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- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
gets lost? What sticks?” But there’s another level to Graeber’s findings. Do you want the information you’re presenting to be acted on in the immediate future? If so, lean harder on numbers than stories. “Think about a politician out campaigning,” he says. “Is the... View Details
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Faculty & Research - Health Care
News These Are the Most Common Habits That Prevent You From Achieving Happiness, Arthur Brooks Says Re: Arthur Brooks 01 Nov 2024 | Today When Politics Disrupts Our Happiness Re: Arthur Brooks 23 Oct 2024 | Trey Gowdy National Academy of Medicine View Details
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Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research
advantage over time. Particular attention is paid to competitive positioning; understanding comparative costs; and addressing issues such as cannibalization, network externalities, and globalization. MBA Elective Curriculum (SECOND YEAR)... View Details
- 15 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes
- January – February 2011
- Article
'Bricks and Clicks': The Impact of Product Returns on the Strategies of Multichannel Retailers
By: Elie Ofek, Zsolt Katona and Miklos Sarvary
The Internet has increased the flexibility of retailers, allowing them to operate an online arm in addition to their physical stores. The online channel offers potential benefits in selling to customer segments that value the convenience of online shopping, but it also... View Details
Ofek, Elie, Zsolt Katona, and Miklos Sarvary. "'Bricks and Clicks': The Impact of Product Returns on the Strategies of Multichannel Retailers." Marketing Science 30, no. 1 (January–February 2011).
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Business History - Faculty & Research
colonial years until 2023, when leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in for his third term, after the most polarized elections in the country’s recent history and having to deal with an attack against government buildings... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
program chair of the RC. “The goal of RC Renewal is to bring us back towards the sweet spot between the two.” A similar effort has also been extended to the second-year Elective Curriculum (EC) and is being led by its new chair, Suraj... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- May 2020
- Article
Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education
By: Jessica N. Holtzman, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert and Jennifer Kasper
Problem:
Value-based health care (VBHC) is an innovative framework for redesigning care delivery to achieve better outcomes for patients and reduce cost; however, providing students with the skills to understand and engage with these topics is a challenge to... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses
Holtzman, Jessica N., Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert, and Jennifer Kasper. "Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education." Academic Medicine 95, no. 5 (May 2020): 740–743.
- 20 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It
our classes seemed to be participating less," says Cuddy, who teaches the MBA elective Power and Influence. "Some of the women exhibited body language associated with low power, so we wondered if that was in turn affecting how... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- March 2022 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
Pittsburgh: A Successful City?
Pittsburgh, PA, was once the crown jewel of American heavy industry. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the city was an undisputed leader in steel production, boasting some of the largest companies and wealthiest individuals in the world. Its abundance of... View Details
Keywords: Economic And Social Disparities; Economic Development; Local Economic Development; Contextual Intelligence; Contextual Knowledge; Context; City Growth; City Innovation; City Leadership; Pittsburgh; Local Government; Local Stakeholders; Business And Community; Business And Community Relations; Community Engagement; Community Relations; Cross-sector Collaboration; Innovation; Innovation Economy; Innovation Clusters; Innovation Ecosystems; Shared Prosperity; Equality Of Opportunity; Equity; Inclusion; Business And Government; Business & Government Relations; Business And Government Relations; Business And Society; Neighborhoods; Race And Ethnicity; Innovation & Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Household; Income; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economics; Local Range; Urban Development; Urban Scope; City; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Growth and Development; History; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Public Sector; Social Issues; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Education Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania
Mills, Karen, Caroline Elkins, Vikram Gandhi, Gabriella Elanbeck, and Zeke Gillman. "Pittsburgh: A Successful City?" Harvard Business School Case 322-080, March 2022. (Revised April 2023.)
- Portrait Project
Alan Xie
invisibility — huddled masses yearning to speak, unwilling inheritors of the legacy of 1882. Ten years ago, I was elected to represent one of the largest and most diverse school districts in America. When I placed my right hand on the... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, some saw it as proof that the color of one’s skin could no longer hold people back from achieving important leadership roles in the United States. Not true, says Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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1.13 Satisfactory Academic Progress - MBA
(but not exclusively) on students' basic abilities and mastery of core concepts presented in RC courses. This mastery is required as a foundation for satisfactory completion of the elective curriculum (EC) year and for performance as a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
good leader? Name: Joseph Badaracco, John Shad Professor of Business Ethics Course head: Leadership, Values, and Decision Making module Developed and teaches: The Moral Leader, MBA elective Title of next book: Quiet Moral Leadership On... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 05 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Board of Directors’ Responsiveness to Shareholders: Evidence from Shareholder Proposals
- December 2019
- Case
Small-Market Teams and Big Stars: The Milwaukee Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo
By: Anita Elberse and Melcolm Ruffin
In October 2019, National Basketball Association (NBA) team the Milwaukee Bucks are about to tip off their first home game in the 2019–2020 NBA season. Peter Feigin, president of the Milwaukee Bucks, and Jon Horst, the league’s youngest general manager, could look back... View Details
Elberse, Anita, and Melcolm Ruffin. "Small-Market Teams and Big Stars: The Milwaukee Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo." Harvard Business School Case 520-037, December 2019.
Strict ID Laws Don't Stop Voters: Evidence form a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008-2018
U.S. states increasingly require identification to vote—an ostensible attempt to deter fraud that prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences design on a panel data set with 1.6 billion observations, 2008–2018, we find that... View Details
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1.10 Cross-Registration - MBA
Eligible for MBA Degree Credit EC students may cross-register for enriching courses, such as language classes, audits, or specialized undergraduate courses, but these will not count toward the MBA degree requirements or appear on a student’s transcript. A student may... View Details