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09 Nov 2022
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COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

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Start-Ups That Last: How to Scale Your Business

By: Ranjay Gulati and Alicia DeSantola

Keywords: Organizational Growth; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship

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09 Sep 2011
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Business schools need to focus on students' 'doing' skills

01 Jun 2024
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Redefining How Businesses Operate

In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

28 Oct 2009
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Is it possible to teach ethics to business school students?

05 Feb 2013
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The Evolving Role of Business

05 Jul 2006
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Deep Links: Business School Students’ Perceptions of the Role of Law and Ethics in Business

Keywords: by Constance E. Bagley, Gavin Clarkson & Rachel Power; Legal Services

29 Apr 2015
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2+2: Challenging Conceptions of Business

Harvard Business School has been on Jessica Assaf’s mind for a long time. First introduced to campus when she attended her dad’s 20 year reunion (as part of a father-daughter road trip) she was quickly... View Details

June 2004 (Revised July 2005)
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Procter & Gamble: Global Business Services

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Warren Brackin, Alex Cabanas, Phil Shellhammer and David L. Ager

Dave Walker, vice-president of business service opportunities and chairman of the governance team at Procter & Gamble, must decide what to do with P&G's 5,700 employee Global Business Services (GBS) group. GBS brought together internal services such as finance,... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Change Management; Decision Making; Globalized Firms and Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Organizational Design

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June 1978
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How Foreign Businesses Decide to Invest in Massachusetts

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Business Ventures; Investment; Massachusetts

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15 Feb 2017
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Black Business Leaders & Entrepreneurship

2003
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Capital Market Intermediaries: Summary Observations on a Workshop Held at Harvard Business School

By: D. B. Crane, J. O. Light, K. G. Palepu and A. F. Perold

Keywords: Capital Markets

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Business Groups in Historical Perspectives

By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan

Business groups-collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit widely diversified product portfolios-are viewed as the prototypical large-enterprise form in contemporary emerging economies. By exploring the... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Management Skills; Emerging Markets; Alliances; Groups and Teams; Competitive Advantage; Great Britain

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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Base of the Pyramid (B-BOP) This course seeks to provide an understanding of how business approaches can address low income segments, often the largest components of emerging View Details

August 2006 (Revised July 2007)
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Governance of the Family Business

By: John A. Davis

Reviews the ways to achieve governance of the family business. Points out the importance of plans (e.g., strategic plans), statements (e.g., mission statements), policies, rules, and agreements to the governance process. Discusses the roles of three structures in... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Mission and Purpose

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16 Apr 2019
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Fewer small businesses expected to hire new employees in 2019

2022
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The Heart of Business (ハート・オブ・ビジネス)――「人とパーパス」を本気で大切にする新時代のリーダーシップ

By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert

A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details

Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations

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Harvard Business School

School The African-American Student Union (AASU) celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2018 and created a documentary to commemorate the African American experience at Harvard Business School. Click Here AASU... View Details

December 26, 2018
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Why Family Businesses Need to Find the Right Level of Conflict

By: Josh Baron

Many families avoid conflict because it makes them uncomfortable. For families that own and manage businesses, this is a problem. Conflict avoidance leads people to avoid difficult–but necessary–conversations and decisions. Instead of avoiding conflict, the people who... View Details

Keywords: Management Skills; Conflict and Resolution; Family Business