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  • 13 Nov 2023
  • News

4 Strategies to Cultivate an Authentic Corporate Purpose

  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data

information, it lacks advantages over the traditional model where the retailer just places orders. “When I started my research, there was a belief that these systems were unambiguously beneficial,” says Kulp, whose research on the topic... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

Even they feel a lack of agency within their organizations. Thus, we face two groups on different ends of the career spectrum with a shared belief in their powerlessness. It would be tragic if their pessimism were on target. Thankfully,... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

What You Know Depends on Where You Go

world, though the words used for the numbers differ. If you're a chemistry instructor, whether in Beijing, Beirut, or the Bay Area, you can be confident that water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen. In business, however, things can be a bit more complicated. “My View Details
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

"name your own price" devices, permission marketing, group buying, price comparison engines, car purchase Web sites, mass customization, etc. It is still largely a new way of thinking whose domain and modalities remain to be defined. For a while the dominant... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

The Real Deal

Leppert called on the business community to help combat homelessness and its root causes. “Investments are, at their heart, a belief that we can create opportunities,” he noted. “The private sector must step up. Government can’t do... View Details
Keywords: Homeless; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • July 1991 (Revised September 1992)
  • Background Note

Company's Ethical Climate

By: Joseph L. Badaracco
Explains what a company's ethical climate is, describes the forces that shape it, and ways managers can work to alter a firm's ethical climate. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Business or Company Management; Value
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  • May 2017
  • Supplement

Buffer.com (B)

By: Susanna Gallani, Tiffany Y. Chang, Brian J. Hall and Jee Eun Shin
Buffer decided to release its salaries and compensation calculation formula to the public, and the public reaction was greater and more positive than they would have imagined. The company experienced both an increase in volume and a change in the kinds of inbound... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Compensation Design; Company Values; Culture; Transparency; Attraction; Selection; Performance Measurement; Performance Measures; Performance Metrics; Startup Management; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics
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  • May 2009 (Revised November 2009)
  • Case

Ralph Nader: When Purpose and Legacy Collide

By: Nitin Nohria and Umaimah Mendhro
This case tells the story of Ralph Nader's leadership, from his success as a crusader for consumer interests and active public participation in the political process to his controversial campaigns for the U.S. presidency. View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Government and Politics; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Reputation; Public Opinion; Public Administration Industry
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  • February 1995 (Revised October 2006)
  • Case

Brainard, Bennis & Farrell (A)

By: John J. Gabarro and Andrew P. Burtis
A law firm must decide how to split partnership profits among the partners. Issues of seniority versus performance, performance evaluation, and lack of consensus of values dominate the discussions. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Performance Evaluation; Values and Beliefs; Rank and Position; Profit Sharing; Legal Services Industry
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  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)

Tech has real social and ethical responsibilities, but we’ve seen that the current leadership of these platforms is not willing to make changes to promote a healthier ecosystem. When I was at Reddit, its culture needed a lot of work, and I found myself wishing for a... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Authentic Leadership

Scott Snook "ALD helped me grow both roots and wings. I grew roots that firmly planted me in a worldview and a leadership view, but I also grew wings—the confidence to go out into the world and act with purpose." —Neda Navab (MBA 2013) MBA students enrolled in the... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 11 Jan 2013
  • News

A CFO Questions Business Values

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information
  • Portrait Project

Wei Su

I don't have a firm belief in next life, although would not mind having one. Just in case this life is the only chance... My goal in life is a simple two-fold: make my country strong and my family happy. I never believe in living for... View Details
  • Web

Residential Life | MBA

Residential Life The Harvard Business School campus was designed with the belief that daily interactions increase the potential for learning. 65 % of MBA students live on campus The MBA Program at Harvard Business School is a full-time,... View Details
  • September 30, 2019
  • Article

Climate Change and Our Emerging Cultural Shift

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Today, we have made climate change trivial by making its solutions easy, looking for simple answers that are palatable, generally framing it in the language of commerce. In the long run, it won’t work. There is no technological or political silver bullet to solving our... View Details
Keywords: Culture; Climate Change; Values and Beliefs; Transition
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  • June 2019 (Revised February 2020)
  • Supplement

Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (B)

By: Tsedal Neeley, Paul Leonardi and Michael Norris
Supplements the (A) case, HBS No. 419-066, and provides information about what happened after the (A) case ends. View Details
Keywords: Agile; Values; Vision; Corporate Culture; Leadership; Transformation; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Digital Transformation; Technology Industry; United States; California
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  • 2018
  • Chapter

New Prospects for Organizational Democracy?: How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs

By: Julie Battilana, Michael Fuerstein and Michael Lee
For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with ideological and organizational ties to a thriving unionism. In 2015, however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Values and Beliefs; Integration; Theory
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  • May 2017
  • Case

Buffer.com

By: Susanna Gallani, Tiffany Y. Chang, Brian J. Hall and Jee Eun Shin
Social media company Buffer wanted to establish clear company values early in its growth. One of these values was a commitment to transparency in its company practices. Buffer openly shared its business strategies and fundraising decks, among lots of other information.... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Compensation Design; Company Values; Culture; Transparency; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs
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  • Web

GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws | Information Technology

Information a French applicant for admissions shares confidentially in their admissions essay about their religion should be treated as Level 3 data. Information about an individual’s political beliefs the individual shares widely in a... View Details