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30 Jun 2021
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

Researchers then compared how they were handled in the nonprofit and corporate sectors. Key elements of strategy were: Initial Impetus. A nonprofit is founded in response to a problem; in the corporate world, social View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

17 Apr 2012
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Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios Under Emissions Regulation

Keywords: by David Drake, Paul R. Kleindorfer & Luk N. Van Wassenhove

November 2019
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A Review of Bundled Payments in Total Joint Replacement

By: Olivia Manickas-Hill, Kevin J. Bozic and Thomas W. Feeley

The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, developed by the U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, aims to reduce health care expenditures while maintaining or improving patient outcomes.
Several published reports evaluating the impact... View Details

Keywords: Bundled Payments; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management

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high-impact growth initiatives in global media and learning companies such as McGraw-Hill Education, The Wall Street Journal, and Getty Images. As Managing Director, Digital Strategy, she modernized HBP Education group’s approach to... View Details

18 Aug 2008
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How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

will better guide them as they think through which school-improvement programs and initiatives to support. We are already seeing a relatively big outpouring of activity from businesses, investors, and entrepreneurs behind computer-based... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Exercises Analyze your environment and assess its readiness for change Perform a stakeholder analysis for a potential change initiative 4-6 hrs Module 6 Managing Your Relationship to Power Understand the personal consequences of gaining... View Details

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

tracks startup funding, with each Kickstarter entrepreneur. Of the 314 entrepreneurs studied, some 76 percent missed their initial deadline. Peterson and Wu followed up, interviewing 11 entrepreneurs in-depth to find out why each product... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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later, HBR asked Jones to assess the progress of Black managers at corporations in the United States. In 1986, he wrote the HBR article, “Black Managers, The Dream Deferred.” From New York Telephone he moved to AT&T, where he oversaw nationwide strategic planning for... View Details

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

initiated against Microsoft Influence: Medium-Low 1900 s 19 Fewer than 500,000 union members Department of Commerce and Labor created Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 Ford doubles factory wages and shortens workday Labor Secretary position... View Details

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Life & Leadership After HBS - Race, Gender & Equity

Career Pauses 22 JUL 2015 | The New York Times Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

29 Nov 2023
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A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

1999), Co-Chair, HBS Angels of Southern California; Leanne Huebner (MBA 1997), the Women’s Initiatives Coordinator; and Joe Grimes (MBA 1988), VP of Communications. Chen says there’s “still time to have fun for a good cause” and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business

Page and MacLennan didn’t need to enact big changes at Cargill and so they weren’t tested in this way. In your succession plans, I recommend that you initially consider all four options. Don’t presume that one type or another is right.... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang; Retail; Auto

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

employer. Having said that, there are even more ways to appeal to American would-be savers. These initiatives could go to the place where they have their money to save, whether it is the workforce or tax refund sites; create a social... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni

Ethics program, which is now an integral part of the MBA Program. 1995 John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947) makes a founding gift to create the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative . 1997 HBS opens the California Research Center , its first research... View Details

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

leadership.” With every relaunch, leaders must be ready to own the reality of the current circumstances, no matter how uncomfortable it may appear in the present moment. Leaders might initially be inclined to tune out the feelings that... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

economic connections that once existed between corn and indigenous people. At the same time, Keen and his students were brainstorming potential directions for what would become Sacred Seed. Initially they viewed the organization through a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

26 Jun 2017
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How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

1933. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Advertising Department records (Accession 1803), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware Initial versions of cellophane were waterproof, but not... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

series of breathtakingly capricious bureaucratic hurdles. The city initially fast-tracked the demolition of the two vacant buildings on the site because they were in imminent danger of collapsing, then reversed itself, then miscalculated... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

critical role in global society. In the lead-up to COP26, the Business & Environment Initiative asked HBS alumni business leaders from a wide range of sectors and disciplines what they see as the role of business and business leaders in... View Details

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