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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

transformation in large organizations for three main reasons: Focus on optimization and efficiency: Many companies use technology to cut costs, improve efficiency, or enhance the productivity of their current operations. Artificial... View Details

January 2023
Teaching Note

The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni

Teaching Note for HBS Case No 122-014. In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged... View Details

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21 May 2021
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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

“Reimaging Capitalism” into practice by helping funds build investing strategies and philosophy around how they evaluate potential investments via a series of ESG ratings. I’m currently organizing a teach-in for the company management to... View Details

09 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

tight labor market, it is critical to understand how to effectively reward employees. To address this question, we review relevant evidence that explains the importance of workplace rewards and recognition. Based on a review and synthesis of the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

into account the spread in pay packages between the top two executives in the organizations whose bonds it rates. Presumably, the larger the spread, the lower the bond rating, reflecting the higher implied risk associated with a large... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

Activities and Societies: Leave blank For the program description on LinkedIn, please use the following: Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability is a 6-week, 40-50 hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School. It... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

constant link to the Web that will place today's 56k modem in the history books next to the UNIVAC—promises to transform the advertising industry. Currently only about 1.4 million U.S. households have a high-speed Internet hookup, but... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

the political process of determining institutions of capitalism is "thin," in that managers find themselves with specialized technical knowledge unavailable to outsiders and with little political opposition-such as in the case of determining certain corporate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

individuals. In response to the recent scandals, politicians and government officials have stepped in to pass new laws and create new regulations, while prominent persons on Wall Street and elsewhere in the business community have issued their own calls for reform in... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

management and leadership in the school's MBA and Executive Education programs. He... Janice H. Hammond Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing Janice H. Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. She currently serves as... View Details

22 Feb 2021
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Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

Selling is changing, but broad generalizations and false dichotomies about ecommerce, big data, and other trends—hallmarks of current sales advice—are keeping business leaders from making sound decisions, says Frank Cespedes, author of a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

quickly allows employees to assess their options and find new opportunities within the industry, pivoting to another sector or starting an entrepreneurial venture to find more meaningful work. Two things companies should be doing now: Assessing their View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

to know the truth nor did they develop the type of learning and governance processes that would have enabled truth to speak to power. Journalistic accounts and interviews with current or past employees of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Exercises Identify ways to dial up performance and increase innovation within your team Evaluate the effectiveness of your organization’s core values 6-7 hrs Module 4 Measuring and Monitoring Performance Create performance measurement systems that View Details

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

the industry and accounted for its resilience and how these are likely to influence its future. Publisher's link: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22872 2006 John Wiley & Sons Venture Capital & Private Equity: A Casebook By: Lerner,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

varied. “While diversity is easier to measure quantitatively,” Laurie pointed out, “inclusion metrics are currently qualitative and inconsistent.” Bob put it in personal terms: “I was able to hold myself View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

performance—by legitimate means or, if push comes to shove, by illegitimate ones. If the measure is profits, for instance, she will have a strong incentive to increase the current year's earnings at the expense of next year's, either by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Business in Society and Finance & Accounting track. Introduction to Sustainable Investing ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Sustainable Investing $1,850... View Details

16 Dec 2020
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My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

education. At one point I had multiple jobs at the same time: receptionist, teaching assistant, peer mentor, cleaning person, and more. How would you describe your financial situation coming into HBS? After university, I worked for an View Details

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