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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Recent book: The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey Chair: Organizational Behavior Unit Intrigued by: "Emotional intelligence. Leaders have the emotional capacity to... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Horizontal Integration (1) Housing (4) Human Capital (27) Human Needs (14) Human Resources (292) Identity (6) Immigration (37) Income (7) Independent Innovation and Invention (5) Industry Clusters (8) Industry Growth (3) Inflation and... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
market puzzles: jointly, investor beliefs account for 74% of stock price variation and 34% of 3-year future return variation, with the beliefs of both individual investors and investment professionals having large independent explanatory... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
want to develop business organizations that satisfy shareholders and yet have the capacity to adapt and survive as viable institutions in the long run. Theory E In 1994 Al Dunlap became CEO of troubled Scott Paper. Like Champion... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
with almost $1 billion in venture capital, provided 2 billion bicycle rides, soaked up the majority of the bike manufacturing capacity in all of China, and then, in July of 2017, hit pause. The proximate reason for halting their purchase... View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
attempts to avoid bed shortages by sharing capacity have generally failed, in part, because of the persistence of an independent hospital culture. As COVID-19 surged in 2020, View Details
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
of our clients are upping their order sizes. They’ll say, “I only want 2,000 records.” They’ll put the order in and then say, “We sold through that too fast. We need 6,000.” So, all of our capacity planning has been thrown off by how much... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
independent decisions and to find ways to improve operations—including their own. Reward achievement with pay based on performance, but keep raising the performance bar. Pay psychological rewards in addition to financial ones. Create a... View Details
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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Imperial government forbade. The English, who had vacated Canton, relied on American firms to oversee their transactions. Heard & Co. served in this capacity for one of the largest British firms, Jardine, Matheson & Co., and John Heard... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
they pursued the mission through various organizational structures." She said that the National Audubon Society in the United States is a network of organizations, some of them corporate-owned and others independent or formerly View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
central part of their mission, asserting that they educate and develop leaders for society. And yet, if we look at the leading research universities and at the business schools within them, the topic of leadership is actually given fairly short shrift. The gap—between... View Details
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
California, I stayed engaged through extracurriculars, including screening and judging 200 pitches of entrants for AASU’s Black Venture Competition.” He also seized upon an independent project, collaborating to launch Nucleate Eco, an... View Details
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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
educational leadership, to provide school leaders with frameworks, skills, and knowledge to effectively lead and drive change improvement in schools. The CSML certificate is comprised of four courses, which can be taken independently or... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
long-term financial independence from the power grid. By getting energy consumers personally involved in and committed to renewable energy and efficiency, we unlock greater opportunity for next generation climate solutions to come to... View Details
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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About
Advisors, an employee, or a consultant. Faculty members can provide referrals to investors, firms, individuals, or other organizations as long as the referral does not represent a conflict of interest or result in personal financial gain. Faculty members serving in any... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Wilkins began his career as a finance and management consultant before becoming president of Syndicated Communications in 1977. Wilkins served in that capacity through 1989, then took posts as managing general partner of Syncom Capital... View Details
- Portrait Project
Anthony Terrizzi
stray from the behaviors we know are right. I am responsible for my choices, and I have an obligation to align my capacity for independent thought with my moral compass. I’m committed to actively monitoring... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty, but business enterprises have rarely been identified as significant independent actors. This book argues that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne