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- October 1983 (Revised August 1995)
- Teaching Note
Benjamin Franklin and the Definition of American Values, Teaching Note
Teaching Note for (9-383-160). View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Cellophane, the New Visuality, and the Creation of Self-Service Food Retailing
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
resonates with me and in terms of being at my own crossroads, trying to figure out where I should go next," says Kraus, who this fall is coteaching the MBA elective Founders' Dilemmas and is working with Senior Fellow Timothy Butler on a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2005
- Conference Presentation
A Different Way of Thinking about Leading and Change
By: Scott Snook
- 2017
- Working Paper
Cellophane, the New Visuality, and the Creation of Self-Service Food Retailing
By: Ai Hisano
This working paper examines how innovations in transparent packaging, specifically cellophane in the mid-twentieth century United States, helped retailers create full self-service merchandising systems, including selling perishable food. While self-service stores began... View Details
Hisano, Ai. "Cellophane, the New Visuality, and the Creation of Self-Service Food Retailing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-106, May 2017.
- 11 Jul 2019
- News
How to Give Your Team the Right Amount of Autonomy
- 03 Feb 2020
- News
A Warning about the Combination of Management Culture & Surveillance
- 16 Nov 2022
- News
US DOE’s Jigar Shah & the State of Carbon Removal
- 05 May 2021
- News
How Do You Embed a Sense of Purpose Into a Company?
- 06 Sep 2017
- News
Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio on the ‘Principles’ of Tough Love
In 2011, Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), chairman of Bridgewater Associates, published his “principles” for business online. The document distilled Dalio’s belief in the power of “radical transparency” into 210... View Details
- July 17, 2008
- Editorial
What Kind of Leader Would McCain or Obama Be?
By: D. Gergen and A. Zelleke
Gergen, D., and A. Zelleke. "What Kind of Leader Would McCain or Obama Be?" Christian Science Monitor (July 17, 2008).
- August 2009
- Case
Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Leading an Integrated Life
By: Nitin Nohria, Daisy A Wademan Dowling and Matthew D. Breitfelder
Nohria, Nitin, Daisy A Wademan Dowling, and Matthew D. Breitfelder. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Leading an Integrated Life." Harvard Business School Case 410-033, August 2009.
- 2007
- Working Paper
Irving Fisher, Economic Forecasting, and the Myth of the Business Cycle
A premier economist of the twentieth century and a founder of neoclassical thought, Irving Fisher was also an active participant in the field of economic forecasting. Fisher made theoretical contributions to the understanding of economic fluctuations, popularized the... View Details
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
companies are built for long-term success. They observed that visionary companies demonstrate these qualities: Do not require charismatic leadership Pursued several objectives of which only one was profit... View Details
- 07 Jul 2014
- News
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on How Corporations of the Future Will Behave
- November 2008 (Revised May 2011)
- Supplement
David Neeleman: Flight Path of a Servant Leader (B)
By: William W. George and Matthew D. Breitfelder
David Neeleman (B) traces the events subsequent to the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Leadership
George, William W., and Matthew D. Breitfelder. "David Neeleman: Flight Path of a Servant Leader (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 409-038, November 2008. (Revised May 2011.)
- March–April 2016
- Article
Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing
By: Christopher Marquis, Michael W. Toffel and Yanhua Zhou
Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. We identify key company- and country-level factors that limit firms' use of... View Details
Keywords: Disclosure Strategy; Disclosure; Environmental Performance; Environmental Strategy; Environment; Symbolic; Reporting; Corporate Disclosure; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Marquis, Christopher, Michael W. Toffel, and Yanhua Zhou. "Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing." Organization Science 27, no. 2 (March–April 2016): 483–504. (Formerly titled "When Do Firms Greenwash? Corporate Visibility, Civil Society Scrutiny, and Environmental Disclosure.")
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
Summing Up The depth of the global financial crisis is becoming clearer day by day. In the United States, it is being used as a reason to set aside ideology regarding government ownership of important... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 24 Jan 2024
- Op-Ed
Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago
in design and production with its newest jumbo jet, the 787 Dreamliner. Such frequent, repeated crises point to a deeper issue than isolated engineering mishaps. The underlying cause of these issues is a View Details