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  • 16 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

To support black employees, business leaders must challenge biases and help employees be themselves, according to a new book co-edited by Anthony J. Mayo, Laura Morgan Roberts, and David A. Thomas. When Barack Obama was elected president... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 14 Jan 2019
  • Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

experience and perspective, these leaders will influence business and society for decades to come. Now global leaders such as General Motors’s Mary Barra, Merck’s Ken Frazier, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, and... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

What can companies today take away from the experience of myriad multinationals in the United States? A lot, says HBS professor Geoffrey G. Jones, a specialist in business history and international business. In the following e-mail... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction

Collections to show how previous generations devised creative ways of lending and borrowing long before credit cards. The exhibit also shows how the credit industry evolved over time. Though credit is not new, it is newly visible.... View Details
  • 13 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

advertising and profit generated through those observations, they could get a sense it by also matching the number of restaurant clicks to sales data for the subset of businesses being given the free... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • Web

Terms of Use - Alumni

Help Terms of Use 7ms Harvard Business School has provided a suite of alumni services through its Alumni Website for the benefit of the HBS community. Services exclusive to the HBS community are protected by HBS Login and require a... View Details
  • 08 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

doors. During this time, education as a prerequisite for success in business was more ornamental than practical. Education generally further showcased one's social standing, especially for those attending... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Leadership - Health Care

joining HBS, Krys worked as a health program developer and outreach coordinator in both Boston and Philadelphia. Outside of HBS, he enjoys spending time with his wife and cats. Lanika Clark Coordinator Lanika has been a Harvard Business... View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities

By: Andras Tilcsik and Christopher Marquis
This article focuses on geographic communities as fields in which human-made and natural events occasionally disrupt the lives of organizations. We develop an institutional perspective to unpack how and why major events within communities affect organizations in the... View Details
Keywords: Natural Disasters; Situation or Environment; Balance and Stability; Organizations; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States
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  • 16 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

generics like ibuprofen. A middle-aged man needs heart medication to avoid another attack. He’s more likely to take his pills regularly if his plan doesn’t have a copay for the prescription. Yet, even with a copay, he’s arguably much... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

success over the top. You may be immune to the grosser forms of celebration—how many really believed Dennis Koslowski's financial excesses at Tyco were a sign of good business leadership?—but culture is a strong shaper of worldview. These... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

the business models of traditional incumbents and those of potential innovative MSP entrants. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55341 Oral History and Writing the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

The HBS Business and Environment Initiative launched the Climate Rising podcast in 2019 to elicit insights from leaders working at the intersection of business and climate change. The podcast is particularly... View Details
  • May 2024
  • Article

Housing Policies and Energy Efficiency Spillovers in Low and Moderate Income Communities

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Olga Churkina, Becky D. Rafter and Kira E O'Hare
Housing policies address the human dimensions of increasing urban density, but their energy and sustainability implications are hard to measure due to challenges with siloed civic data. This is especially critical when evaluating policies targeting low- and... View Details
Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Public Policy; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Policy; Income; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; United States
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  • 03 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

proteins at work in the business of life. "The book of life" that made dramatic headlines last year—and was really a first draft of the human genome sequence—is destined to change and challenge medicine, ethics, and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 23 Jun 2015
  • Blog Post

What is SVMP?

it a point to encourage underrepresented groups and individuals to consider business school in their futures. What was your biggest takeaway? The biggest takeaway from the program was how business school... View Details
  • February 2018 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

Hikma Pharmaceuticals Governance Journey

By: Lynn Paine, Suraj Srinivasan and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens with Said Darwazah, chairman and CEO of Hikma Pharmaceuticals, the multinational generics company, anticipating the company’s 2017 AGM and reflecting on changes made over the previous year to address concerns expressed by proxy advisors and some... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Pharmaceuticals; Remuneration; Shareholder Engagement; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Executive Compensation; Business Growth and Maturation; Emerging Markets; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Pharmaceutical Industry; Jordan
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  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

American retailers are heading into a holiday shopping season unlike any other as the spiraling COVID-pandemic and limp economy threaten consumer spending. We asked Harvard Business School faculty members—in particular, authors of recent... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • Web

Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Michael Porter’s ideas about competitive strategy. Shared value creation focuses on identifying and expanding the connections between societal and economic progress. Policies and operating practices that simultaneously create economic and social value represent the... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

tackled the identity issue when he helped General Electric revamp its marketing department, a process described in the October 2010 Harvard Business Review article Unleashing the Power of Marketing, in which... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel