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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
the company's marketing department into an integral part of product development, product management, and strategic planning after years of relative neglect is considered. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
geared to inner-city Boston youth. In his current role as executive director of The Trustees of Reservations, he oversees a revered, 109-year-old Massachusetts View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
enactment of values and a purpose to which the organization subscribes. Barnard came to define the role of the organizational leader as the creator and steward View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
business there? What should they watch out for? What opportunities are ripe for exploration? A: In all areas of greater China, understanding the local systems, the role of... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 10 Nov 2016
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Impact Investing: Challenges and Opportunities
Never has there been a time when so many believed in both the ability and responsibility of the private sector to combat the world's greatest social challengesfrom poverty to climate change to accessible health care. Recent years have seen the creation of thousands of... View Details
- 10 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA
Latinx culture, and is the result of years of collective effort to bolster the number of Latinx applying to business schools and thereby in leadership View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
licensing. Indeed, many of the ideas Pisano has advanced over the years are being adopted by the biotech industry. It is precisely this sort of real-world research and analysis, resulting in value-added... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
to “explore together and learn from this watershed issue.” “The fall of Enron is an event with ramifications not only for how business will be conducted in the future, but for how business should be taught at View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
In a new book on the origins and impacts of globalization, Harvard Business School's Geoffrey Jones focuses on the role played by a vital but often ignored actor in this conversation: business entrepreneurs... View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
create regional career pathways in the city. Working with private sector stakeholders in this effort sparked a curiosity about the role of business on issues such as youth disconnection, economic mobility,... View Details
- March 1974 (Revised June 1995)
- Case
First National City Bank Operating Group (B)
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Growth in demands on the bank's "back office" required a totally new approach to management. New stress on systems orientation, objectives, measurement, process design and control has resulted in lower costs, fewer people, and higher quality. Also resulted in fear,... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transition; Banks and Banking; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Production; Outcome or Result; Banking Industry
Lorsch, Jay W. "First National City Bank Operating Group (B)." Harvard Business School Case 474-166, March 1974. (Revised June 1995.)
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Working PapersAgency and Institutions: A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Abstract This paper analyzes the literature that has been... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
the leading proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Lastly, the case discusses the critique and defense of the board's role and is designed to allow for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808112 SKS Microfinance Harvard Business School Case 208-137 Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
maximize the gains and minimize the risks, but all three have been in short supply in Argentina, especially, for decades. Q: What role did the Business History Initiative interviews done with Latin American business leaders for the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
them to view whiteness as the norm. Furthermore, the separation white classmates feel from their race seems to allow them to dodge the role of solution-finding in race conversations. To set the record... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
In his recent Working Paper, "Marketing's Role in Cross-Sector Collaboration," HBS professor James Austin outlines three stages of collaboration between businesses and nonprofits—philanthropic,... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
think hard about partner selection, deal structuring, and operational decisions when expropriation is a key risk. Second, it's an instructive example for economics and legal scholars who have begun to emphasize the role View Details