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  • 2011
  • Book

Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business

By: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard and Lynn S. Paine
The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Leading Change; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy
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  • November 2007
  • Article

Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders

By: Joseph L. Bower
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning
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Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

  • 25 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

potential, it commissions a small order from one of its factories, often just a few dozen pieces, which it floats on its channels to see if consumers are interested. If they are, the company reorders more products. It calls the system... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 26 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out

and Roberto M. Fernandez, Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. To study how recruiters looked for candidates, the scholars examined initial calls and emails to 166,000 prospects from 2017 to 2019 by an outside recruiting... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne

    Chip Bergh

    Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details

    • 30 Apr 2024
    • Book

    When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

    codes of ethics that addressed the unique problems of defence procurement. In my work for the initiative, I learned about the origins of these problems and saw that, contrary to public belief, they could not be chalked up simply to unethical individuals—they were View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Help - Alumni

    Global Leadership (PGL) Program for Management Development (PMD) Programs for Health System Management (PHSM) Senior Executive Program China plus completion of China Senior Executive Renewal Program (SEPCA) Senior Executive Program for... View Details
    • 29 Jan 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 29

    research agenda to systematically address the social welfare implications of financial innovation. To complement existing empirical and theoretical methods, we propose that scholars examine case studies of systemic (widely adopted)... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Apr 2024
    • HBS Case

    Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

    write a case study about how Sanders, known as “Coach Prime,” applies a military commander’s approach to motivating his team. “Deion reminds me of military officers I’ve served under because of the clear way he communicates and the unapologetic way he holds people... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
    • 02 Aug 2016
    • First Look

    August 2, 2016

    performance in public and private performance domains by decreasing anxiety. Belief that a specific series of behaviors constitute a ritual is a critical ingredient to reduce anxiety and improve performance: engaging in behaviors... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Mar 2024
    • HBS Case

    How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

    Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology
    • 17 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 17, 2006

    that the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard has attracted companies with superior environmental performance. After developing quasi-control groups using propensity score matching, I also find that adopters subsequently... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Courses - Entrepreneurship

    total enterprise. There are a variety of entrepreneurship related elective courses to choose from. Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits 5 Technologies that Will Change the World Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2024 Q3Q4 3.0 The American... View Details
    • 03 Feb 2012
    • HBS Seminar

    Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

    • 23 Sep 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: September 23

    directions and the implications of this work for rethinking traditional categories of organizations, namely business and charity. September 2014 Perspectives on Psychological Science How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    limbic system of your brain. And then you deliver that information into your prefrontal cortex and you decide how to act on it. And once you understand how that process works, which is what we're writing about in this book. Look, this... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

    business opportunity. In just 30 years—the span of a single generation—genealogy has grown from the domain of historical societies, microfilm, and the Mormon church to big data, artificial intelligence, DNA testing, and staggering private... View Details
    Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • 14 Jan 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: January 14

    Hummy, Anita L. Tucker, and Karen L. Murrell Abstract—We conduct an empirical investigation of the impact of two different queue management systems on throughput times. Using an emergency department's (ED) patient-level data (N = 231,081)... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Sep 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

    from historically marginalized groups—even when the real goal is to create a more diverse workplace, because it’s both the right thing to do and good for business. New research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Summer Jackson gives a View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz