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24 Apr 2014
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A champion for First Nations

Blaine Favel (MBA 2001) was trained to be a public servant from childhood. Having grown up in a family of Native American Cree chiefs, Favel has spent a lifetime shoring up employment opportunities for his people. As chancellor at the University of Saskatchewan, he is... View Details

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Lorrayne Ward

align incentives across the public and private sectors by distributing medicine to rural areas via the existing network of drugstores. Profits for shopkeepers, more lives saved for society – a perfect plan, I had naively thought. But I... View Details

07 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - COP27 and the Climate Crisis

sustainable development through organic and biodynamic farming. “We will try to tell everyone [at COP27], whether it’s a government, a corporation, or civil society that agriculture, to our understanding from our example at SEKEM, is... View Details

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Automobile Industry - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Collections Site Credits Automobile Industry Photograph Collection, 1931–1944 Henry Ford presents new V-8 , ca. 1936. Mss: 534 1931–1944 A939 25 boxes, approx. 2,000 photographs Collection Guide In the 1930s, Charles H. Taylor, a founding member of the Business... View Details

History's Guiding Light

Having worked on the issues of the hour at the White House and the World Bank, I was keen to step back and understand the evolution and impact of business on society as I embarked on my journey at HBS. The role of companies in shaping and... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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A Strong Foundation: Message from Dean Nohria

called upon to play in improving society and addressing the challenges it faces. READ MORE HBS Campaign Impact Tomorrow, Transformed READ MORE HBS Campaign Impact Tomorrow, Transformed Forces such as technology and globalization have... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Leading Quietly

inconspicuously and without casualties." Badaracco believes that what drives society are millions of small yet consequential decisions that individuals make on a daily basis. He presents a series of situations describing quiet leaders at... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School

Coffee Shop Is Brewing Change for Business and Society A multimedia case study by Richard Ruback and Robin Greenwood illustrates the benefits of hiring intellectually disabled adults. Featuring Richard S. Ruback and Robin Greenwood . By... View Details

09 Mar 2021
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Bridging the Gap

yet, the crisis has shed light on areas where business leaders can make an important difference, such as supporting schools and programs that enable students to gain skills and talents for productive employment and create a foundation for sustained economic growth that... View Details

25 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

One Love: Managing a Movement Against Relationship Violence

Keywords: Re: Thomas J. DeLong

16 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

You can see the subtle changes when a neighborhood is on its way up—streets get cleaner, building facades improve, new businesses start moving in. Across an entire city, however, it’s harder to track such changes, to understand in real time which neighborhoods are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city's crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead. They wondered why, and asked the political scientist Elinor Olstrom to provide some... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

04 Jan 2012
What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

Summing Up Are Education And Mobility The Keys To Reaching The Right Amount Of Inequality? Questions about the right amount of inequality provoked thoughtful comment this month about the nature of the question, definitions, measures, and appropriate actions to ensure... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Apr 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting

Keywords: by Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari & Marco Piovesan

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Social Environments that Kill Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity; Culture; Situation or Environment

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March 16, 2023
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How Putin Uses Hanoi’s 1960s Playbook to Divide the American Public on Foreign Policy

By: Jeremy Friedman

Keywords: Public Opinion; International Relations

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January 11, 2023
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Russia and Ukraine Are Not Ready for Talks: But They Might Get There If Ukraine Keeps Winning

By: James K. Sebenius and Michael Singh

While there are many calls for negotiation between Ukraine and Russia to end their war, there does now (early 2023) not appear to be a zone of possible agreement (ZOPA), since each side's best no-agreement option ("BATNA") likely appears superior to any mutually... View Details

Keywords: Diplomacy; Agreements; Ukraine; International Relations; War; Negotiation; Ukraine; Russia

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Cut from the Same Cloth: Similarly Dishonest Individuals Across Countries

By: Heather E. Mann, Ximena Garcia-Rada, Lars Hornuf, Juan Tafurt and Dan Ariely

Norms for dishonest behaviors vary across societies, but whether this variation is related to differences in individuals’ core tendencies toward dishonesty is unknown. We compare individual dishonesty on a novel task across 10 participant samples from five countries... View Details

Keywords: Morality; Decision-making; Dishonesty; Cultural Psychology; Country; Decision Making; Culture

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April 2016
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Detroit: On the Right Track?

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Manjari Raman

As this case opens in 2012, a cross-sector alliance to bring new rail transport to the Motor City seems about to collapse, and civic leaders have one last chance to save it. The case covers the rise of Detroit, the city’s devastating fall, and the ongoing potential... View Details

Keywords: Urban Development; Rail Transportation; Infrastructure; Transportation Industry; Michigan

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