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Achieving the HBS mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world requires an environment of trust and mutual respect, free expression and inquiry, and a View Details

2020
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Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company's Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy

By: Michael Beer

Is Silence Killing Your Strategy?
In his thirty years of working in corporations, Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer has witnessed firsthand how organizational silence derails strategic objectives. When employees can't speak truth to power, senior... View Details

Keywords: Honesty; Communication; Organizational Culture; Trust; Strategy; Performance Effectiveness

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tackle hiring at HBS like a recruiter. Meet the Aerospace & Defense Club Sara Ballantyne, Ben Buchheim-Jurisson, Clif Luber, Daniel Ackeret 07 Nov 2024 Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012) Allison Boxer 11 Oct 2024 Four... View Details

21 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

test results, changing market conditions, deteriorating financials of the host company, or escalating project costs. Krieger chose to focus on drug development, in part, because in the United States... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health

Fit to Compete

Is Silence Killing Your Strategy? In his thirty years of working in corporations, Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer has witnessed firsthand how organizational silence derails strategic objectives. When employees can't speak truth to power, senior... View Details

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HBS IT is committed to spam protection and is continually reviewing and updating its techniques to slowing the flow of spam. To help HBS monitor the amount of spam messages... View Details

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Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation—Virtual

in nonprofit organizations (typically with annual budgets in excess of $1 million) who are committed to improving performance measurement and management. Note that this program is focused on... View Details

11 Feb 2002
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The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

men. He pushes so hard he ends up committing suicide, is very disappointed in his kids—there are other characters, I noticed, who were what I came to call quiet leaders. You also end up defining quiet leaders almost through a series View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Aug 2020
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What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

leadership is to provide the communication necessary for that civilization, that ritual, those laws, those traditions.” Angela Duckworth’s concept of grit may be useful here. By grit, Duckworth does not mean endurance for its own sake,... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

January 2009 (Revised June 2010)
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Cisco Business Councils (2007): Unifying a Functional Enterprise with an Internal Governance System

By: Ranjay Gulati

In response to the 2001 market downturn, Cisco Systems implemented a major restructuring that transformed the company from a decentralized to centralized organization. While recognizing that a centralized, functional structure was necessary to avoid product and... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Customer Focus and Relationships; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Technology Industry

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November 2024
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Stakeholder Amnesia in M&A Deals

By: Caley Petrucci and Guhan Subramanian

Public companies have increasingly embraced environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in the course of everyday business. However, these ESG considerations are virtually non-existent in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. Elon Musk’s recent acquisition... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing and Advisory Boards; Mergers and Acquisitions

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07 Jul 2022
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How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

An Ample Hills Creamery store in Disney World would be part of the deal, necessitating, Smith thought, a new factory. He set out to build it in high-cost Brooklyn—the Red Hook neighborhood—to show the company’s View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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FAQs - Alumni

years, to the HBS Fund , which plays an essential role in sustaining the School 's core activities and fueling new ideas and initiatives. If you would like to make a special commitment to HBS in honor of... View Details

2022
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Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium

By: Nathan Wilmers and Letian Zhang

Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these claims as hypocritical: prosocial... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Equality and Inequality; Wages; Recruitment

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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

and health equity partners such as Advocate Health and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. While tackling the challenges in the crowded supplements and energy drinks market, Martin is committed to... View Details

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Defense Club Sara Ballantyne, Ben Buchheim-Jurisson, Clif Luber & Daniel Ackeret 07 Nov 2024 | All Industries All Locations Student & Alumni Stories Student Clubs The mission of the HBS Aerospace & Defense (A&D) Club is to help students... View Details

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Insights & Advice - Recruiting

When They Aren’t Recruiters How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters 21 Nov 2024 Jess Hopper 07 Oct 2024 Molly DeCastro, Lia Mastrogiacomo Four Ways to Make The Most of Your... View Details

December 2006
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Southern Company's Investment in CEMIG

In the spring of 1997, Southern Company had the opportunity to acquire a significant portion of the electric utility in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The shares in the utility, CEMIG, were being sold by the state government as part of a comprehensive... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Privatization; Investment; Acquisition; Globalized Markets and Industries; Utilities Industry; Brazil

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Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach

By: Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen

We summarize our new positive theory of integrity that has no normative content, and argue that there are large gains from putting integrity into finance—into both the theory and practice of finance. We define integrity as being whole and complete and unbroken. We... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Ethics; Theory; Practice; Change

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