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- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis and looking back on the... View Details
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Careers - Health Care
financial services, consulting, health care delivery, and health services organizations. 8,487 Alumni active in health care across all industries 15 % Top Fortune 500 health care CEOs with an HBS MBA 115... View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
unlocking ESG value. Key Themes: ESG and activism may in fact be a source of financial and impact alpha; however, the path from theory to implementation is still being tested. Investing in Nature: The Nature Conservancy and NatureVest... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
Business School Case 118-017 Royal Philips: Designing Toward Profound Change This case explores Royal Philips CEO Frans van Houten's bold use of design research to inform a critical strategic decision: Should Philips leave its storied... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
out the effect of an increasingly important retail phenomenon (channel integration) on a key factor for inventory management (sales dispersion). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53103 forthcoming Brookings Papers on Economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
that innovation comes from the edges"). Thus, the program is not viewed as a subsidized Corporate Social Responsibility activity but as a positive net benefit activity, as well as a way of addressing skills shortages by tapping into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30
supply chain factories' adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
of employees in response to workflow," Ton observes, "QuikTrip changes what employees do." A daily activities worksheet lists tasks for each shift; managers can assign jobs to each employee, but more often than not the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 117 (2012) Abstract We investigate how, why and when activating economic schemas reduces the compassion that individuals extend to others in need when delivering bad news.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
other area is it more important to have a sense of what you don't know than it is in IT management. The most dangerous advice to CEOs has come from people who either had no idea of what they did not know, or from those who pretended to... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 12 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster
It looks like a sleek box. But the story behind it is far more interesting. I remember the first time I spoke with Aatish Patel (HES 2022), now cofounder and CEO of XCharge Energy. He had zeroed in on a problem with electric vehicle... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
case study of a multinational firm in the biotechnology sector to illustrate how the core-periphery framework works in multiple emerging markets across institutional differences. The analysis is based on 32 interviews conducted with the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
effect: the growth rate of an industry within a region may be declining in the level of economic activity of that industry. At the same time, positive spillovers across complementary economic activities can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
How to Build a Resume That Stands Above the Competition
Jill Huggett is the CEO & Founder of Bridgepath Career Advisors, LLC, a full-service career management firm, an Expert Content Contributor for Forbes.com, and an HBS Career Coach. She specializes in propelling people forward in their... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
Executive Education degrees and accreditations, and a range of sectors, demographics, and experiences. Board members are drawn from a pool of active alumni volunteers. The current board president is Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997). On... View Details
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18
involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to the formal banking system. In the period 2000 through 2005, there were approximately 30 million checking accounts reportedly closed for excessive overdrafting.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
helped a lot. It’s one of the reasons Aphrodite supports 50 currencies now. Daniel Dietzel CEO of Aphrodite at Aphrodite Gain the skills and knowledge needed to grow your business internationally and more effectively manage global teams.... View Details
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Leading Successful Digital Transformation
there is a lot of uncertainty about digital future. However, in a global organization, this bottom-up approach often leads to hundreds of experiments that unfortunately do not add up to much. Although new projects drive a sense of View Details