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11 Jun 2024
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

were asking, 'What standards are we supposed to be adhering to?' " Paine recalls, adding that she heard the same question from executives who, at the time, were facing pressures from many external groups to follow various codes of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Jun 2016
News

Harvard Business School Inaugurates New Executive Education Center

19 May 2016
Blog Post

5 Lessons from Business School

not least, I have developed a strong group of friends that I know I will share my biggest life experiences with for years to come because of the closeness we developed through our shared experience during our time in View Details

31 May 2017
News

The 21 Most Powerful People in Boston Business

22 Dec 2015
Blog Post

HBS Takes Business Education Online

Last year, HBS replaced its previous week-long residential pre-MBA program, Analytics, with HBX’s Credential of Readiness (CORe) program, an online primer on the fundamentals of business that is open to learners around the world. While... View Details

11 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Business of Saving the Planet

"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology

21 Feb 2012
News

Sustainability Is Good Business

The recent uproar over the Sierra Club’s acceptance of $26 million in undisclosed donations from an energy company prompted some environmentalists to warn against “sleeping with the enemy.” This sort of us-against-them rhetoric is all too common when it comes to View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Utilities

25 Feb 2022
News

Best Business Podcasts 2022: Find Your Success This Year

August 2004 (Revised March 2005)
Case

MGM Mirage's Bid for Mandalay Resort Group (A): Communicating During the Merger Process

After MGM Mirage decides to announce publicly its bid for Mandalay Resort Group, both companies face vital decisions about how to communicate with their various stakeholders during the merger negotiations. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Corporate Disclosure; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Communication Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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Educators

Purchase

03 Apr 2015
News

How To Run A Business Without Any Bosses

05 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

business to operate, governments can also play a role in helping companies to provide socially beneficial services (particularly in sectors such as water, energy, and healthcare), by subsidizing service provision to certain consumer View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Oct 2016
HBS Seminar

Luís Cabral, NYU Stern School of Business

March 1997 (Revised March 1997)
Case

Business Teams at Rubbermaid, Inc.

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Dean Whitney

Rubbermaid, a consumer-products company widely praised for its innovation, has instituted a company-wide experiment to stimulate innovation even further. The experiment consists of creating small cross-functional business teams within each division, with each team... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation Strategy; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products Industry; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

15 Apr 2015
HBS Seminar

Raymond Fisman, Columbia Business School

Web

Electricity - Business & Environment

Jezmir HBS MBA 2013, Managing Director, Energy, CCM Group Nathan Nemon HBS MBA 2020 “Scalable business in coordination with robust policies are necessary to address the global challenges posed by climate... View Details

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

To succeed in today's fast-moving economy, traditional corporate structures are holding back companies, even great companies, from being creative enough and speedy enough to compete effectively. What's needed, argues Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

attempted to organize business education around specific industries such as banking, transportation, merchandising, mining, and lumber. The third model—increasingly adopted by the 1930s, and still the basis of the View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

01 Oct 2009
News

Growing a Family Business

Time describes Benetton Group as "a case study in business management." Alessandro Benetton (MBA '91) guides a family business through a generational shift. View Details

Keywords: Alessandro Benetton, MBA '91; Management

14 Oct 2010
News

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