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HBS - The year in Review

program provides an overview of Harvard Business School and a window into research and research support at the School, the case method, and the classroom experience. Teaching faculty join study groups and practice preparing and opening a... View Details

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Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets

Published Materials 26 Nov 2024 Hachette Book Group The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent Conditions 18 SEPT 2023 Book Faculty Research Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia By: Meg... View Details

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Harvard Business School

director of Equity Group Investments. Walter Morris Jr. MBA 1975 A senior managing director at Brock, Walter Morris has broad executive management, lending, and advisory experience spanning more than three decades. Morris's career... View Details

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

seems to look at its successor as beneath their own." There were a number of suggestions about how millennials might manage differently from their predecessors. For example, Bette Price said, " this group will be fine managers... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 Jun 2024
Blog Post

What Does PRIDE Mean to You?

community. Before coming to HBS, I worked in finance, and through joining LGBTQ+ mentoring programs like Out4Undergrad and founding pride networks at prior companies, I developed a strong sense of community. These groups provided a... View Details

06 Jan 2016
What Do You Think?

Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

objective observer? At Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh became enamored with several concepts around the innovative idea of replacing managers (except himself) with “circles,” some 300 groups of self-selected employees assigned to make decisions... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion

February 2025 (Revised April 2025)
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Institutional Neutrality, Restraint or Convenience?

By: Clayton S. Rose, Nicole Zelazko and Alexis Lefort

In the fall of 2023 and winter of 2024, college campuses across the U.S. experienced protests and encampments in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel by the Islamist militant group Hamas, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. These... View Details

Keywords: Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; Ethics; Governance; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Adaptation; Disruption; Communication Strategy; Higher Education; United States

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08 Sep 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)

never know what any given day will bring. I’ve done everything from leading a hostile takeover of an ASX listed company (earning the nickname “Black Widow” – hilarious) to negotiating with Aboriginal groups in the Kimberley to... View Details

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

take root? It starts with the leader and senior team taking a hard look at management or organizational barriers, including the senior leadership team itself. To do this, they must enable truth to speak to power. But Beer says that even when honest conversations in... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

productivity. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/WvZ0cFGPFEU8Igj4vKIZ][/div] Diagnostic tools, such as surveys and small group discussions, are critical to developing a more holistic view of the employee experience. In the Army, officers... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

executives, led by Ken Lay, created an extreme performance-oriented culture that both institutionalized and tolerated deviant behavior. It's a story about a group of executives who created a world that they could not understand and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2019
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Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

An experiment in real estate investing is underway in Philadelphia, where Steinbridge Group CEO Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) has made a long-term commitment to less-affluent renters in the city’s most rapidly gentrifying communities. “You want... View Details

18 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

in the die-throwing task increased the likelihood of cheating on the subsequent word jumbles. Eighty-one percent of participants in the “likely-cheating” die-throwing group ended up claiming to have solved “taguan.” But among die throwers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Sep 2017
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Christopher Harland (MBA 1984)

operations in Brazil and Mexico and opened new offices in Peru, Columbia, and Chile. He is now a partner in the Advisory Group at PJT Partners. When making philanthropic choices, Harland and his wife, Ashley Leeds, consider what matters... View Details

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Tom Adeyemi

passionately about what Maggi noodles meant to them growing up in India, to a U.S. Army veteran speaking openly about leading when faced with challenging ethical situations. Never before have I been immersed in a group with such a wide... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

numbers are low, members of underrepresented groups carry extra burdens, as her earlier work on tokenism has shown. As a Latina woman leading a tech company, Tuchman felt she had to explain herself and Caribu’s potential for dramatic... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

while the SX-70 group made the final push to complete the design of a camera that would make the complex process of one-step photography possible and the act of taking the picture amazingly simple. EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x... View Details

04 Feb 2010
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What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

that success requires some talent and some luck, while great success requires some talent and a lot of luck. The importance of this observation is that systems that involve significant amounts of luck, such as investing for many people, revert to the mean for the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

company. Another was when Dick Fisher and John Mack asked me to head the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley, which I consider to be a great responsibility and a great honor.” Stephen A. Schwarzman President and CEO The Blackstone View Details

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Official Networking Group and gain exclusive access to events and other networking opportunities. Description of silent animated video above: Learner types an answer in the discussion board in response to a peer's question Immerse... View Details

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