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  • January 2024
  • Technical Note

The ICARUS Principles: What It Takes to Tackle the World

By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
Over the course of the 20th century, most of the world’s major multinational corporations framed their mission around Milton Friedman’s famous mantra: that the sole purpose of the firm is to maximize its shareholders’ profits. Recently, however, growing numbers of... View Details
Keywords: Purpose; Mission; Social Business; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; For-Profit Firms
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  • Web

Client Success Stories

Long-Lasting Impact The world's top companies and organizations turn to Harvard Business School for assistance with challenges that demand a new level of skill, leadership, and... View Details
  • Web

Faculty & Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Sandra J. Sucher Matthew C. Weinzierl Ashley V. Whillans Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group This group of scholars examines issues of gender and race at schools across Harvard and beyond.... View Details
  • 2019
  • Chapter

The Art of (Creative) Thought: Graham Wallas on the Creative Process

By: Teresa M. Amabile
BOOK ABSTRACT: The Creativity Reader is a necessary companion for anyone interested in the historical roots of contemporary ideas about creativity, innovation, and imagination. It brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Creativity
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  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

excerpted here, authors Kaplan and Anderson suggest the process be simplified through an approach they call "time-driven ABC." Here's an overview. The solution to the problems with ABC is not to... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
  • February 2020
  • Case

Leading Change in Talent at L'Oréal

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Vincent Dessain and Emer Moloney
Jean-Claude Le Grand just stepped into a new role as Executive Vice-President for Human Resources at the global cosmetics company, L’Oréal. He is now responsible for the hiring, development, promotion, and retention of 83,000 employees worldwide. The highly successful... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Business Headquarters; Business Divisions; Business Organization; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Demographics; Diversity; Gender; Nationality; Multinational Firms and Management; Human Resources; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Management; Jobs and Positions; Employment; Human Capital; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Personal Development and Career; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Networks; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Business Strategy; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; France; Paris
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  • 24 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by James E. Austin & Ezequiel Reficco
  • 17 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

at the art, and then try to make connections to some tricky problem that you're trying to solve in your work. It’s also very useful to stimulate your thinking by talking to other people—brainstorming or... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 21 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

When COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home two years ago, newly remote workers largely reconnected on two collaboration apps: Slack and Microsoft Teams. The pandemic propelled Slack beyond its core following in the technology... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology
  • Web

Rock Entrepreneurship Advisor Program - Entrepreneurship

Partner Photon Venture Partners Alex Jiang Alpha Startup Fund Beijing, China Michael Kaplan Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer MKaps LLC Mickey Konson CEO Quantum Financial Technologies Washington DC Kelsey Morgan Pasqualichio New... View Details
  • 23 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson
  • April 2021
  • Case

Codecademy: Where to Next?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Max Mailman and Sarah Ascherman
In March 2020, Zach Sims, co-founder and CEO of online education platform Codecademy, prepared for a meeting with his Chief of Staff Kunal Ahuja to discuss the company’s goals. Codecademy billed itself as the largest online resource for computer science literacy and... View Details
Keywords: Monetization Strategy; Business Model; Change Management; Venture Capital; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Teams; Marketing Channels; Product Marketing; Network Effects; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; United States
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    Competing in the Age of AI

    Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. From... View Details

    • 29 Aug 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

    planning for move of EU manufacturing offshore ” Most respondents suggested that the Company’s survival was more closely associated with product/market issues than the logistics and politics of manufacturing. Roaddoggie said, “The new... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto
    • December 2010
    • Article

    The Case for Professional Boards

    By: Robert C. Pozen
    When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Failure; Accounting Audits; Quality; Behavior; Legal Liability; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; United States
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    • 05 Aug 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

    every problem they solved correctly. The participants graded their own papers and reported their own performance, meaning they had both an opportunity and an incentive to... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 26 Aug 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: August 26, 2008

      Working PapersApplicant and Examiner Citations in U.S. Patents: An Overview and Analysis Authors:Juan Alcacer Abstract Researchers studying innovation increasingly use indicators based on patent citations.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

    Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

      Leadership To Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

      Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur—who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.

      In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview... View Details