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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
the rest of the employees were safely leaving the building and that the fire was contained. I learned that real leadership means running toward the fire and being concerned about the safety of others before your own. —John Fees (MBA 1999)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the job done. Shaich offers clear-headed lessons for the entire life cycle of an enterprise, from bootstrapping a startup to going public to managing large companies to selling a business. And the relevance of his message doesn’t end in... View Details
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Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Constructions of Gender Identity at Work” (June 1995). Robin J. Ely : Winner of the 2021 Academy of Management Learning and Education Decade Award for “Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women’s View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
socioeconomic disparities in health and mortality is a well-established fact. Many pathways have been adduced to explain inequality in life spans. In this article we examine one factor that has been somewhat neglected: people with different levels of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society
educate leaders and catalyze action on this complex and expanding set of issues. Play Our Mission & Objectives Go deeper on our mission and long-term objectives Learn More about our Mission & Objectives Related Initiatives & View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
seemed confused by, if not hostile toward, an educated Black woman, she found a surprising source. Her two early funders of EcoTech Visions were women who were not known in investment circles. They were referred to her by someone she met... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
a cultural double standard of unconscious bias that I don’t think is getting enough attention and HBS could help educate future leaders and change our culture.” AGE 48, WHITE, WHOLESALE/RETAIL TRADE, UNITED STATES Composition of Senior... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
October 2016 Harvard Business Review Competing with a Goliath By: Avery, Jill Abstract—A Peruvian apparel company struggles to position itself against a global brand. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51646 October 2016 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
2018 Economics in Central Banking Award with Roberto Rigobon for the "Impact of the Billion Prices Project and PriceStats on Central Bank Policymaking." Marco E. Tabellini : Won the 2018 European Economic Association Young Economist Award... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
sales people. The article discusses reasons for that gap, the implications, and an example of what one leadership team did to link better its business strategy with sales investments and behaviors. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation, but it has not examined how this affects which projects principals will start. We demonstrate that failure tolerance has an equilibrium price?in terms of an investor's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise
Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa. Following this experience, I joined Deloitte as a consultant, supporting the public sector and providing pro bono services to global social enterprises... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
dispersed around the globe. But the one theme that has attracted the most HBS Working Knowledge readers over our 11-year history is how to improve personal leadership skills. A third of the articles on this page relate to improving work... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics
economics is about how people understand information.” As an undergraduate at William & Mary, he interned at Google, where he gained an insider’s perspective on a new technology, Google Glass. Bracaglia wrote SQL for the Glass team, whose challenging View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
financial autonomy to collect export taxes and spend on public goods. The argument is that trade shocks affect asymmetrically the tax revenues of state governments and, thus, their expenditures on elementary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Harvard Business School
Herald . The previous publications are both dedicated to the African American community. Bert H. King MBA 1970 Former HBS assistant director of Admissions, Bert H. King worked as president and executive director of the Council for... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
sometimes get their day in the sun: Sherron Watkins of Enron, Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom, and Coleen Rowley at the FBI all ended up on the cover of Time as "Persons of the Year." But public recognition of a few people does not... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
But companies shouldn't count on people succeeding despite the odds; they should shift the odds. Here are three ways to do that. Put innovation at the heart of strategy, and tout it in every message. Think of innovation strategy as a pyramid: big bets at the top, a few... View Details