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25 Apr 2014
News

Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers

essential values: customer sovereignty, innovation, excellence, integrity, people orientation, and social responsibility. "It's not really a textbook leadership style," says Natarajan, who treats staff like extended family. "We have... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

A Message from Dean Clark

The new academic year brings a sense of heightened expectation to the HBS campus. In the last twelve months we have realized extraordinary progress in a number of areas. As we look to the future, our central mission - to educate leaders -... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Turning Point: Change, Stat

science or treatments. Working in the ER at The Mount Sinai Hospital and Elmhurst Hospital in New York City—which was dubbed “the epicenter,” I got to see the progression of the virus. We went from “This is just a bad version of the flu;... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; healthcare; medicine; innovation; interpersonal communication; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

Buy Now, Pay Later: Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and... View Details

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Sustainability in Supply Chain Management

This article describes supply chain transparency and shares recommendations to map and extend progress in this field.

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MOC Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

HBS Student Battles ALS

the fact that ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) is a progressive neurodegenerative illness that to date has no cure, Kremer vowed to continue his studies at HBS, far from his network of family and friends in... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Sustainability in CPG and Retail

change needed to achieve them. Articles/Book Chapters The History and Progression of... View Details

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

election, the Athens stock market index is down by almost 20 percent and the bank index by 45 percent. Investors, which are so badly needed in order to restart the Greek economy, are fleeing the country... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

24 Apr 2014
News

Training great principals to lead great schools

candidate has been hired as a principal. Students in New Leader schools consistently achieve at higher levels than their peers, have higher high school graduation rates, and are making progress in closing the achievement gap. In recent... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Faculty Books

The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer (Harvard Business Review Press) The best managers build a group of employees who have great inner work lives:... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

has enough leverage to practice it. Boards of directors play an important role in championing the cause of stakeholders of all kinds. DF in AZ put it this way: “If a company promises a fundamental shift towards shareholder capitalism but doesn’t show any View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

employees tended to be most engaged by regular, incremental progress toward the accomplishment of a meaningful goal—a phenomenon Amabile calls The Progress Principle, which is also the title of her new book.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld... View Details

Shared Value Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

The Global Health Delivery Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

27 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

Abstract This paper constructs an index of financial sophistication that, in comprehensive data on Swedish households, best explains a set of three investment mistakes: underdiversification, risky share inertia, and the tendency to sell... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Tafadzwa Samushonga

investigate market-based approaches to eradicating poverty during her career at the Monitor Group (later acquired by Deloitte). “I did not join Monitor with social enterprise in mind, but as we used the tools and analytical approaches of... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Sep 2012
News

What’s the Big Idea?

Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management