Publications

30 May 2024
Blog Post

PRIDE at HBS

great opportunity for RCs to get to know club leadership and mingle with second-year students (ECs). PRIDE members and partners come to Provincetown annually to engage in community building, small-group dinners, and a ton of fun! 80’s... View Details

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

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MBA Program - Alumni

and other planned gifts enable you to make philanthropy a part of your financial or estate planning. The HBS Fund Investors Society recognizes leadership annual donors. Learn More Donor Stories Kent Thiry & Denise O’Leary (both MBA 1983)... View Details

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

firm, since about 75 percent of the interns typically accept offers to join the company. But the firm’s leadership wondered if remote work would change all of that. Would the interns be able to build ties with their peers and supervisors?... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

09 Jul 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim & V. Kasturi Rangan

27 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 27

products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

mastery of leadership and management Earn by: completing any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 6 Modules, 35-40 Hours Download full syllabus 4-7 hrs... View Details

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

simplicity to free and empower employees in a similar way. Q: Aside from inspired musical choices, what leadership decisions by Davis enabled this creation? Carl Størmer: Davis was looking for ways to break out of the straitjacket of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

pursues." Joe Schmid commented that "the 'highest behavior' any leader can expect from those they lead is the 'lowest behavior' they demonstrate." To the extent that fairness and ethical behaviors are in the eye of the beholder, good View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

April 2011 (Revised July 2014)
Case

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.: Driving Change Through Internal Communication

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind

Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL), confronted in 2003 with an urgent need to change how it operated externally, adopted a highly innovative approach to communicating internally. This case, set in 2010, presents an overview of the new, more interactive model of employee... View Details

Keywords: Communication Strategy; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Innovation and Management; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Corporate Strategy; India

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Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets

Iberoamerican Academy of Management Humanistic Leadership and Support for the Sustainable Development Goals MAR 21 2023 Book Faculty Research Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven View Details

March 2000 (Revised November 2000)
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IBM Corporation Turnaround

By: Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan

Describes the details of IBM's dramatic corporate turnaround in the early 1990s led by CEO Louis V. Gerstner. Accounts of events are from interviews with IBM executives. Covers the factors that led to the company's decline and actions taken to recover. View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Restructuring; Management Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry

11 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

for the ’Base of the Pyramid’ the two-thirds of the world’s population who live on less than two dollars a day,” he says. “The experience had opened my eyes to the power of applying business skills to socially beneficial outcomes while helping future leaders develop... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

December 2022 (Revised May 2023)
Case

Iberdrola: Leading the Energy Revolution

By: Juan Alcácer and Emer Moloney

At the end of 2019, Ignacio Galán, the Chairman and CEO of the world's third largest utility, Iberdrola, reflected on his almost 20 years at the company. He managed a portfolio of three very different businesses, each with their own specific opportunities and... View Details