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28 May 2019
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Impact: Toward the Greater Good

Recognizing that business is an important driver in creating prosperity both for individuals and for communities around the world, Harvard Business School educates leaders who have the capacity to address complex challenges View Details

04 Aug 2021
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Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit

billion in disability benefits a year, Eldridge says. Gain Life’s existing wellness market has good prospects, although it’s highly competitive, “almost to the point of commoditization,” he adds, and the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

December 2012
Background Note

Are Daily Deals Good for Merchants?

By: Sunil Gupta, Timothy Keiningham, Ray Weaver and Luke Williams

In the relatively short time since Groupon was founded, the response to "daily deals"—services that promote businesses by marketing deeply discounted, pre-paid vouchers to an online subscriber base—has by all accounts been spectacular. Our evaluation of daily deals is... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Technology; Business Strategy; Digital; Marketing Strategy; Web Services Industry

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12 Feb 2015
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Asking Advice Makes a Good Impression

SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good

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19 Jan 2014
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Never Waste a Good Recession

Keywords: recession; customer orientation; product development; R & D

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Innovative Finance for the Common Good

Whether it's a vaccine or green bond, drought insurance, pay-as-you-go financing for solar electricity in Kenya, or discounted metro cards in New York, innovative finance is as much about incentives and sound decision making as it is about money; when it works,... View Details

2009
Working Paper

Don't Just Survive - Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad

By: Lynda M. Applegate and J. Bruce Harreld

Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk Management; Leading Change; Innovation and Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy

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01 Jun 2005
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When No News Isn’t Good News

do a good job and that you care about your role in the organization’s success. Try to weigh positive and critical feedback evenly. It’s human nature to focus on criticism while... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; career consulting; career advice

25 Nov 2009
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The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making

Keywords: by Roy Y.J. Chua & Xi Zou; Consumer Products; Retail

10 Feb 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education

“The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today,” says Chris Crane (MBA 1976), who founded and leads Edify, a nonprofit that furnishes... View Details

10 Sep 2018
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Why big companies squander good ideas

18 Apr 2012
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Good corporate citizenship can pay off

2004
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When Good Names Go Bad: Organizational Illegitimacy, and the Dotcom Collapse

By: Mary Ann Glynn and Christopher Marquis

Keywords: Business Ventures; Failure; Web Services Industry

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25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education

Photos by Nancee Lewis The kind of private schools Chris Crane (MBA 1976) invests in have cement floors, no glass in the windows, cramped quarters, and just enough food on hand for the students to eat. “I see mothers labor in the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

09 Apr 2024
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When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

12 Jul 2015
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Working moms may be good for kids: Multitasking Moms and Dads

09 Apr 2024
Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details

Keywords: by Glen Justice