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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 24 May 2014
  • News

Analysts’ dim view of CSR brightens over time

  • 21 Jan 2021
  • News

Why Your Values Belong at Work

  • 12 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

do many organizations. But with professional football, for example, we have a much tidier time measuring performance since it can so easily be quantified with widely available, specially detailed, and highly accurate statistical data. As... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports
  • 11 Sep 2017
  • Blog Post

7 Lessons from My Time at HBS

shown in my office used to say you need ‘ruthless prioritization’. During business school, I learnt to focus on questions like how to prioritize my time, what matters most to me, what is important but not a priority, and to spend my time... View Details
  • 08 Apr 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It

No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle It used to be that we equated power and prestige with a leisurely, luxurious lifestyle. Today, lack of leisure time may just be the real status symbol. Does Le... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto; Retail; Fashion
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money

What is the role of volunteerism and other charitable giving in the United States? About one in four adults volunteer every year. About one in two adults give more than $25 to charity every year. The estimated combined value of their... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

The True Value of a Tweet

value of “likes.” The evidence often cited to support that is to look at people who have liked Starbucks, for example, compared with people who have not. The assumption is that people who have liked Starbucks spend more money there. The... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 May 2015
  • Blog Post

How Being an HBS Partner Changed My Life

parents through cancer treatments and my husband through a deployment.  Somewhere during that decade, I stopped dreaming about what life could be, and started hoping for what life wouldn’t be.  This is how I... View Details
  • September 2006 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

Timing of Option Grants at UnitedHealth Group (A)

Faced with press allegations that executives' stock options might have been backdated, the Board of UnitedHealth Group needs to determine whether its accounting for the options was proper, and if not, what the restatement amount should be and what... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Stock Options; Accounting; Crisis Management; Corporate Governance; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; United States
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  • Web

Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity

Life & Leadership After HBS Tradeoffs & Time Limits: Work & Life for Dual-Career Families Juggling responsibilities at home and work is challenging for both men and women,... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Turning Point: One Story at a Time

tears, they were not tears of anger or admonishment—her main fear was that I would have a very difficult and lonely life. The thing about coming out is that it’s not one conversation, one time. I had already told my older sister; in time... View Details
  • October 2008
  • Article

It's Time to Make Management a True Profession

By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
In the face of the recent institutional breakdown of trust in business, managers are losing legitimacy. To regain public trust, management needs to become a true profession in much the way medicine and law have, argue Khurana and Nohria of Harvard Business School. True... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Education; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Management; Trust; Value Creation
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  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

Michelin private label tires for its replacement business in 1965, that should have been the time to exit. In 1969, when Goodrich realized it couldn't make money and had a chance to sell to Michelin, it should have but it didn't. And... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2018
  • News

Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer- Prize winning journalist and a New York Times best-selling author. His first book, The Power of Habit, focused the science of habit... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • Blog Post

Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS

my new friends caught up on the Forum’s discussion, as well as their HBS cases that day— a LEAD case about a protagonist facing a management turnaround, a TOM case about a restaurant’s operations, and a FIN case valuing a Pharma company.... View Details
  • January 2021
  • Article

Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

By: Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
What is the optimal form of firm organization during “bad times”? We present a model of delegation within the firm to show that the effect is ambiguous. The greater turbulence following macro shocks may benefit decentralized firms because the value of local information... View Details
Keywords: Decentralization; Growth; Turbulence; Great Recession; Organizational Design; System Shocks; Economic Growth; Performance
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Timing - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

and he reveals how he managed the R.R. Donnelley and Sons case discussion. Making Real Time Adjustments David Garvin While it's important to allocate time for each segment of a discussion, Professor Garvin... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2014
  • News

Unwanted life insurance can be a valuable asset for seniors’ retirement

  • Article

Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism

By: Shoshana Zuboff
Capitalism is a book of many chapters—and we are beginning a new one. Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet. When a majority of people want things that remain priced at a... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Economic Systems; Transformation
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