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Future of Work Almost a third of workers—and more senior executives—say their careers have been adversely affected by caregiving obligations. As Joe explains to this episode’s guest host, HBS alum and Care.com CEO Sheila Marcelo,... View Details
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Profiles - MBA
healthy, and equitable. Technology, especially at its frontier, plays an essential role on this journey as it not only provides a novel lens to look at familiar problems, but can also be an amplifying tool in any domain. Find Rhea on... View Details
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
roles do you know you definitely don’t want? This could be a level of responsibility (e.g., a founding CEO may know they never want to be a CEO again) or within a function of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
subsequent chapters describe how leaders at firms such as Du Pont, IBM, and Cemex have transformed their organizations, exploring issues such as the role of the senior team and the ways in which firms shift their identities, build... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
who regulate access to, and interactions around, the platform. We present evidence on Facebook, TopCoder, Roppongi Hills, and Harvard Business School to document the "regulatory" role played by MSPs. We find MSPs use nuanced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Course Overview - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses Course Overview Course Overview In keeping with the mission of Harvard Business School—to educate leaders who make a difference in the world—we introduced the New... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, some saw it as proof that the color of one’s skin could no longer hold people back from achieving important leadership roles in the United States. Not true, says Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
be enormous. Though economists should treat the prospect of a developed space economy with healthy skepticism, it would be irresponsible to treat it as science fiction. In this article, I provide an analytical framework—based on classic economic analysis of the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
institutionalized in America over subsequent decades in a way that has been difficult to replicate in other countries. The role of history helps to explain why. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52209... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change
didn’t see the moment when finally things changed. But they played key roles in agitation, orchestration, or innovation.” Related Reading: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
approach these leadership roles to withstand the pressures that can divert behavior away from the espoused purposes and ethical standards of medicine? July–August 2014 Article How the Other Fukushima Plant Survived By: Ranjay Gulati ,... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Working PapersTowards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the idiosyncratic influence of standard setters in standard setting. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
crises, the Dasheng cotton mills became a state-owned enterprise in 1953. In the wake of the economic reforms, the successor to the original Dasheng Enterprise was restructured as the Jiangsu Dasheng Co. Ltd. in 1996. Issues of corporate governance, legal environment,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
Ranjay Gulati talks to Tynan about her learning journey, and how she managed the risks of entrepreneurship while aiming to make a lasting impact. Saving BlackBerry: CEO John Chen Explains How to Make the Hard Calls John Chen was hired to... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
related to the workforce, including the skills gap, degree inflation, care economics, the role of artificial intelligence in employment outcomes, the effectiveness of social entrepreneurs in improving education to employment outcomes,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader
to act. "Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership," he asserts. Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, has said that one of the key elements of being a good... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 05 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 5, 2006
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM group are among the strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Exchange-Traded Funds at Vanguard (A)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Steven Vickers
Vanguard Group management, led by CEO John Brennan, was considering whether to launch exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in early 2000. ETFs, first created in the early 1990s, combined aspects of traditional mutual funds and closed-end funds. The US ETF industry had reached... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Managerial Roles; Growth and Development Strategy; Experience and Expertise; Market Entry and Exit; Network Effects; Profit; Business and Shareholder Relations; Product Launch; Asset Management; Distribution Channels; Ownership; Financial Services Industry; United States
Pozen, Robert C., and Steven Vickers. "Exchange-Traded Funds at Vanguard (A)." Harvard Business School Case 311-134, June 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Publications Untapped Global: Financing Africa’s Missing Middle By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli January 2025 | Faculty Research In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions... View Details