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Leading in the Classroom - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Teaching by the Case Method Leading in the Classroom Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Pre-Class Arrival Diversity and Inclusion Openings Cold Calling Questioning, Listening & Responding Transitions Closings Timing Participation Engagement Board Use Teaching... View Details
- 03 Nov 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 09 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
began with a brief grounding in climate science and policy, before digging into the major verticals responsible for emissions: energy, buildings, transportation, food & agriculture, and materials & industrials. For each vertical,... View Details
- January 2025
- Case
Netflix: Takedown Troubles
By: Clayton S. Rose, Tom Quinn and Maxim Pike Harrell
In October 2021, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos sent an all-staff email addressing backlash to comedian Dave Chappelle’s new stand-up special, The Closer. Released on October 5, the comedian’s depiction of the transgender community and other LGBTQ+ groups prompted... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Satisfaction; Cost vs Benefits; Demographics; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Strategic Planning; Adaptation; Decisions; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Rose, Clayton S., Tom Quinn, and Maxim Pike Harrell. "Netflix: Takedown Troubles." Harvard Business School Case 325-021, January 2025.
- January 2012 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
Dow Chemical: Innovating for Sustainability
Dow Chemical is one of the few major American industrial corporations that was founded in the late 19th century that is still in existence. From its origins producing bromine out of the brine underneath Midland, Michigan, the company has evolved from a diversified... View Details
Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Shelley Xin Li. "Dow Chemical: Innovating for Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 112-064, January 2012. (Revised June 2013.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
valuations of the company. Since the restructuring plan proposed to give creditors a substantial amount of new common stock, their relative financial recoveries depended materially on what the firm, and this stock, was ultimately worth.... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
cannot transfer their enrollment to CORe. If you're interested in earning the Credential of Readiness, you must enroll in the full CORe program. What are the policies for refunds, deferrals, and withdrawals? + – Please refer to our Policies page . What View Details
- 2006
- Dissertation
Enterprise Risk Management in Action
By: Anette Mikes
The new Basel regulatory initiatives and a burgeoning risk management literature signify the rise of enterprise risk management (ERM) in the financial services sector. However, very little is known of the roles that risk management plays in organizations and how it... View Details
- 2007
- Book
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
By: Rakesh Khurana
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details
Keywords: Social History; Business Education; Moral Sensibility; Profit; Leadership; Managerial Roles; United States
Khurana, Rakesh. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. (Winner of Association of American Publishers Best Professional/Scholarly Publishing Book in Business, Finance and Management. Winner of Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship for the book which makes an outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work presented by American Sociological Association.)
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Team - Case Method Project
in Business History. At Harvard Business School, Walter is co-editor of Business History Review and directs the school's Business History Initiative. He is a past president of the Business History Conference. Dean Grodzins Dean Grodzins writes case studies and develops... View Details
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Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment (joint with Andrew Charlton)
By: Laura Alfaro
We identify a new type of vertical foreign direct investment (FDI) made up of multinational subsidiaries producing intermediate inputs, which are of similar skill intensity to the final goods produced by their parents, and which are overwhelmingly located in high skill... View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States
Fourcade, Marion, and Rakesh Khurana. "From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-071, January 2011.
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of Coffee, Sugar, Cocoa, and Tobacco" Scott Reynolds Nelson (University of Georgia), 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Dec 2 02 Dec 2024 Business History Seminar Seth Rockman, (Brown University) “Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery"... View Details
- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
terms, but issues are rarely so clear-cut, Takeuchi says. “This intellectual tradition,” Takeuchi and Nonaka write, “is reflected in the debates over dualism—such as mind versus body, subject versus object, rationality versus empiricism, View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Training - Research Computing Services
Training Training Calendar Upcoming training sessions and links to those held previously (filterable). Workshops, Tutorials, & Reference Materials A collection of training materials and reference View Details
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
accounted for 29 percent. The researchers used machine learning algorithms to map the text of the job descriptions into six distinct clusters of skills: administrative, management of financial and material resources, management of human... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
when things are communicated are as important as the resolution itself. Now that the dust has settled a bit, founders should take stock and evaluate how they’ll manage crises going forward. A “code red” crisis—one where the business is deemed at risk in a View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details