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    Das Narayandas

    Das Narayandas is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Technology degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), a Post-Graduate... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; beauty products; biotechnology; computer; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; federal government; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; internet; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; professional services; retailing; telecommunications; transportation
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    Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage

    By: Robert D. Austin and Gary P. Pisano
    Many people with neurological conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and dyslexia have extraordinary skills, including those in pattern recognition, memory, and mathematics. Yet they often struggle to fit the profiles sought by employers. A growing number of... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Diversity; Competency and Skills
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    New Technologies and the Future of Food and Nutrition

    By: Ray A. Goldberg
    Ray A. Goldberg has been investigating the impact of new technologies on, and the functioning of, the global agribusiness system in the twenty-first century. He is currently developing a seminar to bring scientists, business leaders, academics, and consumer... View Details
    • January 2003 (Revised January 2007)
    • Case

    Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

    By: Allen S. Grossman, Jane Wei-Skillern and Kristin Lieb
    In 2002, Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, the recognized world leader in the breeding and training of guide dogs, was in the midst of broadening its reach and providing additional mobility services. Chief Executive Geraldine Peacock was concerned that systemic... View Details
    Keywords: Transition; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Programs; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations; Competitive Strategy
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    • 2008
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    Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States

    By: Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman

    Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors' behaviors, procuring organizations' roles in increasing donations remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in... View Details

    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Behavior; Programs; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Ventures; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; For-Profit Firms; Organizations; Training; United States
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    • September 2019 (Revised June 2021)
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    Dove and Real Beauty: Building a Brand with Purpose

    By: Mark R. Kramer, Myriam Sidibe and Gunjan Veda
    Unilever subsidiary Dove soap became a "brand with a purpose" and created shared value when the company decided to launch a Campaign for Real Beauty to combat the artificial media-driven stereotype of female beauty that causes appearance anxiety in women and girls... View Details
    Keywords: Stereotype; Body Image; Female; Self-Esteem; Brands and Branding; Mission and Purpose; Advertising Campaigns; Gender; Resource Allocation
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    Current Research

    Kevin P. Coyne has taught classes in undergraduate, MBA, and executive education programs at a wide variety of schools, as well as company training programs. His current research interests include:

    Sustainable Competitive... View Details

    • 26 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out

    For mid-career STEM professionals looking to advance their skills and careers, certificate programs at elite universities can offer a fast track. And for universities, such programs are an important and... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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    Evaluating the Effectiveness of Corporate Compliance Programs: Establishing a Model for Prosecutors, Courts, and Firms

    By: Eugene F. Soltes
    When prosecutors, courts, and regulators make charging and sentencing decisions, they must evaluate whether firms have effective compliance programs. Such evaluations are difficult because of the challenges associated with measuring effectiveness. Notably, these... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation
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    • 19 Apr 2016
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    April 19, 2016

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50952 The Great Training Robbery By: Beer, Michael, Magnus Finnstrom, and Derek Schrader Abstract—In 2012 U.S. corporations spent $164.2 billion on training and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Oct 2016
    • Blog Post

    An Interview with Associate Director, Phillip Andrews

    What did you do before you came to CPD? Before I joined the Career & Professional Development (CPD) team, I spent two years as a case researcher working with faculty to develop and write business case studies for use in the HBS classroom and in business View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • April 14, 2017
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    Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It

    By: John A. Deighton
    United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs and empower its employees to put customers first in the wake of a video showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. Of all the U.S. air carriers, United should have known the power of social media and... View Details
    Keywords: Crisis Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Training; Air Transportation Industry
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      Jeffrey T. Polzer

      Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective... View Details

        Gabe Weinreb

        I am a second-year PhD student in the Health Policy and Management program at Harvard Business School where my advisor is Dr. Rob Huckman. I live in Brookline with my fiance Natalie and our two cats, Joe and Huey. Before grad school I was a research assistant in the... View Details
        • 18 Oct 2006
        • Research & Ideas

        New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

        Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics View Details
        Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education
        • April 2014
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        Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

        By: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Scott S. Lee
        Organizations often use non-monetary awards to incentivize performance. Awards may affect behavior through several mechanisms: by conferring employer recognition, by enhancing social visibility, and by facilitating social comparison. In a nationwide health worker... View Details
        Keywords: Social Comparison; Awards; Optimal Expectactions; Zambia; Status and Position; Performance Expectations; Motivation and Incentives; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Zambia
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        • May 2015
        • Case

        China Yintai: Developing Shared Value in China

        By: Christopher Marquis, Ying Zhang and Shiyu Yang
        Under the leadership of CEO and President Shen Guojun, China Yintai was increasingly committed to philanthropic initiatives. Drawing upon his experience as an entrepreneur and a philanthropist, Mr. Shen saw the urgent need to build bridges between business practices... View Details
        Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; China
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        • September 1991
        • Case

        Rethinking the Corporate Workplace: Case Managers at Mutual Benefit Life

        By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.
        In early 1991, a spirit of innovation and organizational change was in the air at Mutual Benefit Life, with the success of the new "case manager" program its most concrete manifestation. Using powerful computer workstations, case managers could see insurance... View Details
        Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Information Technology; Insurance; Human Resources; Insurance Industry
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          Monique Burns Thompson

          Monique Burns Thompson is an accomplished social entrepreneur who returns to HBS (class of 1993) and brings her twenty years of successful start-up and organizational leadership experience to her research and teaching at HBS.  She has led as a co-founder, President,... View Details

          • 08 Sep 2020
          • Blog Post

          2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)

          to work in industry in order to develop my competence as an engineer, but I also knew that I wanted to transition out of big business after achieving that competency and found a company. The HBS 2+2 process gave me that roadmap to get View Details