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Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

two. These personal and professional connections have been invaluable." Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management Carolyn Miles President & CEO | Save the Children "You absolutely need to have that wider view, but the practical tools... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads The Year in Review Notable progress was made during FY23 in advancing the School’s priorities. Accelerating research on how digital and data are transforming management... View Details

28 Jan 2020
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Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

that helped level social divides by providing equal access to useful skills and cultural or educational opportunities to everyone in a city. The leader who envisioned and built... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2013
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Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

exceeding the optimal point of inequality and descending into an era of a vanishing middle class and, with it, the spending power and inclination with which it fuels an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Dec 2014
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How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

seen a product or price first. The researchers suspected that even if participants were more critical of a product's value in the price primacy condition, the products were equally attractive under both conditions. Most of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

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Mission-Driven Governance

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation

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10 Aug 2009
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High Commitment, High Performance Management

process is too top-down. Or consider how achieving high levels of dedication to the firm (a strong culture) can easily slip into an attitude that resists change. Only if learning and change become an equally... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2021
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How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

Systemic racism and discrimination in small communities can undermine a country’s ability to defend itself during conflicts, creating a national security risk, new research says. Marco Tabellini, an assistant professor of business... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Harshini Chengareddty

female partner at a consulting firm trying to navigate her very successful career alongside equally demanding personal commitments. The conversation we had in class, and for many days after, was one of my... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Gable, and J.B. Schramm. Building The On Demand Workforce , Report, Harvard Business School and BCG, November 2020. With Manjari Raman, James Palano, Allison Bailey, Nithya Vaduganathan, Elizabeth Kaufman,... View Details

September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
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Student Success at Georgia State University (A)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley

Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African... View Details

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01 Sep 2023
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Wheel Change

about one mile, with men and women contributing equally to a team’s total point score based on who wins each lap. “Seeing 60 riders flying past you at 30 miles per hour, just a few inches apart—it is such a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; cycling; entrepreneurship; leadership; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

17 Jan 2018
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If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

season. Sources: "How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire for More Equal Pay" by Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton, copyright 2014, Perspectives on Psychological Science... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 May 2023
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Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

During his recent standing-room-only seminar about artificial intelligence (AI) and race at Harvard Business School recently, marketing professor Broderick Turner displayed a slide showing several white blob-like characters that resembled... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

04 Nov 2009
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What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?

capitalism there is a place for government, and economists, in the capitalistic system, but in this case less is more." Gerald Nanninga suggested that we "limit government's role to defining capitalistic criminal activity View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 Mar 2019
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The Ferrari Way

evaluating new technology is whether it has staying power. “You have to get a good sense of the trajectory and if it’s ready for prime time,” Thomke says. Equally important is whether it fits in with how a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

23 Jul 2012
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The Power of Conversational Leadership

When a company is small, communication among employees is as simple as rolling a desk chair around the room to talk to the president, the admin, or the chief engineer. But as a company grows, communication becomes more difficult. And... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

guarantee you they would nd highly quali ed women to ll key roles, fast.” Teamwork: Lambert was captain of Penn State’s basketball team during her junior and senior years. “In business as in sports, you win when all players understand the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Christina Byrd

proud of working on Uber’s inaugural fair pay/equal pay analyses – we made sure we were paying men and women, black and white, the same pay for the same performance. I became the go-to View Details

21 Nov 2019
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Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

give candidates equal access to voters, and monitoring the accuracy of handouts and social media posts that campaigns share. “It’s important to make sure that all campaigns are... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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