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02 Jul 2024
Book

Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

that superpower is, that is the cornerstone of how you contribute, whether that's in your contribution to the larger goal of some organization or in what you bring to the accomplishment of your own goals. Your capability journey lies in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

new achievement are further escalated by the glamorized treatment they receive in today's media-centric world. The elements of celebrity—spectacle, "bests," charisma, and any form of novelty from the latest in consumption to a... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

17 May 2018
Blog Post

HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans

entrepreneurial in my role, and that I am given the latitude to form partnerships that will benefit our organization and the cities we work in. “I work with some of the largest and most innovative companies... View Details

01 Jan 2011
News

Peter Harf, MBA 1974

detergent part of Benckiser public. Subsequently, in 1999, this company merged with Reckitt & Colman, forming Reckitt Benckiser. The new firm thrived, reaching a total shareholder return of 16.5 percent per year over a period of 10 years.... View Details

21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

there's some wiggle room for negotiation," Choudhury says. Two, the local community must form a coalition with a larger organization, such as an established non-governmental organization or even the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

players, poor customer service, and regional variations in quality of care. "By virtually any standard, it's an underperforming industry," says Richard Hamermesh, faculty chair of Harvard Business School's recently formed... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high school... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 2

transactions. Prior industry studies often suggest a hierarchical form of organization in which firms are ordered, from "upstream" to "downstream," according to the sequence of production... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization Authors:Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart, and Michael Tushman Publication:Organization Science Abstract Homophily in social relations results from both individual preferences and selective... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

In order to garner the capital necessary to foot the bill for social change, nonprofits need to think less about traditional grants and more in terms of innovation--and so do the organizations that fund them. This was a key message from... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

16 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55132 Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 6 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—Organizations are View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

company's commitment to sustainability mean that firms that ignore this do so at their own risk. BMW Group has been a leader in recognizing this. Several years ago, it issued a Sustainable Value Report detailing energy consumed, water consumed, waste removed, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

11 Oct 2016
First Look

October 11, 2016

support, delivered by a separate, independently funded staff, which builds public will, advances policy, and mobilizes resources. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51710 forthcoming Organization Science The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Beshears is an expert in behavioral economics, which uses insights from psychology and economics to explain individual decision making and help people... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

14 Mar 2007
Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

collaborative practices constituted an anticompetitive conspiracy. The judge observed that activities the government depicted as nefarious were "nothing more nor less than a gradual, natural, and normal growth or evolution by which an ancient View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

05 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Student Conferences at HBS: The 2021 Climate Symposium

was the impetus behind having a combined student club conference on climate change? Though our three different clubs formed separately and organically over the years, the interconnectedness of the various... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Ink

it, a country can use it. Every organization has two conflicting tasks: One is to optimize what you have today; another is to create what will give you leadership 10 years from now. That’s not a job you can wait 10 years to do. The future... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania

off to the left. Behind some bushes we see movement and then make out the huge and powerful form of a lion. He slowly stands, yawns, shakes his mane, and lumbers across the road in front of us. Most of us aren’t morning people, but the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

29 Apr 2008
Research Event

Venture Capital

strategies? How are opportunities for VC changing with globalization? How should VC firms organize to take advantage of new opportunities in their home counties and abroad? Those attending the Conference represented the leaders of the... View Details