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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
wealth inequality in the United States in recent decades, Summers said that in any society, equitable income distribution goes to the heart of a society’s legitimacy, fairness, and opportunity for its... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity (Volume 1) by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark (The MIT Press) Today's fast-paced global economy often seems to operate as an independent force, but its products, firms, View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
composition of their footprints changes as personal spending changes in this time. I personally can give my own data as an example. Previously, about 50 percent of my carbon footprint was travel and then food, home, View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
thereby limiting the scope of people willing to engage in such behaviors. The tight integration of social and economic benefits is equally important—users can obtain the social benefits only if they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
initiative will partner with the school and other regional nonprofits to recruit and develop entrepreneurs and business owners. It’s the ideal position for a guy who is View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
challenges and opportunities that the School faces—and the priorities that will guide his leadership. Inequality and racism are among the most serious problems in today's... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
imitate: The core-competency perspective focused attention on the importance of knowledge creation and building learning processes for competitive advantage. 2 But this approach, too, faced limits as companies recognized that their people... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
Komatsu and Dresser created a fifty-fifty joint venture (Komatsu Dresser Corporation, or KDC), merging manufacturing, engineering, and finance operations. The joint venture maintained View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
leader. This is Allegra Jordan (MBA 1995). There's a lot of terrible things in the world and a lot of pain. This is very true. But it's equally true that there's quite a lot of marvelous in the world. I'm... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
don’t sell user data, et cetera. So we have these privacy principles and community values. And so when we crafted the ad business, we wanted a business that was in harmony with the community View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
faculty and staff. One employee who was seriously injured in a car accident was astonished to receive a visit from McArthur in the hospital even before his family could get there. “While part of this was about managing an institution, it... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
Reflecting the strong demand for international business learning materials—including cases, articles, simulations, and other content—HBP International revenue accounted for 43 percent of the group’s total revenue in fiscal 2024, View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
social side, that talks about your relationships with employees, suppliers, and clients, and the communities in which you operate. So labor standards, employee relations, local community impact will be... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
that truth equals facts plus context. And that I wanted to portray a more complete context. So, look, I think you read the book and you say, "There's a lot of things to admire... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
size of the company's assets? The management of financial risks is not just a matter of "protecting" the firm against adverse events. A: As an accounting identity, the total value and the total risk of the assets of the firm... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
he made in the food industry were equally discouraging. “They told me I was crazy, that Jeannette was dead, that near the end they had been producing the worst madeleines in France. To restart production and... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
current HBS students? “HBS can provide so many different, but equally transformative experiences. I would recommend thinking carefully about what one wants from HBS and then being disciplined in pursuing it.... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
way of lifting people up and limiting the damage—and preventing the current economic crisis from getting dramatically worse, or triggering a financial collapse. But equally important, in my view, is... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
expected to achieve. You might conclude, therefore, that the two spans should be equally wide or narrow. As the adage goes, authority should match responsibility. But in high-performing organizations, many people are held to broad... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons