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  • 30 Nov 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy
  • 8 AM – 9 AM EDT, 05 May 2021
  • Virtual Programming

The Post-Pandemic Future for Corporations for Institutions and Civic Society

Please join us for a fireside chat on The Post-Pandemic Future for Corporations for Institutions and Civic Society. Hosted by the Harvard Club of the Philippines, this event will feature a conversation between former HBS Dean Nitin Nohria, Atlantic Media Company... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

In Bangalore, a state-of-the-art hospital staffed by Western-trained physicians treats anyone suffering from a heart ailment. It accepts patients regardless of caste, class, religion, and perhaps most surprisingly, their ability to pay... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • February 1985 (Revised July 1993)
  • Case

Puritan Drug Co.

David Thomas takes his first sales management assignment and is faced with a sales rep revolt because of a possible territory reorganization. In addition, his sales division is performing well below the national average. Rewritten version of a case by R.Z. Sorenson. View Details
Keywords: Salesforce Management; Conflict and Resolution; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Back to School

There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran
  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

backgrounds—the intersection where creativity is most likely to occur, according to The Medici Effect, a book by Frans Johansson (HBS MBA '00) that is used in the course. Another driver of creativity, motivation, is the locus of Amabile's... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 18 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

and context. By afternoon, 28 teams in the business and social venture tracks will be named semifinalists. A later round of judging will narrow the field to nine finalists, with the winners to be announced just over two weeks later. First... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 13 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

assessments came from correspondents like Neil Sheehan and David Halberstam. McNamara published a book years after he retired to reassess the Vietnam War and his role in it as secretary of defense. His main theme was the failure to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Paul Healy, Harvard Business School

  • December 2014 (Revised April 2015)
  • Case

Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Hanoch Feit, Edward A. Minasian and Brandon Van Buren
In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
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  • 03 Dec 2011
  • News

The taxpayers' burden

  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

document. By "nonfinancial" we mean the kind of information that is typically provided in a company's corporate social responsibility or sustainability report regarding its performance in environmental, social, and governance terms. But... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Oct 2018
  • News

CEO Tenure Is Getting Shorter. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.

  • 03 Mar 2017
  • News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer in which abnormal white blood cells grow quickly. They comforted her by saying that the chemotherapy they were prescribing would attack the abnormal cells. And it did. But her recovery from post-remission... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
  • News

U.S. should ditch 'outdated' oil export ban

  • 21 Aug 2012
  • News

Apple Reaches Record U.S. Market Value on IPhone Optimism

    Robert H. Hayes

    Robert Hayes is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School. Prior to his appointment to the Harvard Faculty in 1966, he worked for I.B.M. and McKinsey & Company. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1966 from... View Details
    • 11 Jul 2016
    • News

    Big U.S. investors strive for edge in private CEO meetings

    • 10 Nov 2011
    • HBS Case

    HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

    organizations had 512 trustees and numerous senior staff. Levy oversees the Lincoln, but has no hiring or firing power within its organizations. Like many nonprofits, Lincoln Center has both thrived and struggled over the years. By the... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 19 Oct 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

    who also found the study to be a useful source of related research. At the same time, Silberman and EPA colleague David Hindin, senior policy director for innovation and next generation compliance, urged the researchers to look more... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding