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- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
our emphasis on values will be an important legacy. Q: Do you have a stronger sense of the role and influence of HBS in academia? A: I believe our deep commitment to teaching as a critical and important professional activity is something... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
Relationships across these lines, unless managers make an active effort otherwise, are less likely to be developmental. People on both sides are hesitant if not afraid to take risks for fear of inviting scrutiny. They might suppress their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Illuminating India’s Solar Future: Reflections on Tata Solar Manufacturing Plant Visit
competitive, creating a distinct technological edge will be crucial for Tata Solar to remain competitive against low-cost Chinese manufacturers. Opportunities for Improvement Tata Solar’s leadership is aware of these challenges and is View Details
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Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting
that, when put into practice, can communicate to employees that bosses know they don’t have all the answers and that other voices are needed to achieve organizational goals. Proactive inquiry means being curious and actively asking... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
health care. These are just three examples out of dozens of active employer partnerships. The CCRI Foundation Board also includes a number of local business leaders who have helped to strengthen our relationships with the business... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the Health & Wellness Club
our mailing list for updates on cross-school and open access events. Help provide members with a wide range of activities including workshops, expert-led panels, experiential learning, and much, much more. Speak on a panel. Host a focus... View Details
- 01 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Reflections on the Peek Weekend Family Business Cohort
feat to undertake and that sometimes a transition away from being a family business must take place. These ideas resonated with me and I decided to share what I learned with my family – my comments were well received, and while I’m not View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Embrace the Corona-Blur
easily fill her days with nothing but work. Instead, she says, “I’m working very hard to maintain my own sense of identity outside of business.” Whether that’s going for a run or making time for family and friends, create the space for the View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Honorable Mention
the Class of 1998's September and January MBA cohorts. "David is the kind of person who strives for excellence, treats all team members with respect, collaborates effectively, and manages in a way that the praise goes to others," noted Clark. Lori Flees, a dynamic... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
In the city that never sleeps, the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York is seldom at rest, as its busy schedule of activities in recent months indicates. Last May, for example, with more than four hundred people in attendance... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
of this neighborhood where Frederick Douglass and Thurgood Marshall went to school has been reclaimed from the drugs and despair that not long ago defined it; its ten thousand residents have seen more than one thousand houses rehabilitated. Community facilities and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
primarily on substitutes but copied from rivals. Next, they actively tested their assumptions and made major resource commitments to the business model they identified as the most lucrative. Finally, they deliberately maintained a loosely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2023
- Teaching Note
Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'
By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 323-057. Patagonia’s change of ownership from a privately held company to a perpetual purpose trust and 501(c)(4) nonprofit in order to use the company’s profit to fight the environmental crisis and be a model for future businesses. View Details
Keywords: Trusts; Business Ventures; Business Organization; Family Business; Restructuring; Change; Disruption; Transition; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Innovation Leadership; Labor; Law; Common Law; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Ownership; Ownership Type; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Value; Value Creation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
limited. Friendster, the first website to resemble the social media outlets we have today, was still two years away from release in 2000. In contrast, Facebook currently has over 2 billion monthly users, more than a quarter of the estimated world population; Twitter... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
an overall sponsorship deal with the NBA. With his Stance deal coming up for renewal in October 2016, what kind of deal should Wade and Joseph-Metelus propose to Stance? And how would a newly structured partnership fit into Wade’s overall business portfolio—including... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
to receive less attention than money but is equally ubiquitous in our daily lives. Across four experiments, we examine whether shifting focus onto time can salvage individuals' ethicality. We found that implicitly activating the construct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists. In qualitative and quantitative analyses, we show that scientists match to their postdoctoral mentors based on two dominant factors, geography and scientific focus. They then... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
help their organizational unit implement it. Enterprises must have active policies to communicate, educate, motivate, and align employees with the strategy. They must also align their ongoing management processes—for resource allocation,... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
Increasingly, it seems, there are just two types of companies left in the world: dot-coms and "wanna-dots." The dot-coms, of course, are the pure Internet companies operating on-line businesses. Most of them are less than five years old, their View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
man-made," says Associate Professor Ramana Nanda, who studies entrepreneurial financing issues in the clean energy sector. "Depending on the person I speak to, I try to then make the following two arguments: "First, I point to data that shows a strong correlation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel