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  • 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
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • 25 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

core retailing business and AWS. Students are also provided with an opportunity to discuss operational diversification and its limits within the AWS context. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector

open-source standards were introduced. These eliminated restrictions on who can access and control the routers’ technical specifications. “We could keep track of everything. With other industries, you just can't do that.” In all, the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

Electric, and Carnegie Steel were all founded in the 1880s; in the following decade came Wrigley's Chewing Gum, General Electric, Burroughs, and Pepsico. These companies developed modern sales techniques, created procedures for management... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

financial flexibility—that is, plenty of cash in the bank—were able to continue operating without making deep cuts, compared to companies with smaller cash reserves, the findings showed. While some companies with high cash reserves... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 20 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

As global companies increasingly adopt a dominant language, usually English, which all employees must use to simplify communications and increase collaboration, many are dismayed to find an unexpected outcome. Results are exactly opposite of what was intended. Instead... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

Abstract—Many production processes are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental standards imposed by companies and regulators. Inspection accuracy is critical to inspections being a useful input to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

timing of repayment obligations. The standard microfinance contract has very little discretion in terms of when you repay your loan, so Natalia and her collaborators did one of the earliest studies to look at what happens if we relax that... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services
  • March 2025 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena: Ticket to a Greener Future

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Tim Leiweke reviewed how his development group and partners had completely rebuilt an aging Seattle landmark into the world’s greenest arena, carrying the visible name Climate Pledge Arena. It had attracted a new National Hockey League franchise, the Kraken, and... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Leadership; Bids and Bidding; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Seattle
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  • 01 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

the new workplace. There's a lecture about the firm's history and another about standard operating procedures. There's a packet of information from human resources, emblazoned with the firm's logo, and maybe... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications
  • 28 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

an FDA application. While the FDA’s standard new drug application review takes 10 months, the entire development process often takes more than a decade, says the CBO report. During that time, a drugmaker isn’t profiting from its... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical
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Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults

By: Arthur Kleinman, Hongtu Chen, Sue E. Levkoff, Ann Forsyth, David E. Bloom, Winnie Yip, Tarun Khanna, Conor J. Walsh, David Perry, Ellen W. Seely, Anne S. Kleinman, Yan Zhang, Yuan Wang, Jun Jing, Tianshu Pan, Ning An, Zhenggang Bai, Jiexiu Wang, Qing Liu and Fawwaz Habbal
Population aging is a defining demographic reality of our era. It is associated with an increase in the societal burden of delivering care to older adults with chronic conditions or frailty. How to integrate global population aging and technology development to help... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Age; Service Delivery; Information Technology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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Kleinman, Arthur, Hongtu Chen, Sue E. Levkoff, Ann Forsyth, David E. Bloom, Winnie Yip, Tarun Khanna, Conor J. Walsh, David Perry, Ellen W. Seely, Anne S. Kleinman, Yan Zhang, Yuan Wang, Jun Jing, Tianshu Pan, Ning An, Zhenggang Bai, Jiexiu Wang, Qing Liu, and Fawwaz Habbal. "Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults." Art. 729149. Frontiers in Public Health 9 (2021).
  • 13 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

decisions to protect the standards and aspirations of the group. Managing Managing, as opposed to leading, is about getting a group to operate efficiently and effectively. Managing is done by planning and... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
  • 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

  Working PapersFrom Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark Authors:Sylvain Lenfle and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Kim Clark occupies a unique place in management scholarship. As a member of the Technology and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

outsourcing certain store operations to third parties, changing the way store managers were compensated, and creating formal operating procedures for store operations. But he... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

negotiations. Initially, legitimacy appeared to derive from an expanding membership and the lowering of tariffs in progressively more categories of goods and services. More recently, legitimacy comes from institutional deepening by means of dispute resolution View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

Harmonizing Accounting Standards Really Harmonize Accounting?: Evidence from Non-U.S. Firms Adopting US GAAP Authors:Mark T.Bradshaw and Gregory S. Miller Periodical:Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

standard called respondeat superior (an executive is responsible for the acts of employees). If almost all the benefit [of a criminal act] goes to the individual, but some—even small benefit—still goes to the company, the entire... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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