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  • June 2010
  • Article

Change for Change's Sake

By: Freek Vermeulen, Phanish Puranam and Ranjay Gulati
No one disputes that firms have to make organizational changes when the business environment demands them. But the idea that a firm might want change for its own sake often provokes skepticism. Why inflict all that pain if you don't have to? That is a dangerous... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Creativity; Power and Influence; Adaptation
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  • 01 Jan 2008
  • News

James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

decades in the investment world, service on nonprofit boards and think tanks, and management of the financial turnaround of both Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, not to mention a midlife decision to study the cello. Wolfensohn believes his... View Details
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 21 Mar 2023
  • Webinars: Career

LinkedIn for Job Searching

Data can reveal what matters most in today's job market, and this interactive webinar from CPD and Jeremy Schifeling, LinkedIn's former head of student and alumni education, will share behind-the-scenes insights that can help you optimize LinkedIn for both job hunting... View Details
  • December 2015
  • Supplement

An Intern's Dilemma (B)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Matthew Preble
An HBS student is asked to misrepresent himself during the course of his student internship by his employer in order to obtain data from a competitor. This case describes how the student handled the situation and what he learned about himself from it. View Details
Keywords: Conflict; Leadership; Conflict Management; Competition; Ethics; Knowledge Acquisition; Organizational Culture; Employees; Power and Influence
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  • December 2015
  • Case

An Intern's Dilemma (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Matthew Preble
An HBS student is asked to misrepresent himself during the course of his summer internship by his employer in order to obtain data from industry competitors. View Details
Keywords: Conflict; Leadership; Conflict Management; Competition; Ethics; Knowledge Acquisition; Organizational Culture; Employees; Power and Influence
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  • April 2011
  • Case

Felipe Calderón: Leading with Light and Power (A)

By: J. Bruce Harreld and David Lane
This sequence of cases explores how leaders get their team focused on framing, analyzing, and ultimately acting upon complex decisions. The A case provides an inside look as President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, works with his cabinet ministers to decide how to... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Public Sector; Leadership; Conflict and Resolution; Power and Influence; Urban Development; Welfare or Wellbeing
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  • Web

OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog

what is legally allowed, these owners define the main parameters by which the company operates. We will explore this power through three main lenses: Ownership as an influence on company behavior. How does ownership guide how companies... View Details
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • News

Gary (MBA 1963) and Terie Roubos

1987) and met her husband, classmate Michael Manson. The Rouboses, who have stayed connected with HBS during the past 50 years, say that their time spent at Soldiers Field influenced them personally—providing them with enduring... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

funding, lobbying, committee participation, and other instruments to influence local, national, and international political environments. Also firms that are heavily influenced by politics are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-021.pdf How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of Toolmaking and Expertise in Two Financial Institutions Authors:Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine transformations in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

response, it seems even more difficult to justify federal spending than otherwise. Q: What do you think your research has brought to the literature? A: The literature has had difficulty empirically identifying the effect of government spending on the private sector.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Blog Post

Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

allowed me to appreciate that organizations’ choices across these business domains do not exist in a vacuum. Health facilities are shaped by the systems to which they belong. These systems, in turn, are regulated and funded by governments. And governments are View Details
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right

companies, and others. Given these very different industries and consumption contexts, I was curious to see if there is variation in how people behave in these situations, what explains that variation, and whether sellers could subtly View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Jan 2008
  • News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

ages 11 and 17, Doerr puts family as his top priority. Growing up in a tight-knit middle-class family in St. Louis, John Doerr was influenced by his entrepreneurial father. “My parents worked hard to give all five of their children... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Soul Man

and evangelical exercises have attracted some 2 million young people, “more than Paul McCartney has pulled in,” Luce said. At one such recent gathering, Luce exhorted his audience to write down on pieces of paper all the negative societal and materialistic View Details
Keywords: Youth Mania; youth ministry; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Second Acts

Meakem now seeks out young, local companies that can benefit from his investment and advice. “I get such a thrill to find a great company with loads of potential,” Meakem told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (September 18, 2005). Seeking to extend his View Details
Keywords: e-commerce; B2B; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • Profile

Jennifer DeWhitt

You usually find things that are unexpected. When you put so many analytical minds together in one room, you can go more deeply into the problem and the potential solutions.” “HBS has changed my perspective on leadership,” says Jennifer. “Now, I see that it’s more... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Driven

the result of conscious choices that are influenced by four fundamental drives: the drive to acquire objects and experiences that improve our status relative to others; the drive to bond with others in long-term relationships of mutual... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Web

Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

influencing the stakeholders making purchasing decisions Understand the importance of brand-building and the key components of an effective brand Build a media strategy across paid, earned, and owned channels Evaluate and identify growth... View Details
  • Web

Kress Collection of Business and Economics Graphic Materials | Baker Library

Frederick H. Brunner, a member of the firm, who formed much of the collection. Mr. Brunner's love of banking history led him to acquire prints on all aspects of money's influence on humankind. Kress Collection of Business and Economics... View Details