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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
profit-making; unlike financial performance, there is no common currency of measurement and aggregation," Ebrahim explains. "The value created by social-sector organizations accrues to society rather than to a set of owners or... View Details
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
can be low growth and declining margins. The key challenge in aligning marketing activities with corporate strategy is to develop a set of metrics to be used by top executives and the board that measure the impact of marketing activities... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract—This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the nonfinancial corporate sector in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
would be well-placed to monitor the financial condition of a mega bank and set the compensation of its senior executives in order to attain its dual goals of maximizing long-term profits for its shareholders... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
existence of passive leadership constitutes a substantial barrier to candid dialogue and debate within organizations. Leaders can and should take concrete steps to build conflict into their decision-making processes. For instance, they might ask a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni in Middle East Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
28 and 30, 2016 to celebrate and connect with each other as the School hosted “A Vision for the 21st Century” as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. The Ritz-Carlton, Dubai International Financial Centre was the View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
our whole team was going to be focused on making sure the website was up and fielding customer service calls. We were all hands on deck—we even had a whole bunch of extra people come on to help us out. We just set up a whole response... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- News
Alumni in London Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
with each other as the School hosted “A Vision for the 21st Century” as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. The historic Old Billingsgate was the setting for an evening presentation and reception, enabling... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- News
Florida Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Palm Beach, and Miami as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. The Four Seasons Hotel in Miami was the setting on February 24 for an evening presentation and reception, enabling nearly 150 alumni from Miami and... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
and desires of customers, employees, and investors sets them apart from the bulk of competitors that routinely emphasize one constituency to the detriment of others. Aisner: What are some of the skills that great service leaders must... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
continent and the sheer variety of climbing in all its forms. The author’s ambitious odyssey takes him to the Alps, the Himalaya, Yosemite, the Andes, Kenya, New Zealand, and South Georgia. His goal is neither to seek glory nor to... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
public. Boaty blowback highlights the potential danger of giving consumers the power to vote, even though customer engagement is a primary goal of almost every social media strategy. The problem: Even though NERC never explicitly promised... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
the clashing logics of banks, governments, and the general goal of poverty alleviation. The paper sets out to increase rigor of institutional complexity theory by exploring the role of politics as process,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
organizations like Factual (founded by a former Google employee) have set as their goal that of providing access to all of the world's facts. Presumably this means data such as the location of every factory... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
meeting the challenges of today's marketplace, another with its eye firmly set on a very different world that lies beyond the bend. Leading Change and Organizational Renewal will help senior managers and executives to better comprehend... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
and to serve others, then we have succeeded. What are your goals for the organization? The two really important things that we want to do are to reach more kids and to create a more diverse setting for them.... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
was developed elsewhere, such as a digital form of DNA. The goal now is to redefine disease based on the underlying biological mechanisms, Lander said. By that token, diseases are going to surprise us. Reclassifying them means that some... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
you arrived at HBS? My goal in life has always been to walk the fine line between technology and management. Throughout my career I've been in roles that embodied both mindsets – some purely technological (as an engineer) and some purely... View Details
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Authentic Leader Development - Course Catalog
likely to: step up, lead effectively, and live a more integrated & meaningful life. Course Goals: Overarching : Increased CLARITY (self-awareness) & COMFORT (self-acceptance) Detailed : Increase your self-awareness by engaging the “big questions” in life, with the... View Details