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Donna Khalife

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning my MBA at HBS was critical in giving me the right environment to explore my passions and gain new skills to pursue those passions whole-heartedly. How has your HBS experience... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship

25 Nov 2021
News

An Aria for the Ambidextrous Organization

operating an arts nonprofit in a competitive environment to ensure its future growth and organizational health. Zvulun, the subject of an HBS case by Tushman, cites Tushman’s new book, Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s... View Details

Keywords: opera; strategy; innovation; leadership; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting

benefits, and compensation to name just a few. Yet there is another element that may be more difficult to explain on paper but is just as critical: organizational culture. There are many different ways organizational culture can be established and communicated. An... View Details

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5.1 Information Technology | MBA

defaming, or otherwise contributes to a hostile environment, the creation or use of an alias or any other mechanism to misrepresent or obfuscate one’s identity, or the impersonation of another user. HBS reserves the right to take any reasonable actions to protect the... View Details

04 Aug 2023
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Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change

climate change and create a more sustainable and environmentally friendly future. With support from the Business & Environment Initiative (BEI), these four Harvard Business School (HBS) 2023 MBA students are leading innovative... View Details

19 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

is beneficial to be able to view opportunities through various perspectives and strengthening my finance acumen has significantly broadened my understanding of the industry ecosystem. 3. Gaining international exposure in a unique working View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology

01 Oct 1997
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Short Takes

motivated and characterized successful firms for decades, in the environmental arena and elsewhere. Thus, he concludes, "The way to situate business in the context of the natural environment is to integrate the natural View Details

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

does not have the same number of sticks at its disposal as the legal system would have, it does have more carrots to use for rewarding good governance behavior. Q: You mention that "reputational bonding" could be further strengthened if the U.S. information... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

environment not by doing nothing, but by accelerating past organizational routines based on established assumptions.— Donald N. Sull The benefits of this knowledge sharing, however, are likely to decline over time as the industry settles... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

mean nothing. In the book we talk a great deal about how Rob, Shelby, and Donna have used these techniques to beat much larger players in their business." The business environment has changed completely, since the capital markets no... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Shawn Tuli

in a beautiful environment HBS stood out for Shawn because, “I wanted to experience different frameworks and ways of doing business, to which the case method lends itself very well. Overall, the school has an amazing faculty and... View Details

30 Jun 2016
Blog Post

4 Ways I've Changed at HBS

few short months. 1. My career goals I never expected that in such a highly driven environment like HBS I would become most attuned to finding balance in my life. As a result of my experience here, I have become more empowered to think... View Details

10 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Pay for Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon Emissions

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li & George Serafeim

2010
Working Paper

A New Paradigm of Individual, Group and Organizational Performance

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and The Barbados Group

"The committee is therefore unable to draw conclusions, based on scientific evidence, on what does or does not work to enhance organizational performance" —Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance of the U.S. National Research Council Commission... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Performance Improvement; Research; Opportunities

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May 2003
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Institutional Preconditions to Collaboration: Indian Forest and Irrigation Policy in Historical Perspective

By: Alnoor Ebrahim

Keywords: History; Natural Environment; Relationships; Policy; Cooperation; India

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19 Sep 2019
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Tackling Climate Change in the MBA Classroom

15 Apr 2020
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How Sarah Kauss Built S’well

Sarah Kauss Sarah Kauss In a recent episode of NPR’s How I Built This, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) discussed the formation of the reusable water bottle company S’well. The key revelation, she notes, came during a hike in 2009 with her mother, who had just been declared... View Details

01 May 2005
News

Business Responses to Climate Change: Identifying Emergent Strategies

Keywords: Ans Kolk, Jonatan Pinkse

25 Apr 2014
News

Taking up the issue of climate change

As chairman of Walt Disney Studios, Alan Horn (MBA 1971) is in the business of creating magical worlds that captivate audiences. He also is passionate about the real-world issue of climate change and its impact on future generations. "When my wife, Cindy, was pregnant... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Giving business tools to small farmers so they can compete and succeed

Sylvia Wachsner (PMD 35, 1978), director of Sociedade Nacional de Agricultura, runs business training programs for small organic and sustainable farmers in Brazil. (Published April 2014) View Details

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