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Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education (book)

Corporate accountability is never far from the front page and Harvard Business School trains many future business leaders. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure its members embrace proper business standards? Relying on his first-hand faculty... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Business School Aims to Raise $1 Billion in Campaign

Keywords: Fellowships; Financial aid; curriculum innovation; faculty research; Educational Services

11 Aug 2020
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Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead in an Era of Disruption

Keywords: capitalism

27 Oct 2020
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The Role of American Business Leaders in a Challenging Election Season

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Business Ethics

By: Joshua D. Margolis

Joshua Margolis is interested in how individuals can exercise leadership in the face of competing ethical and economic responsibilities, and how organizations can enable them to do that. In particular, how can managers and companies simultaneously advance... View Details

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

in business and civil society in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action in June 2023, Onyeador plans to accelerate her... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global

Real estate has traditionally been a local business, but more and more, it’s becoming global, the same way so many other businesses have. On a year-to-year basis, we’ve been seeing global cross-border flows into real estate increase by 10... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

19 Sep 2017
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Senior Lecturer John Macomber Wins Prize for Excellence in Sustainable Business Education

28 Oct 2019
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Small Businesses and the Underserved: This Week in the Finovate Podcast

19 Aug 2016
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Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets

inclined to make the type of small business loans—just $5,000 for working capital or $20,000 for machinery—that can help grow developing economies. In its first six years, Entrepreneurial Finance Lab... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Action Plan: In Context

“It’s a way to promote genuine and healthy individual growth.” Ho’s own introduction to etiquette came from her mother, a consummate hostess who often entertained at the family’s home in Hong Kong, before gaining a more formal education... View Details

Keywords: April White; communication; manners; business; entrepreneurship; China; human behavior

2008
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Etiquette and Process Puzzles of Negotiating Business in China: A Questionnaire

By: James K. Sebenius and Cheng (Jason) Qian

Cultural differences can affect negotiations in many ways, from influencing the basic motivations and perceptions of the players to guiding the surface aspects, such as etiquette, protocol, and process, of business interactions. Navigating the challenges of these... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance; Questionnaires; Negotiation Process; Behavior; China

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09 Aug 2012
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Big Business Does Best In Washington When It Plays the Underdog

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

Efforts to restrict women’s sexual behavior date back centuries in virtually every region of the world. Now, the end of Roe v. Wade in the United States has returned such limitations on View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

04 Sep 2001
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Governing the Family-Run Business

family? The governance of a family business is more complicated than for non-family owned companies because of the central role of the family that owns and typically leads the business. In a family business,... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man

Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) (photo by Sidney Erthal) Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) (photo by Sidney Erthal) A self-described “experiment in community and art,” Burning Man takes place each year in Nevada’s Black... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

05 Aug 2020
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Rethink How You Do Business in Order to Keep Being Innovative

14 Dec 2015
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Business Groups Exist in Developed Markets Also: Britain Since 1850

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

24 Apr 2014
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Building successful businesses in a time of rapid change

HBS Professor, Emeritus Howard Stevenson (MBA 1965, DBA 1969) talks about his role in building successful organizations, including the Baupost Group, the Weather Channel, AutoTrader, and Landmark Communications. (Published April 2014) View Details