Cultural Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

environmental damage and climate change over the last two centuries. The time has come for mainstream business history to incorporate the environmental impact of business in its agenda." Other research agenda topics identified by... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

the event examined the operational and cultural obstacles that impede success in fighting poverty. They also considered the impact of business as a poverty alleviator and whether business engagement alone is sufficient to lift individuals... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

change,” says Brooks. “Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience didn’t just happen because she wanted to sit down one day; and gay marriage didn’t become legal in one day. These kinds of changes have decades of investment behind them.” The Schott... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

United States in 2021. The Juneteenth Story provides an accessible introduction for kids to learn about this important American holiday. The Changing C-Suite: Executive Power in Transformation By José Luis Alvarez (PhD OB 1991) and... View Details

13 Dec 2017
News

Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

working to understand their motivations and tracking their reactions to cultural and political events. Her unique insights have made her a regular on CNN and a fixture on the pages of the Boston Globe. And Hessan and I discussed her... View Details

26 Jan 2016
First Look

January 26, 2016

results for the setting of executive compensation and illegal financial accounting. Finally, we outline some managerial and policy implications to blunt these adverse incentive effects. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50417 Will a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

on Balanced Scorecard Commentaries Author:Robert S. Kaplan Publication:Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 8, no. 4 (2012) Abstract This paper provides the author's insights about five papers written in this volume about his... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

never change. Since its founding in 1911, the company operated under a set of principles articulated by founder Thomas Watson and became known for a strong culture and a commitment to fairness and social responsibility. As IBM entered its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2007
News

Riding It Out

recall of 450,000 tires missing a key safety feature that a U.S. importer had purchased from a Chinese manufacturer and distributed to retail outlets. “I don’t think there is a strong culture of adherence to regulations in China right... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2017
News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

the prospects of video game competition as a spectator sport—“for two mind-numbing hours, contestants stared at their screens and manipulated laser guns”—but Warner Communications was elated by all the attention it received, and the contestants understood its View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

changing world, if your business is built on the assumption that diversity and inclusion is a ‘nice to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners,... View Details

11 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Saying “Race” Out Loud: Leading Conversations on Diversity in HBS Classrooms

senior associate dean for culture and community three years ago. Via teaching faculty retreats focused on real-life classroom scenarios, coordinating cases featuring issues of diversity thoughtfully across the MBA curriculum and school... View Details

19 Oct 2022
News

If I Were You

supports you. Charanya Kannan (MBA 2017): I would say work on self-awareness. HBS was a great place for me to be vulnerable and learn from everyone around me in terms of who I really am. So just the change of context. My pre-HBS life and... View Details

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

Chairman and CEO of KPMG, the firm made a number of changes in compensation, governance, and culture in order to address the underlying reasons for actions that occurred prior to him becoming CEO that led to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2023
Case

Natura: Weathering the Pandemic at Brazil's Cosmetic Giant

By: Brian Trelstad, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira

Brazil's Natura, a multi-brand cosmetics group, has taken several measures to safeguard the livelihoods of its thousands of employees and millions of sales representatives during the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. The company has also made strides in its efforts... View Details

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Educators

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

about seventy minority students, most of them wearing dashikis and Afro hairstyles; and around thirty brave-hearted women." Within a month, O'Donnell recalls, "the three-piece-suit culture was dead. We dressed casually, and a lot of us... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

The BP case also illustrates that investor relations is increasingly looking for a more strategic role to play within an organization, trying to take its work to a new level. Q: "Investor Relations at TOTAL" is set in a particular sociopolitical View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

forces: The Fear of Missing Out and the Fear of a Better Option—or FOMO and FOBO, for short. And then he graduated and started his career, and mostly forgot about it. Until about ten years later, when FOMO had reached a cultural... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

leaders of nonprofit institutions that was established under the Initiative's auspices in the fall of 1994. "SOS-KDI is a $400 million organization with a brilliant formula that has helped them expand internationally to serve more than 100,000 children," Rangan... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

Its currency only grew with the 2012 publication of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic Monthly article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” followed by Sheryl Sandberg’s (MBA 1995) 2013 book, Lean In. This conversation was born out of a View Details

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