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About - Business & Environment

everything from being part of the deal teams to driving performance and innovation in Summa’s portfolio. Reynir is committed to being part of the solution to the significant challenges facing our world today. Carolyn Weinberg Carolyn... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 7

Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions Authors:Lisa L. Shu and Max Bazerman Publication:In Oxford Handbook of Business and the Environment. Oxford University Press, in press Abstract We explore interventions at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

common end. A manager’s effectiveness, therefore, could be measured on the extent to which those in the organization internalized a common purpose and perceived the connection between their actions and the organization’s ability to... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

The United States has been both credited and criticized for its powerful role in promoting global financial liberalization—the flow of capital across country borders. But research by Harvard Business School Professor Rawi Abdelal has... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Solving for Z

With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government
  • 21 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

As more than 50 countries hold elections in 2024, far-right politicians and policies look poised to gain ground, continuing a years-long trend evident in Europe, the United States, and South America. These movements often stoke grievances about View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 02 May 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

that will relieve humanity of mind-numbing desk work with attendant improvements in quality and reductions in cost and allow people to pursue more creative and interesting work? Or a tool so powerful that it begins to crowd out even the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology
  • 13 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

energizes and draws on imaginative thinking. Managers tend instinctively to delegate; leaders like to get involved in working toward solutions to substantive problems. The picture in business today (along with government) is bleak. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

solutions for myriad tasks that previously were performed in traditional, non-tech ways. In this way, they have improved the productivity of many traditional industries (just look at all the industries that use PCs today) and created... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
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California - Global

enormous potential of Gen AI to power innovative products, such as conversational language practice. However, Hacker envisioned an even broader future in which AI could transform the app into a comprehensive AI-powered educational... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

group of people around a mutual desire for change. “Effective agitators are able to draw attention to a problem and convince others that it requires both some corrective action and collective work to bring it about,” Battilana writes in the 2015 teaching note View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

shows how capitalism itself can be the best route to real solutions to many social problems. Michael Porter also led the development of the conceptual framework underlying the Social Progress Index,... View Details
  • 02 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. Of all the U.S. air carriers, United should have known the power of social media and public outrage. It had learned years earlier in a prominent case about how fast viral content spreads and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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ハーバード - Global

production to a sufficient level and provide a solution at the scale that was necessary? February 2024 | Case More than Optics: Olympus's Vision to Become a Leading Global MedTech Company By: Professor David J. Collis; Haisley Wert In... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review

community of students, scholars, and practitioners to explore the role business can and should play in finding solutions to complex societal challenges. BiGS engages faculty from across the School and deploys a diverse array of... View Details
  • September 2017
  • Case

Christine Lagarde

By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
The case covers the youth and career trajectory of Christine Lagarde across her time at Baker & McKenzie, as a minister in the government of France and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced... View Details
Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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  • 2024
  • Report

Overcoming Barriers to Resolving Gaza and Beyond

By: James K. Sebenius
As of early January 2024, discussion of the Gaza war heavily focuses on its humanitarian costs, cease fire possibilities, hostage prospects, and “day after” options. Yet what longer-term strategy guides actions on these vital issues while offering a more positive... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; War; International Relations; Israel; Middle East
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Courses | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

cases are thus designed to help students think about what it actually means to make a difference, and what it takes. How do would-be leaders identify the problems or challenges they wish to tackle? What enables them to craft solutions... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman