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  • Program

Rising Generation in the Family Enterprise

wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Members of the rising generation of a family enterprise—including descendants and in-laws—who may or may not be currently involved in managing the family business, family office,... View Details
  • January 2023
  • Case

Baofeng's Philanthropic Efforts in China

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Bo Li and Zhaoheng Gong
Yanbao Dang, President of Baofeng Group and founder of the Yanbao Foundation, Baofeng Group’s philanthropic arm, weighed how the family nonprofit could maximize its impact. On a mission to eliminating poverty through broadening access to educational opportunities in... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Rural Scope; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Poverty; Resource Allocation; Green Technology Industry; Education Industry; China; Asia
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  • 2021
  • Article

Helping and Happiness: A Review and Guide for Public Policy

By: Lara B. Aknin and Ashley V. Whillans
Perhaps one of the most reaffirming findings to emerge over the past several decades is that humans not only engage in generous behavior, they also appear to experience pleasure from doing so. Yet not all acts of helping lead to greater happiness. Here, we review the... View Details
Keywords: Generosity; Helping; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Happiness; Policy
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

The Shape of Things to Come: Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and the Case of Hedge Funds

By: Pamela Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt
Foundational work on institutional theory as a framework for studying organizations underscored its relevance to analyses of entrepreneurship, but entrepreneurship research has often ignored the insights provided by this theoretic approach. In this chapter, we... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Organizations; Research; Theory; Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Is Staying In Staying Safe?

    Gerald Zaltman

    *Joined Harvard Faculty: 1991
    Prior Faculty Appointments: Northwestern University, 1968-75;
    University of Pittsburgh, 1975-91

    *Doctoral Degree in Sociology Received from: The John Hopkins University;
    MBA Degree Received from: The University of... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; apparel; automotive; beverage; biotechnology; consumer products; entertainment; financial services; food; health care; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; retailing; sports; telecommunications
    • Web

    Programs & Events - Alumni

    Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital Raise capital successfully for a new venture or first-time fund by being more effective across the structuring and fundraising process. Mar 03 03–07 MAR 2025 Executive Education HBS Campus... View Details

      Clayton S. Rose

      Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. He currently teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His research is focused on the how leaders can manage the challenges created by the intense, varied and often... View Details

      Keywords: financial services
      • Research Summary

      3. Emergence and Early Growth of a New Venture in an Unfriendly Environment: The Role of a Business Group

      Abstract: How can an established organization ease the emergence and early growth of a new venture in an unfriendly environment? To answer this question, I describe and analyze the foundation and early life of two biotechnology start-ups at the... View Details

      • March 2012 (Revised December 2014)
      • Case

      Schön Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and Jessica A. Hohman
      The case illustrates how a leading German hospital group has invested deeply in the measurement of patient-level outcomes and costs, the foundations of a health care value framework. The company launches a pilot project to use time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care; Costing; Activity-Based Costing; Hospitals; Activity Based Costing and Management; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Germany
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      • 06 May 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams

      screen or the conference call as a theater, says Harvard Business School Professor Leslie Perlow, building on the foundational work of sociologist Erving Goffman. “You’re on the frontstage, and that’s for all the world to see,” she says.... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • Research Summary

      The Exercise and Development of Leadership

      My research in this stream contributes to three recent trends in leadership scholarship. The first is the resurgence of a perspective less preoccupied with leaders' impact on organizational performance and more with their function as sources and symbols of the... View Details

      • Program

      Launching New Ventures

      innovation in established firms Complementary Program Advance your learning through Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital, offered the week following Launching New Ventures, which delves into entrepreneurial finance and offers... View Details
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      Program Requirements - Doctoral

      with the sponsors and with the PhD Programs Offices during all stages of PhD work. Coursework Micro-Organizational Behavior Track Two term-length courses in foundations of psychology Two term-length graduate-level psychology courses One... View Details
      • April 2011 (Revised July 2011)
      • Case

      Renewing GE: The Africa Project (A)

      By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary
      This case profiles the evolution of General Electric's African American Form (AAF), an employee affinity group, and its efforts to increase the company's involvement in Africa. The AAF formed in 1991 to help advance GE's recruitment, retention and development of black... View Details
      Keywords: Diversity; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Africa; United States
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      • April 2011
      • Article

      The Origins of Japanese Technological Modernization

      By: Tom Nicholas
      Explanations of Japanese technological modernization from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century have increasingly focused on domestic capabilities as opposed to the traditional emphasis on knowledge transfers from the West. Yet, the literature is mostly... View Details
      Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Body of Literature; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Patents; Measurement and Metrics; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Information Technology; Technology Industry; Japan; Germany; Great Britain; United States
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      • 05 May 2021
      • News

      Forget To-Do Lists. You Really Need a 'Got Done' List

      • March 2020
      • Case

      A Tower for the People: 425 Park Avenue

      By: John Macomber, Joseph G. Allen and Emily Jones
      Healthy buildings and superior air quality are increasingly important since people now spend so much time indoors. Indoor spaces drive performance and productivity. Commercial real estate landlords and investors are responding to the demands of sophisticated tenants... View Details
      Keywords: Health And Wellness; Real Estate; Sustainability; Health; Pollution; Buildings and Facilities; Performance Productivity; Finance; Real Estate Industry; New York (city, NY)
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      Overview

      Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) is a course about the broad economic and political context in which business operates. Throughout their careers business leaders are asked to formulate and lead their firm's responses to the external... View Details
      Keywords: International Economy; Macroeconomics; Political Economy
      • Research Summary

      Competitive Dynamics of the Textile-Apparel-Retail Channel

      By: Janice H. Hammond
      Janice H. Hammond established in 1991 (with Frederick H. Abernathy and John Dunlop of Harvard University and David Weil of Boston University) the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research. Funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has supported the... View Details