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- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
- 05 Jul 2023
- News
GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center
located at the Park Hyatt Dubai Creek, Golf, and Yacht Club. "It epitomizes the city's modernity and grandeur and captures the essence of Harvard Business School through its elegant design," Lootah says. More than 90 people attended the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- September 2023
- Module Note
Live Case Exercise for Financial Reporting
By: Tatiana Sandino and Marshal Herrmann
Harvard Business School employs the case method as a cornerstone of its pedagogy, providing students with opportunities to engage in discussions related to difficult or contentious decisions confronted by real-world organizations. In this “live case,” we depart from... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
Microfinance—essentially small loans that help impoverished individuals create jobs, small businesses, and stronger communities—may offer a window on new methods for widening access to healthcare for the poor. Led by Harvard Business... View Details
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
research out of Harvard Business School. In fact, these are just a handful of suspect titles companies are using to classify hourly workers as supervisors and avoid paying an estimated $4 billion in overtime a year, finds a study by... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
says Harvard Business School professor Hirotaka Takeuchi, was their dedication to responding to the needs of employees and the community first, all with the moral purpose of serving the common good. Less important for these companies, he... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Alumni - Global
Alumni 90,662 alumni in 173 countries Harvard Business School’s unparalleled alumni network extends throughout the world, with a third of our MBA alumni living outside the U.S. Our graduates are leaders in an exceptionally broad range of... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a measure of the exchange rate. We examine the channels through which a sovereign default may affect the economy. Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/jlerner/private-equity-jobs-and-productivity-8-march-2014-with-ables-and-figures-clean.pdf August 2013 Strategic Management Journal The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
desperate to get the toy fixed. “At any other store, they would have been directed to the toy aisle to buy a replacement,” says Hubert Joly, Best Buy’s former chairman and CEO, who is now a senior lecturer of business administration at View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It
Behavior best-seller list—thanks in part to corporate managers who distribute it to their employees as a lesson in accepting and anticipating change gracefully. But is that really the best message to send? View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do
the Harvard MBA classes of 2013 and 2014. The participants considered a picture of an actual ladder, which represented the conceptual corporate ladder. Their task: to indicate their current position in their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 2015
- Book
MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads; shipping delays on clogged railways; and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer,... View Details
Keywords: United States; Railroad History; Airlines; Airline Industry; Air Transportation; Passenger Transportation; Cities; Urban Planning; Freighting; Change; Leadership; Public Policy; Change Leadership; Public Finance; Infrastructure; Policy; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Leading Change; Urban Development; Project Finance; Entrepreneurship; City; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; Rail Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M. MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
- 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
- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
money, time, and connections that part the workplace waters—even when they don’t have the best ideas or the most talent. “It’s a myth that hard work is enough. We’ve all had experiences where we worked hard and still ended up losing out on a new job or a key... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
restaurants to engage in review fraud. We then turn our attention to negative review fraud and find that increased competition by similar restaurants is the driving force behind it. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2293164 Cases & Course Materials... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Web
Faculty & Advisors - MBA
fund and community. Her career includes work in both the corporate and startup worlds in Learning & Development at Cisco Systems, and leading an innovation and design fellowship in South Africa at Harvard... 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
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
underlying reason why: Leaders often get stuck in echo chambers that merely reinforce their own ideas, says Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer. Meanwhile, lower-level employees are often fully aware of the problems that plague... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman