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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
China and India as competition but as profit centers to improve our short term return on investment. We need to reexamine that paradigm. . . . Sometimes the kids in the global community don't play fair. We don't have to take our ball... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association
gender equity at HBS and beyond. We have an incredible list of sponsors who, through their funding and support, help us deliver extensive programming for all members. In the 2023-2024 school year, our focus for the WSA centered around... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- February 2025 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Institutional Neutrality, Restraint or Convenience?
By: Clayton S. Rose, Nicole Zelazko and Alexis Lefort
In the fall of 2023 and winter of 2024, college campuses across the U.S. experienced protests and encampments in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel by the Islamist militant group Hamas, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. These... View Details
Keywords: Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; Ethics; Governance; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Adaptation; Disruption; Communication Strategy; Higher Education; United States
Rose, Clayton S., Nicole Zelazko, and Alexis Lefort. "Institutional Neutrality, Restraint or Convenience?" Harvard Business School Case 325-022, February 2025. (Revised April 2025.)
- Profile
Prineeta Kulkarni
sophistication. "Anyone can apply an analytical tool such as WACC [Weighted Average Cost of Capital]," she says. "But case study has taught me the right situations for applying a WACC. What are the nuances you need to keep... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
Back in the early 1990s, managers of U.S. companies were justifiably proud of the well-oiled machines they'd made of their supply chains. Over the previous fifteen to twenty years, they'd wrung costs from the mechanisms and processes by... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
careers at the Harvard Business School, we discovered that the turnover of CIOs ran at around 30 to 40 percent per year. As a result of our research, we described the driving cause as the rapid change of IT through the operation of Moore's Law (IT View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Received a 2021 Research Fellowship from the Center for Insurance Policy Research at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. 2020 Edward B. Berk : Received the Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
their global competitiveness. Their approach was simple: They centralized huge scale and built all the Toyotas in Toyoda City. Or they produced all the Panasonic VCRs out of Osaka. These huge, centralized, scale-intensive operations drove their View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
dilemma while participating in the second semester required course The Entrepreneurial Manager taught by Shikhar Ghosh, the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice and the faculty cochair of the HBS Rock Center for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
is extremely limited. Theoretically, delegation of authority is expected when locally adapted choices are most important to the overall value of the firm, when local information advantages are significant, or when the cost of processing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
low-cost camera, but only after spending $2 billion trying to maximize its cameras' performance.10 The result of asymmetric battles often is the seemingly sudden end of a great firm. Cramming happens all the time. It is almost never successful. It View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
salesperson handles those issues slightly differently. It’s hard to train for that because everyone has a different style and way of talking to customers.” Tackling reticence and resistance at a call center For the study, Stanton and his... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
creating value. Danielle Kost: What is different about the companies that put value at the center of their strategy? Felix Oberholzer-Gee: I admire how disciplined they are. Every company that I studied for the book has many talented... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
pandemic) that challenge traditional economic theory centered on the so-called Phillips curve. It’s a simple economic model named after the economist who explored the positive relationship between low unemployment and higher wage rates.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
powerful who are resistant to change. Most people resist change, even when change might be in their interest, because change is threatening; it involves taking risks and experimenting, not knowing the outcome. This is hard for most people to do. It's even hard for us... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries with high import content. More... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels