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- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
people are held accountable for their actions as individuals rather than as a group, they tend to weigh their choices more carefully.—Cynthia A. Montgomery and Rhonda Kaufman Make directors accountable to shareholders. One compelling way... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
directors should ask the critical questions and debate whether it has sufficient visibility into the CEO's leadership style, interpersonal skills, and norm-setting/role-modeling behaviors. This debate will allow the board to assess its degree of View Details
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
industries in the host countries have benefited from the semiconductor manufacturers' capabilities. It's no coincidence that the entire flat-panel display industry emerged from semiconductor industry capabilities. The people who built the factories to make... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
employee with more information about an issue that may have not been obvious so they have that knowledge for the future. Or a path forward may be discussing how the feedback will be incorporated to help an organization improve. In either... View Details
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
faulty decision making. The only evident remedy is in-depth analysis by knowledgeable people after the fact, looking a good distance ahead. This is what we attempted to do with this book. We have also filmed a discussion with experts that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
fellow at HBS, and Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004), the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice and a former Leadership Fellow, whose Social Entrepreneurship course was a catalyst for real-world action when COVID-19 struck in the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: What's the best way to report nonfinancial metrics? How can nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for... View Details
- 02 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Peek Weekend: The Family Business Cohort
too short to gather any real insight — and ended up being completely wrong. Peek Weekend gives you actionable takeaways. For example, prior to hearing about Peek a mentor of mine recommended I read the book “Different”. I was later... View Details
- 03 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Optimism: Younger Black Knowledge Workers +Jim Andrew (MBA 1986)Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo+Audrey Choi (MBA 2004) Chief Sustainability Officer and CEO, Institute for Sustainable Investing, Morgan StanleyNow Is the Time for Bold... View Details
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Global Leadership Roundtables | Institute for Business in Global Society
research and educate leaders at the forefront of making change happen. We aim to host three Roundtables in each global region, to develop longer-term networks of leaders who share best practices and collaborate on implementing new models and strategies. This helps us... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Promises by D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen (HBS Press) What happened to IBM? That is the question posed by authors Quinn Mills, the School's Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr., Professor of Business Administration, and Bruce Friesen (MBA '85), View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
increasing complexity that today¹s managers face, Defining Moments provides examples, action steps, and a flexible framework that managers at all levels can use to make the choices that will shape not only their careers but their... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
Emerita Deborah Kolb. "Despite bodies of knowledge about social institutions and social issues at the institutional and organizational levels, we know very little about how individual organizations experience and internalize gradual... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
with higher average information asymmetries. We fail to find evidence consistent with this proposition. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-014.pdf PublicationsLocation Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers Authors:Juan... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But Slack Could (Vanity Fair) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge “How do I spend my time and my money” is a question that requires rethinking during a time of crisis. Thus, the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Association, and the Asia Business Club provided attendees with an opportunity to engage in lively discourse, thoughtful reflection, and gala celebrations. AASU Conference: A Call to Action "Leading the Restoration: Black Business... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
knowledgeable about a country, a company, or an issue. Instructors are also more likely to provide closure at the end of a class or unit, with a clear set of "takeaways." Building The Tension In most classes, debate revolves... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
spread of epidemics, reducing congestion on highways, or finding ways to detect fraudulent transactions.The trend toward people analytics, Polzer says, is a logical extension of the era of big data, as the science of processing and identifying patterns in large... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand