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  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

A Community Investment

energies to worthwhile causes beyond our jobs and our families. That is what's driving a lot of us to branch out into social and community activities beyond our business life. Jerry Ostrov: My impression is that there is a widely shared View Details
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Books

of their goals, write the authors, is to correct the mistaken belief among some entrepreneurs, corporations, and academic institutions that "venture capitalists can add little value to young firms aside from money." After a historical... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
  • August 2009
  • Article

The Reality and Myth of Sacred Issues in Negotiations

By: A. E. Tenbrunsel, K A. Wade-Benzoni, V. H. Medvec, L. Thompson and M. H. Bazerman
This paper investigates the role of sacred issues in a dyadic negotiation set in an environmental context. As predicted, when negotiators focus on sacred issues, this negatively impacts the negotiation, producing more impasses, lower joint outcomes, and more negative... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Values and Beliefs; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Conflict of Interests; Perception; Cooperation
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  • 10 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Coming Out at Business School

adamant about making an active effort to come out to my parents, I attribute much of my courage to the formation of self-acceptance. I view my self-acceptance as the deep and fundamental belief that my sexuality does not make me less of a... View Details
  • September 2004
  • Article

Rational Overoptimism (and Other Biases)

By: Eric J. Van den Steen
Rational agents with differing priors tend to be overoptimistic about their chances of success. In particular, an agent who tries to choose the action that is most likely to succeed, is more likely to choose an action of which he overestimated, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Decision Choices and Conditions; Performance Expectations; Outcome or Result; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Failure; Success; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Characteristics; Values and Beliefs; Ethics
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  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

address pollution. IVL developed an important role as knowledge producer and as an intermediary of environmental knowledge between the late 1960s and the 1980s. The proactive response of Swedish big business is shown to have been based on a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

socially connected than they themselves are. In Study 1, the prevalence of this belief was documented in a large sample of first-year students (N=1099). In Study 2, the prevalence of this social belief was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in subsidiaries in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, France, India, and the United States. Investment versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about the Argentine Water Privatization Authors:Rafael Di Tella,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2022 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

Can Goodr Fight Food Insecurity at Scale?

By: Daniel Isenberg and William R. Kerr
Jasmine Crowe founded Goodr to redirect food waste to people in need. Now a profitable enterprise, she’s searching for Series A funding and encountering pushback. Scaling and contract concerns are also at the forefront of her mind, but so are her values. Feeding... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Investor Demand; Food; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Values and Beliefs; Social Issues; Race; Opportunities; Contracts; Mission and Purpose; Financing and Loans
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  • October 1999
  • Case

Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine
This case describes the decisions made by Shell in response to the situation presented in the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Governance; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Transformation; Energy Industry
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Harvard Business School

recruitment of Black students possible, "not something that most deans would have done in that environment in 1968," Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA '69), remembered. 20 He also established a fellowship program providing financial support for African Americans while they... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Steady as She Goes

foods, and, of course, for toilet paper. As for Weckert, she’s back to building things from scratch. This time, it’s cupcakes with her daughter. How to: Diversify your leadership team Believe. “You have to have a resolute belief that... View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse

and an espoused belief system that stressed respect, integrity, and communication end up in such a situation? How could an innovative business model that showed so much promise have gone wrong so suddenly? Why did Wall Street and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Enron; faculty; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Web

The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog

us. If any of these resonate with you, that’s a pretty good sign that you would find value in joining our conversation and our community: Living an Integrated, Purposeful Life “How do I live an integrated life where I can bring my faith and my own View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

CREATING LEADERS WORKSHOP: Mastering the Principles and Effective Delivery of 'The Ontological Leadership Course' (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Kari L. Granger and Joseph J. DiMaggio M.D.
This workshop is designed to support participants in gaining mastery in the delivery of our new course: "Being A Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model." The Workshop was delivered at the United States Air Force Academy (July 13 - 16,... View Details
Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Values and Beliefs; Globalization; Policy; Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Performance Capacity; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 29 May 2019
  • News

Bloomberg: Restoring Our Faith in Business and Government

In his address to HBS graduates at this year’s Class Day, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) spoke about the degeneration of American political culture and the challenge it poses. “Now, the good news is: There is a solution,” he told the crowd, as reported by the Boston... View Details
  • August 2010 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 1

By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Sam Palmisano became CEO of IBM in 2002. He dramatically energized the organization through portfolio changes and a values driven approach to managing the company. View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Multinational Firms and Management; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology Industry; New York (state, US)
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  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Change of Pace

Having retired from Congress after representing his western New York district for eighteen years, Amory Houghton Jr. (MBA ’52) is now working as a volunteer with his old friend, Bishop Thomas Shaw, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. “The arrangement... View Details
Keywords: GOP; Catholic; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • July 2006
  • Case

Citigroup: Euro Zone Bond Trading (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Christopher Bruner and Aldo Sesia
Describes the development and execution of a bond trading strategy by a London-based team of Citigroup eurozone bond traders. The trades, which involved two of Europe's leading electronic trading platforms, gave rise to a European-wide controversy over the traders'... View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities; Financial Markets; Bonds; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Decision Making; Lawfulness; Business Strategy; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Europe
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  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

School’s 100th MBA Class Graduates

Photos by Stuart Cahill On a hot, steamy afternoon in late May that saw most of the audience forsake the folding chairs on Baker Lawn for the shade of its tree-lined margins, some 900 HBS students celebrated Class Day with a special distinction: Theirs was the 100th... View Details
Keywords: Graduation