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29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

Reinventing State Capitalism

In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

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Ian studies extrinsic rewards -- monetary incentives from formal compensation systems, as well as other formal and informal external rewards-- in order to help businesses understand the tensions and tradeoffs inherent in motivating employees. His research takes a... View Details

14 Jul 2020
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Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to pool and disseminate information and safeguard the stability... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

selective about where you do business. For private equity, Latin America is favorable now because inflation has dramatically declined, savings rates have improved, and there's not a large pool of surplus capital to finance its growth, so View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next

its relationship with external advisers. While working on strategy for the group's consumer products division in 2008, her team hired Bain & Co. to help lay out a five-year road map. At the time, Bain was relatively new to India, and... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

28 May 2020
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Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

reasons: poor management, industry disruption, economic recessions, technological change, uncontrollable external shocks, including the current pandemic. And when the underlying problem is severe enough, even the remedies available in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

08 Sep 2008
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The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

“Crises offer rare opportunities to make major changes in an organization because they lessen the resistance that exists in good times.” "Leaders must be willing to ask for help," he continues. "They should rely on a mentor, an internal management team,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

corporate investment decisions. Corporate investment, she notes, is often more driven by available cash flow than opportunity, which doesn't follow logically - if cash isn't available for a prime investment opportunity, external financing... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Human Behavior; Performance; Virtual Work; Hybrid Work; Office Space; Workplace Design; Communication; Social and Collaborative Networks; Behavior; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Leadership; Management

2010
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Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

By: Laura Alfaro

All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations

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22 Jul 2019
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How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

from key external content providers, such as Google Maps and the New York Times, ensuring the provision of early complements. By maintaining secrecy prior to launch and then staging mega-media events, Steve Jobs sought to stimulate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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By: Vincent Pons

Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details

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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting

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By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Building New Connections

DAS’S DEEP IMPACT Outgoing Senior Associate Dean for External Relations Das Narayandas leaves a legacy of notable accomplishments after five years in the role. Narayandas, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Takes One to Know One

(photo by Susan Young) (photo by Susan Young) Janet Cahill (AMP 189, 2015), who was previously managing director of HBS External Relations and The Harvard Business School Campaign, has been named the new executive director of View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Stevenson Accepts Key University Position

Stevenson Howard H. Stevenson, senior associate dean for External Relations and a leader in the study of entrepreneurship at HBS, has been named senior associate provost for Planning and Resources for Harvard University, effective July 1.... View Details