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- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
the life I want, not the life that society deems successful. Since then, my goal has been to inspire and empower more Japanese people to maximize their potential in a global context. How has your Asian identity shaped you? I was the...
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- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
larger forces that, taken together, have helped fashion business and society today. Overarching themes of her book tackle the corporation writ large, the changing nature of work, and defining moments in technology. What can business...
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- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
nonprofits and corporations can create value for society more effectively by applying strategy principles to philanthropy. Part V explores the link between strategy and leadership. Risk Frameworks and Biomonitoring: Distributed Regulation...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
working for an organization that is contributing value to the world, that society benefits from the mission and strategy of their organization and its products and services. They need to understand how the success of the organization...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
see was frustration. I began to realize there's a greater power at work in society than we humans possess even in our most influential posts. So I started thinking, reading, and trying to discover for myself the deeper meaning of life and...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
When she joined the new private-sector team at Oxfam America as a freshly minted MBA in 2007, Roshini Moodley Naidoo was essentially given the following directive: All those great ideas we’ve been discussing? Make them happen. It was a bit more nuanced than that, of...
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- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
members of society to meet their needs and wants. This account is contrasted with prevailing accounts in scholarly literature (e.g., shareholder primacy and stakeholder theory) that frame corporate purpose and responsibility in terms of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
students recognize the yawning gap between espoused aspiration and reality in our classrooms? And perhaps most importantly, how long can society survive without growing a stronger field of emerging leaders?
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- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will experience a heavier demand for government intervention. We argue that this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
from outside that you should be doing inside to create proprietary advantage? Regulatory, Macroeconomic, Political, Societal: Are there impending (or early) shifts in regulation, political power, or society that threaten to disrupt...
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by Lynda M. Applegate
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
right now. They need to be reliable and safe. You're in them all the time. Some cars, particularly German cars, will be on the road for twenty to twenty-five years. And yet these are mass production goods." "Our whole society is...
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- Web
Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
leader–one who made significant contributions to society and the economy. Gupta notes that Doriot taught students, "Businesses exist because they serve a larger purpose, not simply to make money. And those [students] who failed to...
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- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. I show that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Commencement 2019 Address | About
businesses that grow and are profitable. But you can’t leave society behind. You must lead your lives and your businesses to serve society: to provide wages that enable people to live with economic dignity, to marshal disaster relief when...
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- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- November 2022 (Revised March 2023)
- Supplement
JUUL and the Vaping Revolution: A 2022 Update
By: Michael W. Toffel and Sarah Mehta
This slide deck provides a brief update (2019-2022) on the rise and fall of JUUL Labs, the maker of the popular JUUL e-cigarette.
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Electronic Cigarettes;
E-Cigarettes;
Vaping;
Nicotine Replacement;
JUUL;
Juuling;
Government Regulation;
Advertising;
Advertising Campaigns;
Digital Marketing;
Customers;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Strategy;
Marketing;
Ethics;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Technology Industry;
California
- November 2022 (Revised March 2023)
- Supplement
JUUL and the Vaping Revolution: A 2022 Update
By: Michael W. Toffel and Sarah Mehta
This case provides a brief update (2019-2022) on the rise and fall of JUUL Labs, the maker of the popular JUUL e-cigarette.
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Keywords:
Electronic Cigarettes;
E-Cigarettes;
Vaping;
Nicotine Replacement;
JUUL;
Juuling;
Government Regulation;
Advertising;
Advertising Campaigns;
Digital Marketing;
Customers;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Strategy;
Marketing;
Ethics;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Technology Industry;
California
Toffel, Michael W., and Sarah Mehta. "JUUL and the Vaping Revolution: A 2022 Update." Harvard Business School Supplement 623-011, November 2022. (Revised March 2023.)
- September 2019
- Teaching Note
Gun Safety in America: Three Leaders Propose Innovative Solutions
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joseph Paul
This is a teaching note to the original case: Gun violence was a significant problem in America. Three Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellows Christy Wood, Russell Sternlicht, and Gareth Glaser each decided to do something about gun safety. They each used...
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Gun Violence;
Guns;
Advanced Leadership;
Advanced Leadership Initiative;
Innovation;
Innovation & Entrepreneurship;
Social Change;
Social Responsibility;
Leadership;
Change Management;
Experience and Expertise;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Values and Beliefs;
Policy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Leading Change;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
United States
- November 2009
- Article
Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies
By: Erin Marie Reid and Michael W. Toffel
The challenges associated with climate change will require governments, citizens, and firms to work collaboratively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a task that requires information on companies' emissions levels, risks, and reduction opportunities. This paper...
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Keywords:
Climate Change;
Problems and Challenges;
Pollutants;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Management Practices and Processes;
Social Issues;
Corporate Disclosure;
Values and Beliefs;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Government and Politics
Reid, Erin Marie, and Michael W. Toffel. "Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies." Strategic Management Journal 30, no. 11 (November 2009): 1157–1178. (Featured by the Network for Business Sustainability.)
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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