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Curriculum - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Curriculum 0ms Required Curriculum (1st Year) Cases Environmental opportunities and challenges are embedded in most Required Curriculum courses so that all students understand the importance of the natural environment to... View Details

30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

Economics article Commuting and Innovation: Are Closer Inventors More Productive? "Commuting hurts both innovative quantity and quality." “It’s amazing how robust the results are. Commuting hurts both innovative quantity and quality,”... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, an M.P.A. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. She serves on the Advisory Board of Harvard Business... View Details

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A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About

opportunities for students, faculty, and visitors from diverse backgrounds to exchange ideas, network, and establish lifelong bonds. Generous contributions of HBS alumni and friends who believe in the power of business—and business... View Details

06 Jun 2018
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Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

eugeniek Companies looking to shed costs in an economic downturn rarely cut compensation—typically, they slash jobs instead. New research confirms the wisdom of that decision. The study concludes that when a company cuts employee pay the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Mar 2023
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Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

Immersive Field Course, our group had researched the opportunities and challenges facing the renowned LEGO Group. Known for their innovative and sustainable approach to making their iconic plastic bricks, the company also faces challenges... View Details

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Events - Business History

how "all three regimes enjoyed periods of high growth and supposed alliances between autocrats and capitalists. Over time, however, the relationships between capitalists and political elites changed, and economic outcomes diverged. While... View Details

08 Oct 2020
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Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

well in some aspects of the job but not in others. Avoid creating a system that plays favorites or denies people the opportunity to improve. Tie rewards clearly to performance. Ideally, this should be done at both the individual and group... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

January 2011 (Revised April 2011)
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CME Group

By: Forest L. Reinhardt and James Weber

The case describes CME Group, the world's largest commodities exchange, futures and options on futures contracts, history, regulation, and the strategic choices the company faced. CME Group was formed from the oldest and most well-known exchanges in the world. Traders... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Stocks; Goods and Commodities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk Management; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Financial Services Industry; United States

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01 Sep 2023
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Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

agencies with cumulative budgets of $2 billion and 3,000 employees. At the beginning of COVID, she focused on the state’s emergency response, sourcing, vetting, and purchasing PPE and medical supplies. She said, “The Goldsmith Fellowship presents the View Details

18 Feb 2021
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SIPs in 2021

one of 13 SIPs offered during winter break. Now in their fourth year, SIPs are no-credit, no-fee elective courses, offering MBA students an opportunity to engage deeply in a single subject with professors, practitioners, and experts in... View Details

21 Feb 2018
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When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

themselves. Furthermore, that decision to abandon ship is often the wrong decision. “There is potentially a great market opportunity when a competitor drops out,” says Joshua Lev Krieger, an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health

01 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308009 Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan Harvard Business School Case 708-017 Toshihiko Fukui, Government of the Bank of Japan, faced a complex situation in the fall of 2007. An... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Rigorous research, rooted in practice | About

Rigorous research, rooted in practice The most pressing challenges and interesting opportunities facing the world today cannot be addressed without business playing a significant role. Harvard Business School faculty conduct research on... View Details

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Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy Shared value opens up new needs, new markets, new value chain configurations, and new ways of thinking about the business. This creates new opportunities for strategic positioning and new competitive... View Details

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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

the publication of a book, the development of an MBA elective course on Business at the Base of the Pyramid, and the creation of an executive education program for leaders in the microfinance industry. Today, SEI continues to examine the challenges and View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

for expansion and growth. Initiatives & Projects The Health Care Initiative and the Social Enterprise Initiative connect students, alumni, faculty, and practitioners to ideas, resources, and opportunities for collaboration that yield... View Details

28 Mar 2024
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Rooms with a View

Mirza notes—and provide them with opportunities to develop and advance. Bringing greater equality to the hospitality industry is one of Mirza’s guiding principles: “Our industry is probably the most egregious example of inequality there... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality

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A Case for Contextual Intelligence

By: Tarun Khanna

In this perspective, I make a case for entrepreneurs and academics alike to focus on what I have referred to elsewhere as Contextual Intelligence, the ability to understand the limits of our knowledge, and to adapt that knowledge to a context different from the one in... View Details

Keywords: Contextual Intelligence; Institutional Voids; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Situation or Environment; Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship