Filter Results:
(1,430)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,430)
- News (273)
- Research (1,024)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (421)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,430)
- News (273)
- Research (1,024)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (421)
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
market looked behind "the thin film of gold." Our results point to a dichotomy: whereas country-risk premia fell after gold adoption in developed countries, there were no credibility gains in the volatile economic and political... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
founding conditions—branching policy, modernization, and political culture—influenced banks' development of capabilities to manage dispersed branches, and these capabilities subsequently led to variation in banks' propensity to engage in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
General Motors and others during apartheid. For General Motors, the issues had to do with employment policies and whether or not to sell autos in a repressive society. For companies like Cisco Systems and Microsoft, the question has... View Details
- January 2023
- Supplement
Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (B)
By: Henry McGee, Nien-hê Hsieh and Christian Godwin
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, Apple and Google partnered to develop a contact tracing application that would collect information about users infected with the disease and notify those who they had been in contact with. While Apple/Google’s... View Details
Keywords: Iphone; Encryption; Data Privacy; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Globalized Firms and Management; Government and Politics; Health; Health Pandemics; Leadership; Markets; Safety; Social Issues; Information Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Health Industry; United States; Europe
McGee, Henry, Nien-hê Hsieh, and Christian Godwin. "Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 323-066, January 2023.
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
Silverthorne: What do you think are the roots of her social activism? Deshpandé: It goes back to growing up in a family where both her parents were politically active, and believed that art was an instrument for View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Since its official launch four years ago, the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise has flourished, providing ever-greater support and know-how for HBS students, alumni, and nonprofit leaders who are keen on bringing their expertise to bear on the social View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
Labs. Wherever companies go with smart-city technology, “it’s important to build products that enhance citizens’ lives and to engage the community early on issues of data and privacy,” says Weiss. Done right, companies like Bigbelly may... View Details
- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
stage. View Video 6. A Lesson in Selfless Leadership The Leadership Fellows Program at Harvard Business School is based on University Professor Michael Porter’s vision of developing a network of HBS graduates with cross-sector experience who are committed to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue... View Details
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
the transnational has evolved, it's become a critical player in the development of the global political and social economy," Bartlett says. "With that enormous power comes an increased responsibility; this most recent chapter... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her fall 2016 book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right , addresses the increasingly bitter political divide in America. A finalist for the... View Details
- Web
Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
The Art of “Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “Today [advertisements] are issued by the manufacturers of a particular article or special kind of articles . . . [that] may be obtained ‘anywhere,’ and the only request... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
individuals, subgroups, and teams perform. Paper: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1534-0856&volume=15 The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid Author:Werker, Eric D. Publication:In Handbook of Safeguarding Global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
looking for me and I, nobody knew where I was, and in an environment that is less politically correct, everybody knew that Joe was looking for me because he stepped out of his office and started yelling about my whereabouts. So I get to... View Details
- March 2022 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
Pittsburgh: A Successful City?
By: Karen Mills, Caroline Elkins, Vikram Gandhi, Gabriella Elanbeck and Zeke Gillman
Pittsburgh, PA, was once the crown jewel of American heavy industry. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the city was an undisputed leader in steel production, boasting some of the largest companies and wealthiest individuals in the world. Its abundance of... View Details
Keywords: Economic And Social Disparities; Economic Development; Local Economic Development; Contextual Intelligence; Contextual Knowledge; Context; City Growth; City Innovation; City Leadership; Pittsburgh; Local Government; Local Stakeholders; Business And Community; Business And Community Relations; Community Engagement; Community Relations; Cross-sector Collaboration; Innovation; Innovation Economy; Innovation Clusters; Innovation Ecosystems; Shared Prosperity; Equality Of Opportunity; Equity; Inclusion; Business And Government; Business & Government Relations; Business And Government Relations; Business And Society; Neighborhoods; Race And Ethnicity; Innovation & Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Household; Income; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economics; Local Range; Urban Development; Urban Scope; City; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Growth and Development; History; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Public Sector; Social Issues; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Education Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania
Mills, Karen, Caroline Elkins, Vikram Gandhi, Gabriella Elanbeck, and Zeke Gillman. "Pittsburgh: A Successful City?" Harvard Business School Case 322-080, March 2022. (Revised April 2023.)
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
sufficient capital the opportunity to open a bank and issue bank notes (a widely accepted form of paper money at the time). The bill also required that every note issued by a New York bank be fully backed by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
Conservative? Towards a Theory of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail McIntosh Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the role of standard setters in a standard setting. In particular, we examine how the backgrounds and personal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Fast Answer
Historical Research - India
the world (46679 results for India). Reports with translations are issued for eight world regions daily and cover such topics as military affairs, politics, the environment, societal issues, economics, and science and technology. Readex... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
you can’t study a leader in isolation; there’s a relational construct between a person and society. Clinical psychology gets into the underlying motivation for people who seek leadership positions. In political science, we saw the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna