Corporate Center - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits from doing so. We test our hypotheses in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

There's a famous line from the movie The Godfather, which is often repeated in corporate settings: "This is business, not personal." Ironically, though, that statement is actually bad business advice. During the Consortium for Operational... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

capitalist Shibusawa Eiichi in a global historical perspective. The chapter reviews the similarities and differences over time and between countries of proponents of corporate responsibility, including Andrew Carnegie and Robert Anderson... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

Last year, Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati met with the marketing department of a large American corporation and posed a seemingly simple question: What do marketing people actually do? "I got this nervous... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Aug 2022
News

HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship

“Unlike when many of us who studied at HBS, today few Japanese corporations offer their employees scholarships to study at business schools,” says club member and event co-organizer Masako Egawa (MBA 1986). “The HBS Japan Fellowship Fund... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2014
News

Case Study: Declawing the Competition

and/or alliance with a pet food supplier—get your kit endorsed. 4) Consider the new B Corporation status, which allows additional tax benefits for socially responsible corporations. — Glenn E. Perkins (GMP 11, 2011) Take a page from the... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS

and the reason for many a loosened tie and rolled-up shirtsleeve. The 2005 GLF was the culmination of nearly three years of planning, led by HBS professor Nancy Koehn as faculty chair. “We chose London because for so long it has been at the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

managed and that senior managers' key responsibilities should center around its acquisition, allocation, and effective use. For the vast majority of companies, that assumption simply is no longer true. Without denying the need for prudent... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

01 Mar 2007
News

The Plight of the Global Poor

multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its “milk-district model” that encourages supporting businesses to spring up around its dairies in rural India; CEMEX’s... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jan 2003
News

Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

"We went back to our alma maters at HBS's expense to recruit students, while Dean Baker approached corporations to raise additional scholarship money," says Lambert. Their combined efforts paid off. Not only did the number of... View Details

26 Oct 2020
News

A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions

good? And if we believe profit, purpose and social returns are not in conflict, how do we put that theory into action as a corporate executive, entrepreneur, or investor?” Cissy Chen (MBA 2019), who helped organize the event for the HBS... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2001
News

Making a World of Difference

in the midtown Manhattan headquarters of Halcyon/Alan B. Slifka Management Company. In discussing the success of his investment firm, he points out that his traders are not only innovative and individualistic but also cooperative. When asked about the Joseph Slifka... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

of successful investment in the inner city that Porter has written about are Sprint and Walgreens. In Missouri, Sprint decided to locate a new call center in a struggling section of downtown Kansas City and provide job training for nearby... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

Student-Profile

Filippo Mezzanotti

was particularly intrigued by the incredible opportunities that econometric techniques provide for understanding the reality around us. During my Master’s at Bocconi I worked on several research projects at the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)

it was assumed you’d stay with that firm for life. And if one of your corporate clients got a better offer from a competing bank, they’d stick with you anyway. Loyalty and relationships were everything. That is emphatically no longer the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

business-unit managers choose local measures that influence, but are not necessarily identical to the corporate scorecard measures. The most remarkable transformations and partnerships occur in support functions and shared services, such... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

"Soul." "Spirit." A host of organizations - among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines - have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books about the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

21 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

new drug markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49384 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-438 The Transformation of NCR During his tenure as CEO since 2005, Bill Nuti had moved NCR View Details