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2018
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Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing

While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, today companies are increasingly expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social... View Details

Keywords: Hybrid Organizations; Hybrid Organizing; Multiple Goals; Social Enterprise; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture

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12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

with the unsexy title, A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

expectations of their trainees confirm the notion that partisan perceptions often shape behavior. At the negotiating table, clinging firmly to View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

06 Nov 2013
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Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

drew attention to the resource allocation process (RAP) with his seminal study of four organizations in 1970. He concluded that a bottom-up process of idea generation begun by operational managers and shaped... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

February 2012
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CEO Relational Leadership and Strategic Decision Quality in Top Management Teams: The Role of Team Trust and Learning from Failure

By: Abraham Carmeli, Asher Tishler and Amy C. Edmondson

In this study, we examine a complex pathway through which CEOs, who exhibit relational leadership, may improve the quality of strategic decisions of their top management teams (TMTs) by creating psychological conditions of trust and facilitating learning from failures... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Development; Decisions; Management Teams; Trust; Learning; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Managerial Roles; Failure

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17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

San Francisco has always been a beacon for people who want to change the world. From beat poets to hippies to gay activists, each wave of counterculture immigration has put its stamp on View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

how are they likely to shape the future for media competitors, advertisers, and their agencies? HBS professor Alvin Silk has long studied such issues, and his latest findings, presented in a new working... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 30 Sep 2014
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Building a Global Brand: Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate

Building a Global Brand: Why you arent buying Venezuelan chocolate The next wave of global challengers will be firms from emergent market countries like Brazil, China, and India. Who are these companies and what are the barriers they are trying to overcome? View Details

06 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Takeaways from the Peek Women's Colleges Cohort

business, but in fact enrichens your experience and allows you to shape your unique perspective on complex problems, which can in turn, inspire your peers. This final lesson was one that I treasured the most... View Details

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

The senior leader has to have the understanding and the confidence in his conviction. WK: Has a deference to the science of management gotten in... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

ownership to the private sector and become regulators—a position that will, in fact, give them more power to shape the competitive environment of industries not only in their... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

11 Sep 2015
Blog Post

What is the JD/MBA Program at HBS?

Having the JD/MBA community has fundamentally shaped my time at Harvard. The group represents a collection of the most passionate, dynamic... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World

responsibility shared by so many business leaders in countries with great income disparities. Learn more at www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/emerging-markets Global Case Writing Shaped by Faculty Interests Assistant Professor Doug Chung’s... View Details

Keywords: faculty research

09 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

There were certain parameters and goals for the role, but it was ultimately mine to own and shape (which was part of the appeal). In retrospect, taking this role was a bit of a... View Details

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

New York Times, October 2, 2011, p. BU6 James L. Heskett, Is Profit as a "Direct Goal" Overrated? Working Knowledge, July 2, 2010 James L. Heskett, The Culture Cycle: How to Shape View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Feb 2015
News

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

The camel has long been the punch line of the riddle, "Name the animal designed by a committee." But taking a closer look at View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

technical understanding of how race and racism have shaped the most pressing problems of our time. How effective was the course? Morgan: The... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges

Since its founding in 1908, HBS has viewed business as a powerful means for improving society. More than a century later, says Dean Srikant Datar, “the role we can play in tackling systemic challenges has become more important, whether in View Details

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

answers to issues of capitalism? A: Think of a Russian doll. Business is inside capitalism, but capitalism is inside society, and society is inside history. The forms that capitalism takes in different eras reflect View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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