Center For Constitutional Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 May 2021
Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

difference in helping us shape our ambitious and meaningful purpose for Best Buy, a purpose that would drive our sustained success in the following years. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. Excerpted from The Heart... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

This marketing strategy attracted interest not only from users, which constituted one side, but also from content providers and app developers, which constituted the other side. Transaction platforms View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

seen it with the inception of the Center for Health and Happiness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. And, really, the interest is global. What do you think is behind this rise in scholarly... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

28 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

What's a Boss Worth?

exploration. “There is a growing literature in the social sciences about the importance of peer effects—many people think about how to form teams and what the right team should look like,” says Stanton. But according to this data, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service

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Our Values | About

necessitate developing a deeper and shared understanding of hate speech: what constitutes it, how we define it, and the repercussions for members of our community who use it. Both groups will be asked to... View Details

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

president of engineering and research at Google and the founding managing director of the Google Center in Israel, explains how Google uses AI and machine learning to tackle some of the biggest challenges View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

21 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

independent and secure. HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea and Arden Kreeger, at left, and Dylan Soukup, far right (both MBA 2024), interviewed Sara de Ayerza for their project. On the last day of the... View Details

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

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Business History - Faculty & Research

management education. In 1927, the School created the first endowed professorship in the field. It also founded the field’s first journal, the Business History Review . Since the work of Joseph Schumpeter at Harvard's Center View Details

22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

constituted the center of my world.” It wasn’t easy to be gay in the 1970s—not that it ever was. Anita Bryant was spewing vitriol, Harvey Milk was murdered in November 1978, and six months later I was... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

most people see an anxiety-creating attack for what it is, if those who don't see the fallacy of the logic constitute more than a small percentage of a group, you might still have a serious problem that must... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

04 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

been forced to accept uncertainty during the pandemic, Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, coauthors of the 2019 book The Wise Company, recently developed “six practices to make a better future” to help leaders focus on the most important drivers of simultaneous success View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

equity for the arts, Jason Price is incubating a world-class art center in New Haven, Connecticut—and developing an impact model fo... Re: Jason Price (MBA 2003); Omar Simmons (MBA 1999); By: Jen McFarland... View Details

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Bussgang, Jeffrey Abstract—Relative to established organizations, start-ups can be hard to figure out. What are the jobs to be done? The best entry points? How can you tell whether a company has potential for success and is the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

became executive vice president of sales and marketing. Todd identified and negotiated the naming rights for the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and won a gold "Clio" award... View Details

09 Jun 2022
Blog Post

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

encourage incoming students to do an internship that is valuable and interesting to them. Many opportunities will come, but have patience waiting for the right one. In my case, I was going back to... View Details

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

director of research. Garvin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, teaches courses for MBAs and executives on leadership, general management, and operations. Garvin is also faculty chair of the School's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

scholars studying racialization as an enduring American strategy for the coercion and control of labor, particularly African American labor. Race and capitalism is an expanding area, reaching subjects as varied Jim Crow, migration, urban... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

03 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed With Your New Boss

your mandate and negotiate for resources is a clear early priority. Defining Your Goals When you think about working with your new boss, keep the following goals in mind: Clarify mutual expectations early. Begin managing expectations... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

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