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Welcome to HBS | MBA
addressing many of society’s most pressing challenges. The world needs a new type of leader, one who is prepared to tackle tough problems head on; to bring new energy and innovative ideas to age-old debates; to live lives and build organizations with sound View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
Tech has real social and ethical responsibilities, but we’ve seen that the current leadership of these platforms is not willing to make changes to promote a healthier ecosystem. When I was at Reddit, its culture needed a lot of work, and... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Research Brief: The Power of Could
dropped into the plot of Breaking Bad, might ask himself what he should do. Walter White is not an aberration: Most people facing ethical dilemmas reflexively ask just that, according to a new paper coauthored by Ting Zhang, a doctoral... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
simply a question of "doing the right thing" from an ethical standpoint. In the opinion of Manuel Ariztia, renowned Chilean businessman and owner of Empresas Ariztía, his company's responsibility to collaborate in solving... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
are the best-positioned market sectors and stocks as well as those to avoid. Hot Stocks provides a roadmap detailing how to invest in this new reality, and evaluates the many ways global warming will affect profit flows in the economy. Right/Wrong: How Technology... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised July 2022)
- Teaching Note
Algorithmic Bias in Marketing
By: Ayelet Israeli and Eva Ascarza
Teaching Note for HBS No. 521-020. This note focuses on algorithmic bias in marketing. First, it presents a variety of marketing examples in which algorithmic bias may occur. The examples are organized around the 4 P’s of marketing – promotion, price, place and... View Details
- October 2018
- Supplement
African Bank Investments Limited (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Less than a year after joining the board of African Bank Investments Limited (ABIL), the newest director finds himself in difficult discussions with other directors about removing the struggling company’s CEO. The case is set in South Africa in mid-2014 as shares in... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Personal Finance; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Insurance; Leadership; Management; Risk Management; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; South Africa
Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "African Bank Investments Limited (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 319-053, October 2018.
- May 2014 (Revised June 2016)
- Supplement
Mylan Lab's Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceuticals—courseware
By: Lucy White
Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge with King is generous to King shareholders,... View Details
- February 2014 (Revised June 2016)
- Case
Mylan Laboratories' Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceutical
By: Lucy White and Matt Kozlowski
Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge with King is generous to King shareholders,... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Voting; Ethics; Stock Shares; Investment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Ownership Stake
White, Lucy, and Matt Kozlowski. "Mylan Laboratories' Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceutical." Harvard Business School Case 214-078, February 2014. (Revised June 2016.)
- January 2007
- Teaching Note
Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance (TN)
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Teaching Note to 803127. View Details
- February 2015
- Case
CLP: Powering Asia
By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Dawn Lau
Richard Lancaster, taking over from Andrew Brandler, was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CLP Holdings Ltd., one of the leading power companies in Asia, with operations in China, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Australia, and India, and an energy portfolio spanning coal,... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Energy Industry; Asia; India
Serafeim, George, Rebecca Henderson, and Dawn Lau. "CLP: Powering Asia." Harvard Business School Case 115-038, February 2015.
- Profile
Payam Shodjai
countries all bring different perspectives to the table." As an example, Payam refers to a case about Google that involved the ethics of search and privacy – issues Payam had worked on for years. "Yet other participants brought... View Details
- Profile
Nelson Yuan
be hard to see how business leaders affect the ethos of a company. One of the things they stress at HBS is responsibility, the strong sense of ethics that must inform the decisions we make, the way we influence our colleagues. Here, I’m... View Details
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Curriculum | MBA
Politics and Ethics in Unstable Times One HKS Elective Course Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HBS faculty Summer Policy-related or international development-related summer internship (recommended) Year 2 Harvard Business School... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo
sectors, and work towards a career in content acquisition. With technology and AI changing how media is consumed and created, he wants to ensure that it is being done ethically and without bias, so that the stories of those traditionally... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
quantify your impact. Be directive with them, especially those unfamiliar with writing for a U.S. application committee. I quote one of my recommenders “If I was to write that you are hard-working and diligent, this means you are average in the HBS pool. If I say that... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- News
New York Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
you find is that Harvard Business School really has a special place,” Dinan added. “The world really recognizes that people coming out of Harvard know what they are doing, are instilled with a certain level of basic ethics and principles.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
also as an insightful manager, a man of high ethical standards, and a team player. He provides more than money—quite often, his advice and counsel have been the key elements that helped entrepreneurs transform a good idea into a great... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
engagements, what many have suggested has led to pushing ethical standards that has tarnished some firms’ reputations. The pursuit of higher compensation One of the most notable shifts is the expectation among partners of increasing... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
companies realize the value from deploying AI in an ethical way? HBS: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Assistant Professor of Business Administration Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration Seth Neel, Assistant Professor of... View Details