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- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
wrote. “They are too general to cause a reasonable investor to rely upon them.” That’s typical of the way that many people and even employees view codes of conduct, says Eugene F. Soltes, Jakurski Family Associate Professor of View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
Whether jetting around the world or working from Colgate-Palmolive's midtown Manhattan headquarters, Lois Juliber has helped her company become a consumer-products powerhouse that does business in 212... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- September 2016
- Background Note
A Brief History of African American Leaders in Unions and the Labor Movement
By: Steven Rogers and Mercer Cook
This historically focused background note highlights the role of African American Labor Leaders in both the Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Movement. In doing so, it attempts to both highlight these noteworthy individuals and demonstrate the innate connection... View Details
Keywords: Wages; Working Conditions; Political History; Social History; Economic History; Business History; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Labor And Management Relations; Social Issues; Culture; Equality And Inequality; Rights; Leading Change; Race; Civil Society or Community; Labor Unions
Rogers, Steven, and Mercer Cook. "A Brief History of African American Leaders in Unions and the Labor Movement." Harvard Business School Background Note 317-004, September 2016.
- 15 Oct 2018
- News
Venezuela’s Meltdown Creates a Nation of Desperate Capitalists
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
According to a new Harvard Business School report from Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, and co-author Katherine Gehl, a former CEO and... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
student, a third-year law student, and a Kennedy School student with experience working in the United Nations. "It was the perfect blend of backgrounds," says Schrader. In 2012, the fledging company won both... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why Anger Makes a Wrongly Accused Person Look Guilty
A co-worker accuses you of lying during an important client meeting, and you’re furious because you didn’t lie. Expressing that anger, however, isn’t the best way to prove your innocence, according to new research. “People may... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the war, business for Lehman Brothers picked up after 1865. In 1868, Mayer left the South and joined Emanuel in New York City. The firm moved from 119 Liberty Street to 133–135 Pearl Street, near Wall Street and Hanover Square, where the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2024
- Video
A fireside chat with Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO at Harvard University
- January 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Hester Pharmaceuticals (A): A Pricing Dilemma
By: Dante Roscini and John Masko
In August 2019, the leadership of Hester Pharmaceuticals (Hester) had a problem. Italy promised to be a key market for their new breakthrough oncology drug Akrozumab, but for almost two years, its single-payer healthcare system had been unable to agree with Hester on a... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Trade; Price; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health Care and Treatment; Patents; Monopoly; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Human Needs; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Pharmaceutical Industry; Italy
Roscini, Dante, and John Masko. "Hester Pharmaceuticals (A): A Pricing Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 721-001, January 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- February 21, 2025
- Article
How a Company’s Ownership Model Shapes the Mistakes It Makes
By: Josh Baron
Why do some companies continue to thrive for decades and others die after an initial run of success? Like many kinds of accidents, company failure is generally the consequence of cascading effects that combine to overwhelm a previously effective strategy. But the... View Details
Baron, Josh. "How a Company’s Ownership Model Shapes the Mistakes It Makes." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (February 21, 2025).
- 19 Dec 2016
- News
A Conversation with Bert Twaalfhoven
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 13 Dec 2012
- News
A123 buyer has quietly built a presence in US
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
in partnership with HBS Alumni Programs, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), and the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), the virtual event was held on two different dates to accommodate a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
desperate to get the toy fixed. “At any other store, they would have been directed to the toy aisle to buy a replacement,” says Hubert Joly, Best Buy’s former chairman and CEO, who is now a senior lecturer... View Details
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The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Exhibition Home Exhibition Business Education & The Case Method The General Shoe Company, 1921 Case Writing & Industry Expansion of the Case Method The Case Method Classroom Teaching & The Case Method Impact on... View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Delivering Solutions During a Crisis: an Interview with Hans Kristian Furuseth
feedback on the business based on his ecommerce expertise. After Verdane invested in Farmasiet.no, Furuseth was brought on as CEO. Leading Change and Managing Through Crisis Since taking the helm at... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- Blog Post
5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS
internship at a leading airline. 3. Leadership Opportunities More than 200 students serve as club leaders and that’s only counting co-presidents and CFOs. HBS is a leadership... View Details