Family Businesses - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Aug 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How can business history influence current... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

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Research - Global

help them keep their babies and stabilize... July 3, 2025 Article Harvard Business Review Digital Articles A New Framework for Reducing Healthcare Disparities By: Susanna Gallani , Mary Lynch Witkowski, Lidia M. V. R. Moura and Katie... View Details

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Leadership Initiative - Leadership

family in Los Angeles. Sunand Menon Executive Fellow As an Executive Fellow at the Harvard Business School, Sunand focuses on designing and running interactive learning programs to better prepare leaders for... View Details

Jan 16 2019
Testimonial

Leading With Intentionality

28 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

motivators that will entice greater effort and loyalty out of workers. Turns out, using cash as a carrot isn’t always the best answer, according to new research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ashley V. Whillans. More than... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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About - Global

About Building upon a rich legacy of global engagement in business education. The Global Initiative is anchored by a team based in Boston with more than 65 staff sitting in key regions around the world to contribute to the school’s global... View Details

Apr 25 2012
Testimonial

OPM: Learning That Transforms

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General Management - Faculty & Research

set of policy constraints when considering the use of capital controls in models of pecuniary externalities. July 10, 2025 Article How to Build a Life: How to Keep on the Sunny Side of Life By: Arthur C. Brooks 2025 Chapter An Appraisal on 'Teaching the Early History... View Details

08 Aug 2022
HBS Case

Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS

fan base. The effective use of social media was how they created an ecosystem." In a recent case study, “BTS and ARMY,” Harvard Business School associate professor Doug Chung and research associate Kay Koo show how BTS marshalled its... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta; Media & Broadcasting; Music

02 Sep 2015
What Do You Think?

What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

the opportunity to earn high compensation--but jobs that often become too demanding for some employees, particularly those with health problems or family obligations. Former employees complained about bosses who lacked empathy for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion

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General Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

Business Administration John Jong-Hyun Kim Senior Lecturer of Business Administration William C. Kirby T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies Spangler Family Professor of View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

holds extraordinarily comprehensive and diverse special collections documenting over six centuries of business and economic history. On display will be some of the unique and irreplaceable materials from a Medici View Details

10 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle

Virginia’s Darden School of Business and Esade Business School in Barcelona. Close versus weak ties Past studies, says Norton, have shown two seemingly conflicting findings about relationships. On the one... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

William Engels

Keywords: Agribusiness

January 2024 (Revised August 2024)
Case

Essex County Community Foundation: Pivot to Systems Philanthropy

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Brian Trelstad and Courtney Han

2023 marked five years of the Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF)’s “systems philanthropy” approach to grantmaking. Located in northeastern Massachusetts, the community foundation served 800,000 residents across 34 cities and towns that varied widely by... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Reputation; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Alignment; Nonprofit Organizations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Massachusetts

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Standards of Conduct - Recruiting

information. Students' Right to Privacy The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) applies to any school that receives federal funding, including Harvard Business School. Students consent... View Details

18 Mar 2013
HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

Although it isn't part of the admissions criteria, experience playing with LEGOs can come in handy at Harvard Business School. When Stefan H. Thomke teaches his new case about the iconic toy company, he gives students eight-studded LEGO... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Dec 2023
News

Wide Horizon

There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Plants (2) Failure (19) Fairness (9) Family Business (26) Family Ownership (6) Family and Family Relationships... View Details

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Mark Giragosian

College and Northwestern University, including internships in consulting and investment banking. Upon retiring from the Joffrey, Mark worked at Morgan Stanley. “I wanted to have another career, not just another job. I looked for opportunities to learn about View Details

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