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- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
unregistered businesses that would quickly turn public opinion against the project. "Government is not one person, obviously; it's many people with many agendas, particularly in India," says Iyer.... View Details
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4.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities | MBA
appropriate means. The University must affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate and... View Details
- Profile
Jeff Nelson
Sachs, the Federal Reserve, real-estate developments in Florida. All their viewpoints are helpful.” “In each section, you get ninety perspectives from people who have two to five years of real-world experience informing their opinions,” notes Jeff. “With them, you can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
charter the CGC, while funding would come predominantly from public investors. To launch the college, the proposal seeks a congressional mandate to require companies receiving federal TARP bailout money to allocate three board seats to... View Details
- October 1999
- Case
Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine
This case describes the decisions made by Shell in response to the situation presented in the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Governance; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Transformation; Energy Industry
Paine, Lynn S. "Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (B)." Harvard Business School Case 300-040, October 1999.
- 09 Jan 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?
Summing Up Questions concerning grade disclosure, voluntary or not, elicited a great deal of response from those readers exposed to every facet of the issue. Opinion on the immediate issue of disclosure was evenly divided. But a third... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- News
Working to Improve the End of Life
educate the public and medical professionals about end-of-life issues, like advance directives, palliative care, and hospice. We provide individual counseling to patients who are dying and their families, and advocate to get the laws... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
employees believe it’s too risky to speak up, many decide it’s safer to put their heads down and keep their opinions to themselves—but that muting of views creates barriers to learning and collaboration that can be detrimental to both... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
people involved and to show they care in order to bring about change It’s not going to work to assume there are people in this or that nonprofit saying, ‘Okay, we’re going to lift people out of poverty.’ It’s not going to happen that way. We need to have a groundswell... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
down to being an approachable leader." But "once a decision is made ... public criticism of that particular decision should be actively discouraged ... ." As Ina Ferber put it, "… it is important to avoid... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Brendan Mosher
profitable) and applied to HBS, where he was accepted with a two-year deferral. "The MBA," says Brendan, "would enable me to do well in the private sector, so that I'd be better prepared to contribute to the public sector... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
wanted to frame it in a way that could create debate, rather than in a way that rubbed people the wrong way or made them feel hurt,” he says. McCray had strong opinions on the case, but decided she would focus first on listening and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
way that rubbed people the wrong way or made them feel hurt,” he says. McCray had strong opinions on the case, but decided she would focus on listening and learning from the different perspectives of her classmates. In their trepidation... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
Summing Up The predominance of opinions expressed a concern about what happened in Microsoft's dispute with the Government and laid the blame at the feet of both the company's leadership and of board members who either supported the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA
By: Richard Vietor
Cape Wind is an extreme example of NIMBY--not in my backyard syndrome. This is the first offshore wind project planned for the United States, in Nantucket Sound, just south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Initially proposed six years ago, in 2001, the wind farm would be... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Projects; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Community Relations; Public Opinion; Power and Influence; Energy Industry; Massachusetts
Vietor, Richard. "Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA." Harvard Business School Case 708-022, January 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
daunting prospect of determining which residents would receive 300 square feet of free housing (limited to families in residence before January 2000), it’s easy to imagine a nightmarish scenario of unpopular evictions and shutdowns of thriving, unregistered businesses... View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
design-based approach to innovation in the public sector,” and the latter through Neiman Marcus, where he worked on the president’s five-year strategic plan. Now in his first year at HBS itself, Casey eagerly describes three key... View Details
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
that web-based businesses would benefit from such expert curators. On the web, options for products, services, and information are virtually endless, too. It's daunting for customers, and there's an increasing body of academic research showing that the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- November 2016
- Case
Pete & Gerry's
By: Jose Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
Keywords: ＂Pete ＆ Gerry's; ＂ Eggs; Egg Industry; Avian Flu; Cage Free; Free Range; Agribusiness; Agriculture; Industry Structure; Industry Evolution; Price Volatility; Small Business; Strategy Formulation; Branding; Marketing; Premium Brand; Growth; Consumer; Consumer Behavior; Animal Welfare; Retail; Grocery; Food Labeling; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Advertising Campaigns; Business Model; Change; Change Management; Disruption; Transition; Trends; Volatility; Customer Value and Value Chain; Entrepreneurship; Food; Ethics; Health; Problems and Challenges; Operations; Sales; Risk and Uncertainty; Quality; Public Opinion; Value; Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; United States
Alvarez, Jose, and Natalie Kindred. "Pete & Gerry's." Harvard Business School Case 517-048, November 2016.
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
"CEO activism" can influence public opinion and consumer attitudes. Our field experiment examines the impact of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s public statements opposing a pending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne