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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

for his contribution to economic development, and has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and other honorary societies. In 2000, he was named a University Professor by Harvard University, the highest... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

entrepreneurship and society more generally in the years to come? What should venture and angel investors anticipate in the future? Climate Adaptation: How Investors Think About Resilience Senior Lecturer John Macomber (MBA 1983 D) + More... View Details

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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

taking three courses in this subject area within 18 months. Business in Society Understand what it takes to combine purpose and profit and how businesses can face today's global challenges. Explore Subject Business and Climate Change... View Details

17 Jan 2023
In Practice

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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General Management - Faculty & Research

agenda, and teaching programs: Management Policy and Process Management Information Systems Society and Enterprise Leadership, Values, and Corporate Responsibility Recent Publications How to Realize Your Own Love Supreme By: Arthur C.... View Details

27 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership

In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

18 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View

Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details

Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Utilities

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

Conviction is common to all. Integrity is a complex characteristic very much determined by national cultures. What is honest in one society is not in another, and vice versa. Adaptability is a pronounced characteristic of American... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

seemed like the quickest way to have an impact, if I wanted to give back to a society that somehow valued this specific ability I had.” Seoul as seen from Namsan Mountain. In 1970, Korea’s GDP per capita was just under $280. By 2021, it... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader

remarkable time for business," he says. "The challenges and opportunities that face managers today require extraordinary leadership abilities." Concludes Kotter, "Any institution that can help us understand leadership is serving society... View Details

Keywords: Management

23 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

New research from Harvard Business School reveals a stark gap in the professional ambitions of men and women. Having surveyed a diverse sample of more than 4,000 men and women, a team of social scientists reports a list of potentially controversial findings: Compared... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Employee Welfare – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

reformers, journalists, and photographers brought to national attention poor working conditions experienced by industrial workers. In the ensuing economic climate of the late 1920s and 1930s, many executives came to believe that the foundation of business and of a... View Details

22 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

give back to open source in various ways.” These results add substantial weight to the arguments that open source advocates have been making for years, Nagle says: Open source supports the entire modern economy and has become an irreplaceable necessity in which View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology

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HBS - The year in Review

research portal allows users to search in depth. South Sea Bubble Exhibit Press Release Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society Expanded Reach & Impact In January 2023 RC students completed a new short course on the Social... View Details

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General Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Head Debora L. Spar Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean, Business in Global Society Unit Head,... View Details

12 Feb 2024
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Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award

Dale LeFebvre (MBA 1998), founder and executive chairman of 3.5.7.11 Investments, was recently named by the nonprofit Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans as a recipient of the 2024 Horatio Alger Award. For more than 75 years, the award has been... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

15 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

©iStockphoto Here's some heartening news for working mothers worried about the future of their children. Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility at those jobs, and earn higher... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

them. Business leaders will find the book a source of both powerful examples and immediately actionable ideas, while scholars will be deeply intrigued by the insights that emerge from the cross cutting exploration of one of the toughest challenges our View Details

07 Mar 2023
HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

“algorithmic bias” as one of the “most important emergent issues plaguing our society today.” Google turns its back on Gebru Gebru joined Google in 2018 as co-lead of the company’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence unit, shifting her focus... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology

March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
Case

Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney

In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the iconoclastic founder of outdoor apparel company Patagonia, announced a new ownership model for his company. Chouinard and his family had held complete control of the company's voting and non-voting stock since its founding 50... View Details

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