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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Student ventures are placed into one of three tracks – Open, Health & Life Sciences, and Social Impact. Applications are due in December. Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project: Harvard Law Entrepreneurship... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
When Munchery announced in January that it would join the compost heap of food delivery startups, the San Francisco company burned customers, suppliers, and investors that included Oscar-winning actors Jared Leto View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 2008
- Working Paper
I Am Not on the Market, I Am Here with Friends: Using On-Line Social Networks to Find a Job or a Spouse
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Sociologists have extensively documented that networks influence market exchange through improved matching and vouching. In this paper, I propose that networks can also blunt the signal of market participation, as actors who are on the market surrounded by their... View Details
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
that included retail, financial services, and health care. Tip-offs to toxicity The data reveal three traits that indicate which would-be hire needs a warning label. Human resources managers should be alert... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting
development of sectors like education, the environment, immigration, and health care through impact investing, philanthropy, advocacy, and more. The organization brings... View Details
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
perception, observed Lal and coauthor Jose B. Alvarez in Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink. TJX Companies—parent company of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, and HomeGoods—is View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- Op-Ed
How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback
well or poorly, and identifying areas or skills to keep developing. By the time she read her annual performance review, she could concentrate on elements that she had already reflected on, thus making the... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- October 2012 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
Olympus (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch, Suraj Srinivasan and Kathleen Durante
As 2012 approached, the woes of the financial crisis seemed to be fading, companies were resuming business as usual, and some of the scrutiny on corporate governance practices began to recede as well. That is until another major financial scandal emerged in Japan in... View Details
Lorsch, Jay W., Suraj Srinivasan, and Kathleen Durante. "Olympus (A) ." Harvard Business School Case 413-040, October 2012. (Revised July 2013.)
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Competing with Social Networks
MBA EC 1217
Career Focus
Competing with Social Networks is a Strategy class targeted at students considering careers in high technology, entertainment, social media or consumer packaged goods. It will be useful... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
calculated risks." He has followed that philosophy in business as well - and no more so than in 1981, as president of the Polaris E-Z-Go Division of Textron. Says Wendel: "Textron wanted to sell Polaris... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
applied to organizations. GM's dilemma stems in large part from the fact that its dependency ratio has deteriorated as workers take earlier retirement, live longer, and enjoy health View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
country unit to adjust to local needs is a critical balancing act. Rule 4: Timing is critical. Retailers would do well to stop planting flags and focus instead on a limited set of opportunities where they... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
FAMILY PORTRAIT: John and Aileen Crowley with Megan, John Jr., and Patrick. When John Crowley (MBA ’97) flew to Portland, Oregon, last spring to watch the filming of a movie about his life, what he saw was... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
characterizes the financial world. They also overlook the role of natural selection. To be sure, natural selection in the financial world is not exactly analogous to the processes first described by Darwin and elaborated on by modern... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Our Curriculum - Business History
Managerial Capitalism Taught by Tom Nicholas This second-year elective course explores the historical development of the most important economic actors and institutions—entrepreneurs, corporations, labor unions, View Details
- 24 Feb 2021
- News
"Moderna" Case Discussion with CEO Stéphane Bancel
- 05 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy
- 2008
- Chapter
Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard
By: Robert S. Kaplan
David Norton and I introduced the Balanced Scorecard in a 1992 Harvard Business Review article. The article was based on a multi-company research project that studied performance measurement in companies whose intangible assets played a central role in value... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
very well was to revise, and reset, his objectives as the context changed. As soon as that ship was frozen, he figured out that the goal of the enterprise—and it was an enterprise, an organization—was no... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2024
- News
On the Road to Recovery
notes. “Our nurses have had a humongous impact of maintaining hospitals and keeping other health care facilities operating. They’re working very long hours. They’re away from home. It’s just a tough place... View Details