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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
it, by establishing accounting methodologies for the valuation of impacts that a company has on society—e.g., carbon emissions generated, water withdrawal from water-scarce locations, employee wages, job creation in areas of high... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
particular, the changing nature of employee compensation. By taking these items into account, one could reconcile tax returns with accounting statements. In the last decade, however, a huge, unexplained difference between the two methods... View Details
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The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report
prioritize innovation and technological strategy, particularly when they involve a critical mass of women directors. But this innovation advantage isn’t limited to gender. Companies that intentionally... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
interests of shareholders alone or, those of all stakeholders, including employees and customers? Moris Simson (HBS ISMP 91) Mitel Corporation Those taking issue with these premises generally saw the company's leadership with the support... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership succession. A book excerpt from The Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
An innovative thinker who created BayBanks, one of the most successful retail banking franchises in the United States, William M. Crozier, Jr. (MBA '63) has a lot to say about the evolution of banking. As head of BayBanks for 21 years,... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- Profile
Patrick Chun
platform, later named Skydeck360, that would leverage crowdsourcing and market-signalling "for utilizing technology to enable better matching between employers and employees." The former project is now being driven forward... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Zaleznik draws illuminating conclusions about psycho-politics and negotiations of power and command, celebrating innovative problem-solving skills. Book link: http://us.macmillan.com/hedgehogsandfoxes View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
undergird democracy There are several things businesses can do to strengthen democracy. Here are four of them. Encourage voter participation by providing employees with paid time off to vote, thereby addressing the barrier created by... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
about three qualities that are crucial for leaders today: the extent to which you are able to enthuse , enable , and empower others, and how you create an environment in which every individual in your organization can flourish. My former board colleague Vineet Nayar... View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Working PapersRacial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives? Authors:Modupe Akinola and David A. Thomas Abstract Diversity continues to be a key focus for organizations, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
collection look at how to improve decision making, encouraging employees to speak up, and the difficulty of coordinating communication in a complex organization. Enjoy! Most Popular Articles 2000-2010 Creating a Positive Professional... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
on the process and methods that lead to better understand user needs and to foster creativity, and much of the business and design press focus on the role played by designers and design firms, innovation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Bringing the Lessons of 2020 into 2021
Unconscious Bias in Recruiting Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate their Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging How to Create a Psychologically Safe... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional firm during a three-month period... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- October 2018
- Case
American Family Insurance and the Artificial Intelligence Opportunity
By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Automation; Analytics; American Family; American Family Insurance; Insurance; Business Organization; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Employee Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Risk and Uncertainty; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Transformation; Insurance Industry; Technology Industry; Wisconsin
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
mechanism to do well with minimum risk and maximum efficiency. In its early stages, a typical project would have to be commercially oriented and driven by private funds, though public funding from development banks or foreign aid agencies... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
business and social-sector organizations that offers hope for innovative solutions to some of society's most pressing challenges. Your class has chosen to focus its gift on the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. What is it about... View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details