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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

path forward that accounted for the strategic, financial, reputational and moral costs and benefits. Keywords: Disruption ; Leadership ; Crisis Management ; Risk Management ; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact ; Mission and... View Details

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

"Entrepreneurship is the relentless pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled." That's a great definition, and it was true of Shackleton when his objective was to walk across Antarctica. He had to pursue opportunity. He had no... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

for shares. These include requiring participating preferred with a high cumulative dividend, redemption rights exercisable after only several years, and ratchet anti-dilution protection with no cap. One must ask, what's the reputation of... View Details

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Amy W. Schulman

Amy W. Schulman is an accomplished business leader, widely recognized for growing and stabilizing global businesses, commitment to people, strategic judgment, and efforts to advance women and promote inclusive workplace cultures.

Ms. Schulman joined Harvard... View Details

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

to decide how. Your job is to make the desired outcomes clear. Outcomes are not just financial either–everything from the culture of your company, the reputation of your products and services, and your brand is for you to make clear. As a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

09 Feb 2021
News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

reflecting an outstanding career.” “Peter Crisp has played a leadership role in venture capital. His name and reputation will guide our work to further entrepreneurship and innovation at HBS and at Harvard,” said Eisenmann. “I am honored... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

culture of greater competitiveness in the investment banking business itself with the potential for increased algorithmic trading strategies, volume of business, and potential commissions. “Investment banking, which had historically built its View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

wasn’t behaving inappropriately—Simmons acted like her champion. She held out hope that if she established enough of a professional reputation she could jump categories, from sexual object to respected colleague. The Show’s soundtrack was... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

pots and pans and numerous other items, became chairman of Alcoa. Edward Prizer, who became president of Vacuum Oil in 1918, made his reputation by organizing the firm's domestic and foreign sales operations. Clarence Mott Woolley,... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

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Hawes Hall | About

executive, and industry leader, Hawes established a remarkable record of success while maintaining a reputation for character and integrity. In 1972, he founded Insurance Investment Associates, which became the country’s leading M&A... View Details

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Beth Clark | About

Elizabeth (Beth) Clark Bio As the Chief Information Officer at Harvard Business School (HBS), Beth Clark oversees the transformation and strengthening of enterprise IT, ensuring alignment with the School's reputation for excellence.... View Details

20 Feb 2020
Op-Ed

Love in the Office Is Wonderful. Except for CEOs.

its inappropriateness—by noting that if they had taken definitive action when those concerns were first expressed, "much, if not all, of the damage would have been averted." Key employees worried about the scarring effect on the organization’s View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Financial Liquidity ; Investment ; Global Strategy ; Reputation ; Diversification ; Real Estate Industry ; Germany Citation Educators Purchase Related Cohen, Lauren, Maximilian Form, and Sophia Pan. "Citizens of the World: The... View Details

11 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

Administration. “Part of that is affecting what people in other countries perceive your country to be.” What does it take to create Denmark’s reputation for modern design or Bali’s Eat Pray Love-style picture of tropical centeredness?... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism

01 Jan 2010
News

James Dimon, MBA 1982

strong reputation for social and corporate responsibility. Dimon came to JPMorgan from Bank One, where, as chairman and CEO, he turned a $511 million loss in 2000 into record earnings of $3.5 billion by 2003, when he engineered its sale... View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

identity and reputation from unjust attacks. And the firm as a whole needs a similar defensive capacity for its dealings with hostile competitive firms, community groups, or governmental agencies. The defending and learning drives can... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

May 2017 (Revised March 2018)
Case

David Dao on United Airlines

By: Benjamin Edelman and Jenny Sanford

In widely circulated videos, United staff and Chicago security forcibly remove a passenger from his paid seat on an aircraft, injuring him severely. United leadership must decide how to respond to public outcry. View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management; Service Operations; Air Transportation; Contracts; Reputation; Air Transportation Industry; Chicago

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07 May 2012
Research & Ideas

The Art of Haggling

"In the long run, reputations matter," Wheeler says. "And what we think of ourselves when we look in the mirror may matter even more. When parties can get beyond mere haggling and are able to create tangible value, they may... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

he was crazy to risk his reputation on something so novel. But he told himself, “It’s not about me.” It’s about the mission and the people and communities to be served. So he took the risk and is now getting ready to scale his model,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

February 2010
Case

Applied Research Technologies, Inc.: Global Innovation's Challenges

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Heather Beckham

Applied Research Technologies, Inc. (ART) is a diversified technology company which has used its entrepreneurial culture and encouragement of innovation as an ongoing competitive advantage. The case concentrates on the challenges faced by Peter Vyas, the Filtration... View Details