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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

ones for different contexts 5-6 hrs Module 5 Identifying and Managing Risks Describe and identify common risks businesses face and create systems for managing and mitigating them. Highlights Your Business's Overall Level of Risk... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology
  • 28 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

We asked Srinivasan, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, to explain. Martha Lagace: What is the context for the research you are doing? Suraj Srinivasan: Auditors play a key role in capital markets because... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting
  • 18 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

addition, a well-understood ethical framework and an effective legal system are crucial. In other words, it is very hard to talk about corporate ethics without paying attention to the broader social and institutional context in which a... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 29 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

in the context of health programs and policies in developing nations. But her findings yield lessons that apply to almost everyone. For instance, in a recent study in Lusaka, Zambia, Ashraf and her colleagues found that providing women... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

care needs, provide technology tools, and ensure they have what they need to safeguard their health. Communicate the context underlying salary or headcount reductions. How has the pandemic affected revenue? What other cost-cutting... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 06 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

Entrants grow and improve; incumbents choose flight. As disruptive attackers follow their own sustaining trajectories, they make inroads into the low end of the market or begin pulling less demanding customers into a new context of use.... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth
  • 20 Jan 2022
  • Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

found that the most effective apologies acknowledged responsibility, explained why the action happened, and offered to fix the damage. Be transparent with employees. Provide the context around why a decision was made, the alternatives... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
  • Portrait Project

Brian Kreiter

servant. I will pray to be husband, parent, and friend. I will not confuse the two. I will never settle, nor be consumed by greener grass. I will leave no path of carnage in my wake. I will have nothing to hide. I will balance artistic, domestic, intellectual,... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

broad evidence. We will then discuss the implications for business—and for business education. Investing in a Changing Interest Rate Environment Faculty: Professor Luis Viceira + More Info – Less Info Professor Viceira will discuss the interest rate environment,... View Details
  • TeachingInterests

Creating the Modern Financial System

By: David A. Moss

Creating the Modern Financial System offers a vital perspective on finance and the financial system by exploring the historical development of key financial instruments and institutions worldwide. The premise of the course is that students will gain a richer and... View Details

  • Research Summary

Dissertation: A Relational Perspective on Boundary Work: How Attorneys Manage Work-Life Boundaries

Many professionals struggle with managing boundaries between work and life outside of work. For decades researchers have been trying to understand this issue but we still have much to learn about it. With my dissertation, I aim to improve our understanding of... View Details

  • 2020
  • Discussion Paper

Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch
This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Assess, Don't Assume, Part II: Negotiating Implications of Cross-Border Differences in Decision Making, Governance, and Political Economy

By: James K. Sebenius

When facing a cross-border negotiation, the standard preparatory assessments—of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc.—should be... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Corporate Governance; Negotiation Process; Organizational Culture; Business and Government Relations
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Assess, Don't Assume, Part I: Etiquette and National Culture in Negotiation

By: James K. Sebenius
When facing a cross-border negotiation, the standard preparatory assessments -- of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc. -- should be... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Process; Societal Protocols; Competitive Advantage; Cooperation
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  • 02 Jun 2010
  • What Do You Think?

How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?

thinking about D-Day in the context of your question . Even as many failures and unplanned events unfolded, the culture and training sustained the men to the ultimate execution of victory on that day." Jobe Mabaso added, "A... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • News

Mission Control

that’s the process that I went through in the first year or so when I was at HBS. DM: Take me through that process. What did you reflect on and were you surprised by the result? PP: The process starts with really getting in context of... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

training typically doesn’t yield the return on investment in improved organizational effectiveness and performance that companies expect. “Individual development has to take place in the context of a larger change process motivated by the... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education
  • 13 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

rooted in real-life examples solidified my understanding. It is one thing to listen to a professor explain the intricacies of, say, deferred tax assets, but it stays with you longer when you learn it in the context of a real-life business... View Details