Activism - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

of casual hallway and cafeteria conversations where the genesis of a lot of great ideas take place.” Managers don’t have to redesign a building to engineer these encounters. Just by observing where employees naturally congregate and then tacitly condoning those... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

them, do them differently, and supplement them with other activities that I discuss in the book. Also, required competencies are changing. Omnichannel buying makes the selling company more transparent to customers, who can “touch” that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

14 Mar 2023
Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Dyllan Muller

Associate Scientist at Unilever’s Personal Care R&D site in Trumbull, Connecticut. There, I did computational chemistry research and machine learning modeling to find new active ingredients for skincare products. I quickly found out,... View Details

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

our growth strategy to diversify the business portfolio. One of my key responsibilities is to ensure that everything we do has a well-documented system and process. A day at work could involve any or all of the activities I mentioned... View Details

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

receptiveness, according to Gino: Actively acknowledge the other perspective. You can do this by saying things like: "I understand that...," or "You are saying ..." Acknowledging the opposing view doesn't mean that you agree with it—it... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

February 2020 (Revised January 2022)
Case

Mission Related Investments at the Ford Foundation (A)

By: Shawn Cole, Michael Norris and T. Robert Zochowski

In 2017, Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic foundations in the world, was preparing to meet with his board of directors to discuss beginning a mission related investments (MRI) program. Walker hoped to devote $1 billion of... View Details

Keywords: Mission-Related Investing; Philanthropy; Foundation; Endowments; Socially Responsible Investing; Investment; Institutional Investing; Investment Activism; Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States; New York (city, NY)

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22 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

School. Making the connection at HBS At HBS, Nneka enjoyed her coursework focused on emerging markets, and she took an active role in the Africa Business Club as co-leader of the Africa Business Conference. Leading the conference provided... View Details

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

I. She will join Ayala Corporation, the oldest conglomerate in the Philippines, as a corporate strategy manager, where she’ll be charged with active portfolio management across its business units and investments. During your EC year, what... View Details

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

private sector spends the largest share of training dollars dedicated to adults. Policymakers should support programs that actively encourage employers to invest in talent pipelines. CareerWise, founded in Colorado but now expanding to... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

over-all company, some researchers from other Lilly R&D sites received temporary transfers of up to two years to Kobe, and some locally hired researchers were temporarily transferred to other Lilly sites. It took about 30 months to View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

May 2016 (Revised September 2017)
Case

Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield

In December 2015, Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) has just made its third bid to acquire Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), one of the largest railroads in the United States. Having rejected the prior offers, NSC’s CEO James Squires and the NSC board must now value... View Details

Keywords: Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Financial Strategy; Investment Activism; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Offer; Corporate Strategy; Rail Transportation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; United States; Canada

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06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

them down, and that is fascism, not capitalism.” Can a platform-based tech giant be broken up? What do you think? ORIGINAL COLUMN With the United States Justice Department’s objection to the AT&T-Time Warner merger, we are being reminded that antitrust View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture , 1884–1929 . “Businesses, especially manufacturing and communications industries at the forefront of both labor activism and welfare capitalism, responded... View Details

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

take a long time to solve. This kind of thinking is actively harmful for patients,” he says. “These are things that we could do tomorrow morning to meaningfully reduce the mortality of African Americans, and we are not talking about just... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

merchant active in the West Indies. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, but never graduated. At at young age Heard became captain of his own brig. He traveled to ports as far-flung as Rio de Janeiro, Liverpool, and... View Details

10 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service

the classroom. Here’s a look at three MBA student veterans. Julie Guzman (MBA 2022) Photo courtesy Julie Guzman On an early morning run in 2010, Julie Guzman noticed that the only other people active on her undergraduate campus were ROTC... View Details

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

many general managers, says Esty. "One, you have to get away from day-to-day activities to really learn, and that doesn't happen for a weeklong or two-week program. The second thing is, we're not teaching just skills; we're teaching... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Meet the Middle East & North Africa Club

within and beyond the HBS community. We’re very connected with other university departments and foster the opportunity for our Club members to connect with the broader society around HBS. What activities do you organize? We organize all... View Details

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

relationships, organizations, and society at large. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes, including assessing your own professional network and the influence styles and... View Details

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