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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

both business and civil society. The goal here is to broaden our conversation from the urgent demands firms often face to a longer-term consideration of how they can best address the expanded role that View Details

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Our Values | About

okay with being uncomfortable, even offended, at times. We must allow peaceful protests, demonstrations, and gatherings, and I will defend the right to voice dissent without hate. This is a fundamental principle of a strong democratic View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

made a positive impact on Harvard, Harvard Business School, and/or broader communities through exceptional acts of leadership. Nominations come from across the HBS community, and recipients are recognized during graduation week. Dean’s... View Details

July 2021 (Revised October 2021)
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Trouble at Basecamp: Managing Politics, Polarization, and Conflict in the Workplace (A)

By: Nour Kteily, Deepak Malhotra and David Lane

As founders of the software company Basecamp, Jason Fried and David H. Hansson were used to being the subjects of social media attention. Both maintained active and dedicated Twitter followings for their unique perspectives on management and life. But on April 26,... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming OR 1 of 19 Tara Adams Reedsport Community Charter School Reedsport, OR OR 2 of 19... View Details

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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

your knowledge through polls, quizzes, and problem-solving exercises designed to accelerate and reinforce your learning. Exchange ideas with your classmates, broaden your perspective, and challenge your worldview. Social Join a global View Details

03 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

loss of soldiers during the American Civil War. It got him to wondering whether rituals were merely a traditional part of the grieving process, or whether they truly alleviated grief. "We see in every... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

sustainability disclosure, and alternative ways of measuring IR. Moreover, I show that investor activism on environmental or social issues or a large number of concerns about a firm's environmental View Details

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

answer it, they looked not to high-tech modern prizes but to a comparatively unglamorous series of awards sponsored by the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) back in the nineteenth century. For decades, explains Lerner, the RASE... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Adams Caldwell High School Caldwell, ID Subjects: American Government VA Hope Adams George Washington High School (VA) Danville, VA WI Nick Adams East High School Madison, WI OR Tara Adams Reedsport View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

social value or destroying it? In the process, the course delves into the intersection of business, government, and civil society. For the full listing, click here . Capitalism and the State (CATS) (Fall... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal

ramp up collection and hire additional workers to prevent the containers from overflowing: While DSNY currently collects trash two or three times a week, communal bins are typically emptied every day. It... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

07 May 2014
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How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

left But an agenda that increases the rewards of work, encourages stable, engaged families and promotes healthy community institutions could be a shared political enterprise." Is wealth distribution a problem cause View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Symposium: Virtual Edition The 2021 Gender and Work Symposium, held virtually, spoke to the various crises that have so strikingly come to the fore this past year, here in the US and across the world. To name just a few, we have witnessed View Details

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Apr 2024
Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details

Keywords: by Glen Justice

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Business History - Faculty & Research

multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries over time. We argue that a change in the policy environment in a host country presents an MNE with two sets of interrelated decisions. First, the MNE has to decide whether to enter, exit, View Details

01 Nov 1999
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John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

create a method of sales management that encompassed all aspects of selling, from the calculation of quotas and commission rates to the motivation of discouraged salesmen. This excerpt looks at one aspect of the Patterson method: the N.C.R. Primer. J.H.Patterson To... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

PublicationsProspects for the Professions in China Authors:William P. Alford, William Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, eds Publication:Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia. London: Routledge, 2010... View Details

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