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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
It was a giddy time that presaged a new frontier, when a tinkering youth would become an international monopolist, and hundreds like him, eager for the quick riches that appeared inevitable, would start... View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events
By: Jiao Luo, Stephan Meier and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
One of the benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs, it has been argued, is that they build up a reservoir of public good will, shielding companies in times of trouble. In this paper, we test the view that CSR provides protection from public ire by... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Crisis Management; Media; Newspapers; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy
Luo, Jiao, Stephan Meier, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-091, April 2012.
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
since many of the potential members reside in New York City. Donaher encourages anyone interested in the LGBTQ+ Forums to join the HBS Pride Alumni Association at presidents@hbspridealumni.org or contact him... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
than three months into her tenure at the business news network — turned her attention to determining what services and coverage CNBC could provide at a time when the U.S. stock markets were closed. On the... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
it’s time to look for a new job. To learn more about evaluating your current position, read Dina Gerdeman’s story, Bad at Your Job? Maybe It’s the Job’s Fault. 3. Resolution: Score a job interview at your... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
other financial improprieties. But new research shows that lawsuits against auditors for accounting violations have fallen over the past 20 years, and it’s not because accountants have become so much better at their craft or companies... View Details
- 13 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success
School in 2023, Bedford encountered some of the same challenges he faced at Harvard College years earlier: finding community and comfort in an unfamiliar culture. This fall, Bedford shared his story with 125 incoming MBA students during the inaugural session of the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
a wide range of responses. We were featured in the New York Times Magazine's annual "Year of Ideas" issue and in The Economist. These discussions, as well as most of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
$89.75, the leather-bound Polaroid Land Camera, Model 95, represented a high-end consumer purchase. All 56 cameras brought to the Jordan Marsh demonstration sold out. After its Boston debut, the Land Camera appeared at department stores in test markets in View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
As general managers advance through their careers, they are often asked to bring their skills to bear on a new level of responsibilities. For the recently appointed country or business-unit manager of a multinational organization, such... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- Research Summary
3. Emergence and Early Growth of a New Venture in an Unfriendly Environment: The Role of a Business Group
Abstract: How can an established organization ease the emergence and early growth of a new venture in an unfriendly environment? To answer this question, I describe and analyze the foundation and early life of two biotechnology start-ups at the... View Details
- Web
A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Next A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana A New Vision Fritz J. Roethlisberger, ca. 1958. Yousuf Karsh, photographer. © YOUSUF KARSH The... View Details
- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
winners, exemplifying leaders working to make a difference in the world, are: Student Business Track The Dubilier prize was established by New York and London-based private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values
task was rebuilding trust and confidence both inside and outside the organization.” Following Chao's remarks, Dean Clark told the new students that they had come to HBS at “an extraordinary time,” because of changes in technology, the... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
across a variety of contexts. People face difficult, potentially life-changing decisions all the time—whether to move to a new city or change careers, for instance—and the study findings show just how paralyzed people can feel when they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network
a difficult place now, and our students can be part of the effort to help turn it around." Just a few months into his new job (landed, incidentally, through the HBS Career Services Web site), Merrick is finding some good View Details