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  • November 2017
  • Case

Outrageous Ambition: Duke University

By: William C. Kirby and Yuanzhuo Wang
Duke University had grown from a one room schoolhouse in rural North Carolina in 1859 to one of the leading research universities in the U.S. and the world. Since the late 1950s, Duke’s leaders had consciously used the process of strategic planning to guide the... View Details
Keywords: Duke University; University Governance; Internationalization; Duke Kunshan University; Interdisciplinarity; Higher Education; Interdisciplinary Studies; Global Strategy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business History; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Education Industry; United States; China; Singapore
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  • October 2023
  • Case

Social Finance: Driving Accountability

By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Robert Ialenti
Social Finance is a Boston-based nonprofit that works at the intersection of finance and policy. It raises, allocates, and manages capital to fund projects in the areas of education, early childhood development, criminal justice, and health. The case explores how... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Training
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  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

objective is to build on Selznick's seminal work to investigate the value proposition of leadership consistent with institutional theory. We examine public interview transcripts from 52 senior executives and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

for "big teaming": intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

public purpose and thus merit tax-exempt status. Amid this clamor for accountability, it is tempting to accept the popular view that more accountability is better. But is it feasible, or even desirable, for nonprofit organizations to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2022
  • What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

Florida legislature, after several weeks of heated public controversy, passed and sent to Governor Ron DeSantis a Parental Rights in Education bill stating: “Classroom instruction by school personnel or... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

    Jan W. Rivkin

    Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

    Keywords: airline; computer; internet; music; transportation
    • August 2020 (Revised November 2022)
    • Case

    George Soros: The Stateless Statesman

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Wendy Ying
    This case traces the business career and philanthropic activities of George Soros. The Hungarian-born Soros made a fortune as a hedge fund investor after establishing Quantum Fund on the tax haven island of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles in 1973 where he was... View Details
    Keywords: Hedge Fund; Philanthropy; Populism; Finance; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Political Elections; Personal Development and Career; Leadership Style; Financial Services Industry; Europe; Hungary; United Kingdom; North and Central America; United States
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    • January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
    • Case

    OpenAI: Idealism Meets Capitalism

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    In November 2023, the board of OpenAI, one of the most successful companies in the history of technology, decided to fire Sam Altman, its charismatic and influential CEO. Their decision shocked the corporate world and had people wondering why OpenAI had designed a... View Details
    Keywords: AI; AI and Machine Learning; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leadership
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    • 21 Feb 2007
    • Op-Ed

    What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

    mechanism to do well with minimum risk and maximum efficiency. In its early stages, a typical project would have to be commercially oriented and driven by private funds, though public funding from... View Details
    Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
    • October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
    • Teaching Note

    The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-002. "Miccosukee" explores the challenges of coordinating actions to solve a complex systems problem—from individuals, small organizations, and coalitions of multiple organizations. The case discusses the impact of climate change and... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Leading Change; Natural Environment; Florida; Everglades National Park
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    • 25 Mar 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

    of higher education are in the process of slow-motion self-destruction. The University of California system, once the greatest system of public higher education in the world,... View Details
    Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Education
    • Blog

    Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom

    public policy at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., Barrett was invited to speak to program participants by faculty chair Ethan Bernstein. While a session on jazz improvisation may seem out of the ordinary for an Executive... View Details
    • 25 Nov 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: November 25

      Publications November 2014 Asian Survey Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing Primary Education in the Himalayan Region By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—Himachal Pradesh has surged ahead... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel

      Michael W. Toffel

      Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

      • 01 Sep 2023
      • Blog Post

      Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

      from the nonprofit and public sector to attend HBS, these fellowships enable the School to award $10,000 to a select number of incoming MBA students. Beginning with the Class of 1990, 257 incoming students have received the fellowship.... View Details

        Michael Montelongo

        Michael Montelongo is a Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Managing Service Operations in the MBA elective curriculum that shows how to effectively design, manage, and improve... View Details

        • 14 Dec 2009
        • Research & Ideas

        Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

        2getthere, and Cabintaxi. In the past decade PRT projects been weighed for sites as diverse as the docklands in Cardiff, Wales; the airport-to-town route of Ciampino, Italy; and the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. We... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

          Alan D. MacCormack

          Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

          Keywords: automotive; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; high technology; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry