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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
arena, for example, Forest Reinhardt has found that when companies see environmental regulation as an opportunity to look critically at their production processes — not just to figure out the minimum they can do to comply — they can make... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
practices of their portfolio firms. Prior research documents that PE firms create economic value in portfolio firms through effective governance, financial, and operational engineering. Given PE firms' focus on value creation, we examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
leaders focus on the few things that produce results and experiences for the right customers; (3) the best service operating strategies don't require tradeoffs, so leaders foster "both/and" thinking in designing winning View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
drinks that would win the brand international recognition. Smith liked the café concept and the enthusiastic workers behind the counter; he took a substantial cut in pay to sign on as EVP and CFO. Today, the company operates approximately... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
that influences billions of people globally. Although the health and environmental costs of air pollution are well known, the present research investigates its ethical costs. We propose that air pollution can increase criminal and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
“collective genius” to describe the kind of leadership she saw at Pixar and assembled her own collective to research it. The team included her then–research associate Emily Truelove and Pixar executive Brandeau, who contributed his own understanding of what it was like... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the tsunami and earthquake struck... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Departments | Employment
Services, and Curriculum Services) Business Operations Executive Office Information Management Services ( Analytics, Taxonomy, Search, Data Management) Information Products Team (Working Knowledge, eBaker, Baker Library|Bloomberg Center... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
effective care teams and good management of local operations (clinical microsystems). Clinicians influence both, and local clinician leaders will have several key tasks. Publisher's link: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1301814... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
protesters, they found a group that cared deeply about preserving the culture of the city, and that wrestled with how they might understand and change the underlying conflicts. "They realize that they are operating in a remarkable... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
United States, and Georgia-Pacific Corporation, one of the world's largest forest products companies, had pursued competing agendas for common lands. The former wanted to preserve the land untouched, the latter to use it intensively. However, mounting View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- Web
Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
professionalize and create formal systems and structures. Module 5: Reinvention Reinvention is a process whereby established organizations respond to external environmental shifts that threaten to upend their core business model,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
They recommend a more coherent strategy that divides CSR efforts into three categories including those related to philanthropy, operational effectiveness, and shaping the firm's business model to better create shared value. Consideration... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
of multinationals from developed countries in developing countries. The central argument is that strategies were shaped by the trade-off between opportunity and risk. Three broad environmental factors determined the trade-off. The first... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
managing the operations of companies whose activities stretch across national boundaries. The purpose of this book is to provide a conceptual framework showing the interplay between the multinational corporation, the countries in which it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
corporations and governments alike need to focus on. Consequently, the career opportunities for MBAs are now unlimited- you can shape sustainability strategy at traditional companies and banks, drive products and operations at startups... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
education, and the arts—Forged in Crisis spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, President Abraham Lincoln, legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
books and articles, went to seminars on the weekend, and learned everything he could about being a grass farmer. Grass—and grass alone—was the key, he learned, to producing beef that is delicious, environmentally sustainable, and healthy.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
has taken the lead in coordinating and sharing case leads, and we saw remarkable progress this past year in the Required Curriculum of the MBA Program. COVID-19 has changed the way we operate in both business and social settings. What (if... View Details