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25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

Foundation funds its operations and grant budget by selling discounted salesforce.com software licenses to nonprofits and education clients. The case recounts the development and initial stages of this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Our Team - Impact Investments

non-profit organization that seeks to further the understanding of private capital and its impact through independent academic studies. PCRI’s primary goal is to produce and disseminate high quality academic... View Details

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Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy Redefining Capitalism The... View Details

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Leadership Fellows

recruiting partners and past Fellows or view this past year's press release . ACLU City of Cambridge Sesame Workshop Boston Ballet Harlem Children’s Zone Boston Children’s Hospital The Juilliard School Teach For America BRAC USA Kresge... View Details

June 2012 (Revised May 2013)
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A.P. Møller - Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

In 2012, Bill Allen and Maria Pejter, of Maersk Group's Human Resources Department, sat down to consider some key aspects of Maersk's talent management strategy. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Maersk was a global conglomerate with large shipping and oil & gas businesses.... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Development; Human Resource Management; Talent Management; Organizational Change And Transformation; Corporate Culture; Hiring; Employee Training; Strategy; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Retention; Diversity; Denmark

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MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads; shipping delays on clogged railways; and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer,... View Details

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01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal

rate—the amount of waste that it recycles and composts—has for years lingered below 18 percent, a fraction of what some other major American cities have achieved. And DSNY has been slow to adopt tools such... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

The practice of investment is changing. A rapidly growing share of assets around the globe are making investment choices targeting not just return, but also sustainability, values-alignment or impact. An... View Details

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

appeal to and require different types of entrepreneurial leaders and we are hoping that our research will help us understand those differences—if they exist,” says Applegate, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

24 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

anybody.” Soltes now plays the recording for students in his MBA and Executive Education courses. His goal is not to garner a discussion of Madoff’s massive crime, but rather to help students realize... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

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Jana Kierstead | About

intellectual property, academic pedagogy and faculty talent of the School as a premier provider of high quality online business education. Since its inception in January 2013,... View Details

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

have caught a glimpse of the future of car buying, in, of all places, a rug bazaar, where a vendor offered her tea and food, and started a discussion about what she wanted in a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

29 Nov 2017
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How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

education inadequate, ill-organised, arbitrary and useless,” he wrote in the book’s opening pages. “...[I]t pained me that this useful and necessary activity [trade] had fallen into the hands of such... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

segmentations that are based on a correlation of product sales or service with the attributes of the purchaser (such as age, gender, income level, and education level),... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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PRIMO Alumni Profiles - Doctoral

Program for Research in Markets & Organizations Program for Research in Markets & Organizations PRIMO Alumni Profiles 10ms Jo Ellery Harvard College, Class of 2021; current HBS PhD Candidate Jo Ellery (they/them), originally from Traverse... View Details

November 2010 (Revised January 2011)
Case

Computerized Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil, Andrew Katz, Michael Morgan and David LaBorde

The Computerized Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare case presents one hospital system's efforts to implement computerized provider order entry (CPOE) across all of its hospitals and the challenges they faced in doing so. Issues such as standardization of care,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Management Systems; Standards; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Projects; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry

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30 Nov 2022
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Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

workers living in areas where diversity issues are more salient, as measured by per-capita Black Lives Matter protests. The results were not affected by variations in the education and gender of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Faculty & Research - Health Care

Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Led by Peter Barrett and provides a select group of alumni with the opportunity to work with Harvard inventors to promote the commercialization of life... View Details

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Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Organizational Behavior Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing... View Details

June 2014
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Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger Outcomes

By: Joy Ishii and Yuhai Xuan

This paper investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. Using data on educational background and past employment, we construct a measure of the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors and senior executives... View Details

Keywords: Mergers; Acquisitions; Social Ties; Social Connections; Mergers and Acquisitions; Relationships; Outcome or Result

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