Role Of Business In Society - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jun 2017
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What is the HBS Leadership Fellows Program?

The mission at Harvard Business School is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. The Leadership Fellows program, an opportunity for a select group of graduating... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

26 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

pressure, alcoholism, mental illness. Even so, the connections between job pressures and health—and what management can do to address the problem—have been little studied. “We have not placed a lot of emphasis on the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

09 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

effective solution. In the past, business model innovation was common in health care. When the technological enablers for the diagnosis and treatment View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang; Health

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

between a true surprise and one that should have been predicted? Anticipating and avoiding business disasters isn't just a matter of doing better environmental scanning or contingency planning. It requires a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

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Finance - Faculty & Research

Decreasing Power of Family Unity over Time." Harvard Business School Case 225-094, June 2025. Heterogeneous Beliefs and Stock Market Fluctuations By: Odhrain McCarthy and Sebastian Hillenbrand 2025 | Working... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

BGIE Unit conducts research on, and teaches about, the economic, political, social, and legal environment in which business operates. The Unit includes scholars trained in... View Details

October 1998
Background Note

Welfare-to-Work Information and Statistics

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne

Summarizes information on the national issue of hiring people from the welfare roles. Organized by topics relevant to business, this note reviews research findings and statistics and poses questions to assist business decision-makers in assessing a company's current or... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Recruitment; Risk Management; Planning; Programs; Research; Welfare

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17 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

afterwards, their employment prospects were pretty dismal,” says Mark Egan, an assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School. Egan details the misconduct findings View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

does business management mean in this context? For some MBA students, the answers are something of an awakening. The ways that they have traditionally added value—by... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

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industry leaders, and a community passionate about the future of technology. [...] How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs 28 Apr 2025 | All Industries All Locations Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies For large numbers View Details

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Introduction – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

hourly performance charts to interviews with thousands of employees. Harvard Business School’s role in the experiments represented a milestone... View Details

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Africa - Global

Africa Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi HBS continues its efforts to build a deep understanding of and expertise in global business practice and innovation around the world,... View Details

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

You've just taken a seat at the negotiating table. No doubt you're under a little stress. In addition to the myriad complexities of the deal itself, even the best negotiators often have to contend with their... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

16 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

asymmetries inherent in the company-customer relationship and positions the economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities of companies to their customers as ways of addressing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/BCCI_JEBO_Final_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 Contemporary Accounting Research The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

controlled for industry and stage in the business cycle.” Bob Vanourek, citing results of a study by the McKinsey Global Institute, said that long-term oriented firms View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

and the needs of his or her new employer.Not all managers are equally suited to all business situations. The strategic skills required to control costs in the face View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

20 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

The development of corporate integrated reporting (IR) standards has the promise to be one of the great business innovations of the 21st century,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting

14 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

time when some companies are pushing employees to think of themselves as little more than a cog in a wheel. “Americans see business as very much like Elon Musk sleeping under... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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