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  • 28 Jun 2022
  • Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

Summing Up Among responses to this month's column, there was little disagreement with the premise that attitude trumps skills in the selection of new employees. C. J. Cullinane commented: "Attitude is all! I have worked with a group of Cuban refugees in Newark who... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
  • 21 May 2024
  • Cold Call Podcast

The Importance of Trust for Managing through a Crisis

Keywords: Re: Sandra J. Sucher; Tourism
  • 01 Oct 2018
  • News

Is the US Losing its Ability to Attract Highly-Skilled Migrant Workers?

  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 2009
  • Book

Financial Economics

By: Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton and David L. Cleeton
This book seeks to explain finance through its functions rather than its institutions, concentrating on the three pillars of finance: optimization over time, asset valuation, and risk management. View Details
Keywords: Economics; Finance; Assets; Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation
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  • April 2019
  • Case

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement (Abridged)

By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris
In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details
Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership
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Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face

By: Richard S. Tedlow
Richard S. Tedlow is currently working on a book concerning historical examples of outstanding businesspeople who faced daunting challenges.  The book is divided into two parts:  "Getting It Wrong" and "Getting It Right."  Many times,... View Details

    Tom Nicholas

    Tom Nicholas is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is British and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. His research focuses on the history of entrepreneurship, innovation and finance. His book (VC: An... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; high technology

      Negotiating the Impossible

      An ideal read for your most difficult negotiations, disputes & relationships.
      Awards:
      "Outstanding Book Award" (International Association for Conflict... View Details

        Caroline M. Elkins

        Caroline Elkins is the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at HBS. She is also Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, an... View Details

        • 07 May 2007
        • Research & Ideas

        Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

        works ever since. But the main reason I wrote this book is the tremendous resonance his ideas have had with my HBS students and with businesspeople. I think Schumpeter is the most penetrating analyst of capitalism who ever lived. He saw... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
        • 22 Dec 2008
        • Research & Ideas

        10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

        Why is it that many of the same companies appear repeatedly on lists of the best places to work, the best providers of customer service, and the most profitable in their industries? In their new book, The Ownership Quotient, HBS professors Jim Heskett and Earl Sasser... View Details
        Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler
        • 04 Nov 2010
        • What Do You Think?

        Why Do We Chase Stars?

        Summing Up Three themes appear to characterize many of the responses to this month's column: (1) leadership talent is portable, (2) the reasons that we chase stars are traceable to human nature, and (3) women have qualities that explain why they have greater success in... View Details
        Keywords: by Jim Heskett

          Anita Elberse

          Anita Elberse is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

          Professor Elberse develops and teaches an MBA course covering the "Businesses of Entertainment, Media, and Sports," which ranks among the most sought-after... View Details

          Keywords: advertising; arts; broadcasting; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; electronics; entertainment; fashion; home video games; information; marketing industry; motion pictures; music; publishing industry; sports; telecommunications; video games
          • 2019
          • Casebook

          Private Equity: A Casebook

          By: Paul A. Gompers, Victoria Ivashina and Richard S. Ruback
          This book is a collection of cases and notes that have been used in Private Equity Finance, an advanced corporate finance course offered in the second year of the Harvard Business School’s MBA curriculum, over several years. Our goal is to provide detailed insight into... View Details
          Keywords: Private Equity; Value Creation; Cases
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          • April 2001
          • Teaching Note

          PlanetAll TN

          By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Steven Silverman and William A. Sahlman
          Teaching Note for (9-898-105). For book only. View Details
          Keywords: Decision Making; Business Model; Web Services Industry
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          • 2018
          • Book

          Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

          By: Tarun Khanna
          Entrepreneurs in developing countries who assume they will have the same legal, governmental, and institutional protections as their counterparts in the West will fail. To succeed, they need to build trust within the existing structures—and this book shows how it's... View Details
          Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Trust
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          • 17 May 2013
          • News

          Live With Former Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman Robert S. Kaplan

          • 2005
          • Book

          Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

          By: Geoffrey Jones
          This book examines the history of Unilever over the last half century. Managing such a firm in the era of globalization posed enormous challenges. The book covers the company's strategies and provides compelling evidence of its decision-making, marketing, brand... View Details
          Keywords: Business History; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Globalization; Transformation; Human Resources; Business Strategy; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Consumer Products Industry
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