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  • 02 Dec 2018
  • News

A Chance to Thrive

be part of the HBS community. I want to do my part to help them.” She is also keen on supporting the School. “HBS is in a unique position to influence business leaders around the world. We can really be agents for change.” Zollar notes... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

value: Attraction and recruitment. Actively seek candidates outside managers’ networks, and assess the language used to describe jobs and the company. Hiring. Educate managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions.... View Details
  • 30 Sep 2019
  • Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

respect to black leaders’ economic influence over the past century. Most remarkably, the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, was placed at the helm of the US economy in the midst of the Great Recession and executed... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

The School that Donham Built

various courses by getting regularly from industry problems which are current and illustrative?” By 1923, two-thirds of the School’s courses were taught by the case method, supported by field-based research that had already begun to View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • Profile

Gary Shi

used to think about leadership,” Gary says. “How do I lead from a junior level? How do I manage without being senior?” But, Gary says, “HBS has changed my ideas about leadership. It’s not about how high or low your position is, but how you View Details
  • November 1974
  • Case

Job Corps

Describes the efforts of the director of Job Corps to stave off the destruction of his agency by the Nixon administration. In this process, the director built extensive power bases which he mobilized in support of Job Corps. The end result was that Job Corps was not... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Power and Influence; Business and Government Relations
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  • January 2020
  • Case

Terra Nova: A Social Business Trying to Unlock Land Rights for the Urban Poor in Brazil

By: Julie Battilana, Ruth Costas, Marissa Kimsey and Priscilla Zogbi
Brothers André and Daniel Albuquerque founded the company Terra Nova in 2001 to mediate land disputes between poor families illegally living in urban areas and the official landowners—with the aspiration to improve the lives of the poor. A business-led approach to the... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Power and Influence; Social Issues; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Government Relations; Infrastructure; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; Brazil; Latin America
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  • 25 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

Past research suggests that nearby peers are more likely to influence performance than those far away, which explains why scientists work side-by-side at lab benches. But can entrepreneurs expect the same benefit at the networking... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Mar 2012
  • Article

Shattering the Myths About U.S. Trade Policy

nontariff barriers, often arousing their ire. Few could dispute that logic when, from 1980 to 2000, the world’s biggest economy grew just as rapidly as did all other nations on average. However, the skeptics about free trade have been gaining View Details
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

mothers were not employed. In the domestic sphere, sons raised by employed mothers spend more time caring for family members, and daughters spend less time on housework. Analyses provide evidence for two mechanisms: gender attitudes and social learning. Finally,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 1999 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

Basil "Buzz" Hargrove and de Havilland, Inc. (A)

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Angela Keros
Buzz Hargrove, national president of the Canadian Auto Workers, needs to find a way to secure an agreement from a negotiated contract with de Havilland, Inc. Local union leaders feel the deal is not good enough, but Hargrove is convinced management will close the plant... View Details
Keywords: Media; Power and Influence; Negotiation Deal; Leadership; Agreements and Arrangements; Business Exit or Shutdown; Labor Unions; Negotiation Types; Management Teams; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Canada
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  • Profile

Jeremy Sasson

specifications.” Seeking more influence on the customer-facing part of the product, Jeremy moved from software development into product management at DocuSign, participating in a product rebranding for the Brazilian market. “The Brazilian... View Details
Keywords: Tech
  • Student-Profile

Anil Doshi

there is a particular emphasis on academic and industry application. My Research Interests I study how information disclosure and information goods affect individual behavior and firm strategy. Currently, I am investigating how dynamics of opinions in user communities... View Details
  • 15 Apr 2022
  • News

Funding His Purpose

capital through its lending platform and fund management, and the consulting firm has influenced the allocation of more than $6 billion in assets. Letelier was expecting to grow “the usual 30 percent” in 2020 when the pandemic hit. During... View Details
  • December 2011
  • Article

Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

By: Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In... View Details
Keywords: Spending; Private Sector; Taxation; Innovation and Invention; Interest Rates; Business and Government Relations; Investment; Employment; Power and Influence
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  • 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
  • 08 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

learn Kahn’s study on the effect of managerial quality on baseball team performance and Belichick’s example in practice offer valuable lessons that support the hype generated when coaches are hired. First, all other things being equal, managerial quality strongly View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

    Christopher J. Perry

    city, popular for its editorial nature and active coverage of community news. Perry also used the paper as a vehicle for social change, using his influence to push for better services in the community. By 1930, the paper had boasted a... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
    • 01 Jun 2010
    • News

    Gordon Donaldson Remembered

    An expert in corporate financial management, HBS professor emeritus Gordon Donaldson (DCS ’56), a faculty member from 1955 to 1993, died on February 12. He was 87. Donaldson, a native of Canada, taught in the MBA, Executive Education, and Doctoral programs and had... View Details