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30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

fear together?’ And that’s what they did.” As a Volunteers team member read the email out aloud, Ames and the other adults in the room struggled to keep their composure. “We... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

27 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Video: Inspirational Women in Business

maker. Whitley Cargile: I learned the importance of listening to others and encouraging quieter voices to speak up within a team setting. Briti Ghosh: People think that women can have it all. View Details

17 Apr 2022
Book

How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

Excerpt Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know J. S. Nelson Most people follow at least some ethical rules in their daily lives. (The small percentage of individuals who do not are called psychopaths; we discuss them some more in... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

“[requiring] the most exhaustive investigation, careful thought, and conservatively weighted appraisals.” [10] Lehman Brothers also created an investment advisory service for wealthy individuals View Details

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Approach problems using structured methods of gathering observations, breaking cognitive fixedness, and generating creative ideas for solutions Apply creative solutions View Details

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Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems

By: Tarun Khanna

What problems do developing countries face, and how can individuals contribute to solutions rather than awaiting the largesse of the state or other actors? Intractable problems – such as lack of access to education and healthcare, forced reliance on contaminated... View Details

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

work on what they've told you." Not sure the assessment is accurate? Call a few close friends or loved ones and see what they think. Most likely, Kaplan says, they'll agree with your subordinates. "Leadership is a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Feb 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

experience, autonomy. These are naturally definers of where an individual should be placed within a salary range. Those differences should be easily explained and verifiable upon request." Dan S.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

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Participation - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Assessment & Feedback Sample Class Students and instructors are co-creators of class participation, and the stakes may be quite high, not only for collective and View Details

26 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)

suggests that the effect translates to an average of $10,000 over an average six-year-career influencer. “If consumers aren’t perceiving social influencers as trustworthy and authentic, much of their marketing effort might not lead to a... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Technology; Media & Broadcasting

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

also realized was that the expectation that I had for the group to turn around their operations either the next week or the next month, or even in that quarter, were wildly unrealistic and unfair. But by stepping back, I gave the View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

role, while giving you time for focused individual work along with family and personal activities. Clarify and, if needed, negotiate your commitments to teams View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

Stagflation? A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2023
News

Bridging the ESG Data Gap

demanding better-quality ESG data to evaluate ongoing investment management. During Startup Bootcamp, a short intensive program for first-year MBA students, Murday and a team of classmates explored the idea... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

management tackle big opportunities. The accelerators are: Create a sense of urgency. Build guiding coalition. Form strategic vision and initiatives. Enlist volunteer army. Enable action by removing barriers. Generate short-term wins.... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

personally was in the field for at least 180 working days during that time and even spent one week at a non-Toyota plant doing assembly work and spent another five months as part of a Toyota View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

16 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go? Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

excites, and pushes the team or, you could say, choreographs an output that (moves) the company towards the vision." The mix of control, delegation, and theater employed... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

Change at Fuerte Construction Featured Exercises Small group process analysis Peer feedback exercise 10-12 hrs Module 2 Shaping the Decision-Making Process Analyze the decision-making process and evaluate potential drivers View Details

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