Situation or Environment - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

from others who might provide counsel, and then we redouble those efforts” He made his remarks at a recent presentation to HBS staff about how to respond to sticky situations with resilience. The discussion included a step-by-step... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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2.3.7 Physical Violence | MBA

2.3.7 Physical Violence HBS strives to maintain a safe and secure environment for all members of the community and thus does not tolerate physical violence or threats of physical violence. Students are... View Details

24 May 2022
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Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan

Stressful and uncertain environments were familiar to Kiernan from his time in the Marine Corps. He spent most of his military career in special operations, serving as a scout sniper, Pashto linguist, and deployed to Afghanistan where he... View Details

31 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?

ideas apply in all situations begging for wisdom? For example, David Physick opines that "Different situations require different leadership: sometimes single-minded dogmatism and other times much more... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Aug 2019
News

Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on Hate Site

wrote Prince. “Even if 8chan may not have violated the letter of the law in refusing to moderate their hate-filled community, they have created an environment that revels in violating its spirit." In an interview in the New York Times,... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Climate Change as Must-See TV

issue or understand its urgency." Working with fellow executive producers James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, and 60 Minutes veterans David Gelber and Joel Bach, Abbasi secured backing from HBS alumni Bill Bowes (MBA 1952), Chris Hohn (MBA... View Details

Keywords: videos; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; Arts, Entertainment

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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

advisors. Educational Objectives The focus of this course is the leader as a strategist, architect, decision maker, and change agent in a turnaround or transformation environment. This course will present View Details

19 Jul 2013
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All in Good Time

Michael Chu, Dutch Leonard, Allen Grossman, and Laura Moon, director of the Social Enterprise Initiative. "The experience of being in an environment that demanded rigorous thinking has been invaluable throughout my career," she says.... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Jun 2011
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Faculty Research Online

Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much? In the course of making a decision, managers often err in one of two directions: either overanalyzing a situation or forgoing all the... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2020
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Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

Ziegler Professor of Business Administration, discuss this development and its effect on democratic societies. What is populism? Rafael Di Tella: There are so many different definitions, but at its core, populism is not about being on the left View Details

Keywords: April White

11 Jun 2015
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Leading the way in sustainable style

Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976), the chairman and CEO of garment-manufacturing giant The Esquel Group, doesn’t spend much time talking about apparel anymore. Instead, she’s focused on improving the livelihood of the company’s 47,000 employees and reducing environmental impact... View Details

April 1999
Background Note

Note on the Caspian Oil Pipelines

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Mathew M Millett

The Caspian region may become one of the world's next major energy producers. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-all former Soviet republics--hold vast and largely undeveloped reserves of oil and gas, but the region's export infrastructure is nearly... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Non-Renewable Energy; Investment; Government and Politics; Infrastructure; Outcome or Result; Projects; Natural Environment; Azerbaijan; Kazakhstan; Uzbekistan

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22 Feb 2017
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Funding Solar’s Future

40 acres, with more than 80,000 panels—costs upwards of $10 million. And such projects have a huge need for capital. “Solar isn’t just cleaner, smarter energy, or good American infrastructure, it’s also a component of our national... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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Use of Electronic Resources | Baker Library

to these terms of use. Working with outside individuals or organizations: Students and program participants may use most of our licensed resources in situations where they may be working with outside... View Details

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Management Training Program - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

HBS Professor Fritz J. Roethlisberger, this course moved, "from cases involving the situation of a single individual . . . to the study of more complex cases involving the behavior of a working group and interaction between groups, always... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Batteries Included

materials and doesn’t require problematic materials (such as cobalt or nickel) common in other lithium-ion battery chemistries. I imagine it has great possibilities.” Fleetzero has embraced those possibilities—though not from the outset.... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Water Transportation; Transportation

01 Sep 2005
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Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

students. As an individual, I believe I’ve become less quick to speak and more inclined to listen. In many ways, I’m more confident about grasping situations but also a lot more aware of my own limitations. I’ve learned to multitask and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2004
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Ideas: Books

Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the... View Details