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Twiddy & Company: Trust in a Chaotic Environment

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Shalene Gupta and Tom Quinn

Twiddy & Company, known for Southern hospitality rooted in personal interactions, needed to adjust to contactless remote customer service as fear of the contagious virus prevented person-to-person contact. Local elected officials, in a bid to stop tourists from... View Details

Keywords: Trust; Health Pandemics; Organizational Culture; Disruption; Government Legislation; Transportation; Tourism Industry; North Carolina; United States

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07 Mar 2017
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From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World

general director. With a lengthy career in industry and politics as well as academia, Giscard D’Estaing is a former mayor and member of the French Parliament and is chairman of the Committee for a World Parliament. He is also honorary... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

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Is That Economic Forecast You Just Heard Reliable? | Working Knowledge

to spread misinformation, Graeber notes. And with political rhetoric heated in a US election year, that can lead to further polarization, especially when it comes to the economy. Graeber collaborated on the working paper, “Lost in... View Details

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

was, at least in part, due to cultural differences between immigrants and natives, suggesting that diversity might be economically beneficial but politically hard to manage. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

make up for lost years, he was surprised to find himself at Harvard at age 23. Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures through the Science of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013)... View Details

21 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

insufficient. Fulfillment of community needs such as clean air and human rights is every bit as important. This concept offers multinationals a mechanism to do well with minimum risk and maximum efficiency. It also provides them with a means to improve View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson

20 Apr 2015
Blog Post

India Conference 2015

India at the time of the event. This year, the Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School hosted over 75 speakers and 600 attendees over two days in early March. The event was kicked off on the 7th of March with an exciting debate focused on New View Details

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

Elkins and her students spent considerable time, before and during their immersion in Cape Town, unpacking cultural and contextual knowledge specific to South Africa, including its apartheid legacies. “Making students aware of this... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

(Sudbury Press) Poems about fathers and sons, Martha’s Vineyard, politics and society, and youth, age, and relationships. Leaders Made Here: Building a Leadership Culture by Mark Miller (AMP 170, 2006)... View Details

05 May 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

ethnicity, socioeconomic, and political beliefs. No matter where I go, the world I see today is barely recognizable from the one I grew up in. Only this time, armed with an HBS education, I refuse to turn off the lights in my house. I... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Massport, Back on Course

and employs 1,149 people. Political fallout from 9/11 has profoundly changed the operations of the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), the independent public agency that operates Boston’s Logan International Airport. After hijackers... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2003
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practices, such as the use of outsider-only boards. Acknowledging the difficulty of teaching ethics in a culture that increasingly views morality as private and relativistic, Mills still advocates a role for business schools in raising... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

Tax strategies used by top executives on their own taxes can also show up in the companies they run. Source: Melpomenem New research shows that top executives who prefer to reduce personal taxes appear to also influence the strategies of their companies, resulting in... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

how does the founder of a social venture decide to create a hybrid rather than a traditional charity? New research suggests the decision has a lot to do with the founder’s gender. "in communities where female leadership of conventional businesses is more of a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Aug 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

neighborhoods, right as they’re experiencing the problem? Do it! Pre-HBS, I worked for 5 years at a company called Blue State Digital, a communications agency born out of the Howard Dean and Barack Obama presidential campaigns. Blue State advances progressive causes... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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US Ethnic Minorities | MBA

year, and extending beyond graduation. Current membership includes over 130 first years, second years, and partners who engage in social events, cultural activities, and academic and professional development workshops. Harvard Business... View Details

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Michael R. Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg is not your typical entrepreneur. His resume is an astounding mixture of business, political and philanthropic achievement in a career that has crisscrossed so many boundaries that it defies categorization. Having built... View Details

08 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

desire of countries and companies to shift to a low-carbon growth path." Diverse Set Of Challenges One of the challenges facing investors and companies interested in getting into the game in Asia is the diverse set of cultural and... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities

12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift

she thought; it was about putting people in positions who were willing to push beyond office politics and take action to make diversity and inclusion mission critical. So Hoffman started her own company, which would eventually become... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

mainly of "interpersonal process and tactical actions at the bargaining table" (whether literally, on the phone, or via some other connection). This can involve setting a positive atmosphere, displaying cultural sensitivity,... View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

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