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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

sustained, high-impact social change. Current research focuses on leadership of socially mission-driven organizations; the role of business leaders and corporate citizenship in driving social change;... View Details

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Our Team - Impact Investments

with an emphasis on agricultural and financial management. Josh Lerner Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Unit Head, Entrepreneurial Management Josh Lerner is the Head of the Entrepreneurial... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Leadership Councils of Princeton and Cornell Universities. In addition to his duties as Dean and Professor, Narayanamurti lectures widely on solid state, computer, View Details

31 Jan 2007
HBS Case

When Good Teams Go Bad

What could better symbolize high-level business performance than an eight-oared crew team rowing in perfect unison, their boat powered by a selfless collaboration of strength, skill, and shared purpose? It's no wonder that advertisers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

a new business case called Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance. Shackleton, who died in 1922 at the age of forty-seven, never achieved his goal of traversing the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

HBS's Educational Technology Group. “The idea that you might offshore the reading of radiology films would have been unthinkable 25 years ago.” Each team assessed the potential offshorability of 20 occupations. (The positions of financial analyst View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

March 2000
Case

Lockheed Martin: The Employer of Choice Mission

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Michael D Overdorf

A Lockheed Martin manager is faced with the decision of where to focus the organization's resources in order to develop a world-class employee development system. The manager's recommendation will serve as the basis for the company's goal of becoming an Employer of... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Employees; Human Resources; Leadership Development; Cost Management; Organizational Design; Aerospace Industry

25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

people who should not be admitted, and rejecting people who should not be rejected.” Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals paints a... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

15 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

outside of Silicon Valley. Implications for organizations When evaluating wage levels, corporate compensation experts and managers may want to consider that IT wages are trending toward other STEM... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

highlight key considerations that aren’t at the forefront of today’s dialogue about racial discrimination and injustice. Here’s what they said: Broderick Turner: Anti-Black racism affects White people We do... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

for fresh fruit and vegetables and a third-party certification system to monitor compliance. By 2008, the GLOBALGAP standard had expanded to cover coffee, tea, livestock, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Aug 2006
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

do they have more time to experience this content?" What does this bode for the future of economic theory and management education? Paula Thornton offered this opinion: "If there were to be a new... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2019
News

The Burden Legacy

photographs for The Family of Man, a groundbreaking MoMA exhibition examining the human experience through images of ordinary people around the globe that included Shirley’s photographs. MoMA has several of his works in its permanent... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

October 2019 (Revised April 2020)
Case

Carme Ruscalleda: The Chef as an Artist

By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Annelena Lobb

In October 2018, Chef Carme Ruscalleda, the most-starred woman chef in the world at the time, closed the doors of her Restaurant Sant Pau (Sant Pau), as she had on almost every night for the past 30 years—this time for the last time. Ruscalleda had opened the... View Details

Keywords: Restaurants; Sant Pau; Personal Development and Career; Family Business; Leadership Style; Innovation and Invention; Food; Success; Food and Beverage Industry

July 2003 (Revised August 2003)
Case

Global Healthcare Exchange

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Jamie Ladge

Founded in March 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) was one of 90 online marketplaces in the health care industry. The company's founders were among the largest suppliers in the industry, including Johnson & Johnson, GE Medical,... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Price; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply and Industry; Organizational Design; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Health Industry