Policy Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2008
News

Squeeze Play

electronic components assembly line and recast as an expensive, high-end beauty product. That Tweezerman success has allowed LaMagna to bankroll other passions. He’s run for office (unsuccessfully) and dabbled in politics over the years but recently has become consumed... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Truman K. Gibson

In 1943, Gibson became head of Supreme Life Insurance, which had $53.8 million in industrial insurance policies in force. Gibson ushered in a solid seven years of growth and financial stability. Gibson’s sales force used a “mass... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

economic outcomes, as well as their influences on macroeconomic policy design and performance. Moreover, it demonstrates how institutional differences across countries ultimately rest in differences in norms and beliefs, and explores how... View Details

24 Feb 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach

Starting this past fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On Thursday, February 23, more than 60 alumni and guests gathered in Florida to celebrate and connect with each other at "HBS in Palm... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Donor Spotlight

Penny and Bill George Investing in HBS What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do! The Personal Touch Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices FAQ Penny and Bill George (MBA ’66) Bill and Penny George’s generous $1.25 million 45th Reunion... View Details

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at HBS. “ some CEOs believe they can’t be silent when a proposed government policy might lead some of their employees to be subjected... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Climate change: facts and figures

subject. Additional sources: Climate Change Knowledge Portal for development practitioners and policy makers by the World Bank Group. Tackling Climate Change-- For information on what the UN... View Details

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Student Handbook | MBA

It is every student’s responsibility to be aware of, and compliant with, the policies of Harvard Business School and Harvard University. Students should become familiar with the material pertaining to their degree program and, together... View Details

21 Sep 2015
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Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future

As a trade negotiator, economic official, and scholar, Naoko Munakata (MBA 1990) has been immersed in Japan’s economic revitalization effort for the last 25 years. In 2013, as director-general for trade policy in Japan, she helped to pave... View Details

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

Japanese government to make the necessary policy changes because these attitudes are so deeply ingrained, particularly in 60- to 70-year-old officials who are in senior posts. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

February 2011 (Revised December 2012)
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Coca-Cola on Facebook

By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

In late 2008, executives at Coca-Cola had to decide what to do with a fan-created page on Facebook that had amassed over one million followers in three months. From a legal point of view the fan-created page was in violation of Facebook's terms of service as a... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Governance Controls; Policy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Social and Collaborative Networks; Food and Beverage Industry

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10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

these learnings in the business context at HBS. Austin: If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that structural racism isn’t just a public policy problem. Changing the policies, practices, and... View Details

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

studying the broader consequences of reform. We have some preliminary evidence that reforms provide multinationals with assurances that encourage the use of more efficient global production arrangements. In developing countries that reform, View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Research Online

Management Innovation Take Us? Management could change a lot in the coming years, says HBS professor emeritus Jim Heskett. A few reasons: continued development of the Internet and the transparency and communities it has spawned, and new... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

16 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: The Future of Market Capitalism

capitalist system must change and help to support a safety net for workers. Social entrepreneurship is coming of age, but must be developed into a formal profession. In addition to social entrepreneurship, broad-reaching public View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

09 Dec 2021
News

Higher Returns

ESG. Environmental, Social, and Governance. And Steel wasn’t just hearing it, he was seeing it. At some point, it felt like he would see a new story every day about companies that were grappling with climate change, racial justice, or diversity and inclusion. He was... View Details

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

choices are presented—can encourage people to change their behavior in pursuit of policy goals, says Michael Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Feb 2001
News

New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated

actively pursued his white classmates. His first job after graduation was as an independent salesman in his native Washington, D.C., working for several firms serving the black community. In Washington, Fitzhugh helped to establish the New Negro Alliance, which worked... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Mar 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles

(BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate change and environmental... View Details

December 1989 (Revised October 1990)
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General Electric Co.: Preparing for the 1990s

By: Francis Aguilar

Describes Jack Welch's tenure as CEO from 1981 to 1989 through excerpts of speeches and presentations. Sections include summary of GE's strategy, Welch's quantum leap approach to change, the restructuring of GE, how GE operates (the "GE Growth Engine"), and managing GE... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Policy; Business or Company Management; Change Management; Business Strategy; Restructuring; Operations; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Electronics Industry