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01 May 2013
What Do You Think?

Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

Further, servant leaders don't waste much time deciding to whom to give and in what order. They give to everyone in their organizations. Grant concludes that giving can be exhausting but also... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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

01 Jun 2011
News

New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste

annually. “A single ton of circuit boards contains the same amount of metal — copper, gold, and other elements — as ninety tons of commercial-grade ore,” explained Bradoo. “Using existing scaled-up mining industry technologies, our goal... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining (except Oil and Gas)

18 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works

wheel” In a paper forthcoming in Organization Science, professor Tsedal B. Neeley and coauthors delve into why many managers tend to send the same message, over and over, via multiple media to team members.... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

02 Mar 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

from government. Suggestions of causes of the current challenge of rapidly rising costs in relation to quality of outcomes, at least by the imperfect measure of life expectancy, included waste in the system (Julie Maire, Edward Hare,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

21 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

weeks, and only then does the merchandise begin to move. So for six weeks, not much happens. You're wasting your real estate and capital. Johnson comes in View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

looking at a lot of wasted time and money. I watched them take each crate off the truck and slip it into a sling, which would then lift the crate into the hold of the... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

right topics are a costly waste of time. I want to point out again that a family council or family assembly complements rather than replaces the board of directors. The family council sets policy for the family View Details

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Accelerating Solutions - Business & Environment

Climate Change: Accelerating Solutions Climate Change: Accelerating Solutions A Roadmap for Leaders Key Insights There’s no time to waste when it comes to figuring out business’s role in driving global climate solutions. But it’s... View Details

23 Nov 2021
Book

What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

to be designed to support a range of strategies. This lays waste to the notion that culture and strategy must be in perfect alignment at all times. The range of strategies associated with any particular... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

03 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

exploratory study of learning processes in globally dispersed new product development teams. These qualitative data are used to investigate components of team learning previously highlighted in the team learning literature—namely... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

infrastructure, and drying processes likely require additional energy and emissions. Private company lessons for public ones: Private companies, such as the family-owned LEGO... View Details

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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

part of the digestive process of ruminant animals such as cattle—produces methane, a gas about 20 times more damaging that CO 2 in terms of its global warming potential. [29] Modern farming techniques emit CO2 by releasing some of the... View Details

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

very process of discussing, in precise detail and with great discipline, these issues develops "wide-band width" communication between buyer and seller. Each has the... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

schemes which caused further environmental damage co-created by business and governments. As globalization resumed from the 1980s, renewed economic growth and consumerism resulted in mountains of View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

In Full Flower

blossomed. Today, Bloom & Wild delivers flowers and small gifts (candles, chocolates) to eight countries across the United Kingdom and continental Europe. By purchasing flowers direct from the grower, Bloom... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; florist; marketing; supply chain management; Personal Services

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A Commitment to Sustainability | About

growth, with a 2006 baseline). HBS also made a 53 percent reduction in waste and a 5 percent reduction in water use. Questions? Contact sustainability@hbs.edu . The HBS beekeepers tend to one of the honeybee... View Details

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

how the absolute can be changed. A few suggestions: appropriate education; socio-economic policies that foster the family unit; incentives for capital formation and application, health improvements, elimination of resource View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact The Opportunity for Service and to Create Systemic Change Vaughn Bryant 20 Feb 2025 Vaughn Bryant... View Details

January 2017
Case

Danaher Corporation, 2007–2017

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

On July 2, 2016, Danaher Corporation completed the spinoff of Fortive Corporation. The previous day, Danaher’s stock price had reached an all-time high. In 2015, Danaher had decided to split off its test and measurement, fuel and fleet management, and automation... View Details

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