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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

responsibilities, such as assessing value and performance, budgeting, and communicating the financial implications of your decisions. The program expertly leads you through progressively more complex theories and analysis with a pace that... View Details

01 Feb 2022
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Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

needed an advocate in case of a serious health problem. In a sense, we needed inclusion and “voice” just as much as the employees Amy Edmondson wrote about in her book, The Fearless Organization. We needed... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Gillian Hadfield, University of California, Gould School of Law

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Harvard Kennedy School’s Social Innovation + Change Initiative is a rigorous co-curricular program for change-makers committed to addressing pressing social problems in new and creative ways. The Fellowship selects and supports students –... View Details

11 Jul 2016
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Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

when the CEO sends out a companywide email, are you supposed to reply? That’s where the soft skills training comes in. After landing a job, Autism at Work participants are given mentors and team buddies—existing SAP employees who volunteer—as well View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

practice of onboarding new employees. Although hiring is already a forgotten luxury for many firms, at least for the time being, others are still bringing aboard new people, such as those who made hiring View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

03 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising

marketing but don't alter the traditional paradigm of predator and prey. In the last 3 (property, social, and cultural exchanges), the marketer has to become someone who is invited into the exchange or is even pursued (as in the case of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising

September 1998 (Revised May 2004)
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Becton Dickinson: Ethics and Business Practices (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Becton Dickinson's Global One-Company Operations Group must decide on the company's global policy on gifts, gratuities, and business entertainment. A central issue is whether the policy should be established centrally and made uniform worldwide or whether it should be... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Ethics; Law; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Global Strategy; Trade; Business or Company Management

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03 Nov 2022
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Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

remote, you were in a non-stop thread in Slack with very few separate channels. It was intimate and cool intoxicating. Even as the team grew from five to 25, there was this sense of deep connection that the early employees had with the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

communicate them.” The reason might be as simple as employees not knowing about the incentive programs. Leslie John, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and a team of researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

25 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Women's Student Association

What is the WSA? The WSA, or Women’s Student Association, is a student-led organization at HBS for anyone who identifies as a woman. We’re the largest student organization on campus and are one of the few clubs that don’t request dues... View Details

04 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

bought-in Maersk was to decarbonization, including their commitment to cut emissions per shipping container by half and cut terminal emissions by 70% by 2030, and their recently accelerating their net-zero targets from 2050 to 2040.... View Details

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About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

promoting U.S. competitiveness. The Project approaches current challenges to U.S. competitiveness as a matter of global concern, not just an American issue. Faculty members from the Harvard Business School lead the Project. Along with... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

be achieved if the Argentine society underwent a cultural transformation, setting solidarity as a core shared value. Its association with the prestigious newspaper La Nación served View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

31 Oct 2019
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5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

When I graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a degree in Electrical Engineering, I knew that I wanted to pursue an MBA in the future. I worked in a technical role as a Manufacturing Engineer at Procter & Gamble, and... View Details

01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

progressed against the background of a changing financial landscape, Fisher and his colleagues persuaded Morgan Stanley's senior partners that the wholesale culture of the major "bulge bracket" investment banks needed to make way for a... View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

Do you see a marked difference in the types and degrees of ethical breaches occurring in the past, compared to more recently? Paine: Business ethics, of course, is as old as business itself, but formal... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

31 Aug 2020
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Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

“many of our existing leaders have not had the experience of not being included in their companies’ cultures because of factors related to their race or gender.” That observation probably applies to many in the lower ranks of leadership... View Details