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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

both great financial and environmental returns." Angela Amos MBA 2014 | Shaping the Big Picture “I believe stakeholder engagement is necessary to address climate change. At work, I evaluate diverse perspectives to craft legally sound,... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

campus today, you can't help but be impressed by the diversity of our student body, which includes representatives from more than seventy countries. These students' life experiences and perspectives are unique, and they make our classroom... View Details

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

Amabile spearheaded a study of more than 200 knowledge workers over a three-year period, asking them to keep journal entries of their successes and frustrations at work. What she found was unexpected: It wasn't recognition or awards that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

Wait (Harvard Business Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But Slack Could (Vanity Fair) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge There is a saying that every decision is political—not just in terms of ideology of left or... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

able to greatly increase our knowledge of the region and develop a deep understanding of business practices that cut across functional boundaries, from finance to human resource management to strategy," says Sahlman. Plugging HBS In... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

diverse units, employees, and constituencies. In this chapter, we describe how effective leaders customize their organization's measurement and management system to partner with their employees for strategy implementation. We also discuss... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

eight years below the national average.) But with its manifold offerings and programs, all of which feed one another in ways both obvious and subtle, the school is a model for a radically diverse approach to economic development that... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

expand the theory to include the diverse criteria for taxes that most people find compelling. Weinzierl's research shows that a theory with a more realistic perspective on what people believe makes for good tax policy, can make up for the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

professors Pearson Hunt and Gordon Donaldson), which has been used by more than 300 universities. The faculty was relatively compact and small when I joined HBS; the curriculum and the way courses were organized and taught was quite personalized, too. There wasn’t a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

passion in their students. Our faculty members stay close to practice, interacting in the field with leaders and managers who are confronting the day’s most pressing business challenges. They apply knowledge gained in the field to... View Details

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

wealth of case studies, in diverse settings, based on actual implementations. Store Manager Incentive Design and Retail Performance: An Exploratory Investigation Authors:Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman Periodical:Manufacturing and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

data for companies in 14 industries. The specific task assigned to the student is to use the balance sheet data along with their basic knowledge of the operating conditions and characteristics of these 14 industries to match each industry... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

of typical businesses (undertaking commercial activity) and not-for-profit organizations (pursuing a social mission). In this essay, I discuss my research, as well as that of others, on social enterprises with the objective of tracing my perspective on the current... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

students are graduates of Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), an innovative six-year public high school program spearheaded by IBM that has improved college completion rates among disadvantaged youth and created a hiring pipeline for technology... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

businesses amid the opportunities and uncertainties of developing markets throughout recent decades. Working Knowledge Editor-in-Chief Sean Silverthorne asked Gupta about his experience interviewing Kapur. Sean Silverthorne: Kapur comes... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

level provides important lessons for executives, policymakers, and the groups who benefit. But such knowledge also suggests more work to be done in order to learn how global business trends, such as industry consolidation and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

explore the effect of adding a functional alibi in a variety of marketing contexts, and we examine various consumer populations representing diverse demographics. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51829 Fall... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

physically together during periods of temporary colocation and encourage asynchronous communication and knowledge codification. It is also important to plan for virtual watercoolers to foster informal social interactions in remote... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

model for explaining how network resources contribute to organizational performance. Reach is the extent to which an organization's network connects it to diverse and distant partners. Richness represents the potential value of the... View Details