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- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
foster income inequality That being said, the collective corporate hierarchy (needs to) make the long needed effort to voluntarily minimize the gross inequality that now exists." Desiree Halse, after quoting verses memorized as a child... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
mock-ups of each piece of equipment placed on casters so that they could be moved easily. The learning process included elements of both competition and cooperation to ensure that Cardboard City produced a wide range of possible layouts... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 01 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS FIELD Program?
academic and professional career, and learned an insane amount all by putting learning into action. What is FIELD 1? FIELD 1 takes place in your first semester at HBS and lasts about two months. It is a deep dive into what View Details
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What Black Executives Really Want
experiences. All their companies had diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and were talking a lot about it. I asked, "How many of you would recommend your company as a place to work for young black professionals?" I could barely... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
decentralization decisions—across a large range of industries and countries. In this paper we investigate whether greater product market competition increases decentralization. For example, tougher competition may make local manager's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
underestimated factor in industrial or business marketing is buyer behavior.— Narakesari Narayandas "So you get in, and then if you do things right, what happens for the business? The customer calls you and wants to place an order.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
online shoppers, fulfilling Hagiu and Wright's definition. Amazon's e-commerce website encompasses multiple models, which place it somewhere along the MSP-reseller continuum. Amazon.com is a pure MSP when it offers products that are sold... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
vinyl record sectors, has been studying the independent bookstore for the past five years. After more than 200 interviews with bookstore owners, authors, and publishers, he has developed a hypothesis for their unexpected renaissance: They are View Details
Keywords: April White
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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity
for outstanding senior Black and URM faculty and scholars of race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality; and making HBS a particularly attractive place for diverse faculty to do their best work. Toward these... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
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
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
programs has gone far beyond the marketing department to infuse everything the museum does, making it unique among its peers, says Jill Avery, senior lecturer in the General Management unit at Harvard Business School. The Magic Tate Ball... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
information technology and management, or organizational behavior. That broad range of choices, coupled with the satisfaction of conducting research in the field, generates an extraordinary demand for the handful of available places each... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
devote a good deal of attention to Grove's childhood, boyhood, and youth because I think an appreciation of the first two decades of his life is essential to understanding his development as a manager. Until 1945, anti-Semitism placed... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
Kaiser [Permanente's] Dr. [Kim] Adcock, it is not enough just to know that a particular physician is making more than the acceptable number of errors [in misread x-rays]. Unless deeper analysis of the nature of the radiologists' errors is... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
predators and no there is no place for them in positions of power, ever, anywhere.” Janie added, “There is compelling evidence suggesting that many CEOs have strong narcissistic qualities, border on sociopathic tendencies, and often turn... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
unfeasible. On the other hand, the low property values that allowed Dlodlo to enter the market in the first place (she acquired the two buildings that she demolished for a mere $25,000) will continue to make... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
spark and sustain innovation for competitive advantage—can learn a lot of new notes from Davis's example. "The album Kind of Blue was also a commercial success—the most commercially successful jazz album ever, in fact, which makes it... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
Impact. When you look at making an impact, a large part of it is rooted in directing funds to places that need it. I did that at a very site-specific level as an engineer — if there was a piece of equipment... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
of information at their disposal. But they're unsure of how to sort through it and use it to make smart decisions. The result? They're struggling with profit-sapping supply chain problems including stock-outs, overstock, and discounting.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace