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Redefining Capitalism - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

needs, improving efficiency, creating jobs, and building wealth. But we cannot harness the full potential of businesses until these meet society’s broader challenges as part of their core purpose. The purpose of the corporation,... View Details

10 Feb 2016
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Combining an Interest in Music and Business

of what I was doing at the time, either high school, college, or working, music has always been a core part of who I am and not just what I do. On that note, I have also spent nineteen years trying to figure out how to fit music in my... View Details

11 Apr 2024
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Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

and data transparency, companies can collaborate with their suppliers to come up with a collective strategy to mitigate the various facets of water risk. Water issues are felt at the watershed level. It is a collective action problem. This is the View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

a major financial institution following the financial crisis, including an analysis of core products: green bonds, ESG-based equity research, and a variety of advisory products. Key Themes: Intermediaries have a tremendous impact on and... View Details

23 Mar 2022
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Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

As the children of civil servants living in northern India, siblings Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) enjoyed educational advantages that millions of their lower-income peers did not—advantages such as high-quality preschools that focused on View Details

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Online Learning Model | HBS Online

Ryan Dumlao , CORe Participant “Being able to break down real-life scenarios, and look at the management processes within each—what worked and what didn't—provided a unique method of learning, and was incomparable to other course... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

courses and a capstone project during the year-long program. Upon successful completion, participants will earn a Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business. CORe is a business fundamentals program that combines Business... View Details

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Business Insights Blog | HBS Online

News & Events Productivity Staff Spotlight Strategy Student Profiles Technology Work-Life Balance Courses Courses AI Essentials for Business Alternative Investments Business Analytics Business Strategy Business and Climate Change CLIMB View Details

09 Jul 2007
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Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

instead, compromise across the board in order to avoid being perceived as greedy or overly self-interested. This makes it incumbent on family members to encourage others to identify their core interests and concerns. 4. Avoid Single-issue... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

ethics at its core is about excellence and high attainment rather than misdeeds and malfeasance. But we do pay attention to misconduct, and I have seen many types over the years—from the garden-variety deceptions and betrayals that sap... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

polarized light and mirages and Wood's own way of doing things. . . . I decided that the world needed a synthetic polarizer, an extensive sheet of polarizing material, in order to be able to carry out on a large scale all the things implied by Wood's stories." 8 Land... View Details

November 2007
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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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21 May 2014
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09 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis

Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus; Video Game; Web Services

January 2010 (Revised August 2010)
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Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Rakesh Khurana

Large-scale societal issues increasingly appear on the agenda of business leaders, including poverty, health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Framework; Global Range; Leadership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Complexity

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Design of Field Research Methods (DFRM)

Field research involves collecting original data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in field sites. This course combines informal lecture and discussion with practical exercises to build specific skills for conducting field research in organizations. Readings include... View Details

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

farther you get from your home base, the harder it is to be confident of that knowledge. Be aware that processes you consider core may turn out to be very different from those used by the target company. Cultural differences and... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

15 Dec 2023
News

Like-Minded

matter whether a business is directly in an ESG field, but that ESG elements should be integrated into its core value system and management strategy.” While MPower Partners continues to offer investment from its first fund, Seki has been... View Details

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster Scaling Work 7ms There are numerous ways to scale up your work on the HBSGrid, including parallel processing and GPUs . Parallel Processing Also commonly called parallel computing or multicore processing, using multiple View Details

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

percent of core employees participate, with the ability to pull the trigger independently to virtually test anything at any time. To illustrate that point, Thomke describes the time an incoming CEO called a meeting to present a new logo... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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