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HBS - The year in Review

Career Fellowship to supplement a graduating MBA student’s income for one year so that they can work with, learn from, and make a difference in a growing business that is creating economic opportunity for... View Details

15 Aug 2019
Blog Post

The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS

in how to approach education work. One piece of advice: think about why you’re coming here before you get here. There are too many opportunities to take advantage of. If an opportunity doesn’t exist here... View Details

01 May 2024
What Do You Think?

Have You Had Enough?

(Illustration created using image generated by Midjourney, an artificial intelligence tool.) Last month, I posted a column in HBS Working Knowledge titled, “What’s Enough to Make Us Happy?” Over the last few months, I’ve been asking... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 May 2023
HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

their improved performance creates. “There exists tremendous low-hanging fruit in creating shared value for employees and companies,” says Rouen. “The logistics are not hard; it’s the will. Top management have to be willing to give up a... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

02 May 2023
What Do You Think?

How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

outside on what is acceptable. After interviewing Google CEO Sundar Pichai for 60 Minutes last month, CBS correspondent Scott Pelley said Pichai “told us society must quickly adapt with regulations for AI in the economy, laws to punish... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology

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Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Wellington Asset Management. Publications Open Door Legal: Universal Legal Access By: Brian Trelstad, Taylor Greenthal and Sarah Mehta September 2024 | Faculty Research This case is about Open Door Legal (ODL), a San Francisco-based civil legal aid nonprofit. View Details

28 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 28

by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate in firm-level policy decisions, whereas CFOs... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Minority Students - MBA

be selected based on performance but, more importantly, their desire to give back and create opportunities for others. For further information visit the Luncap Foundation . Minorities in Government Finance... View Details

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

explains. At least once a month Zobel gathers the CEOs of Ayala's disparate businesses for informal brainstorming sessions. "We're constantly looking for synergies. There's excitement in collectively View Details

14 Feb 2023
HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

Crossroads.” HBS research associate Julia M. Comeau contributed to the study, along with the School’s Europe Research Center. While the country’s well-paid, high-tech economy is humming, and the country continues to generate an outsized number of View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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California - Global

navigate the U.S. regulatory space while prioritizing its growth opportunities and partner selection, both domestically and abroad. May 2024 Case LinkedIn Corporation, 2024 By: David B. Yoffie , George Gonzalez and Emily Grandjean By... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Mel Tukman Faculty Fellow, Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He teaches and co-leads The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) in the MBA program. Shikhar has been a successful entrepreneur for... View Details

22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

restrict one's future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time-inconsistency. We propose an additional mechanism that may contribute to the demand for commitment technology: the desire to signal to others. We present a field... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2023 (Revised June 2024)
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Kaspi.kz: Building Trust through Innovation

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Fares Khrais and Marilyn Morgan Westner

This case is written to help students explore how companies can maintain and develop trust while innovating, how to identify and respond effectively to warning signs that they may not be as trusted as they believe, and how being trusted can aid in expanding and growing... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Trust; Technology Adoption; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry

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The Trust Imperative

By: Richard Edelman, Stephen A. Greyser, E. Bruce Harrison and Tom Martin

CHAPTER SUMMARY: Successful relationships depend on trust—trust between spouses, trust between parent and child, trust between enterprises and their stakeholders. This chapter focuses on the factors that build trust in organizations, as well as the forces that can... View Details

Keywords: Trust; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Communication

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31 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

disconnect between a company’s stated argument for diversity and the psychological reality of decision-making. “Your employees, future employees, customers and investors are watching.” As some CEOs weigh the future of their company’s DEI... View Details

Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis

Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

How does an entrepreneur, aspiring manager, or CEO become a master of strategy? In this book, we argue that everyone can learn from three of the greatest strategist of modern time, Bill Gates, Andy Grove and Steve Jobs, who also built three of the most valuable... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

on his land. Kearns has documented it all. “Genealogy is an opportunity to uncover, be inspired by, and share stories of all people,” says Kearns, a marketing director for Amazon Web Services and board member of the nonprofit National... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

02 Apr 2024
Research & Ideas

Employees Out Sick? Inside One Company's Creative Approach to Staying Productive

Absenteeism is so pervasive in Latin America and Asia that 10 percent of a business’ workers might not show up on any given day. This risk can create tremendous uncertainty, especially for businesses running on low margins, says Jorge... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Fashion

30 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

Few companies create an entirely new consumer market and reach icon status—and then set out to reinvent themselves. But that’s the hill the at-home, interactive-exercise firm Peloton is now climbing. Peloton was one of the freewheeling... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle

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