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04 Oct 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

Understand who controls what and the degree to which it is desired and you understand a great deal about a power relationship. Of course, power can be used for good or “dirty” purposes. “Power poisons,” according to the authors, are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Profile

Brandon Graves

both professional and personal aspects. The HBS experience encourages deep reflection and has allowed me to take early steps at shaping my life post b-school. I am pleasantly surprised by how many takeaways extend to everyday life beyond... View Details

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

How a company decides who is authorized to make what types of decisions can have a profound effect on its business, both in terms of everyday effectiveness and the bottom line. Consider the experience of one global conglomerate that... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

May 2024
Case

HarvEast

By: Jeremy Friedman and Natalie Kindred

In late 2023, Dmitry Skornyakov, CEO of Ukrainian agribusiness HarvEast, was navigating the turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that began in 2014 and escalated into full-scale war in February 2022. Before the full-scale invasion, HarvEast managed 127,000... View Details

Keywords: Goods and Commodities; Natural Resources; Food; Problems and Challenges; Adaptation; Innovation and Management; Crisis Management; Logistics; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Loss; Trust; Human Needs; War; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chile; South America; Latin America; Ukraine

Citation

Educators

24 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

size of the LGBT population are misestimated, likely substantially. In a series of online experiments using a large and diverse but non-representative sample, we compare estimates from the standard methodology of asking sensitive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

outsourcing is still an established practice, companies have gained experience and can now do much more for themselves that they have looked to outsiders to do in the past. Managers know more about IT, more about the business and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

followed by flexible execution. McDonald says that might seem like the reverse of a good strategy—shouldn’t a new firm be flexible at the beginning to see what works? But he says focused selection earlier is what allows a company the best... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

steps towards investigating this possibility by devising a novel 10-day field experiment to estimate the differences in behavior that are created by sorting workers into their preferred institutional regimes versus having them unsorted.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

and produce good jobs for American workers." Brody, who grew up in the Washington, D.C., area, has decided that the city is an ideal place to raise a family and base his new business ventures. He has launched a third career as an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Blog

Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

will be valued by the company. Be realistic about whether you are a good match for at least some of what the company is seeking. Step 2: Prepare Your Personal Elevator Pitch You will need materials that describe who you are as a potential... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

often too big to have everyone participate on the board so the board starts to become representative. Plus, shareholders recognize the value in having the objective, professional experience of external board members. I see... View Details

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

responsibilities – like being a good son or having a financially stable career for instance – deserved the sunlight. For 26 years, this meant putting a lock on my self-expression. I only applied to colleges on the East Coast far from... View Details

24 May 2017
News

Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

better,” says Lang, simply. “What’s good for women is good for the bottom line, good for men, good for business, View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

and they are denominated primarily in U.S. dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. The authors estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle, EME borrowers experience a... View Details

03 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

Bangladesh, and Pakistan, it’s not going to work. It’s also a problem if you build systems where nobody who has lived the experience is in the room. You can end up looking at the data and not understanding what the data means and,... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

22 Sep 2023
News

Capital Connection

Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

20 Dec 2023
News

New School

and children drew him to the company in 2008. Waldron had spent most of his career in the education sector, working for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, in mission-driven and profit-driven settings. His experiences had... View Details

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

all of us, depending on what we want power for, and how we acquire and use it. You decide whether to embark on a developmental journey toward empathy and humility; whether to equip yourself to put to good use—and not abuse—the power you... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

came about over 25 years, the result of another civic- and business-led effort. And it’s wonderful, many agree. But there are still a good number of Chattanooga residents who’ve been left out of the picture. As in so many American cities,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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