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- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
barriers that limited firms' geographic scope and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities to create value globally. Globalization presents managers with an environment to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
HBS African American Student Union
Student clubs are a vibrant part of student life at Harvard Business School. There are over 85 active clubs on campus, and new clubs are being created each year. Clubs encompass a wide range of student interests, and are based on... View Details
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Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
societal impacts. What about with a more complex operational strategy? "As long as your theory of change is linear and clearly understood, you can begin to get at outcomes and impacts," says Ebrahim, "because you have a sense for what View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling
messages in Hindi cinema are universal, and often more uplifting than other stories I consume — they remind me that anything is possible.” Media was an escape: it introduced me to worlds that weren’t my own. Stories create spaces for... View Details
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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
railroad network fanned out across the United States and connected with lines in Canada and Mexico, smaller railroad companies consolidated as a way to ensure the regular flow of traffic, reduce competition, and avoid price wars.... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
indulge me personalizing aspects of the covenant-creation process. From the first moment in the classroom, the teacher is laying the groundwork to create a covenant with students—a relationship where the student develops faith in the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
personal and professional changes to foster more positive connections among racial groups—interactions that studies have shown have the potential to reduce biased behaviors. "Awareness alone is not going to change the world. It's about... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
Book of the Year and connected finance with the humanities. The book sets out to demystify finance and instill both curiosity and confidence, helping readers answer fundamental questions like: What do financial ratios reveal about a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
of the ones I have proposed. And other companies like Uber and LinkedIn have also become more proactive about creating inclusive ecosystems. Bazerman: Our discussion has been about ethics, but Mike and I are also View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
ringside. “I just asked them to dim the lights a bit more, to put focus on the cage,” he says, eyes restlessly sweeping the venue. “It’s similar to creating the atmosphere of a rock concert.” In just a few minutes, ONE FC will be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
dysfunctional patterns from the past? How can I live more fully in the present? How do I create my desired future? Author Landon Carter shares his experience of what works in his more than 50 years of being on the path, and what has... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
Wendy Zito believes that "when you feel you are being listened to then it helps you connect to the other person but it also helps you hear yourself." Gael raised the question to a more universal level with her comment: "Listening to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The Life and Role of a CEO
intelligence. 2) Style Before: Confident and extroverted After: Authentic and empathetic All the CEOs were very confident, but their styles were widely different. One CEO said, “Style does not matter. Behavior does.” For example, rather than trying to be seen as... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
and learning." We found that the education-and-employment connection remains too tenuous in America. To create more pathways to upward mobility in the post-COVID recovery, policymakers, employers, and... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
Business of Aesthetics to second-year MBA students and select applicants from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The course looks at the role of aesthetics in strategy, organizational structure, succession planning, and investment allocations—and considers ways in... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
framework of Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis and apply it to two unique perspectives of an identical problem. The students will then use this DCF approach to rationalize observed stock prices, connecting the two, and further reconcile... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
Assistant Professor Zoë Cullen. After all, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create challenges for companies attempting to fill job openings as record numbers of people quit their jobs in search of new opportunities in a hot labor... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
a host of dynamic multimedia material competing for his or her attention, we wanted to create a high-quality, engaging classroom experience. Both plot and character development in the book are inspired by a popular storytelling structure... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
government turns out to be different from that in the United States. It shows that big business emerged as a constructive player in environmental policy in the 1960s, when it persuaded the government to establish a joint research institute known as the IVL and a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne