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05 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 5

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-105.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Market for Healthcare Joseph L. Bower and Michael NorrisHarvard Business School Note 312-040 This note describes the market for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

continual streams of requests for personal information and by the equally unavoidable barrage of personal information about others. Read the paper: http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/papers/acquisti_herding-out.pdf Global Capitalism at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/bgjs13_84709dcc-425f-4fe2-8600-0f8cbb50be16.pdf August 2013 The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management The Case Method By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2007
Book

The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning

By: Joseph L. Bower

With rising CEO turnover, companies are increasingly looking outside for qualified candidates. Sure, externally recruited CEOs bring fresh perspectives and connections. But they lack the in-depth knowledge of the company's culture and history that they need to succeed.... View Details

Keywords: Recruitment; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership Development; Management Succession

11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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April 2025 Case Jamie Dimon: Navigating the DEI Backlash By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Sarah Mehta Citation Educators Related Badaracco, Joseph L.,... View Details

13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

by deviating frequently and in predictable ways from the recommendations offered by a centralized capacity planning model. Finally, we document that these discretionary capacity supply decisions exhibit a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2023
Book

Your True Moral Compass: Defining Reality, Responsibility, and Practicality in Your Leadership Moments

By: Joseph L. Badaracco

This book presents a new, powerful, and practical way of making final decisions on the hard, complex, uncertain problems of life and work. What if you have looked at the data, talked with trusted colleagues, and applied all the relevant managerial and ethical... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Decisions; Work-Life Balance; Values and Beliefs

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Business Economics - Doctoral

Moss Joseph Pacelli Matthew Rabin Sophus A. Reinert Forest L. Reinhardt Meg Rithmire Clayton S. Rose Benjamin N. Roth Raffaella Sadun David S. Scharfstein Joshua R. Schwartzstein Arthur I Segel Ishita Sen... View Details

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Strategy - Doctoral

Michael Lingzhi Li Deepak Malhotra Edward McFowland III Cynthia A. Montgomery John C. Mulliken Kyle R. Myers Frank Nagle Seth Neel Felix Oberholzer-Gee Joseph Pacelli Lynn S. Paine Elisabeth C. Paulson Sophus A. Reinert Meg Rithmire Jan... View Details

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General Management - Faculty & Research

General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students April 3, 2025 Article How to Build a Life: To Be Happier, Stop Resisting Change By: Arthur C. Brooks April 2025 Case Jamie Dimon: Navigating the DEI Backlash By: View Details

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General Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

Business Administration Lynda M. Applegate Baker Foundation Professor Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emerita Joseph L. Badaracco John Shad Professor of... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

What Makes a Good Leader

research in leadership has helped to define the field. Five of these experts — Joseph L. Badaracco, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, John Kotter, Nitin Nohria, and David A. Thomas — agreed to help the Bulletin answer... View Details

Keywords: Management

February 1991 (Revised August 2001)
Case

Ann Hopkins (A)

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Ilyse Barkan

Intended to help students understand the many barriers organizations face as their members and their management ranks grow more diverse. As a case on business ethics, it encourages students to discuss what "fairness" and "diversity" mean when an organization is also... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams

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2020
Book

Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead

By: Joseph L. Bower, Dutch Leonard and Lynn S. Paine

Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass... View Details

Keywords: Capitalism; Business And Society; Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy

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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

Duerr Head of Product Management, Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence Google AI Regulation Join us for a panel moderated by Mitchell Weiss, the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at HBS,... View Details

February 1994
Case

Kathryn McNeil (A)

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Charles Foley, vice president of the computer retailing firm Sayer MicroWorld, must decide whether or not to fire his employee, Kathryn McNeil, a 37-year-old product manager who has been unable to work as many hours as her colleagues due to her status as a single... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Employees; Work-Life Balance; Resignation and Termination; Mergers and Acquisitions; Retail Industry

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