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Electricity - Business & Environment

HBS MBA 1986, Investment Director, The Carbon Trust Alex Edison HBS MBA 2020 “The climate crisis presents challenges to every sector in our economy. My HBS education has helped me to recognize how those challenges can create opportunities... View Details

08 Feb 2010
HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

China going forward. Google's announcement has also disrupted the plans of a number of important business partners such as Samsung and Motorola, who were all set to launch Android-platform handsets in China. I doubt those partners were... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

issue of responsibility to the community and who you are as a person.” Written in 1458 in Italy by trade merchant Benedetto Cotrugli, The Book of the Art of Trade recently received its first English translation. Baker Library at HBS and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Understand how power really works Cultivate power to make an impact Avoid the pitfalls of power Build networks as a source of power Assess your organization’s political landscape Develop influence skills to shift power dynamics Exercise power ethically and View Details

07 Jul 2003
What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

global economy and the Internet were cited by some as being responsible for the current dilemma. John van Heteren paraphrased several respondents when he opined that "I believe that the existing definition in your article was not... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jan 2016
What Do You Think?

Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

Summing Up Is Good Timing in Management Primarily a Function of Strategy or Culture? Timing in executing change is an important responsibility of leadership. Responses to this month’s column suggest that if... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

education imposes on us the responsibility to help educate citizens in such countries who can, we hope, be a driving force for positive change in their communities and governments. Academics Can I earn academic credit for participating in... View Details

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

conditions don't prevail, watch out. At risk of oversimplification, that sums up the responses to this month's column, in which most readers accepted to some degree author Duncan Watts' description of how common sense fails us. First... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

Accountability, a required course for first-year MBA students that examines the responsibilities business leaders have to their shareholders, customers, employees, and to society Click Here Cote visited Boston for the occasion, sitting in... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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Harvard Business School

assistant buyer and rose to overseeing buying in Europe and Asia. He was one of the first Black executives at Macy's. Wilkinson later moved to the New York City Transit Authority, becoming executive officer for surface transit with operating View Details

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MBA Program - Alumni

highlighted in this video. Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path Professor Nien-hê Hsieh wrote and teaches a case that explores the “gray area” of leadership—that uncomfortable and common space where leaders face difficult trade-offs across their View Details

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

the February Journal of Consumer Research is based on the results of a series of lab and online studies with over 2,000 consumers recruited from national online samples. We tested their response to underdog brand stories. Our studies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

Summing Up Three themes appear to characterize many of the responses to this month's column: (1) leadership talent is portable, (2) the reasons that we chase stars are traceable to human nature, and (3) women have qualities that explain... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

Planning Engineer at Rio Tinto What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by: completing this course Certificate of Specialization Signify your deep expertise in... View Details

12 Nov 2018
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Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

to the bone, miserably hot, terrified, freezing cold, furious, battered, blistered, and bruised at various stages of my career—often experiencing several of these at once. I have been hopelessly lost in both the woods and the desert, and perpetually overwhelmed by the... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

vuvuzelas competes with the arena’s mix of American hip-hop and regional hits. It is a distinctly regional take on an iconic American export. The league is a core pillar of NBA Africa, a two-year-old venture whose value NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has estimated at... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

02 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Applying to the JD/MBA Program

interested in international policy, spent several summers working in government, and thought law school would be a good fit. After working for a few years, I became interested in corporate social responsibility because I like working in... View Details

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52469 2017 Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective Gapponshugi in Global Perspective: Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism By: Jones, G.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

according to Sasser, a Baker Foundation Professor. These employees enjoy access to talent-identification systems. Big organizations can point to formal programs led by individuals whose sole responsibility is to find and mentor... View Details