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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
typefaces to shape your customer’s experience Look for every opportunity. Few companies think to do a brand audit focused on typography, leading to a muddled visual identity, says Chacko. “One of the easiest View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
components, one of which is doing things for the common good. The other is the here and now—making judgment calls and taking action here and now.” Based on the authors’ study View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault
monthly donation, there are additional ways to activate anti-racism allies and we want to diversify how we can help communities of color.” As ARF grows and evolves, there are three things the Chenault... View Details
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
more, that wouldn’t work,” he says. “But if I am in fact using some of that time to do other things to make the world better, then that’s a pretty good trade-off.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
between his first and second years at HBS: He loves to build things that make a difference. While working... Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are Shilla Kim-Parker 2009 As if foreshadowing the career path ahead View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
Even while he was growing up, Michael Porter, the School's C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, knew a thing or two about the world. The son of a career... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
function more at the center of things and avoids a risky conversation with the CEO about why training might not solve the problem. “It is threatening, which is why most people don’t want to go through what... View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
communication has been elusive. That's too bad, because people have been anticipating profound effects from the ability to collaborate in real time at a distance for a long time. One of our favorite examples View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
bankruptcy doesn’t necessarily mean the death of a company, and in fact, it can actually be the very thing that saves a business, assuming the courts can handle the flood that is likely coming. Dina... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
create a better ecosystem for others and helps them persist when things are tough,” Kanter says. Fostering a more equitable business community can be exhausting, Kanter says. “Barrier breaking comes with a lot View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
accent and direct, engaging manner, he comes across immediately as the kind of person who is accustomed both to doing things right and to doing the right thing. Over a late afternoon cup View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
going to be a lot uglier. I expected battles. Yet things were remarkably consistent." Yet despite the outward expression of consensus, at the end of the day, many View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
the same time are comfortable with all of the things we're doing to reduce risk." There's plenty of risk involved in biotech startups. The data might not pan out. The funds... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
who regularly seek his advice. But some things are different, he laughs. "I work only five days a week now. No more Saturdays." When he was just 34, Zehnder took a very big risk. In the age of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
the People’s Republic of Cambridge.” Full circle: “As a manager, I’m quite a tough boss. I will not treat you in a condescending way. You’re an intelligent being—let me show you certain things and then... View Details
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “I hope it opens some eyes to the value of hard, risky, in-the-weeds science for commercial innovation, as opposed to ‘let’s just go build the thing and make it work on the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
face. One of the things that impresses me about John Chambers at Cisco is that he gets up in front of groups and speaks without notes. He expects all View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
female tutor questioned students about their efforts toward change before realizing they were more interested in talking about the systemic injustice of police shootings in general. (“I felt very uncomfortable, um, just because I didn’t... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 May 2013
- News
Edward E. Matthews, MBA 1957
By the time Ed Matthews arrived at HBS in 1955, he was a married Korean War veteran eager to advance his real world education. “As an undergraduate, you learn things from a theoretical perspective,” says Matthews, a graduate View Details