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- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
less adequate. It also makes it increasingly less enlightening to interpret the expanded and fast-changing digitally grounded realities in a helpful manner. For this reason, we feel the urgent need to take stock of the advancements made... View Details
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Rock 100: The Network - Entrepreneurship
discussions and networking with local entrepreneurial leaders. The Rock 100 Network The Rock 100 Network The Rock 100 Network The Rock 100 Network Small, private, regional networks of alumni entrepreneurs engaged in ongoing discussions and peer mentoring. “It’s View Details
- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
you’ve developed over your career and applying them to a new situation in itself can be a very enlightening experience. Who do you want to work with? How important is the size and culture of the team you’ll work with? Remember, you’ll... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- Web
Profiles - MBA
Systems Quality, I learned a tremendous amount about how products go from concept to the hands of users around the world. I had the opportunity to manage and direct two studies related to the iPad ecosystem. The experience was very View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
(iStockphoto/PeopleImages) An organization’s mission is widely recognized as its reason for being. Enlightened leaders have long known and believed that the heart of an organization’s culture is described not just by “how we do things... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- Web
Aldrich Hall | About
voice of J.P. Morgan.” Nelson W. Aldrich Aldrich began his career as a grocery boy, and Rockefeller believed his rise to power represented the kind of “individual initiative” that was fostered by Harvard Business School’s approach to View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
phenomena. Hence our research questions: (1) how leaders of innovation think, (2) what they do, (3) how they do it, and (4) who they are and how they got to be that way. In terms of management theorists, we found Mary Parker Follett's work especially View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
extremely difficult to deal with for a variety of reasons. Bower, for his part, believes that enlightened management and intra-industry cooperation (with government playing a positive support role where needed) - an approach that he says... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
especially in math and science, so graduates will be able to compete effectively with government-subsidized colleges in India and China." So let's assume that there is no such thing as a level playing field. Does it follow that efforts to make it more level are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
in his recent book, some are less fungible than others. Germany was cited by Peter Sebregondi as a country that has pursued an enlightened strategy toward manufacturing, through its continued support of an apprentice system that provides... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
(iStockphoto/Krle) Advocates for stakeholders—including employees, customers, suppliers, the “community,” and investors—have dominated the discussion of leadership and management over the past two decades. They believe that enlightened... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
of frivolous litigation. Raising the bar higher is a good thing then, to reduce waste of resources spent in litigation. But just reducing investor protections is a recipe for weakened capital markets. Investor coalitions and individual large investors themselves... View Details
- Web
Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
business model and prepare your startup for funding and scaling. “It’s an eye-opening course that enlightens the path for future founders, joiners, or investors.” Roman Ignatenko Launching Tech Ventures Participant Equip yourself with the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
not think of themselves as teachers. But that is all leadership is. It’s teaching. How are you going to go about that? What is your style? That is the essence of my book. That is the enlightening surprise as I have talked with people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
benefits of these cuts would go “to people at the bottom end of the economic ladder,” he assured voters. And yet, of course, CEOs — let alone hedge fund managers — now routinely pay a lower proportion of their income in federal tax than their receptionists do — which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
More Faculty Honors
Professor Max Bazerman has received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program. The institute, dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership, recognizes exceptional professors who are... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Ilene Lang
get As in Economics. My parents might have been enlightened and ambitious for me, but society's institutions weren't. I earned my Harvard MBA in 1973, a time when few women were accepted into business leadership programs. The idea that a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Michael Holt
"Once you jump, you're already dead. Now change the outcome," said my jumpmaster when I completed my first skydiving solo jump. That moment, I discovered the enlightened thrill of putting your life in your own hands, leaving no... View Details