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01 Mar 2008
News

THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY

basically disengage from the work. Unfortunately, downsizing will remain a fact of life, which means that leaders need to focus on the things that get hit. Communication and collaboration decline significantly. So too does people’s sense... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Dec 2018
News

Innovation Outside the Boundaries

organizations they will work for and the communities they will live in stand to benefit enormously from that kind of background.” “When I talk to current HBS students and recent graduates, they often cite their global immersion trip as... View Details

08 Feb 2017
Blog Post

How I Chose My HBS Recommenders

great GPAs, high GMAT scores, experience at top-notch organizations, and gushing recommendations. I wanted my application to accurately tell the story of who I am, what makes me different, and therefore, what I could bring to an HBS classroom, and the HBS View Details

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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

“Data-driven decision-making, executive-level synthesis, insight, and communication are all part of the MBA skill set, in addition to quick time-to-output. The training that leads people to take a complex and somewhat amorphous problem... View Details

03 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Agriculture & Agribusiness

29 Jul 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration

Keywords: by Mark Mortensen & Tsedal Neeley

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Health-care Applications

Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details

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dollarDEX (1998-2007)

Retired chief executive, non-executive chairman

One of world's top 30 in online finance (Institutional Investor, March 2003). Wealth management firm in Asia, and has... View Details

5 Sep 2013
Conference Presentation

The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States

By: Ai Hisano

This paper examines the role of color in the marketing and retailing of food products by focusing on the increasingly popular presentation of food in clear packages in the early-twentieth-century United States. In the 1910s, a candy company began using cellophane to... View Details

Keywords: Food; Product Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry

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29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

management and personnel, they said. What creates superior performance management? Attention to outcomes. Focus on stakeholders. (Surveys, satisfaction. How do funders and community perceive what we do?) Reversing a weak culture of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

Comstock: a community service entrepreneur who has founded two inner-city banks and other community organizations in New York and the San Francisco area using his personal credit card. Chuck Knight, who runs... View Details

21 Nov 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

basically the manifesto that she uses to create this ethos within Stella McCartney. A: Yes. I think she does not communicate her initiatives as much as we would have thought. First of all, it was interesting to see in class that many... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion

September 2021 (Revised October 2021)
Case

Dream: Impact Through Real Estate

By: Michael Chu and John Masko

The Canadian city of Toronto had one of the largest housing affordability problems of any city in the developed world. One company trying to address this problem was Dream, one of the largest real estate groups in Canada. In 2021, Dream had just launched a new system... View Details

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10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

course and priorities. As Brady Finney put it, " companies growing value the most are the ones with leaders that have a clear vision, continually communicate that vision, and then get out of the way ." On the other hand, theater... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

firm specializing in improvisational collaboration and communication in high-performance teams. In their case, "Miles Davis: Kind of Blue", they reflect on the beauty of the music as well as the unusual story behind its... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

cash—often, lots of it—to be able to survive. In the US, the bankruptcy laws are designed to do exactly that. That, and the community of skilled lawyers, investment bankers, investors, judges, and others who apply these laws, gives US... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Lumumba B. Seegars : Recipient of the 2021 Doctoral Programs Dean’s Award for Service to the School and Society. Monique Burns Thompson : Received the 2021 Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community for creating and... View Details

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

involved in making it happen! Our time at Nucleate enabled me to have a platform to explore during the summer as a Rock Summer Fellow, and later this semester as a member of the Rock Accelerator Cohort, both incredible programs that not only build a sense of View Details

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

Fransman, Japan's Computer and Communication Industry, which focuses on NEC, and Marie Anchordoguy, Computers, Inc., set the stage for Japan's challenge but say little about capturing the European market in mainframes and the industry's... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

such topics as custom product or service programs for large customers, and coordinated communication messages for all dealers and end users can be specified. A major underlying point of contention will be the freedom for people in the... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

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