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- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
same battle, participants said. While it is no simple matter to create collaborative relationships for treating disease among workforces, other partnership models unrelated to HIV/AIDS may provide ideas, inspiration, or red flags. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Since his arrival in 1995 as its new president, James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) has set in motion sweeping cultural and operational changes at the World Bank. One of Wolfensohn's early initiatives, undertaken together with HBS and several... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
Sadun says. The Importance Of Trust That said, Sadun notes that technology is hardly the only factor that determines whether a firm allows decision-making both up and down the corporate ladder. Another major factor lies in cultural... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
tech, but I have a pencil and cross it off.” Along the way, Joyner has collected objects from 1945 to the present. The American artists who comprise her earliest acquisitions were “all mightily overlooked,” she notes. “They were pioneers... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
their father ran successful textile and real estate businesses. Both parents believed in the importance of moral values, and in the fourth grade, the twins began studying at the Ethical Culture Society's Fieldston School. "Each week we'd... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
collaboration between small suppliers and large businesses. Cluster research shows that this, in turn, creates resilience during economic ups and downs. “Everyone benefits when large businesses treat their small suppliers as partners in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
seven-year collaboration with University of North Carolina economics professor Steven Rosefielde. Their impressively researched volume challenges global leaders in government and business alike to push beyond View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, she’d taught Harvard’s leadership course during the 1990s, but had begun to suspect that the visionary model of leadership on which it was based wasn’t ideal for creating a View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
ladders up to unload our bags,” recalls McFarlan, the School’s Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and a tactful bridge builder who has played a key role in launching and guiding several collaborative... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- Web
Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library
are safe, fearless and empowered to win with unbridled ideas. It is a practical guide for creating cultures where knowledge and innovation flourish because people feel safe to contribute their ideas—it also increased the popularity of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
column was a way to explore the link between a business leader’s workspace and the culture of his or her organization. Along the way, Raje—former chief executive of BP Ergo, her family’s office furniture business—featured the hotel... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508046 Enterprise Culture in Chinese History: Zhang Jian and the Dasheng Cotton Mills Harvard Business School Case 308-068 This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
culture that permits dissent and failures. The highly uncertain nature of both creativity and entrepreneurship. Such high levels of uncertainty lead to the dilemma of whether to choose the certain but incremental improvement that... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
offices. Yet, amid a shaky world economy and an increasingly cutthroat legal profession, Duane Morris' attorneys began to wonder-could collaboration survive as a firm value? Would the firm's culture help it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
asking her, "Tell me why you're here at HBS taking a place away from a man." HBS professors' attitudes toward women were a mixed bag, too. As early as the 1940s and into the 1960s, several HBS faculty members would cross the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
company as opposed to their department or themselves; hire people whose values and skills fit the culture and strategy, thus reinforcing and sustaining the community of purpose. In addition, leaders spend a great deal of time on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the IT workforce. Dandelion—an innovative collaboration between HPE and the Department of Human... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
building a culture based on collaboration, teamwork, and respect—and not tolerating employees who dominate or treat other employees as if they are there to serve them. Leaders sometimes inadvertently send the wrong message by excusing—or... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Art Museum By: Lund, Ragnar, and Stephen A. Greyser Abstract—This paper examines cultural sponsorship from a partnership perspective. It studies the collaboration between two international institutions, a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
Approach By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Expected return proxies (ERP) derived from a log-linear present-value (LPV) framework—combining the book value of equity, profitability, and market prices—predict the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne