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    Capitalism at Risk: How Companies Can Lead

    Q. Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? A. Business, not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion,... View Details

    • 10 Mar 2021
    • Blog Post

    COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

    again? Should companies do away with Zoom and return the workplace to its pre-COVID ways? The answer, in a word: No. At least that’s not the future of work envisioned by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty—all of whom... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 20 Sep 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    How Consumers Value Global Brands

    In 2002, we carried out a two-stage research project in partnership with the market research company Research International/USA to find out how consumers in different countries value global brands. First, we conducted a qualitative study in forty-one countries to... View Details
    Keywords: by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch & Earl L. Taylor
    • 05 Dec 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

    If you’re a business leader who oozes achievement, sprints up the corporate ladder, and earns big bucks, your co-workers probably resent you to some extent. New research says high-achievers can win over their colleagues with a simple... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Blog

    What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

    up over half of the college-educated workforce in the United States, for example, they are still vastly underrepresented in corporate leadership ranks. So, why haven't organizations made more progress in promoting women? I worked with a... View Details
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    Course Overview - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses Course Overview Course Overview In keeping with the mission of Harvard Business School—to educate leaders who make a difference in... View Details
    • July 2004 (Revised October 2004)
    • Case

    Harbus Foundation (2003), The

    In 1997, the Harbus Foundation was established by Harvard Business School students to use the school newspaper's accumulated operating surpluses for creating social value in the community. The case investigates the challenges that the student management team faced in... View Details
    Keywords: Social Enterprise; Corporate Governance; Education Industry; Boston
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    • 08 Sep 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

    management," says Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But far fewer confront a basic fact: Companies typically spend much more money and hire many more people,... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 23 Jul 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

    policies had become for them a way to keep out articles they just personally didn't like." And although Lakhani believes part of the entrenchment was because a Harvard professor was in the middle of the fray—"I think what happened was... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
    • 22 Apr 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

    underscored the importance of employee engagement, contributing to the community, and creating sustainable environment strategies. Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela In this video report, Senior Lecturer John Macomber visits the... View Details
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    Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

    and life HBS Coaches HBS Board Diversity Network The HBS RGE Board Diversity Network connects underrepresented alumni with board opportunities by offering access to companies, resources, insights, and educational programs, supporting diverse alumni placement on View Details
    • 09 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

    information is significant and avoiding information overload. David J. Collis, the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Michael G. Rukstad, the late senior... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
    • 11 Aug 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

    financial strategy. If the company does not have a distinctive brand or market presence, a focus on identifying an attractive customer segment, such as through Harvard University professor Michael Porter's positioning framework, W. Chan... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 11 Nov 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

    even businesswomen within large organizations can be learned on the playing field, said Lopiano. In her view—and it is part of the mission of her foundation, which was founded in 1974 by tennis star Billie Jean King—every girl should learn team sports. View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 30 Aug 2023
    • Blog Post

    I’m From the South and Going Back: Why HBS Was the Best School for Me

    It was February of 2021. I had just joined the Zoom interview from the guest bedroom of our townhouse in Smyrna, Georgia, struggling to fight off the imposter syndrome that had lived rent-free in the back of my head since I had been invited to interview with View Details
    • 18 Sep 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

    Editor's note: Building and landscape design can do much more for an organization than provide an inspirational headquarters or appealing work spaces. At Harvard Business School, the leafy, orderly, community setting helps reinforce a set... View Details
    Keywords: Education
    • 30 Jan 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

    professor at Harvard Business School who coleads the WMS with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics. "If you really want to be convincing, it's important to have large-scale... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    Jana Kierstead | About

    Jana Kierstead Bio Jana Pompadur Kierstead is the Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations at Harvard Business School. She brings over 25 years of experience to this role, with more than 20 years... View Details
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    Women at HBS - Alumni

    The Women’s Leadership Forum Women on Boards HBS Women’s Association Academic and Campus Links Race, Gender & Equity Initiative Women’s Student Association Celebrating the 50th anniversary of women being admitted to the full-time MBA program in 2012-2013, View Details
    • 21 Nov 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: November 21, 2006

    Garry Twite Abstract U.S. corporations hold significant amounts of cash on their balance sheets, and these cash holdings have been justified in the existing empirical literature by transaction costs and precautionary motives. An... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne