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  • December 1994 (Revised May 2008)
  • Case

Jensen Shoes: Lyndon Brooks' Story

Jane Kravitz (Caucasian female), strategic product manager, and Lyndon Brooks (African American male), a member of her staff at Jensen Shoes, a successful producer and marketer of casual, athletic, and children's footwear, are assigned to new positions and to each... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Ethnicity; Race Characteristics; Performance Evaluation; Gender Characteristics; Management Skills; Diversity; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed

become financially self-reliant, created a business plan for the Rainforest Action Network, evaluated public television station KQED's external communications, and are devising a long-term strategic plan for the American Lung Association,... View Details
  • 07 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

market in over-the-counter derivatives. Others focus on the social consequences of globalization and new modes of communication, evaluating the introduction of new information technologies into African... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

provide business leaders with a helpful tool for evaluating the legal and ethical aspects of their decisions. Managers should first ask themselves whether the proposed action is legal. The legality of the proposed action is addressed... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

  Publications December 2014 Academy of Management Journal Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises By: Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul, Anne-claire Pache, and Jacob Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Harvard Business School

Organization of a Bank; a Study of Selected New Banks R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr. (DBA) 1974 The Management of the Liberal Arts College: A Case Study Rudolph Winston Jr. (DBA) 1975 A Study to Determine How Personnel Managers' Perceptions of Risk and Deservedness Affect... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

"The study of e-commerce has unfolded in much the same way that e-commerce thrust itself on the business world—with a great deal of overstatement," says Marc J. Epstein, Visiting Professor and Wyss Visiting Scholar in Social... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • 02 Nov 2020
  • News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

2018, I left my corporate job and decided to explore opportunities with a social impact-driven food organization, particularly one focused on food access and hunger relief. What made the Greater Boston Food Bank stand out among the... View Details
  • Web

Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

the wide range of motivational factors that drive human behavior in an organizational context, including pay, perquisites, promotions, opportunities for skill development, social approval, fairness, stress, emotional states, autonomy,... View Details
  • August 2010 (Revised January 2013)
  • Case

Urban Water Partners (A)

By: Karthik Ramanna, George Serafeim and Aldo Sesia
The case explores a new business venture to bring clean water to residents of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, who otherwise cannot afford it. Management has enough money to get the company through August 2010 but needs more capital thereafter. An HBS alumnus is interested in... View Details
Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Financial Statements; Business Startups; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Performance Evaluation; Dar es Salaam; Massachusetts
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  • Web

Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

lot of information about brands, steps that should take place during creating, building, keeping and evaluating brand over time. A lot of things that I learned I have already applied to my work and I see some positive changes in it, which... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

onto your team can actually minimize the pressure associated with the team's output being evaluated. I mentioned that one of the reasons performance pressure is so stressful is the team's awareness that their end product will be judged; View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • Web

Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) - Course Catalog

approaches have an important role to play in the mix. The course will explore business approaches, including CSR and CSV, its opportunities as well its limitations. We will study how new “venture philanthropy” attempts to serve that segment. We will look at how View Details
  • Web

Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Identify physical manifestations of climate change, learn how businesses assess and manage the risks and opportunities associated with climate stressors, and evaluate adaptation measures currently being pursued in different industries and... View Details
  • January 2011 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

Development and Promotion at North Atlantic Hospital

By: Boris Groysberg, Lisa Leffert, Kerry Herman and Libby Williams
Dr. Elizabeth Harris, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology (DA) at North Atlantic Hospital (NAH), faces several significant challenges. Staff satisfaction surveys confirmed her assessment that department faculty morale was low, the tenure and promotion system was... View Details
Keywords: Training; Employees; Retention; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry
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  • May 2001 (Revised August 2001)
  • Teaching Note

Jumpstart TN

By: Allen S. Grossman
Teaching Note for (9-301-037). View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Nonprofit Organizations; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Growth and Development; Success; Education Industry
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  • March 1983 (Revised January 1984)
  • Case

Merloni Group

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
The general manager of the recently-established French subsidiary of an Italian appliance company is in conflict with headquarters about unexpectedly poor financial performance. Headquarters management believes it should be able to exert more control over the... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trade; Organizational Structure; Performance Evaluation; Power and Influence; France; Italy
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  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

landscape. Book: http://hbr.org/product/harder-than-i-thought-adventures-of-a-twenty-first/an/10332-HBK-ENG Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization Around Newcomer Self-expression Authors:Cable, Daniel M.,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Profile

Matt Segneri

led him to Mayor Cory Booker's Newark office where he helped shape local economic development strategies. Another involved managing the Social Capitalist Awards, a collaboration between Fast Company Magazine and Monitor Group. "We... View Details
  • 26 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 26, 2016

June 2016 PLoS ONE Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity's Largest Gathering By: Barnett, Ian, Tarun Khanna, and Jukka-Pekka Onnela Abstract—Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne