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01 Sep 2014
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Convening Power

always been important to both of us and we hope the new convening center will be a place to develop and share ideas that have a meaningful and positive impact.” HBS hosts some 700 events a year ranging in nature from research conferences... View Details

17 Jun 2025
Blog Post

Balancing Career Stability with Creative Pursuits with Jeff Roslund (MBA 2013)

roles within large organizations. My goal was to move beyond the task-oriented nature of my previous work and embrace opportunities that required navigating ambiguity, making decisions, and leading teams. HBS delivered in ways I hadn’t... View Details

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

winning streaks. As a pattern of success continues, many people at many levels take on leadership roles. Some of them are appointed to positions with leadership titles, some of them are self-appointed; and roles are passed around as the View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

April 2006 (Revised November 2021)
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Endesa Chile: Raising the Ralco Dam (A)

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Paula J. Laschober and Dina Pradel

Endesa Chile, the largest electricity generation company in Chile, is building a major power plant on the Biobio River in Southern Chile. A historic conflict involving the indigenous people of the Biobio River, the Chilean government, and international conservation... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Energy Generation; Government and Politics; Negotiation; Business and Community Relations; Natural Environment; Conflict and Resolution; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Industry; Chile

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October 1991 (Revised August 1993)
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Acid Rain: Burlington Northern, Inc. (A)

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

Burlington Northern (BN) hauls low-sulfur coal from the northern Great Plains to electric utilities in the Midwest. Acid rain legislation may affect the geographic scope of BN's markets. Railroad managers need to assess the economic effects of acid rain controls and... View Details

Keywords: Rail Transportation; Environmental Sustainability; Development Economics; Government Legislation; Natural Environment; Policy; Metals and Minerals; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Rail Industry; United States

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01 Jun 2025
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Origin Story: Mary Chen (MBA 2026)

getaway: “One of the top-floor rooms in Spangler has large windows up in the trees that let in a ton of natural light and look out on Aldrich. It’s a place to hunker down and get some inspiration.” Summer internship: Late-stage climate... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Leah Fasten; climate finance; MBA; student life

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Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs

Business Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire (Henderson) Changing Business from the Inside Out (Mohin) The Sustainable MBA (Weybrecht) Green to Gold (Esty and Winston) How to Change the World (Bornstein) Natural Capitalism (Hawken)... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World

Japanese airline facing a declining domestic market can expand internationally. It potentially will become a “home run” case, as Chung calls it—one that focuses on a compelling topic in an important industry that is global in nature. Chung’s case is an example of the... View Details

Keywords: faculty research

01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century

It's easy to think that the 2010 disaster at the BP drilling platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of a chain of cascading events beyond the control of anyone to stop. But as the authors of Avoiding Corporate Breakdowns: The View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; oil spill; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

human nature and organizations and performance,” Iansiti says. “The case shows that in any kind of environment, you’ve got to know your stuff. So from this perspective you can’t go ahead and accuse somebody of deflating a football without... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

funds, and money managers are natural active investors, but they have been shut out of boardrooms and strategy by the legal structure, by custom, and by their own practices." There are many reasons why shareholders have remained on... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

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Why Soft Skills Still Matter in the Age of AI | Working Knowledge

Letian Zhang and coauthors in their new paper, " Skill Dependencies Uncover Nested Human Capital .” The research, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour , offers a roadmap for companies and policymakers to understand how skills... View Details

24 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

graduates, to address climate change?” Ratnika Prasad (MBA 2020), Associate Director at The Nature Conservancy "There has been a seismic shift in the last few years, whereby concern about the climate and sustainability has finally begun... View Details

22 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

governments to fight the downturn. "It seems likely that economic historians will look back at the years since 2007 as a grand natural experiment for assessing the effectiveness of alternative macroeconomic responses to a financial... View Details

Keywords: Re: David A. Moss

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

have a natural authority." In retail, Trumbull found more evidence that diffuse groups impact outcome, comparing retail policy in France and Germany. Mom-and-pop stores in both countries have faced the threat of large retail chains that... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

16 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

Physicists tell us entropy is the natural state of the world, and that law seems especially true in today's multidivisional company. "When you create organizational subunits of any form, they'll have a tendency to focus internally on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 May 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

emphasis on services naturally accompany the growth of a knowledge society, representing an insurance policy for the continuance of innovation and progress necessary to maintain world economic leadership? What do you think? Original... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

even a small probability of enforcement, many foreign insiders will respect the law. But the prospect of a reputational asset may be an even stronger incentive for producing law-abiding behavior. My study has shown through a carefully controlled View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

Continuum can be used as an instrument for managing their "Partnering Portfolios." Not only can one ascertain the current nature of the existing relationships, but also begin to strategize as to the ideal mix of relationship... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

automated, where there are lots of basic numbers that are going to determine the decision,” Sunderam says. “With something like small business lending, it's much less automated and much more bespoke, it's natural to think that these... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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