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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the CLIMB program , Leadership & Management and Strategy track. Introduction to Strategy Execution ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Strategy Execution $1,850... View Details

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

to facilitate it," says Professor of Management Practice Clayton S. Rose, who sees in Armstrong's story an ideal vessel for teaching lessons about business ethics and leadership. Along with research associate Noah Fisher, Rose wrote... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

was understood to be an endorsement of the need for professional management education. When Harvard Overseer Bishop William Lawrence approached him for a $1 million donation to help build the new campus, Baker refused. After consulting... View Details

30 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 30

firms. However, once a lawsuit-triggering event like an accounting restatement, missing management guidance, or a sharp stock price decline occurs, there is no difference in the litigation rates between a foreign and comparable U.S. firm.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

innovation Who Will Benefit Aspiring or Current Innovation Managers Entrepreneurs Product Managers, Developers, and Marketers Develop an innovation mindset and toolkit you can use to guide your team or organization’s strategy. "This... View Details

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

and identity of the Native Hawaiian Community while also building the capacity for adaptation, learning, and transformation” in the face of climate change.[43] The IRA includes $150 million for a Tribal Electrification Program,[44] which... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

widely touted example of impact investing going mainstream. The case examines Imprint’s integration into the asset management platform at Goldman Sachs and how the approach to clients evolved post acquisition. Students will look at impact... View Details

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William R. Kerr | About

William R. Kerr Unit Entrepreneurial Management Contact Phone Bio William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research,... View Details

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

most talented entrepreneurs, I have been thinking more and more about what playing offense looks like in 2022-2023. Here’s the six-part playbook I’m hearing: 1. Acquire talent A few years ago, it was impossible to acquire talent. The best engineers, sales reps, and... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

ethical analysis of management decisions, policies, and plans of action. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307059 Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

real sense of purpose and a "flatness"—in career and in life. They often go through patches of life without creating or enhancing meaningful relationships, and even lack strength to deal with life's failures. A former chief development officer and View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

In 2003, HBS launched an MBA elective course focused on entrepreneurship in education reform and cofounded the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This multiyear research project focuses on the... View Details

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

School Professor Frances Frei has explored that question for years in the retail realm, culminating in her 2012 book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business. This past semester at HBS, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

Author:Malcolm S. Salter Abstract Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies-along with fund managers and other investors-on short-term results. The... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Faculty Research Award for “Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity Building and Forced Labor.” Marlous van Waijenburg : 2018: Winner of the International Economic History Association's triennial Dissertation Prize in the... View Details

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the CLIMB program and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Organizational Leadership ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Organizational Leadership... View Details

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

[This is the fifth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] We have asked approximately 600 CEOs to share with us the most pressing challenges that are keeping them awake at night in the midst of the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

16 May 2000
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Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

Web site publishers and advertisers, the company licenses the targeting technology it has developed to Web publishers and advertisers. The power of this technology, which is called DART (for dynamic advertising reporting and targeting), lies in its dynamic View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

when other approaches would produce better results for customers, employees, and shareholders and foster better long-term performance of the company. “I’ve been a leader during three recessions, and I’ve never heard a management team talk... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

22 Sep 2022
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The Beauty Guide

Courtesy Michelle Freyre Courtesy Michelle Freyre When Michelle Freyre (MBA 1997) was a brand manager at Neutrogena, Michael McNamara, global president of the beauty brand at the time, asked what she wanted to do with her career. She... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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