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Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About

Policy The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines and best practices for students, alumni, and/or other community members participating in Instagram Takeovers of HBS-related Instagram accounts.... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Book

More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

and whose owner(s) can be consistently identified. The term non-fungible token literally means what it says. Something is fungible when you can exchange one unit for another without a second thought. Dollar bills are fungible; so are grains of rice—for View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services
  • January 2024
  • Case

Sprouts Farmers Market

By: Rajiv Lal, Forest L. Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
Sprouts Farmers Markets (Sprouts) is a Phoenix, Arizona-based chain of 400-plus natural foods stores in 23 U.S. states and $6.4 billion in sales as of 2022. In its product assortment, brand image, and store environment, Sprouts emphasizes freshness, health, innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Strategic Planning; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Competition; Retail Industry; United States; Arizona
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DENIAL reviews

By: Richard S. Tedlow

"A wake-up call to be sure that we dont allow ourselves to confuse our maps with the actual territory."

strategy+business "2010 Best Business Books," Winter 2010

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  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

they can adapt and adopt institutional practices already legitimized by counterpart industries in other parts of the world. The paper builds on existing community ecology and social movement perspectives on industry emergence and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March–April 2024
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How Companies Should Weigh in on a Controversy: A Better Approach to Stakeholder Management

By: David M. Bersoff, Sandra J. Sucher and Peter Tufano
Executives need guidance about managing their organizations’ engagement with societal issues—including hot-button topics such as gender, climate, and racial discrimination. Success in this realm does not mean avoiding public controversy or achieving unanimous support... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Social Issues; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Judgments; Management Practices and Processes
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  • 22 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?

a lot of really important questions that are hard,” Cole says. “Quite frankly, they may not even be answered in the venture capitalist space. Questions like ‘what are best practices for impact investing?’... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

future, says Joseph Fuller, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and a co-head of the project. Fuller likens the shifting job demands to a melting ice floe. “What’s left are the things that are hard to automate,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

and unfunded firms. Because randomization of the sample was not feasible, we address endogeneity around selection bias using a sample of qualitatively similar firms based on a funding decision score. This allows us to observe the local effect of samples in which we... View Details
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Leverage LinkedIn - Alumni

putting your best foot forward. Importance of Social Networks Social networks have given us the ability to connect with almost anyone in the blink of an eye, making it much easier to expand, nurture and maintain our relationships. Learn... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It

By: Malcolm S. Salter
What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer is not entirely clear, I argue in this essay that any effort aimed at restoring... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Systems; Trust; United States
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  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

kinds, it has been clear that every business able to improve governance reaped lasting benefits. If you are in a family enterprise, you need to learn the basics of governance and apply the best practices... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review

an opportunity to hear firsthand the challenges companies face in their implementation, and share best practices and learnings from their initial efforts. OneTen Summit Highlights Exhibition at Baker Library... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

companies. This remedy is best observed in formerly public companies that—aided by professional buyout firms—have been taken private and armed with active directors who pursue commonsense governance View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • February 2014 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams

By: Tatiana Sandino
Indian cell phone retailer Go Mobile had implemented high-powered incentives to motivate its store employees to behave as owners and provide exceptional service. As the company scaled up, it faced multiple challenges in building a layer of district managers that were... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Telecommunications Industry; India
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  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

cares about their well-being. Many realize that this needs to change. Practicing active, habitual kindness can transform the remote workplace and it can start today. A little reassurance, compassionate listening, a conscious effort to... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 22 May 2024
  • HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

Practice at HBS who authored the case study with HBS researcher Shweta Bagai. Businesses need to “understand how it is that they’re doing what they’re doing so that they can incorporate the power of algorithmic technologies into their... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
  • 31 Oct 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

up saving the life of the potential victim The trigger for achieving the desired outcome: instilling the sense of fear in the subordinate. Accordingly, can an argument be made that at times and under certain circumstances fear might be the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research

The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community... View Details
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Profiles - MBA

practices and technologies within governmental organizations. Find Matthew on LinkedIn . Computer Science MATHER 2025 Cohort 7 Eva Tuecke “Technological innovation is increasingly transforming so many aspects of life. I'm excited to be... View Details