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  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

Download the PDF. Accelerated organizational transformation faces a host of obstacles well-documented in the change management literature, according to HBS professor emeritus James E. View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • June 2022
  • Teaching Plan

Pacesetters

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Mel Martin
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 322-019. City Sealcoating CEO Keith Chaney had just publicly called out the Boston Chamber of Commerce for their slow progress on their supplier diversity program, Pacesetters. Established in 2018 by regional business leaders,... View Details
Keywords: Minority-owned Businesses; Procurement; Racial Wealth Gap; Diversity; Small Business; Restructuring; Contracts; Goals and Objectives; Performance Improvement; Performance Evaluation; United States; Massachusetts
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    Meg Rithmire

    Meg Rithmire is the James E. Robison Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a... View Details

    Keywords: real estate
    • 01 Aug 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

    relationships, building acommunity that will help us pursue the great mission to educate leaders." HBS Professor and conference co-chair James E. Austin referred to his... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

    By: James E. Austin
    This research is examining the process by which companies engage in strategic corporate social responsibility as an integral part of their enterprise strategy and operations. The research has conceptualized this process as entreprenurial in nature and defined it as... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2016
    • First Look

    March 1, 2016

    2016 Boston: Self-published An Easy Introduction to Financial Accounting: A Self-Study Guide By: Narayanan, V.G. Abstract—This book is a self-study guide written for someone who wishes to teach themselves basic financial accounting. It is based on a course View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Aug 2000
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study

    case were being written by a recognized school of business, we would learn something from the exercise. "We couldn't let the opportunity go by." The Birth Of A Case From a researcher's point of view, according to Professor View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 02 Jan 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Articles of 2006

    one surprising finding from recent research done by HBS professor Amy Edmondson and her colleague, Professor James Detert from Penn State. Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism A values-driven organization... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Oct 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: October 15, 2008

    Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After? Authors:James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 21 Aug 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

    and nonprofit organizations. Barrett discussed her new HBS working paper, published with Professor James Austin and Sheila McCarthy, on "Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 03 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

    learn more, see The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions by John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman. If you have resolved to... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 20 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

    handles that. And can he use those negotiating skills and those communication skills and create shared value skills in a situation where there’s no walk-away option and he doesn’t have the leverage. Command and control management model Nancy F. Koehn, View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
    • 31 Jul 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

    eager to finally read Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown. Brown chronicles how nine boys from working-class families won... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing
    • 19 Oct 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

    went to Washington, I saw a tremendous need for fact-based analysis to inform policymaking” Last spring, Toffel sought to change that by taking the unusual step of convening academics and government regulators in the same room for a... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • April 1990
    • Case

    Nestle Alimentana S.A. -- Infant Formula (Abridged)

    By: James E. Austin
    The new vice president of infant and dietetic products of Nestle Alimentana S.A. has to make recommendations on the company's marketing programs for its infant formulas in developing countries. The U.S. subsidiary is currently the target of a consumer boycott because... View Details
    Keywords: Product Marketing; Emerging Markets; Developing Countries and Economies; Distribution Channels; Marketing Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Food; Business Subsidiaries; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Switzerland
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    • 15 Mar 2016
    • First Look

    March 15, 2016

    Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50763 Finding Excuses to Decline the Ask By: Exley, Christine L., and Ragan Petrie Abstract—A growing body of empirical evidence documents a reluctance to give. Individuals avoid donation asks, and... View Details
    • 16 Dec 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: December 16

    benefits are at most partially realized. The same institutions and practices that facilitate efficient ad placement can also facilitate fraud. The networks that should be serving advertisers have decidedly mixed incentives, such as cost savings from cutting corners,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Nov 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: November 7, 2006

    Authors:Michael E. Porter, Christian H. M. Ketels, and Mercedes Delgado-Garcia Publication:In Global Competitiveness Report2006-2007, edited by Augusto Lopez-Claros, Michael E.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 May 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

    with the unsexy title, A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. Co-edited by HBS professor emeritus Alfred D. Chandler and View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
    • 18 Apr 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Selling Luxury to Everyone

    Luxury is the new essential. Consumers know it and retailers are reaping the bounty. At a "Growth Strategies in the Luxury Goods Industry" panel on April 3 at the HBS Retail and Luxury Goods Conference, moderator Nancy F. Koehn summed it up well. Koehn, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products