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- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/905409-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-052 The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (A) Responsibility for working conditions in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How HBS Prepared Me to Lead a Company on Day One
to push the conversation when you know you’ll still break bread after the discussion despite sincerely-held differences. Working alongside hardworking tradespeople in Oklahoma has been inspiring and edifying. I spend much of my time in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
This "new plant, new team, new concept" approach has generally worked well elsewhere for GM, Hughes says, in part because "when substantial capital and resources are thus committed, you go out of your way to understand the requirements of... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL Re: Can the NFL win the long game? It is a game for only certain types of individuals, physically and mentally tough, coached up and properly conditioned in season and off season. There is no finer... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 10 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
some become more successful—but led others down the wrong path, says Rembrand Koning, the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. How much strategic insight and profit boost AI can provide depends on the... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
working with leadership teams from nine urban school districts over the course of three annual sessions to coordinate research and create coherent, scalable systems for education reform. Two cases written for PELP and taught by HBS... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
environmental issues, a stance that had sparked protests at its annual meetings. This led the U.S. Congress to use its influence by demanding that the World Bank set environmental standards as a condition of the nation’s capital... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
hierarchical model no longer suits employees; they want to have a say in their working conditions and they aspire to find more meaning at work. What is at stake, though, is not only a fairer distribution of... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
they never leave responsibility for work conditions in the hands of their partners or cede decisions on quality control. Implemented with care, this freedom within a framework sharpens and transforms value... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from infectious to noncommunicable... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
is different in that consumers never have to walk away, as any price they generate will be accepted. Conceptually it’s a very efficient pricing model, but I was curious as to how it works from a practical standpoint. How do consumers... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
conditions favor imprinting. Consider companies that have the following characteristics: distinctive corporate cultures, strategies, and structures, with large cohorts of young managers who are hired at roughly the same time and who... View Details
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
What happens when a person owns property? Aside from the well-established financial benefits of equity and potential access to credit, there is the equally strong pull of the American Dream and everything it suggests—the idea that through hard View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
careers and team chances of winning championships. The aches, pains, and strains that these professionals endure are also a personal concern for weekend warriors and anyone who works in physically demanding environments: “We are all... View Details
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Driving Social Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
develop a “third model.” The challenges they face are very exciting, especially at a time when we are looking at reforms in our economic system. My question is, “Under what conditions can these hybrid organizations be sustainable?” We... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
world and of ourselves; and the drive to defend ourselves, our loved ones, our beliefs, and our resources from harm. The authors' findings are based on their collective seventy years of research on human behavior in the workplace and their synthesis of scholarly View Details
- 28 Oct 2024
- Op-Ed
Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
predicted a rightward trajectory, either overall or on a particular issue, the parties tended to move the same way. Loyalty today doesn’t mean loyalty tomorrow Our work shows that it is a mistake to think that, just because a group seems... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
Lerner and Scott Stern, 483-502. University of Chicago Press, 2012 Abstract Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
had agreed to work at different jobs in my company. But I would not appear as myself, the president and CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment (HFE), one of America’s premier, privately held theme-park operators. Instead, I would be “John... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
household debt were growing quickly. That combination is “a natural signal of an outward shift in the supply of credit, which then sows the seeds of its own destruction,” the researchers write in their working paper Predictable Financial... View Details