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- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
place, or to community – than water. We hope these stories showcase a range of ways in which some alumni have connected their bond with water to action in the business world. Thank you for reading, and... View Details
- March 2013
- Article
The Unintended Consequences of Ownership Transfer Planning
By: Josh Baron and Marion McCollom Hampton
The article discusses the challenges of passing down family businesses across generations, highlighting complexities in executive succession and estate planning. It emphasizes how emotional factors, complicated family dynamics, and unintended consequences influence... View Details
Keywords: Estate Planning; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry; Fashion Industry
Baron, Josh, and Marion McCollom Hampton. "The Unintended Consequences of Ownership Transfer Planning." Trust & Estates 152, no. 3 (March 2013): 52–56.
The Challenge of Shared Prosperity
In the 2015 survey on U.S. competitiveness, HBS alumni weigh in on the current state and future trajectory of U.S. competitiveness as well as the structural strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. business environment. In addition, alumni delve deeper into two aspects... View Details
- Web
New Venture Competition | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
social ventures, financial modeling, legal aspects of starting a social enterprise; and mixers to facilitate multi-disciplinary collaboration and team-building. Executive... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
compare Caligula and Jeff Bezos? Dench: No, not exactly. Caligula was as mad as you get—he had no block, was very creative, thought he was a god, made his horse a consul—there were good and bad aspects there. It was a scarily interesting... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
partisanship will continue to cloud economic judgment around the 2024 election. For managers and finance professionals, these insights highlight two important aspects of operating a View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Business leaders around the world are currently focused on the discussions and negotiations taking place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. The outcome... View Details
- Web
Henry Villard Business Papers | Baker Library
Henry Villard Business Papers German-born financier Henry Villard (1835-1900) was an important figure in American and international business during the second half of the... View Details
- January – February 2008
- Article
Managing the Impact of Employee Turnover on Performance: The Role of Process Conformance
By: Zeynep Ton and Robert S. Huckman
We examine the impact of employee turnover on operating performance in settings that require high levels of knowledge exploitation. Using 48 months of turnover data from U.S. stores of a major retail chain, we find that, on average, employee turnover is associated with... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Governance Compliance; Retention; Standards; Service Operations; Business Processes; Retail Industry; United States
Ton, Zeynep, and Robert S. Huckman. "Managing the Impact of Employee Turnover on Performance: The Role of Process Conformance." Organization Science 19, no. 1 (January–February 2008): 56–68.
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
Summing Up To remain sane and relevant, must we smell the flowers as well as the ozone? This month's question of how much obsolescence business and society (and by implication, we as managers) can absorb... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide open, with some disastrous results. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems—particularly by View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- Web
American Business History Records | Baker Library
Hancock Family Papers Papers, dated 1664-1854, containing business and personal correspondence, financial records, and legal papers of Thomas Hancock, John Hancock, and other... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
Though the Internet has woven itself into most aspects of life, few fields have adopted it more actively, and at times controversially, than health care. What new business... View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
for Internet freedom or cover for a failed business strategy, depending on with whom you talk. Professor John A. Quelch looks behind the headlines in a new case. Key concepts include: China has become more emboldened and self-confident as... View Details
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
A legendary professor at Harvard Business School for 40 years, Georges Doriot was a pivotal player in the founding of the modern venture capital industry. As Spencer E. Ante's new book notes, venture capital... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
According to author Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, the fragmented, secretive, often family-owned businesses that have constituted the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
policy issues, but whether business leaders are expressing enough “voice” about a matter that affects their talent pool as well as the overall growth rate of the US economy. The question arises at a time... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 2014
- Chapter
Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial Theory and Research
By: G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
This chapter draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical approaches and theories of... View Details
Jones, G., and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial Theory and Research." Chap. 8 in Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods, edited by Marcelo Bucheli and R. Daniel Wadhwani, 192–216. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
will be accessible on their server. Also on our to-do list will be several symposia and a hardcover book delving into various aspects of the pilgrimage from the viewpoint of... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism
Keywords: by Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona