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  • 09 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

researching the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. In an interconnected corporate world, he says, the pipeline project illustrates how inseparable politics and business are, especially at the edges of old Cold... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
  • Fast Answer

Patent terminology: Classification codes

What are patent classification codes and how are they used? A classification system is an arrangement of hierarchical categories used to organize things by their characteristics or relationships. A patent classification system has as its... View Details
  • 10 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

high commitment, high performance company. Martha Lagace: What differentiates HCHP firms and their leaders? Michael Beer: The leaders manage with a multiple stakeholder perspective. Contrary to many CEOs, HCHP leaders—with support from their boards—define firm View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Job requirements at the top of corporations have changed. Companies have come to expect much more from their C-level executives, who need new and different skills to deal with today's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

true in the corporate world, the researchers looked at preexisting field data at a midsize bank in Tokyo. The bank had tracked employee productivity for two-and-a-half years following the launch of a new mortgage-processing system in June... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

seem to delink their business model choices from their corporate purpose in practice. This session will discuss the consequence of such failures for both corporations and... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

their businesses to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends rather than invest for the long term, undermining job growth and putting the country’s economic future at risk, often pointing to the high ratio of shareholder payouts to net income. These claims are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2021 Virtual Presentations - Alumni

and corporate finance. Alumni will leave this session with a better sense of selected risks and opportunities in markets today. Slides From Strength to Strength: Happiness and Success in the Second Half of Life Faculty: Professors Arthur... View Details
  • February 2024
  • Case

Chime Solutions

By: Shai Bernstein, William R. Kerr, Christopher Stanton, Raymond Kluender and Mel Martin
Just two years after launching its 10k by 2020 initiative to hire 10,000 employees by 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Chief Executive Officer Mark Wilson to send nearly all of his staff at Chime Solutions (Chime) to work from home. Chime was a customer contact firm... View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Service Operations; Recruitment; Performance; Change Management; Retention; Financial Institutions; Employee Relationship Management; Talent and Talent Management; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Communications Industry; Service Industry; United States
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Mission-Driven Governance

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation
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  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

(Renewable energy utility). Andrea Boza Zanatta (MBA 2023, Section I), Summer Internship: ESG Investments & Asset Stewardship Team Analyst at State Street Global Advisors State Street Global Advisors is the investment management arm of State Street View Details
  • 15 Feb 2024
  • News

Startup Shepherds

By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 05 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail
  • January 2022
  • Case

Bee-ing Better at Bombas

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Youngme Moon and John Masko
David Heath and Randy Goldberg founded Bombas in 2013 to serve two missions: to deliver the “best socks in the history of feet,” and to donate socks (the most requested item in homeless shelters) to Americans experiencing homelessness. Eight years later, Bombas had... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Digital Marketing; Distribution; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Quality; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Human Needs; Poverty; Growth and Development Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 15 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

We can be forgiven, especially this time of year, for questioning a decision our predecessors made just over a century ago. In the 1910s, Americans decided to make personal and corporate income taxes a permanent feature of the United... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
  • 10 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

Disadvantaged Communities (DACs): communities “marginalized, underserved, and overburdened by pollution.”[1] Environmental Racism: “racial discrimination in environmental policy making, corporate decision making, and/or practice which... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Business Review Group, HBP Education, and Corporate Learning—each delivered year-over-year revenue growth in fiscal 2022. As a result, total Publishing revenue increased 10 percent from fiscal 2021 to $302 million. HBP international... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

research suggests that the random coefficients logit is a highly flexible model that overcomes the problems of the homogeneous logit by allowing for differences in tastes across individuals. The purpose of this paper is to show that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace