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15 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

When our team reached out to 600 CEOs during the pandemic’s early stages to ask them about their greatest concerns, many cited communication with employees. While the right communication strategy has been critical during the pandemic, it... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

31 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker

03 May 2017
HBS Seminar

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, The New York Times and Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

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HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

board service right for you? How do you find a nonprofit board that is a good fit for your values, interests, and skills? HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Director Amelia Angella guides you through the fundamentals of nonprofit board... View Details

01 Sep 2006
What Do You Think?

Are We Ready for Self-Management?

or internal to the organization. However, the path to greater latitude on the job is not short. It involves, as Pradipta Saha commented, "Selecting the right entry-level employee ." We have found, for example, that high... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

lot about social responsibility, and they want their companies to be doing the right thing. They want to feel good about where they work. I could see where other big brands start to move in this direction, which seems to be anti-NFL.... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

Portrait Project

Emily Stapleton

health of cities and citizens for the long term. To address the transportation needs of tomorrow, I cannot stand idly by the side of the road today. I must effect change so that people can rely on their transport, take pleasure in the journey . . . and arrive View Details

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Recent Alumni - Alumni

your city. MBA Admissions Partner with the Admissions team to support efforts with potential applicants, applicants, and admitted students, so that prospective students may experience firsthand the strength and warmth of our alumni community as they think about which... View Details

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

assigned his patents to La Cellophane Societe Anonyme, a French company formed for the sole purpose of marketing the invention. In 1923, the company licensed to DuPont the exclusive rights to make and sell cellophane in the United States.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

21 Nov 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

is all about taking small steps in the right direction, not pretending to be perfect, just being honest, doing the right thing, a very simple message. Any positive initiative is better than no action at all.... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

courts to prepare them to handle an unprecedented volume of new cases, should the worst case come to pass. Gerdeman: Many view a bankruptcy filing as the death of a company, but you’ve said it can actually revive them. And we’ve seen examples of companies that continue... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

now have to survive on ten percent less for a while. That’s a hardship. I think it’s more manageable than being suddenly out of a job, but it’s all in the eye of the beholder.” FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE For Honeywell, furloughs were the... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

your next product, you need to do more than just linearly add time to your original timeline,” Peterson advises. “It's going to vary project by project, and it's hard to say if that's 2x, or 3x, or 4x. But that is the right ballpark you... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

Portrait Project

T.J. Root

I wonder if I’ll rediscover a sense of purpose. Or feel brave again. Is this life of mine still just as wild and precious, here at the end of my fourth decade? I once worried that I came to HBS too late. Now, I think I arrived right on... View Details

03 Jul 2008
What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

and beliefs." Respondents raised several interesting questions. In referring to author Barbara Kellerman's typology of followers (isolates, bystanders, participants, activists, and diehards), Kim Allen questioned whether we hire for the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the African-American Student Union

Harvard Business School Bulletin noted on AASU's 25th anniversary, "when the civil rights movement forced America's mainstream institutions to acknowledge the shortcomings of their policies, practices, and attitudes regarding racial... View Details

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

concept of elasticity. Highlights The Price is Right Price Setting and the Concept of Elasticity Elasticity as a General Concept Show Hide Details Concepts Willingness to Pay A Different Visual Representation of WTP Elasticity Featured... View Details

Portrait Project

Phil Black

compassionate family is no small accomplishment. HBS's mission is to train business leaders who "contribute to society's well-being," but mine will start at home, where Accounting, Negotiations, Leadership, and Investment Management also come into play. I'd... View Details

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