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  • Blog

Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

many members of the community to gather a range of perspectives on DEI. It's apparent that people are yearning for more understanding of what needs to be done to move this effort forward. That enthusiasm will help for this next phase... View Details
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBTQ rights and race relations. In the first study of this phenomenon, we implement two framed field experiments to provide evidence on how CEO activism can influence public opinions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

saw the virtues of more scale, yet diversified greatly into a whole range of goods including gas and electrical turbines (an area that challenged Siemens). He always thought in terms of scale, but self-consciously limited his financing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

worse in future-oriented activities such as corporate social responsibility (CSR) compared to those in weak-FTR language environments. Examining thousands of global companies across 59 countries from 1999 to 2011, we find support for our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

Confederacy Nineteen ninety-six was only a few days old when the New York Times ran the headline "'95 the Hottest Year on Record." The story discussed mounting scientific evidence of global warming, a potentially catastrophic... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

excessive economic concentration, so lucidly and incisively analysed here, are not limited to the financial services industry. For the problem is now widespread: while five firms control 80% of the banking industry, a similar or greater concentration is found in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

Large banks—including Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase—were among the former creditors. In October 2005, Eddie Bauer stock was selling for $24 per share. Analysts were projecting target prices ranging from $22 to $35 per share.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

A More Perfect Union

the end, that’s what an effective government does: It provides services to citizens and gives them the basics to do better. Today’s system creates fewer and fewer of those opportunities to move up,” says Ballou-Aares, who was selected as a World Economic Forum Young... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar
  • March 2025
  • Case

Taylor Guitars: Making Employee Ownership Work the Taylor Way

By: Dennis Campbell, Petros Kusmu and Stacy Straaberg
In 2013, guitar manufacturer Taylor Guitars’ co-founders Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug were considering several exit options including selling to a competitor or to a private equity firm. The co-founders decided, instead, to embark on a seven-year process to transfer 100%... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Communication Strategy; Announcements; Decisions; Music Entertainment; Values and Beliefs; Borrowing and Debt; Geographic Location; Global Range; Governance; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Private Ownership; Business Strategy; Management Succession; Transition; Employee Ownership; Performance; Manufacturing Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; California; San Diego; Mexico; Netherlands
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  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

increases in victimization for both income groups. Third, we document direct evidence on pecuniary and non-pecuniary protection activities by both the rich and poor, ranging from the avoidance of dark places to the hiring of private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808167 The Coartem Challenge (A) Harvard Business School Case 706-037 In November 2005, Novartis, a major global pharmaceutical firm, is reviewing its Coartem program, an ambitious attempt to deliver... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

entrepreneurs who are building new ventures. In 2005, the group is considering increasing its investment focus to include a broader range of technologies, including emerging technologies (for example, Mobile and RFID technologies) and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

Harvard, and the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society. Their purpose is to accelerate what Harvard Business School does best: develop new management ideas with power in practice by connecting with leading organizations so... View Details
  • 22 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System

we can not only make these microalgae orders of magnitude faster growing and more resource efficient than traditional crops[i], but also expand the range of materials and products these microalgae can produce[ii][iii], improving... View Details
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

Business Review What's Your Language Strategy? It Should Bind Your Company's Global Talent Management and Vision By: Neeley, Tsedal, and Robert Steven Kaplan Abstract—Language pervades every aspect of organizational life. Yet leaders of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

On Credit

the papers of influential business leaders and the records of innovative companies in the late 20th- and 21st-century global business world,” says Laura Linard, Baker Library’s director of special collections. More recently, that focus... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

credit for any of it." Starting The Strategy The authors argue that every company should have a CSR strategy that unifies the diverse range of its philanthropic giving, supply chain, "cause" marketing, and system-level initiatives all... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

skillful negotiators can effectively manage both incentives and penalties. Publisher's link: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/24/like_a_boss_nuclear_talks_iran   Working Papers Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Keeping the Faith

It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Illustrations by Victo ngai