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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting

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Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations... View Details

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Driving Digital Strategy

omnichannel strategies Engage customers through digital, social, and mobile marketing Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from... View Details

23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

Working PapersLocal R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive technology... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: What's the best way to report nonfinancial metrics? How can nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

05 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

the right people are confident, suggests recent research by Thomas Graeber, assistant professor at Harvard Business School. His work tested the effects of meta-cognition—essentially, whether more skilled people are also more confident... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

15 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

we’re excited to continue to offer our members and prospective students a wide range of events and opportunities to connect and engage with each other. Fall Semester Highlights: Diversity Career Fair: Formal HBS recruiting events being on... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

In his recent Working Paper, "Marketing's Role in Cross-Sector Collaboration," HBS professor James Austin outlines three stages of collaboration between businesses and nonprofits—philanthropic, transactional, and integrative... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

donor and grateful recipient, toward deeper, strategic alliances. These changes are already under way, and the changing alliance landscape is rich in variety, with businesses and nonprofits from Boston to Seattle finding new ways to work... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

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Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms

working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries around the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career... View Details

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

that only 30 percent of employees are engaged in their work. The issues raised are ones I have worked on for many years. With the drive for higher productivity in the workplace, there is little doubt that... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

Teaching Interest

Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)

Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details

2014
Article

In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization

By: Michel Anteby and Amy Wrzesniewski

Purpose: Multiple forces that shape the identities of adolescents and young adults also influence their subsequent career choices. Early work experiences are key among these forces. Recognizing this, youth service programs have emerged worldwide with the hope of... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Identity; Socialization; Youth; Youth Service Programs; Identity; Mission and Purpose; Age; Personal Development and Career; Service Industry; Europe

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Driving Corporate Performance

objectives Enhance competitiveness by better aligning all types of resources to customer needs Strengthen employee relationships and build a strong and enduring culture of helping others to succeed Expand your personal and professional network Extend your professional... View Details

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

professor and consultant. In these twenty-two-plus years in the field, in addition to the research and writing I have done, I have worked with families in business from over sixty countries. I have traveled to nearly every corner of the... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

08 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 8

with a supporting appendix that describes 19 additional immigrants or immigrant families and their firms. Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We present a two-stage model... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2021
News

Glue for the High-Skill Gig Economy

11 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Employers Favor Men

findings may help employers train recruiters to be aware of their biases and work around them. The two faces of discrimination Gender discrimination clearly runs through the workplace. Women earn about 78 cents on the dollar compared to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

compete” and engaging in competitive actions (refer to I Hereby Resign for helpful guidance). Policy is culture. The only aspects of corporate culture that will survive extended remote work are those... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

Program

The HR-Executive Suite Connection

management to engage fully in every aspect of senior leadership discussions. As you analyze the core business challenges and opportunities that arise in typical executive committee meetings, you will improve your ability to build and... View Details

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