators
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Taught as the third module in a Harvard Business School course on Managing Service Operations: Understanding the Customer Operating Role (606-092). Explores how firms can systematically leverage their customer-operators in the organizational improvement process is... View Details
Keywords: Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Customer Focus and Relationships; Framework; Employees; Business Model; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Improvement with Customer-Operators." Harvard Business School Module Note 608-135, April 2008.
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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets
Administration Director, Business History Initiative Research Interests : business history , economics , entrepreneurship , marketing , sales force management Joseph B. Fuller Professor of Management View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract— Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
management," says Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But far fewer confront a basic fact: Companies typically spend much more money and hire many more people,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
manager, but it was a good thing for me to brush up on while managing a diverse team. —Alterrell Mills (MBA 2016) Back to top “Fenchel Lampshade Co.” Steven Rogers (MBA 1985) and Michele Rogers (MBA 1986) propose purchasing a lampshade... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
middle-skill career fields,” he says. Respiratory therapist Michelle Powell (above) trains Howard School students Rudy Vasquez and Junior Juan in how to take a blood pressure reading; below, Shakaya Finley and Jamesha Owens practice those... View Details
- October 2010 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Drilling Safety at BP: The Deepwater Horizon Accident
By: Stephen P. Kaufman and Laura Winig
Following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico explosion and oil spill on the Deepwater Horizon, public attention focused on BP's safety record, practices, and management culture as the primary cause of the disaster. Drawing on public sources this case traces the circumstances... View Details
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Practice; Safety; Energy Industry; Mexico, Gulf of
Kaufman, Stephen P., and Laura Winig. "Drilling Safety at BP: The Deepwater Horizon Accident." Harvard Business School Case 611-017, October 2010. (Revised May 2012.)
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
grouped founders into 50 pairs, focusing on the pairs where a high-intensity manager was partnered with a founder who was self-described as more hands off. (A more hands-on manager might use these intensive... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman