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Julie Battilana's Most Recent Columns for "Le Monde"

Julie Battilana is a regular contributor to the French newspaper "Le Monde." Below are her most recent articles.

Where are the Political Ideas Being Produced?

July, 16 2014

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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

student comments, engage students in tough role plays, pose difficult questions to all students, irrespective of gender, race, or ESL status, to provide them with equal opportunity for development. Using US-centric (or sports) references.... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

situations," says Klarman. Also at HBS, Klarman met Professor William Poorvu, who recruited him to manage a pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost Group. While the job initially didn't pay particularly well, it gave him a platform on... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Adaptation ; Leadership ; Social Enterprise ; Social Entrepreneurship ; Growth and Development Strategy ; Growth Management ; Rural Scope ; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving ; Equality and Inequality ; Education Industry ; Central Asia ;... View Details

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

diagnoses. Others advocated tax and non-tax solutions. The case against hasty change was made by Dave: "Market based capitalism is the greatest driving force of prosperity in the world today, but if we forget this and marginalize it through income redistribution,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

pay insufficient attention to encouraging employees to cooperate. And when they do consider cooperation, they rely too heavily on incentives alone as the panacea. Those who get it right recognize that changing behavior requires a... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

automation slashes jobs Service industry outpaces growth in manufacturing Civil Rights Act Equal Pay Act Unions concentrated in big businesses Formation of United Farm Workers union Influence: Medium 70 1970... View Details

17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

seen a product or price first. The researchers suspected that even if participants were more critical of a product's value in the price primacy condition, the products were equally attractive under both conditions. Most of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

20 Apr 2021
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A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

It’s simple: They create the most value, says Harvard Business School Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee. In almost every segment of the economy, the very best companies lead their peers by wide margins. They take share by building on proven ideas and expanding in markets... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

US and Canadian stores, it also announced it had “committed to pay all Starbucks US and Canada retail partners for the next 30 days whether or not their store is closed, or they are otherwise unable, or even uncomfortable, coming to work.... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

31 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

more protection or benefits could purchase. For example, basic insurance pays for shared hospital rooms in Singapore, but only people who pay out of pocket or have private insurance can get private rooms. In... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

Furthermore, we found that the resulting products were rated as equal to or higher in quality than competitive offerings. These results often surprise people, given the perceived wisdom that incumbents have difficulty responding to major... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

women say they have been targeted at work, according to a 2016 report by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which also estimates that three out of four of those women will never mention that fact to a supervisor. “It’s really... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

on several business and human rights issues over his career. He led Open For Business, where he worked with business leaders and activists to collectively advocate for LGBT+ equality in challenging regions. He has also worked on... View Details

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

tense, it will pay off,” Whillans says. Many people also waste too much time trying to find the cheapest prices, whether by driving out of the way for the least-expensive gas or schlepping to multiple stores for slightly lower prices. In... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

and various roads to success. Assessing Your Fit Due to the risk involved in choosing the wrong CEO, companies are placing increased emphasis on assessment as part of the search, and this process is equally important for candidates.... View Details

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

no opposition. But if instead of an exchange, we asked a potential donor ‘How about we pay you $25,000?' that would be against the law. "That's what caught my interest in repugnance: Here are two things that look similar. One is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

We know surprisingly little about mergers and acquisitions, despite the buckets of ink spilled on the topic. In fact, our collective wisdom could be summed up in a few short sentences: Acquirers usually pay too much. Friendly deals done... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

area. When residents tried to flee burning buildings, they were shot and killed in the street. An estimated 300 people died, 1,000 families lost their homes, and $1.8 million in property was destroyed, equal to $26.1 million today. The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

not lower, profits. BSC customer profitability metrics are also highly actionable. If a company finds that an important customer is unprofitable, it should first look internally to see how it can improve its internal processes to lower the cost-to-serve. After all, we... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

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