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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and (b) how the risk of governmental monitoring affects the extent to which CSR reports are symbolic or substantive. First, we examine how firm characteristics reflecting dependence on the government—including private... View Details

14 Jun 2021
Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

When I first started teaching executive education classes at Harvard Business School, I was part of a team of five professors who conducted one-week programs for leaders of businesses from all across the globe. Most of my colleagues had... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

20 Apr 2021
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A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

they eschew efforts—even bold, cutting-edge proposals—that are unlikely to generate value for customers, employees, or suppliers. “Companies that raise customer willingness to pay in a distinctive manner attract the very customers that... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Jan 2022
What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

legal dispute and negative publicity at a precarious time. Employee sexual harassment allegations at McDonald’s were reaching the media along with efforts to get McDonald’s and its franchisees to raise starting pay to $15 per hour. The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

was to use the material to improve my team’s strategy execution.” Melanie Lehnert-Bechle Strategy Execution Participant What You Earn Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business Reach your peak with a comprehensive... View Details

16 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

advice to others is considered an important mark of a leader. “People have a remarkable degree of overconfidence, and that diminishes the amount of advice they typically seek” Yet business executives aren't always making the most of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Jan 2024
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Great Heights

training and fortitude in a hostile environment. And only ten percent of those who make it to Denali’s summit are women. “It’s much like tech!” Kostova says. And it proved a ready-made metaphor for the next phase of her career. In 2020, Kostova founded CareerClimb, an... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

a personal statement and an executive brief as outlined below. PERSONAL STATEMENT (maximum of 500 words) explaining: Your interest in Africa and how you hope to make a difference by working in the region. Your long-term career goals and... View Details

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By: Debora L. Spar

I'll have a girl, please

American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006

DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details

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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

Careers From C-Suite to CEO Careers From C-Suite to CEO Interested in making the transition from C-suite executive to CEO? The path will be different for everyone, however, studies of successful CEOs, case studies of alumni, and feedback... View Details

21 May 2024
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A New Chapter

Africa. Imagine Worldwide is currently executing a country-wide rollout to transform Malawi’s primary school system and aims to replicate that success in other nations in the area. Some 6,000 primary schools serve 3.8 million students in... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

companies are being managed for the long term." Their first order of business was to determine a method for categorizing companies on the short-term/long-term continuum. The answer came in the very words used by executives to discuss... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

structure driven by the accelerators." Two Is Better A dual operating system is a nod to what Kotter believes is some of the most interesting management thinking of the past few decades, from Michael Porter's "wakeup call telling us that organizations need to View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

value-creating potential of longer and closer working relationships with grantees, and they pay insufficient attention to the ultimate results of the work they fund. This article lays out a blueprint for change, challenging foundation... View Details

16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

rather than focus simply on products and sales. And Gulati's research, including interviews with 500 executives spanning industries and geographies, asserts that outside-in success is not confined to any one sector. "I see the move... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

23 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 23

use by examining the relationship between convex pay schemes and overconfidence. In a laboratory experiment, subjects chose between a piece rate and a convex pay scheme. We find that overconfident subjects... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2019
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Remix

for Dixon, bringing to the fore a bundle of memories that she had worked hard to bury. She had launched her career at Def Jam back in 1994, working as an artists and repertoire (A&R) executive and reporting directly to Simmons. She knew... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

MBAs. “I want you to imagine: You just fought in the American Revolution,” he says. “The federal government—which is part of what you fought to create—the federal government can’t pay you.” That is just one of the issues facing the... View Details

Keywords: April White

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

diagnoses. Others advocated tax and non-tax solutions. The case against hasty change was made by Dave: "Market based capitalism is the greatest driving force of prosperity in the world today, but if we forget this and marginalize it through income redistribution,... View Details