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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

responsibilities Foster successful strategy execution by establishing an environment that communicates which opportunities and behaviors are encouraged and which are out of bounds Who Will Benefit Mid-Level Managers and Professionals... View Details
  • 24 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

A board's most important function is approval and oversight of strategy and of major strategic decisions, such as acquisitions and large capital expenditures. Boards are responsible for selecting (or replacing) the CEO, counseling and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
  • 27 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

him as he prepared to land in Boston after a long transcontinental flight. Now let's continue the story. At the end of the flight Jeff felt that all his ruminations about his many pressures and responsibilities had left him more tired... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

mergers, Parliament began to regulate the level of capital and the number of acquisitions permitted. William Gladstone, political leader and Christian socialist philosopher, believed the state had moral responsibilities to the public... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

systems, industry, steel, and cement, collectively responsible for 60% of emissions, are not receiving adequate funding. Notably, two-thirds of venture capital (VC) is channeled into electric vehicles (EVs), indicating a disproportionate... View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

its new President Laurie Patton faced the challenge of students calling for divestment from fossil fuels, trustees opposed to it, and a series of day to day administrative challenges that demanded her immediate attention. How does change... View Details
  • 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
  • 12 Feb 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Adding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels

Keywords: by Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton & Thomas Steenburgh; Retail
  • 02 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

moral of this story is not how to do crisis management faster and better in a lightning-fast digital world. It’s that even the nimblest and deftest crisis management response cannot contain the damage of going straight to “call security”... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Electricity - Business & Environment

hydropower, and nuclear that emit far less or even no greenhouse gases. Yet 20% of the world’s population currently lives without access to electricity [21] , and meeting their needs and the growing global demand for electricity—while... View Details
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MBA Program - Alumni

the School is preparing future leaders for the demands of an ever-changing world. HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund HBS’s first student-run Impact Investing Fund focuses on local BIPOC-led and -owned small businesses that have... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Excellence. Emily R. McComb : Recipient of the 2022 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the graduating class's HBS experience. Ishita Sen : Winner of the 2022 European Finance Association Best Paper Prize in View Details
  • 02 Oct 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

Credit:  pixelfit SUMMING UP How Will Digital Currencies Be Regulated? Blockchain technology has a brighter future than most digital currencies in general and Bitcoin in particular, judging from responses to this month’s column. It’s also... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services
  • 18 Dec 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

use the right approach at the right time and change as the situation demands is going to be tough. Not everybody can do it. That's going to distinguish the true leaders from people who are capable but not leaders." Targeting Talent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

eliminating the risk of placing one big bet on a single location or food concept. The model can scale up simply by adding more kitchens, and offerings can be tweaked rapidly in response to data-driven insights. For its part, Foodology... View Details
  • 12 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 12

response to shifting customer needs; promote transparency by providing the rationale for your pricing; and make sure that prices and the processes by which they are set meet consumers' expectations about what is fair. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

positions. To enable such assessments, firms must become as transparent about their corporate political responsibility (CPR) as their corporate social responsibility (CSR). For their part, rating systems... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

Even as COVID vaccines begin early deployment, pressure on leaders continues to mount to engage in “Big C” change: rapid course corrections through job cuts, recruiting a fresh management team, and redesigning roles and responsibilities... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports
  • March 2017 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells and Carole A. Winkler
In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and many attributed Trump’s victory to... View Details
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  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective, corporate accountability reporting can internalize certain externalities into firms' resource-allocation decisions, although doing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne