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01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

way to organize and provide a voice for the shareholders. Shareholder meetings I believe should be annual, brief and rather formal, focusing on the election of board members... View Details

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Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms

Bussgang Gain proven frameworks to build a viable, valuable tech venture that can profitably scale and attract venture capital. $1,850 Certificate Featured Courses New Transforming Customer Experiences Professor Ryan Buell Gain a... View Details

02 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

And an audience of customers standing by with their smartphones to record any spectacle seems to have had, until now, unfortunately, no discernable impact on corporate policy guidelines for dealing with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Mar 2021
In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

employees. They know who they will not serve, businesses they will not be in, and activities they will not engage. They do not pursue profit for its own sake if it means... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2018
Working Paper

Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg

Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy

Citation

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

and operations, 5G for wireless data transmission, VR/AR (virtual reality/augmented reality) for a wide set of applications, support services... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

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Africa - Global

while our Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Research Center based in Istanbul, plays this same role for North African countries. Support for... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

scientific reasoning and method appear to be applicable to business, thus helping to legitimate the study of business as an activity within the university. Yet what exactly a "science" of... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

November–December 2015 Operations Research Active Postmarketing Drug Surveillance for Multiple Adverse Events By: Goh, Joel, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, Mohsen Bayati, and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

invest in multiple foreign currencies. These cross country lending/borrowing operations create demand for currency hedges. A tightening of domestic monetary policy may drive a bank to lend more in a foreign currency by its effect on the... View Details

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Latin America - Global

activities for the LATAM region, and providing programmatic support to different areas of HBS including admissions, executive education, View Details

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

several concrete managerial prescriptions for the selection problem based on this trade-off. Finally, we demonstrate the value of our framework in a case study that considers air traffic management. Ethnic Innovation View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Spangler Center | About

Visiting Committee, and, along with his wife, Meredith, has served on the Board of Dean’s Advisors. In addition, he chaired the School’s first capital campaign (2000-2005), leading HBS to exceed the $500 million goal and providing View Details

02 Aug 2022
Blog Post

From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

very same people would talk about being insecure and feeling like they were falling behind others. One of the strengths of HBS is the supportive community-- as a section, and... View Details

18 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 18

and Online Shopping By: Liaukonyte, Jura, Thales Teixeira, and Kenneth C. Wilbur Abstract—Media multitasking competes with television advertising for consumers' attention, but... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

director of research. Garvin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, teaches courses for MBAs and executives on leadership, general management, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Ways to Give Today - Alumni

a nonprofit association that supports the European research, case writing, and course development activities of Harvard Business School faculty. It makes available to the... View Details

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

making change to support the big opportunity. After a year, Davidson formed a "guiding coalition" of 210 volunteers to attract and help guide other volunteers for the new... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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