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17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

to their ethical conduct. Scholarly attention to ethics and values does indeed have an impact on business leaders' self-conception and resulting behavior. Q: Corporate social responsibility sounds like something we should all want. Yet history shows there have always... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Ben Steiner

consultants involved in business-process outsourcing to India. Ben gained experience in health care and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. “My interests became focused on affecting change through for-profit ventures,” says Ben.... View Details

16 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

losing teams have star players, but those players often play for themselves, for their own statistics and career, and don’t really care whether their team actually wins games, as I showed in my book Confidence: How Winning Streaks and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 4

extant GAAP, as observed in a regulated setting, with GAAP that might arise endogenously as a result of market forces. Building on previous research, we argue that verifiability and conservatism, while detracting from accounting's role in equity valuation, are View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

concluded that "governments should fund education in math and science ... Markets will take care of entrepreneurial innovation." Jay Somasundaram asked whether we are even asking the right question. In his words, "The View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

place. The leading players in these clusters are multilocation firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for competitive advantage without risking View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American Cancer... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2013
What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

commanding her legions to prepare to abandon their far-flung work spaces and return to Yahoo! offices for important collaboration essential to innovation. What this minute sample perhaps suggests is that we should be careful about jumping... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Feb 2005
What Do You Think?

If You Blink, Will You Miss?

there were some dissenters. According to Peter Schaible, "A careful reading of Blink reveals that snap decisions can just as often be incorrect, even dangerous." August Specter expressed a clinical concern when he commented,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2020
News

Righting the Ship

could do it.” What are three pieces of advice you might give to those who are focused on leading companies through an economic recovery? First, be thoughtful about how you treat all your stakeholders, because the actions of those in power are being watched and noticed... View Details

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Driving Profitable Growth - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Driving Profitable Growth Course Number 2165 Professor Juan Alcacer Professor Raffaella Sadun Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Course Overview Virtually every organization considers growth a critical objective. But... View Details

10 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

working paper then examines, in detail, critical elements of the partnering process: connection, congruency of mission and strategy, creation of value, and relationship management. The following excerpt describes the importance of... View Details

Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

local governments can do nothing like that, which is a big problem at a time when the services provided by local governments are more critical than ever. ” Many government workers have already lost their jobs since the pandemic began.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

11 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

powerful, fundamental leadership strategy is being largely overlooked. It is, in fact, the most innately human one: Be kind. According to a recent Gallup survey, less than half of employees (45 percent) feel strongly that their employer View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

key components for taking care of yourself after performing a necessary evil.” It is important to note, however, that we did not gather data about outcomes in this study, so we cannot conclude that any particular method of handling the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

partners. Beginning with using machine learning to help select the healthiest embryo to transfer during IVF, the company hopes to eventually build a suite of tools to help fertility specialists deliver the best possible care to patients.... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

image by Edmon de Haro So you have an idea for a new business, product, or service. What are you going to call it? As any cash-strapped entrepreneur, product manager, or “creative” will tell you, that decision can be critical when it... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2005
News

Facing Ambiguity

video interviews and audio reenactments of meetings that take them from the shuttle’s launch to Day 8. On that day, a critical Mission Management Team (MMT) meeting determined that foam strikes that had occurred during the shuttle’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Space Research and Technology; Government

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

science-based research is something the heads of top biotech and pharmas learned long ago: There are few instant payoffs to please investors. Just ask Raymond Gilmartin, former chairman, president, and CEO of Merck & Co., who now teaches at Harvard Business School.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

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