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- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
competitors had recently been forced to pay a record $108 million to settle a class action suit brought by female employees who had been denied advancement opportunities. Aiyer wanted to know what Albertsons was doing to avoid this costly... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
the firm's culture as well as to nurture its leadership by overseeing career development and appointing the heads of our offices and practice groups." Looking ahead, Gupta observes that despite the current wave of megamergers, "We believe... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
that contribute to a type of corporate practice—those oriented toward social benefits outside the firm. We define corporate social action as those firm behaviors and practices that extend beyond immediate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
product and service development is changing; creating the potential for higher R&D performance, innovation, and value creation for customers. The choice is simple: Organizations can either ignore these changes or take action and tap... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
recommends. Taken together, the three books offer readers an encyclopedic exploration of the practice of experimentation, insight into some of the psychology in play, and a field primer to put it all into action, Liedtka says. Testing... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
Management Practice and leadership expert Robert Steven Kaplan comments on these issues. Michel Anteby Many companies today operate like Russian nesting dolls, where one large figure is actually made up of many smaller ones. These... View Details
- 31 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”
practical advice. “Articulate what you want to accomplish and what you need from your company to make it happen. Framing your requests is the hard part: you want to make your needs actionable by the people... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
of data from this survey highlights the need for business leaders, policymakers, and academics to collaborate on practical ways to make progress,” something well within the nation’s reach, he added. In fact, the Project seeks to inspire... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
more practical context in which ethical dilemmas can be resolved than can separate courses in ethics or values. Further, how ethical and value-based dilemmas are taught may be as important as the inclusion of such subjects in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
authors of What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success spent five years analyzing two hundred well-known and popular business practices to tell you what really works (and, surprisingly, what does not) to get and keep... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
theories outlined in Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution, Seeing What’s Next offers a practical model that helps decision-makers spot the signals of industry change, determine the outcome of competitive... View Details
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
Chinese care about China, of course, but they are rooting for America as well” Management educators talk frequently about best practices and use case studies to illustrate by example. For more than a century global observers have... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
characteristics such as pollution levels, regulatory compliance, environmental management practices that affect operations (such as environmental auditing), and stakeholder engagement (such as environmental reporting). Where Rankings Go... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
investment banks, and consultancies that once shunned the practice and from the increasing influence of proxy advisory firms. But it was the many institutional investors who eventually embraced activists in their search for better returns... View Details
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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
simulations will guide students to an understanding of the material’s practical applications. Limiting investment in traditional campus infrastructure will make it possible to charge students a competitive tuition fee and still pay... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
longitudinal studies, to address complex problems. US Competitiveness Project: The Young American Leaders Program was launched in 2015 to put US competitiveness research into action by bringing together small groups of high-potential... View Details
- 06 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment
and let those function as your north star. Every morning, look at your to-do list. Throw out the action items that may no longer be relevant given the new information you learned from the day prior. See how your remaining desired... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise Course Number 1731 Assistant Professor Zoe Cullen Professor of Management Practice Shikhar Ghosh Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 12 Sessions Project Course... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
take the ideas further, starting with The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action (1996) and The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment (2000). Most recently,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
action is a major goal? Porter: Most of us are here at Harvard Business School not solely to write papers for the academic literature but also to engage with practice and influence action. Our alumni bring... View Details