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  • 17 Jan 2023
  • Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

meaning it has an actual impact on employee behavior. It’s not simply enough to have policies and procedures on paper. Companies are becoming more savvy because they realize the best defense is offense. Lambert: Are companies beginning to... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • September–October 2024
  • Article

The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem-Solving

By: Léonard Boussioux, Jacqueline N. Lane, Miaomiao Zhang, Vladimir Jacimovic and Karim R. Lakhani
The rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) open up attractive opportunities for creative problem-solving through human-guided AI partnerships. To explore this potential, we initiated a crowdsourcing challenge focused on sustainable, circular economy... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Models; Generative Ai; Crowdsourcing; AI and Machine Learning; Creativity; Technological Innovation
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  • 2022
  • Case

Tesla's Battery Supply Chain: A Growing Concern

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
In October 2021, the fictional vice president of supply chain sustainability at Tesla is working on finding the best way to achieve Tesla's goal of 100% recycling for the batteries in its electric vehicles (EVs) as they reach their end of life. A major challenge in... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governance Compliance; Metals and Minerals; Auto Industry
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  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

  Working PapersCorporate Social Entrepreneurship Authors:James Austin and Ezequiel Reficco Abstract Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 May 2023
  • News

How FOMO Became a Fixture

It's rare for a day to go by when the term FOMO (short for "fear of missing out") isn't shared on TV, social media, or any other media we consume. But where did FOMO come from? In this interview, Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004), shares the genesis of the phrase, the impact... View Details
  • December 2006 (Revised January 2007)
  • Case

Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola and Nigeria's Manufacturing Sector

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo, Foluke Otudeko and Mark Benson
Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola was an important contributor to Nigeria's manufacturing sector, creating a multimillion-dollar conglomerate including three factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch, a 5,000-acre plantation, a sawmill, and an exporting business before... View Details
Keywords: History; Business Conglomerates; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Success; Leadership Style; Business History; Market Entry and Exit; Personal Development and Career; Business Startups; Manufacturing Industry; Nigeria
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  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Web

Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

3 Venture, Private Equity, and Sustainable Debt Identify sources of value-add in private impact investing, analyze how managers weigh financial and social returns, and explore different types of sustainable... View Details
  • 31 May 2023
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance
  • Web

Online Learning Model | HBS Online

impactful than other online business programs, and 91 percent stated HBS Online had a positive impact on their careers. What sets HBS Online apart? Our learning model is active, social, and features... View Details
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

concentrated, with five sellers responsible for nearly half of net selling. This concentration leads to market fragility—losses at the largest sellers have an outsized impact on CDS pricing. These findings suggest a high degree of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

that produce ‘climate adaptation’ and not just ‘climate mitigation.’ Helping to reduce water usage, we can help ecosystems; we can help communities lessen the impact of the water crisis.” Leni’s said her “north star” has always been... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

acquisition-led growth? What will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? For how long can its strategy of “continuous improvement” continue? “I’m the chief human resources officer of a Fortune 500 company, and... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • June 1995 (Revised September 1996)
  • Case

Union Carbide's Bhopal Plant (A)

By: Debora L. Spar
In December 1984, a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, sprung a leak, releasing thousands of gallons of highly toxic gas into the atmosphere. By the time the leak was sealed, over 2,000 people had died. In a series of three excerpts from published accounts, the case... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Chemicals; Foreign Direct Investment; Chemical Industry; United States; India
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  • March 2022
  • Article

Sensitivity Analysis of Agent-based Models: A New Protocol

By: Emanuele Borgonovo, Marco Pangallo, Jan Rivkin, Leonardo Rizzo and Nicolaj Siggelkow
Agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly used in the management sciences. Though useful, ABMs are often critiqued: it is hard to discern why they produce the results they do and whether other assumptions would yield similar results. To help researchers address such... View Details
Keywords: Agent-based Modeling; Sensitivity Analysis; Design Of Experiments; Total Order Sensitivity Indices; Organizations; Behavior; Decision Making; Mathematical Methods
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  • 06 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

there's less of a negative impact on their stock price." The Payoff As a result, the acquirer has a cheaper source of equity financing when pursuing growth opportunities, Baker explains, using the example of a hypothetical company... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 24 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

reviews over professional critics, but also because of its historical database that tracks every review. Luca compared the ratings over time with revenue data from the state of Washington to gauge how reviews impacted restaurants' bottom... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 03 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

the T.R.A.P. Lab? Turner: I consider it both a think tank and a time saver for people doing rigorous research on race and technology. It's an environment where social scientists working on these matters don’t have to defend why this stuff... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
  • 26 Sep 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

right. As revenues from recorded music steadily declined from 2004 to 2008, concert revenues steadily rose, according to data presented in the case. "Advances in digital technology have had a strong negative impact on recorded-music... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

the wane. "I fear that social networks may make the problem worse," commented Gamaliel Pascual. "The technology may be hardwiring a younger generation to create virtual tribes where the congregation is based on shared biases/values."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett