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- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
disaster that killed over 1,000 factory workers in Bangladesh in 2013 highlighted to Western consumers the challenging conditions faced by the workers who made their clothes. Consumer pressure on Western retailers View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
record. The $25,000 Peter M. Sacerdote Runner-Up Prize went to DreamworldVR, a nonprofit that connects isolated pediatric patients battling chronic conditions to others in the same situation through a virtual reality multiplayer video... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
with little overt guidance from the hierarchy. Anteby suggests that this model, which tolerates moral complexity, may be one of the few that can adapt and endure. Faculty Research HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking... View Details
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Systems Leadership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
experience or direct service Alignment, not control, across diverse actors A commitment to both inner work and outward systems transformation Research Four workstreams Systems Leadership in a Fractured World Today’s leaders are operating... View Details
- February 2017 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike
By: Tom Nicholas, Christopher T. Stanton and Matthew Preble
For roughly six weeks between late December 1936 and February 1937, a major strike at several critical General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan, essentially halted the corporation’s U.S. production and resulted in significant gains for the nascent United... View Details
Keywords: Industrial Unionism; Craft Unionism; Welfare Capitalism; General Motors; Labor; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Wages; Working Conditions; Government Legislation; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Community Relations; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Steel Industry; United States; Michigan
Nicholas, Tom, Christopher T. Stanton, and Matthew Preble. "The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike." Harvard Business School Case 817-005, February 2017. (Revised May 2018.)
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
wrote the note, Mental Health and the American Workplace, exploring the extent of the phenomenon, its cost to organizations and employees, and some managerial responses. In some ways, it makes sense that mental health issues get buried. "Most physical View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
paperwork. An all-time high of 10,382 applications arrived for the Class of 2004. Dewey characterizes that number as a spike influenced by poor economic conditions that unleashed pentup demand. The Admissions Office received 8,526... View Details
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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
program in El Salvador is giving unemployed youths the skills to work in the country’s growing service sector. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53719 2018 The China Questions: Critical Insights into a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
You know, the community will help you in the very beginning, right, but you gotta carry through and deliver, and then the community will support you from that. But if you’re not willing to put in the work and kind of just drive through,... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
regimes and codes of conduct-that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under which companies adhere to these standards. We conduct one of the first large-scale comparative studies to determine which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
of dollars and asking, 'Is it working in an optimum fashion?' " Grossman, the former CEO of Outward Bound USA, wrote (with Christine W. Letts (MBA '76) and William P. Ryan) the pathbreaking 1997 Harvard Business Review article "Virtuous... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
education and business competitiveness." Balancing the Books Four ways that business is partnering with PK-12 Enabling innovation. Companies in San Antonio, Texas, worked to gain voter approval for a tax increase to fund quality... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
how to reignite that flame. The former Goldman Sachs banker and Portuguese secretary of state has his work cut out for him. The EU’s 2012 Community Innovation Survey found that while nearly half of European companies claimed innovation... View Details
- Profile
Sebastian Vargas
running out of air, and lack of visibility feel uncomfortable and uncontrollable. But, after a few dives, you find what works for you and the conditions feel familiar. This allows you to enjoy the vastness... View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
column. Anne, for example, pointed out that the German system assigns a certain number of immigrant families to specific villages, has them take German lessons, and gives job assignments with benefits conditioned upon taking a job if... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
interdependent work is performed under conditions that make bounded stable teams infeasible, creating a need to understand factors that foster teaming in the absence of team stability. Teaming refers to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
work there before launching Bantay—raising funds for education and rural health care. “It’s good, but not very scalable,” he says. “And also, I’m not a great fundraiser. So it would be a lot of work just to... View Details