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16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

partisan politics and hot-button issues. Instead, such statements remind people that community matters—and that civility and constructive engagement are both possible and expected. Set rules of engagement and hold people accountable.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

encouraging community interaction. Coordinate immigration policies internationally. For a successful immigration policy, coordination among member states—and perhaps even among European countries and the US, the UK, and Canada—is key.... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

The Courage of our Convictions The Courage of our Convictions 04–05 APR 2019 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Kira Banks Dr. Kira Banks has been working to support individuals and groups to understand themselves, others and systems of oppression for over 20 years. Her... View Details

17 Jun 2021
News

Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

women leaders in the HBS alumni community with events, initiatives and social impact scholarships. So when Club President Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16) and Stark were planning events for 2021, they decided to organize something useful for... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 2001
News

Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia

“The new cases will feed our curriculum, we have opened lines of communication with many new companies, and the case method has found a firm foothold in China.” A second collaborative program, Competing in the Age of Globalization, is... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes and Deborah Blagg; David Lane; Educational Services

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

budgets. These include affirmative budgeting (full influence), consultative budgeting (moderate influence), and authoritative budgeting (low influence). When organizations communicate that employees will be involved in budgeting,... View Details

June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
Supplement

Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (B)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Victor Wu

Supplements the (A) Case. View Details

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15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

government leaders grapple with changing conditions. “To be fair, a lot of this comes from the fact that policymakers don’t actually know [exactly how to respond],” Glaeser says. “It’s not like the medical community coalesced on this.” As... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

for years, extending back to Adam Smith’s “invisible hand.” While many members of the management community generally accept the notion of free markets and trade, those unable to compete with imports are sometimes quite willing to request... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

four primary trends driving the development of innovative solutions: The first is the world's population growth, forecast by the United Nations to reach roughly 9 billion by 2050, and the mass migration from the countryside and agrarian View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

27 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

research community lately. Last year, a Boston University cancer researcher was found to have fabricated data in two published papers that were later retracted. Also in 2011, a well-known Harvard University psychology professor was found... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

unmarketable yet invaluable intangibles such as social tolerance, personal responsibility, and respect for the rule of law. Each is a unique community of scholars in which lives as well as minds are molded. Pure profit-based competition... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

03 Mar 2010
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

people, society and government is required." David Cawlfield, citing his experiences in what he believes is a high-identity organization, credits this to "Consistent discussion and communication of 'corporate values' (that) help... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

challenged by what HBS professor Clayton Christensen has called "disruptive technology." In the United States, for example, there is a growing number of Electronic Communications Networks (ECNs)—competitive electronic national... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

missing an opportunity to turn a good business into a great one. Q: You emphasize that it's more important than ever for managers to communicate business strategy and performance goals effectively to employees. Why so? A: This is a much... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

communications intensive and relationship dependent that they did not function well when operating units were separated by substantial time and distance barriers. In addition, language and cultural barriers made it difficult to integrate... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

my definition of the word—constructive. I am building men and companies." Georges F. Doriot, in "General Doriot"s Dream Factory," Fortune , August 1967 50 Doriot also championed a global community of venture capitalists by promoting... View Details

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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

distinct means of communication and distribution to a mass audience. Trade catalogs, for example, became an integral way of merchandising new industrial products created from the enormous factory output and market demands of the... View Details

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Virtual Campus Tour | MBA

Play 2020 Virtual Campus Tour video Play Video duration: 8:29 Spangler Center Connecting the community & facilitating valuable student interaction. Spangler Center is home to two dining facilities, three comfortable lounges, the COOP... View Details

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Burden Park | About

Center and Klarman Hall, the park welcomes visitors arriving from the south side of campus, setting the stage for the unique landscape they will encounter throughout the School. Burden Park also serves as a place for community members to... View Details

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