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03 Jul 2008
What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

Sameer Kamat asked whether Kellerman's categorization over-simplifies the issue and opines that "these are transient states that followers pass through in their careers." Sujeet Prabhu observed that "The five types of followers described View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

conference and survey from Harvard's business and medical schools may prove particularly timely. Delivered by the Forum on Healthcare Innovation, which was formed last year with encouragement from the respective deans of the two... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

January 2020 (Revised July 2020)
Case

BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit

By: Aiyesha Dey

The case revolves around the actions that Barbara Novick, co-founder and Vice-Chair of Blackrock, and Michelle Edkins, Global Head of Investment Stewardship, would need to take in response to the controversial CEO letters from Laurence (Larry) Fink, Chairman and CEO of... View Details

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28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

Management and author of Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Lessons from Other Sectors. The environmental challenges we face are among the most important issues facing business. If, as current scientific research suggests, it would be prudent to remove 80 percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

Cirrus Foroughi, and Barbara Larson. Developing Novel Drugs This paper by Joshua Krieger and colleagues contributes to our understanding of how financing constraints affect the direction of innovation in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) and David Rosales (both HBS MBA 2010) had been troubled... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

02 May 2012
What Do You Think?

Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?

disconnect in the "leadership industry" between efforts and results? That's the primary question posed by Barbara Kellerman in her somewhat dramatically titled new book, The End of Leadership.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2016
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The Year in Books 2016

4.0], via Wikimedia Commons; via LinkedIn; Brian Stauffer; via alumni.hbs.edu; Brian Doben; courtesy Barbara Keck; Edward Sibley Barnard and Neil Calvanese; Robb Dickehut View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Brian Stauffer

2013
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Business and the Environment: Critical Perspectives in Business and Management

By: Susse Georg and Andrew J. Hoffman

Over the past four decades, the concept of corporate environmentalism has passed through multiple iterations. Prompted by landmark environmental events such the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), the Santa Barbara oil spill, the Cuyahoga River fire,... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Management; Natural Environment

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27 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 27

jointly develops an offshore tract-performs relative to a solo firm. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy based on bids in first-price sealed-bid auctions for the rights to develop leases. By focusing on leases where one... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work,... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

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of IB at Harvard Business School'." Chap. 10 in The Historical Evolution of International Business: Growth Trajectory of an Academic Field of Study , edited by L. Nachum and A. Yaprak, 227–232. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. July 2025 Article... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

Emergency, business revenues declined by 40 percent, largely driven by national factors rather than local infection rates or policies. However, the pass-through of revenue losses to owner consumption was... View Details

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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

Using financial account data linking small businesses to their owner households, we examine how business owners’ consumption responded to changes in business revenues during the COVID-19 crisis. In the first two months following the National Emergency, business... View Details

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Research - Global

digital lenders use machine-learning algorithms and nontraditional data from borrowers’ mobile devices. Consequently, digital lenders have managed to expand access to credit for millions of... 2025 Working Paper How Does Wage Inequality Affect the Labor Movement By:... View Details

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PRIMO Alumni Profiles - Doctoral

labor economics. Read more about Jo here. Stella Jia UC Berkeley, Class of 2025 Stella Jia (she/her) was born in the Bay Area and grew up in California. The unique presence of technology in the Bay Area led her to study statistics and data science at UC Santa View Details

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Questioning, Listening & Responding - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

C. Roland Christensen 1991 With Open Ears: Listening and the Art of Discussion Leading by Herman B. Leonard 2003 Socrates' Legacy:The Primacy of Asking by Robert F. Bruner 1993 Asking Questions View Details

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Board Use - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Professor Garvin describes how blackboards can be used to help pull together multiple parts of a class discussion. Transcript Suggested Reading 1993 Tools for Teaching by Barbara Davis 2002 Technology and... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

learners they serve while further strengthening their individual positions and managing their growth and long-term success. FY22 was marked by a return to in-person learning. For Executive Education this meant welcoming over 10,000... View Details

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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Barbara Gross Davis 1991 The Discussion Teacher in Action: Questioning, Listening, and Response by C. Roland Christensen 1991 With Open Ears: Listening and the Art of Discussion Leading View Details

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