Shaping the Waves - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)

early on I joined grassroots efforts to increase female employee representation in the workforce. Looking back, I can see how this experience ultimately informed why I’ve shaped my career around women’s... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow

The future of e-commerce will be shaped by a new generation of companies that can consistently deliver convenience, information, entertainment, and savings -- an as-yet-unrealized package that will have an... View Details

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From the Dean - Annual Report 2016

next decade, making Boston a destination for innovation and entrepreneurship. All of our efforts, past and future, are made possible by our generous alumni, and The Harvard Business School Campaign (launched in 2014) is helping View Details

15 Nov 2016
News

Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders

Associate Professor George Serafeim (photo by Susan Young) Michael E. Porter was an associate professor at HBS when he first developed his now-renowned five forces framework for strategy. Likewise, Clayton M. Christensen advanced the... View Details

18 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative

Gender & Equity Initiative’s mission is to accelerate the advancement of women leaders and promote gender equity in business and society. Importantly, though addressing the underrepresentation of women... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

A lifelong mission to save the oceans

Andreas Merkl (MBA 1989) is on a mission to protect the world’s oceans. The president and CEO of the Ocean Conservancy is devoted to supporting delicate ocean... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

Teaching you to deal with a problem when it's small. That fair is fair. Unless you're early, you're late. But how do you think your upbringing shaped the way that you managed and led? JI: Yeah, look, I mean,... View Details

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

Ten years before Harvard Business School published its first case study, activists across Europe celebrated the first International Women’s Day. They demanded, among other things, the right for women to hold... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

Livia Alfonsi

Livia is a development economist whose research focuses on labor market frictions and determinants of labor market participation in low-income settings, with a particular emphasis on barriers to youth employment and female labor market participation. In a separate line... View Details

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From the Dean - Annual Report 2014

in April and as part of a broader University-wide effort, we launched The Harvard Business School Campaign. Our goals for fundraising and, equally important, for alumni engagement are ambitious, as we view our aspiration as no less than... View Details

February 1996 (Revised March 1996)
Case

Harvey Golub: Recharging American Express

By: David A. Garvin and Artemis March

Harvey Golub, CEO American Express, initiated and led a large-scale change process. The case describes the organization he inherited, two successive waves of reengineering, his "principles-driven" approach to decision making, and his goal of converting American Express... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Engineering; Leadership Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Core Relationships; Integration; Value

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07 Nov 2020
News

Gender differences in COVID-19 perception and compliance

01 Dec 2017
News

Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis

attitudes toward the Syrian conflict—such as the continuing desire of refugees to return to a unified Syria—which has helped to shape discussions about peace and reconciliation... View Details

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From the Dean - Annual Report 2020

Harvard Business Review’s circulation climbed to 340,000, the highest in its 97-year history, evidence that the Publishing group continues to produce insights that shape... View Details

02 Jan 2013
What Do You Think?

Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

collaboration. An entire generation is being prepared to enter workplaces like this, organizations that reward extroverts who show initiative in stepping forward to shape the nature of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

January. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/MGM3aQMGBgbEhCgQhOwk][/div] The next wave of small business aid Mills joined the Obama Administration and his National Economic... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

30 Jan 2014
HBS Seminar

Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School

Paula C. Rettl

Paula Rettl is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her primary areas of expertise are comparative politics, political economy and political behavior, with a focus on Latin America and... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies

experience—downloaded as an app to a VR headset—is more like a Choose Your Own A dventure book. Users’ decisions shape the storyline, while their interactions with the... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

September–October 2023
Article

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Mark R. DesJardine, Jody Grewal and Kala Viswanathan

Common owners face an incredible investment challenge: managing systematic risk. Because common owners hold shares in multiple firms across an industry, an action (or inaction) by one firm that affects industry peers is felt more severely by common owners than by... View Details

Keywords: Common Ownership; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Institutional Investing; Corporate Governance; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Return