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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

important move, is Public Opinion.” 10 Hill argued that “the highest purpose of public relations is to foster and promote understanding among people. For this reason, the art of communication assumes great importance in public relations.” 11 Within this art of... View Details
  • 12 Dec 2023
  • Book

HBS Faculty Books of 2023: Find Happiness, Fix Things, and Fail Well

Cadbury and J. N. Tata have been trying to improve life for their workers and communities, according to the book Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership by Geoffrey Jones. He highlights three practices... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • December 2005 (Revised March 2010)
  • Case

William Levitt, Levittown and the Creation of American Suburbia

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson
Demand for low-cost housing after World War II far exceeded supply. Was this a profitable new market? New York developer William Levitt had to decide. During World War II, Levitt was eager to build basic housing for the working class—otherwise, Levitt & Sons would have... View Details
Keywords: Demographics; Construction; Business History; Housing; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Business and Government Relations; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

(e.g., bundle payments), integrated practice units (IPUs), and outcomes measurement. Insight into time-driven activity-based costing, or TDABC, and the use of innovative digital health solutions are also touched upon. Leadership... View Details
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

invest in platform quality in open-source and proprietary two-sided platforms. Open platforms have open access, and developers invest to improve the platform. Proprietary platforms have closed access, and investment is done by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2024
  • In Practice

Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year

As a new year begins, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on the future of work permeates nearly every workplace-related discussion, from diversity, equity, and inclusion goals and venture capital funding to strategic View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology
  • 21 Nov 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

A worldwide economic crisis. Intense scrutiny from board members, customers, and government regulators. Expanding global markets. Public protests aimed squarely at your industry. Running a financial institution, never easy to begin with, has quickly become one of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 2021
  • Book

Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
Why does the gender gap persist and how can we close it? For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest on record.... View Details
Keywords: Women; Career; Gender Gap; Glass Ceiling; Gender; Employment; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture; Diversity; Management; Strategy
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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

U.S. defense procurement data, we develop a measure of military use across goods between zero and one based on our optimal tax formulas. Our measure is associated with policy targeting and trade responses around conflicts and allows us to... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2019
  • What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

strategy on artificial intelligence research and development ” As he put it, “DARPA is a government agency responsible for developing and deploying weapons for war fighters of the future. We need CARPA—the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

offers Harvard Business School (HBS) alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to advance new ventures around promising life science technologies and develop their leadership... View Details
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Initiatives | About

Initiatives Critical mass and critical thinking around critically important topics. Business & Environment Business History Entrepreneurship (Rock Center) Health Care Leadership Race, Gender & Equity Social Enterprise Initiatives are... View Details
  • March 2010 (Revised August 2010)
  • Supplement

Systems Infrastructure at Google (B)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
This case is a thick description of how a Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google, Bill Coughran, leads a high-performing engineering organization. The case focuses specifically on Coughran's use of encouraging two teams of engineers to develop competing... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Infrastructure; Management Teams; Leadership Development; Information Technology Industry
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Emerging from the Pandemic: Insights from South Asia and ASEAN

OF YOUR FOCUSES HAS BEEN THE SENIOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM–INDIA (SELPI). HOW HAS THAT PROGRAM EVOLVED? This year, we are celebrating the eleventh program in our senior executive leadership program... View Details
  • January 2009 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Cisco Business Councils (2007): Unifying a Functional Enterprise with an Internal Governance System

By: Ranjay Gulati
In response to the 2001 market downturn, Cisco Systems implemented a major restructuring that transformed the company from a decentralized to centralized organization. While recognizing that a centralized, functional structure was necessary to avoid product and... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Customer Focus and Relationships; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Technology Industry
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  • 24 Apr 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

transforming both enterprises and creating a formidable competitor for Medtronic. I didn’t have the courage to accept short-term risk to create long-term gain. It took Medtronic two decades of expensive research and development programs... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

strategic visit to Asia to deepen regional understanding and global alignment across the business. Keywords: Innovation Leadership ; Technological Innovation ; Leadership View Details
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Curriculum - Case Method Project

of the Democratic Party; political career of Martin Van Buren; bank chartering system; Panic of 1837; Democrats vs. Whigs; free banking Property, Suffrage, and the "Right of Revolution" in Rhode Island, 1842 This case explores the View Details
  • 11 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
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Marketing - Faculty & Research

and interactive marketing, sales management and return on marketing investment. Some of our faculty specializes in specific industries such as retailing, agribusiness, social enterprise, media, arts and entertainment. There are several new View Details