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    Rosabeth M. Kanter

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

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    • May 2022
    • Article

    Variance Analysis: New Insights from Health Care Applications

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Susanna Gallani
    We use a health care application to illustrate how variance analysis can be used to benchmark costs across similar service delivery sites. Variances for personnel costs, typically the largest cost component in service organizations, are calculated for price, quantity,... View Details
    Keywords: Variance Analysis; Benchmarking; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Service Industry
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    Kaplan, Robert S., and Susanna Gallani. "Variance Analysis: New Insights from Health Care Applications." Issues in Accounting Education 37, no. 2 (May 2022): 27–36.

      David G. Fubini

      David G. Fubini is a Senior Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior Unit and leader of the Leading Professional Services Firm and Mergers & Acquisitions Programs for Harvard Business School’s Executive Education. His MBA teaching has concentrated on teaching the... View Details

      • Aug 2020
      • Conference Presentation

      Impacting Grand Challenges: A 'Both/And' Approach

      By: Natalie Slawinski, Wendy K. Smith, Robin J. Ely, Tobias Hahn, Andrew J. Hoffman and Anita M. McGahan
      In this panel symposium, we seek to build on growing efforts by management scholars to engage with grand challenges and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Reflective of the All- Academy Theme description, we note that research and scholarship... View Details
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      Slawinski, Natalie, Wendy K. Smith, Robin J. Ely, Tobias Hahn, Andrew J. Hoffman, and Anita M. McGahan. "Impacting Grand Challenges: A 'Both/And' Approach." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Virtual, August 2020.
      • May 16, 2016
      • Article

      Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

      By: Dina Gerdeman and John A. Quelch
      Chipotle Mexican Grill’s ongoing struggle to win customers back months after a contaminated food crisis highlights the challenges companies face with keeping food safe.

      Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its first-ever quarterly loss... View Details
      Keywords: Food Safety; Organic Food; Supply Chain Management; Globalization Of Food Business; Mérieux NutriSciences: Marketing Food Safety Testing; Food Safety Modernization Act 2011; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Transition; Economic Systems; Food; Health; Supply and Industry; Logistics; Practice; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Safety; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Insurance Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Relations Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Mexico; North America; United States; Canada
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      Gerdeman, Dina, and John A. Quelch. "Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 16, 2016).
      • April 2019
      • Technical Note

      A Note on Boards in VC-Backed Ventures

      By: Shikhar Ghosh, Ramana Nanda, Suraj Srinivasan and Terrence Shu
      What is the value of a Board, and why does a company need one? The note documents the formal role of a Board of Directors as going beyond simply acting as legal representation of corporate ownership. Moreover, this role changes as the company moves through different... View Details
      Keywords: Founders; Business Startup; Board; Board Of Directors; Business Startups; Governing and Advisory Boards; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship
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      Ghosh, Shikhar, Ramana Nanda, Suraj Srinivasan, and Terrence Shu. "A Note on Boards in VC-Backed Ventures." Harvard Business School Technical Note 819-128, April 2019.
      • August 2018
      • Case

      Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls

      By: Julie Battilana and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      This case covers formative events and influences in Christine Lagarde’s childhood and her trajectory from studying political science and law to heading the world’s largest law firm. As she prepares to transition back to practice in 2005, the new Prime Minister of... View Details
      Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Decision Making
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      Battilana, Julie, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls." Harvard Business School Case 419-017, August 2018.
      • June 2009 (Revised July 2010)
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      Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative

      By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Cathy Ross
      Describes the conception, development, and implementation of Goldman Sachs' five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe. The initiative recently celebrated its first... View Details
      Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Education; Gender; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry
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      Marquis, Christopher, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Cathy Ross. "Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 509-042, June 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
      • 12 Mar 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Allocating Marketing Resources

      Keywords: by Sunil Gupta & Thomas J. Steenburgh
      • January 10, 2023
      • Editorial

      Climate Change: Why Business Schools are Failing

      By: Andrew J. Hoffman
      We are faced with an existential challenge that requires radical action. Tomorrow’s business leaders must learn to think critically about their role in society and how they will practice their craft in order to bring about change. View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Climate Change; Business Education
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      Hoffman, Andrew J. "Climate Change: Why Business Schools are Failing." I by IMD (website) (January 10, 2023).
      • 03 Dec 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

      and layoffs. Questions that CEOs raised with us included: “What are best practices for digital terminations?” and “If the economy worsens and you have to consider reducing payroll, what’s the most effective way?” As we look ahead to what... View Details
      Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
      • June 2010 (Revised July 2011)
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      China Environment Fund: Doing Well by Doing Good

      By: Christopher Marquis and Nancy Dai
      In early 2010, cleantech investment pioneer Tsing Capital was planning for the China Environment Fund IV and considering how to maintain its commitment to social and environmental practices. Tsing Capital embraced its philosophy of "Doing Well by Doing Good" and... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Strategy; Balance and Stability; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Business Organization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; China
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      Marquis, Christopher, and Nancy Dai. "China Environment Fund: Doing Well by Doing Good." Harvard Business School Case 410-142, June 2010. (Revised July 2011.)
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      Professor Wei-Skillern's research is focused in the field of Social Enterprise. Her research examines the creation of social value in both commercial and nonprofit organizations. In the former stream of research on corporate social responsibility, she has studied... View Details

        David Ager

        David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education.  He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders.  The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

        • February 2021
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        How Transparency into Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer Choice

        By: Ryan W. Buell and Basak Kalkanci
        Amid growing calls for transparency and social and environmental responsibility, companies are employing different strategies to improve consumer perceptions of their brands. Some pursue internal initiatives that reduce their negative social or environmental impacts... View Details
        Keywords: Sustainable Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility; Operational Transparency; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Consumer Behavior; Perception
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        Buell, Ryan W., and Basak Kalkanci. "How Transparency into Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer Choice." Management Science 67, no. 2 (February 2021): 932–950.
        • July 2001 (Revised March 2003)
        • Background Note

        Running and Growing the Small Company: Project-Paper Writing Recommendations

        Students are required to do a team project. During the project, they are to do a benchmarking study of a business process to determine best practice or to study a single business process for the purposes of discovering improvement opportunities. The student teams are... View Details
        Keywords: Analysis; Business Processes; Management Skills
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        Spear, Steven J. "Running and Growing the Small Company: Project-Paper Writing Recommendations." Harvard Business School Background Note 602-022, July 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
        • 19 Jun 2013
        • Research & Ideas

        Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

        The academic study of institutions provides important insights into topics such as job design and health-care reform. But the field is a complex one, and it's not always obvious to outsiders how the intellectual tools of the trade are relevant to View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
        • 14 Dec 2015
        • News

        How Accounting Can Help Build a Sustainable Economy

        • 18 Jun 2014
        • Research & Ideas

        Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

        book excerpt Leading Innovation From Collective Genius: The Art of Practice of Leading Innovation By Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove and Kent Linebeck Though each of our leaders and their firms differed in key ways, all... View Details
        Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation
        • June 2017
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        The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital

        By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
        This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the “neoliberal common sense of capital,”... View Details
        Keywords: Executive Pay; The Firm; Michael Jensen; Neo-Liberalism; Shareholder Value; Agency Theory; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transformation
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        Fourcade, Marion, and Rakesh Khurana. "The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital." History of Political Economy 49, no. 2 (June 2017): 347–381.
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