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10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

communities disproportionately face increased levels of pollution and are often more vulnerable to the dangerous effects of climate change. Dorceta E. Taylor’s Toxic Communities breaks down environmental racism as it relates to the siting... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

increasing danger of highlight glare at night. Land entered Harvard College in 1926. After the fall semester, he took a leave of absence to live in New York City. Over the course of the next three years, in the reading room of the New... View Details

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

as irrational. We will also describe the dangers of doing so and explain how to avoid making such mistakes. Mistake 1: They Are Not Irrational; They Are Uninformed An executive (who is one of Deepak's students) was recently involved in a... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

area to earn a Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 7 Modules, 45-50 Hours Download full syllabus 6-8 hrs Module 1 Leading at Scale and Scope Understand the key imperatives of transitioning to a new organizational leadership role,... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

dangerously blurred. The notion that those who lead and manage our society's major private economic institutions might provide, or be responsible for providing, a public good is quite foreign to our customary way of thinking about... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

brands to it. If you’re just tacking your brand onto a current event that has no relationship to your brand or consumer, it’s dangerous because it can feel false, opportunistic, and inappropriate.” Imagine Cheerios sending this to you... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

manages $3.8 billion As part of the Polish underground resistance during World War II, André Jakurski's father forged documents to help those in danger change their identities. "My parents lost everything during the war," explains the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

dangerous if they become an addiction. The competitiveness framework can help to better distinguish export-oriented policies that make a contribution to long-term sustainable growth from those that do not. 4. Moving on from here There is... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

any entrepreneur looking to build a business around an unconventional product that elicits multiple reactions: How do you balance fun and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? Clocky... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

capacity, shelf life, and customer demand. Such risks aren't new. In fact, "the underpinnings of problems today started two decades ago," says Craig Holmes, director of business continuity planning for Aon Risk Consultants, Southfield, Mich. But the View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

destroy health, wealth, and life itself. The issues span the ethical spectrum: falsified books and records, misleading communications, defective and dangerous products shipped without warnings or information, abusive behavior and unsafe... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

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Drug & Alcohol Policy | About

Wellness and Health Promotion within Harvard University Health Services (HUHS). Faculty and staff members can learn about the dangers of substance abuse and get information about treatment and counseling options available to the Harvard... View Details

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

the next budget cycle. With a delay strategy, attention can be diverted to some legitimate, pressing issue, the sort of which always exists. There is the sudden budget shortfall, the unexpected competitor announcement, the dangerous new... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

01 Oct 2000
News

Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist

line the shelves of Saladrigas's office. In addition to fighting corruption in local government, he was involved in last spring's negotiations between Elián González's Miami relatives and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. That task proved more View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

were phenomenal. I got engulfed in the videos; they made you feel like you were in sort of a planetarium, right in the tea fields in Asia, learning about the dangers of palm oil. And hearing from the executives at huge companies about... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

other area is it more important to have a sense of what you don't know than it is in IT management. The most dangerous advice to CEOs has come from people who either had no idea of what they did not know, or from those who pretended to... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

business partners with line executives. Finance spending as a percentage of revenues will increase, but the profit impact from these partnerships can repay the additional spending many times over. These examples collectively reveal the View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

Seattle, WA REASON FOR SERVING: I was a new sophomore in high school on September 11th, 2001. The attacks turned my interest in the military into a determination to serve our country and do my part to defend it. I wanted to do the difficult and View Details

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

While some lessons can be learned by watching—a parent’s reaction after touching a hot stove can be a good lesson for a youngster on dangers in the kitchen—other lessons are harder to learn through observation alone. No matter how many... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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