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  • April 2021
  • Case

Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ana Paula Pessoa

By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Ana Paula Pessoa built a career at the largest media conglomerate in Latin America, combining a passion for digital transformation with a commitment to doing work that had a positive impact on society. Having grown up during a dictatorial military regime in Brazil, the... View Details
Keywords: Glass Ceiling; Leadership; Gender; Power and Influence
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  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

this market at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BOP) must look beyond just selling products—they must find ways to create social and economic value, according to the editors of a new volume, Business Solutions for the Global Poor. The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2007 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Global Knowledge Management at Danone (A)

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Bertrand Moingeon, Vincent Marie Dessain and Ane Damgaard Jensen
This case explores French consumer goods company Danone's novel approach to knowledge management. In 2007, Human Resource Chief (Executive Vice President) Franck Mougin assesses the company's knowledge-sharing tools and considers his options going forward. Through... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Social and Collaborative Networks; Expansion; Consumer Products Industry; France
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About Michael Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Letter from Michael Porter Publications 20 May 2013 The Lancet Redefining Global Health-Care Delivery by Jim Yong Kim, Paul Farmer, & Michael E. Porter Oct 2012 FSG Measuring Shared Value: How to Unlock Value by Linking Business & Social... View Details
  • April 2025
  • Article

Buying (Quality) Time Predicts Relationship Satisfaction

By: A.V. Whillans, Jessie Pow and Joe J. Gladstone
Seven studies examine the association between time-saving purchases (e.g., housecleaning and meal delivery services) and relationship satisfaction. Study 1 uses an eleven-year longitudinal panel survey to show that increases in time-saving purchases predict long-term... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Satisfaction; Well-being
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

connectivity Cloning, stem cell research DVDs Influence: Medium 1900 19 Progressivism The Jungle sparks food and work safety movement Influence: Low 10 1910 19 Sedition Act Prohibition begins Red Scare Race riots Influence: Medium-High 20... View Details
  • Web

Creating Shared Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases Creating Shared Value Capitalism is suffering from a crisis of trust. Today’s businesses take the blame for many of society’s economic, View Details
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

personality traits connected to charisma. Those traits are a sense of power or dominance, trustworthiness, competence, aggressiveness, warmth, and generosity. They depict the possible theoretical relationships between CVP and the 11... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/gfkmir.2014.6.issue-2/gfkmir-2014-0095/gfkmir-2014-0095.xml February 2015 Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Interdisciplinary Directions Diversity in Groups By: Fernandes, Catarina, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

New businesses often struggle finding their first customers. The challenge is even more difficult with startups in the sharing economy that launch as platforms connecting independent service providers with consumers. Take Uber. Its... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

more Southern cuisine to the dining hall menu. Sanders’ staff also worked with apartment facilities and external vendors to expand affordable housing options in Colorado for athletes attending on scholarships. The ability to connect... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • Web

New Venture Competition - Alumni

Competition is an annual student and alumni competition sponsored by Harvard Business School's Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative and HBS Alumni Relations . The Alumni Track of the competition is open to HBS... View Details

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 19 Nov 2015
    • Blog Post

    Why We Recruit: Education Pioneers

    their skills. Education Pioneers (EP) is a national nonprofit that recruits, develops, and connects talented professionals from diverse backgrounds—including graduate students—to work for K-12 school districts, charter schools, and other... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
    • 2013
    • Article

    Logic Pluralism, Organizational Design, and Practice Adoption: The Structural Embeddedness of CSR Programs

    By: Mary Ann Glynn and Ryan Raffaelli
    The institutional logics perspective highlights how organizations are embedded within broader systems of meaning and how this embeddedness activates salient institutional logics in organizations that can enable or constrain organizational decisions, practices, and... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    • June 2017
    • Article

    The Surprising Effectiveness of Hostile Mediators

    By: Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton
    Contrary to the tendency of mediators to defuse negative emotions between adversaries by treating them kindly, we demonstrate the surprising effectiveness of hostile mediators in resolving conflict. Hostile mediators generate greater willingness to reach agreements... View Details
    Keywords: Mediation; Conflict; Negotiation; Hostility; Negotiation Style; Emotions; Conflict and Resolution
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    • 16 Nov 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

    prior requests. Very quickly, they learned that cleanliness mattered, so a cleaning and laundry program was created to support the hosts. Trust, they realized, was another issue, so Airbnb Social Connections... View Details
    Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira and Michael Blanding; Retail; Transportation; Accommodations
    • 17 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 17

    individuals' publications. Using a unique electronic mail dataset, we find that researchers within the firm who author publications are much better connected to external (to the company) members of the scientific community. This result... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • September 2023 (Revised December 2023)
    • Case

    Twiddy & Company: Trust in a Chaotic Environment

    By: Sandra J. Sucher, Shalene Gupta and Tom Quinn
    Twiddy & Company, known for Southern hospitality rooted in personal interactions, needed to adjust to contactless remote customer service as fear of the contagious virus prevented person-to-person contact. Local elected officials, in a bid to stop tourists from... View Details
    Keywords: Trust; Health Pandemics; Organizational Culture; Disruption; Government Legislation; Transportation; Tourism Industry; North Carolina; United States
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    • July 2012 (Revised August 2012)
    • Case

    Global Knowledge Management at Danone (A) (Abridged)

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and David Lane
    This case explores French consumer goods company Danone's novel approach to knowledge management. In 2007, Human Resource Chief (Executive Vice President) Franck Mougin assesses the company's knowledge-sharing tools and considers his options going forward. Through... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Social and Collaborative Networks; Expansion; Consumer Products Industry; France
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