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- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
“It’s not about values. It's about value and how you're creating value, how you are showing that the companies in which you're investing are creating value.” However, many barriers still prevent asset... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
destruction" research. As Devdip Ganguli put it: "The sphere of influence of companies goes beyond themselves and their investors: their decisions encompass social and environmental consequences too. Therefore to say that the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Stecker. “Muzak has a huge music library, and many employees came to the company because they love music. Making music an integral, daily aspect of company culture enabled employees to better deliver on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
digital form." Telecom Shakeout HBS assistant professor Thomas Eisenmann, moderator of the panel on "Shakeout in Telecommunications," asked the assembled VCs if they are better able to add value to equipment View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
Professors Paul Healy, Amy Hutton, and Krishna Palepu; Professor Jay Lorsch's perspectives on “Why Did Enron's Board Fail in its Governance Function?”; and “What Role Did Flaws in Organizational Systems and Values Play in Enron's... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Merlin Entertainments Taps Scott O’Neil as CEO
Photo credit: Philadelphia 76ers; Merlin Entertainments Scott O’Neil (MBA 1998), former CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, was recently named CEO of the UK-based theme park company Merlin Entertainments, the Wall Street Journal... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the quality of food in Nigeria
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999) is helping her country rethink the way it feeds itself. The cofounder and director of AACE Food Processing & Distribution, an agroprocessing company in Nigeria, is empowering farmers and improving the... View Details
Michael A. Volkema
Volkema was devoted to turning the office furniture company into a profitable enterprise. Developing an extensive 12 person Executive Leadership team, Volkema redesigned HM’s core value system, launching the... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
large firms often encounter difficulties in formulating and committing changes due to the complexity in firms' activities. Beyond cognitive limitations, perhaps the most intriguing type of failure is when managers fully understand the nature of the required change, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Harvard Business School
Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details
- Web
Harvard Business School
Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
Minority job applicants are “whitening” their resumes by deleting references to their race with the hope of boosting their shot at jobs, and research shows the strategy is paying off. In fact, companies are more than twice as likely to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
along with companies like Apple, Facebook, and Progressive Insurance, is a leading example of firms that are thinking about customers in a new way—much like how a museum curator orchestrates the experience of patrons. Weaver, an assistant... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
"but that idea really crystallized when I went to Cummins and saw a Fortune 500 company that made values an integral part of its mission statement." Rogers' own values were... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
ten times larger than what it was in 1980. While the sums involved are clearly staggering, the compensation packages that provide this wealth are poorly understood, according to HBS associate professor Brian J. Hall. Often, Hall believes, these packages are even... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School Press) In her new book Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow, HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter declares that soon there may be only three principal... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
distinctively influence buyers' purchasing. (Consider, Google, Amazon, and myriad others in their respective spheres.) I consider implications of these platforms' market power and then suggest strategies to help companies recapture View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Walter D. Fuller
Fuller successfully stepped into Cyrus Curtis’ role and led the publishing company through 25 years of top level financial performance. He expanded the base of the company’s publications – most notably, the Saturday Evening Post – and... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- Profile
Max Wibaux
joining a consumer-products-focused private equity firm in a role in which he can "bring together all the elements HBS teaches us: operations, strategy, the inner workings of financing, and how to avoid investment pitfalls and traps. I want to add View Details
Keywords: CPG
- Profile
Inessa Lurye
studies, "have continued to be critical"—especially because Inessa has been immersed, since graduation, in startups. "I've seen lots up ups and downs; I've seen how the challenges change at different stages of the life cycle. It's cemented for me the... View Details