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  • March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
  • Case

Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd.

By: David L. Ager
In the Fall of 2014, Heather Berthelette, the recently appointed COO of Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd. (TCIG), was preparing a recommendation to the Board of Directors about whether to dissolve the company and return any remaining funds to the seven... View Details
Keywords: Indigenous Communities; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Economic Growth; Investment Banking; Canada
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  • 2017
  • Article

The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation

By: Paul Green, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons and Francesca Gino
We present theory suggesting that experiences at work that meet employees’ expectations of need fulfillment drive work engagement. Employees have needs (e.g., a desire to be authentic) and they also have expectations for how their job or their organization will fulfill... View Details
Keywords: Needs; Motivation; Work Engagement; Disengagement; Authenticity; Self-Expression; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Human Needs
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  • October 2009
  • Article

Managing Risk in the New World

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Anette Mikes, Robert Simons, Peter Tufano and Michael Hofmann Jr.
Five experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Risk Management
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Ph.D. Students

By: Sunil Gupta

Thesis Chair

  • Carl Mela, Columbia University, 1993; T. Austin Finch Foundation Professor, Duke University.
  • Sangman Han, Columbia University, 1993; Professor, SungKyunKwan University,... View Details
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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Action': Impact Investing at the McKnight Foundation By: Lauren Cohen, Christina R. Wing and Sophia Pan May 2025 | Faculty Research Elizabeth McGeveran, Vice President of Investments at the McKnight Foundation, reflected on how to... View Details
  • 21 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change

Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • Research Summary

Competitive Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter

Porter is engaged in a major new body of work on the theoretical foundations of competitive positioning and the underpinnings of sustainable competitive advantage. This research highlights the distinction between positioning and operational effectiveness; the... View Details

  • 2015
  • Book

Strong Brands, Strong Relationships

By: Susan Fournier, Michael Breazeale and Jill Avery
From the editorial team of the ground-breaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes this new volume. Strong Brands, Strong Relationships is a collection of innovative research and management insights that build upon the foundations of... View Details
Keywords: Brand Building; Brand Management; CRM; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Advertising; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Advertising Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
  • Module Note

Strategy Execution Module 12: Aligning Performance Goals and Incentives

By: Robert Simons
This module reading explains how managers use performance goals and incentives to ensure that employee actions align with the overall business strategy of the organization. The module begins by discussing how managers use goals to communicate business strategy, the... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Performance Goals; Performance Measures; Incentives; Benchmarks; Motivation; Compensation; Bonuses; Strategy
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  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Burden Legacy

aviation to the HBS curriculum and laid the foundation for the Baker Library Collection on the Business Aspects of Aviation, which includes the William A.M. Burden Papers, aviation investment analyses that Burden prepared in the 1930s. If... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
  • 31 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

are perennial questions,” says Reinert. “It’s not surprising that we’re discussing them; it’s surprising that we ever stopped at all. Self-reflection and returning to the foundational texts is a healthy part of the evolution of any... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
  • 07 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

Get to Know the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association

career in business. While we all served in uniform in different ways, there is so much we have in common - that strong foundation makes our community special and unique. For me, the opportunity to serve as a leader within the AFAA is a... View Details
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Alumni - Global

between fiction and finance. Re: Michael Kim (MBA 1990); By: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park 01 Mar 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin Turning Point: Eternal Returns Re: Louisa Wong (MBA 1981); Leonard A. Schlesinger (Baker Foundation... View Details
  • January 2021
  • Article

Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Mitigates Self-Serving Bias in Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Crisis

By: Karen Huang, Regan Bernhard, Netta Barak-Corren, Max Bazerman and Joshua D. Greene
The COVID-19 crisis has forced healthcare professionals to make tragic decisions concerning which patients to save. Furthermore, the COVID-19 crisis has foregrounded the influence of self-serving bias in debates on how to allocate scarce resources. A utilitarian... View Details
Keywords: Self-serving Bias; Procedural Justice; Bioethics; COVID-19; Fairness; Health Pandemics; Resource Allocation; Decision Making
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  • February 2015 (Revised December 2016)
  • Case

Poseidon Carlsbad: Desalination and the San Diego County Water Authority

By: John Macomber
Extreme drought conditions in California have significant impacts on the ability of the San Diego County Water Authority to provide adequate water for current users. Water shortfalls also could curtail the economic development of one of the fastest growing regions in... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Resource Allocation; Public Sector; Private Sector; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Infrastructure; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; California
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    The Academy of Fisticuffs

    The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically... View Details

      Strong Brands, Strong Relationships

      From the editor team of the ground-breaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes this new volume. Strong Brands, Strong Relationships is a collection of innovative research and management insights that... View Details

        Wenxin Du

        Wenxin Du is a Professor of Finance and the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management at the Harvard Business School. She studies global currency and fixed income markets, central banking, financial... View Details

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        Business History - Faculty & Research

        Business History Business History 2014 Book Business History By: Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present... View Details