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  • 29 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

Researchers then compared how they were handled in the nonprofit and corporate sectors. Key elements of strategy were: Initial Impetus. A nonprofit is founded in response to a problem; in the corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls

    Geoffrey G. Jones

    Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

    Keywords: banking; beauty products; construction; consumer products; energy; entertainment; fashion; financial services; food; food processing; green technology; petroleum; service industry
    • 06 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers

    scenario in an experiment, most people did indeed choose the longer stick, whereas only 15 percent initially chose the shorter one. However, when the short version was labeled as “newer,” twice as many, about 31 percent, chose it—even... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products; Retail
    • 16 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

    However, we also heard that restaurateurs remained steadfastly committed to their goal of nurturing and nourishing people, providing a place of succor and community in a strange new world. Our conversations with the panel and our field View Details
    Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
    • 4 Dec 2002
    • Other Presentation

    Can Japan Compete? New Findings from the Global Competitiveness Report 2002

    By: Michael E. Porter
    This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Japan
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    • 10 Feb 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

    After sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein ignited the #MeToo movement on social media, Hollywood producers began hiring more female film writers than they did before the scandal, new research finds. What's more, producers... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting
    • June 2013 (Revised March 2014)
    • Case

    Kvadrat: Leading for Innovation

    By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott

    In 2013, Anders Byriel, CEO of the family-owned Danish textiles company, Kvadrat, considered the firm's strategic plan. In 2000, Byriel and Mette Bendix, Kvadrat's Product Director, had taken over management of the company from their fathers, who had founded Kvadrat... View Details

    Keywords: General Management; Organizational Behavior; Strategy; Performance Management; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Human Resources; Denmark; Europe; Asia
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    • 06 Mar 2017
    • Video

    Climate MBA Panel & Webinar: How Can Business Schools and MBAs Contribute Towards Climate Action?

    • 23 Sep 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

    powerful positions at work, and who had taken the initiative to enroll in advanced leadership courses. Even among these women who were actively climbing the corporate ladder, there was a relatively larger negative association with power... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • May–June 2024
    • Article

    Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

    By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
    Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Gender; Training; Recruitment; Personal Development and Career
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

    By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
    Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
    Keywords: STEM; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Training; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills
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    • 22 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

    to replace the free human labor behind open source platforms, the researchers calculated the estimated cost for an individual to recreate the software packages by measuring the number of lines of code. The team calculated how many hours... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology
    • 05 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

    report was co-written by Matt Sigelman, Nik Dawson, and Gad Levanon of the Burning Glass Institute and supported by the Schultz Family Foundation. The scorecard comes as employers struggle to find skilled workers in a stagnant labor pool, trends that are likely to... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • September 2014
    • Article

    Pollution and Skin: From Epidemiological and Mechanistic Studies to Clinical Implications

    By: Jean Krutmann, Wei Liu, Li Li, Xiaochuan Pan, Martha Crawford, Gabrielle Sore and Sophie Seite
    In recent years, the health effects associated with air pollution have been intensively studied. Most studies focus on air pollution effects on the lung and the cardiovascular system. More recently, however, epidemiological and mechanistic studies suggest that air... View Details
    Keywords: Pollutants; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties
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    • June 2022 (Revised August 2023)
    • Case

    Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems

    By: Frank Nagle, Elizabeth J. Altman and Amy Klopfenstein
    In 2021, Gina Lucarelli, leader of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs, prepared for a meeting with UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. The two planned to discuss the future of the Accelerator Labs, a network of social innovation labs located... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Disruption; Transformation; Change Management; Education; Learning; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Local Range; Geopolitical Units; Country; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Information Technology; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Psychology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Society; Social Issues; Welfare; Strategy; Cooperation; Adaptation; Public Administration Industry; North and Central America
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    • 13 Dec 2022
    • Interview

    Why Some Start-Ups Fail to Scale

    By: Jeffrey Rayport and Curt Nickisch
    Managing rapid growth is a huge challenge for young businesses. Even start-ups with glowing reviews and skyrocketing sales can fail. That’s because new ventures and corporate initiatives alike have to sustain profitability at scale, according to Harvard Business School... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Growth Management; Outcome or Result; Transition
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    • 26 Apr 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Maryaline Catillon, Harvard University

    • 22 Mar 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

    Steinberg, and Ann Raldow, and medical physicist Nzhde Agazaryan. A spectrum of close calls The research team wanted to understand the role of psychological safety—defined as “the shared belief that interpersonal risk-taking is safe”—in... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health
    • 12 Jul 2016
    • First Look

    July 12, 2016

    on preventing them. She outlines five tactics that research has shown to be effective: encourage reciprocity. You can build trust and prompt other parties to disclose strategic information by sharing information yourself. Ask the right... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Information and Control in Modern Manufacturing

    Ratna Sarkar's research in management accounting focuses on the effect of information and incentives on performance. She has investigated the role of worker empowerment, training and inventory in modern manufacturing settings and her findings suggest that these... View Details