Managing Multiple Stakeholders - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Star Search

retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

November 15, 2021
Article

Putting Your Corporate Purpose to Work

By: Hubert Joly

Making a company purpose come to life is an arduous journey that requires a multi-pronged and sustained approach. Yet as hard as it is, the journey is well worth it and will yield positive transformation not only for the company, but also for the people who work there.... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Business and Stakeholder Relations

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21 Dec 2016
Blog Post

The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA

others regularly to become educated based on their areas of expertise and has to be ready in the moments after such conversations to step in front of board members or investors or other stakeholders and talk with conviction and... View Details

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

into their products and services, from sources (e.g., labor conditions in paper plants where company stationery is manufactured) to applications and ultimate fate (e.g., how used computers are disposed of). Whether this is called acknowledgment of View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

08 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

one-standard-deviation increase in store labor brought about a 10 percent increase in profit margin. These findings ran contrary to the thinking of store managers that Ton interviewed. They consistently identified service quality as a top... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

01 Dec 2019
News

Impact: Business in an Age of Sustainability

What is the role of business in addressing climate change? How should asset managers weigh the social impact of their investments? What steps should a company take to ensure transparency in management and... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark

pharmaceutical executive at the time of her diagnosis with multiple myeloma, an incurable, rare, and little-researched blood cancer, Giusti went on to found the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and the... View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

structure for meetings where managers can quickly see which aspects of their strategy are succeeding and where they are falling short. The causal relationships enable managers to test whether the theory of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2012
News

The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding

Kaplan As we look to the future, it is clear that the leading MBA programs will be very different 25 years from now. The role of MBA education is changing, and HBS needs to be increasingly nimble and innovative in order to remain the leader in View Details

Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

of markets. Describing Generate’s model, he called for its widespread adoption. Jacobs wrote: “A new model is necessary for aligning all stakeholder interests so that we can build the infrastructure we need. That model needs to be... View Details

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

creating healthy lives, not just profits, from its medical products. Higher-ambition leaders craft a distinctive set of practices, outlined in our book, to enact the multiple stakeholder perspective." In... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

billions of dollars annually licensing patents for its code-division multiple access (CDMA) technology, which is the heart of several mobile communication standards. Standards bodies often act as regulators, setting rules in order to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services

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Pharmaceuticals: drug retail prices

begin with BI PHRMG) Micromedex - Average drug wholesale prices. (May search by individual drug name or multiple drug names using Tools > RED Book) Additional resources: Manufacturer reporting of Average Sales Price (ASP)... View Details

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Tony Perez

"Healthcare is part of just about every class," Tony notes. "It's a good way to see healthcare from multiple management angles, such as operations, organizational behavior, corporate... View Details

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

to as high as, in some cases, millions of dollars. Khaire and Wadhwani describe their work in "Changing Landscapes: The Construction of Meaning and Value in a New Market Category—Modern Indian Art," which is scheduled to be published in a forthcoming Academy... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Transforming Education Through Social Entrepreneurship

GSVN2K Daily Newsletter - daily newsletter that "gives the latest updates on what’s happening in the "Pre-K to Gray” Learning & Skills Landscape." EdSurge - news from and about educators, entrepreneurs, researchers and... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

What’s in a Name

In the episode, “Who Is Afraid of Woke Capitalism?” Chugh relates a story from her book about Dixie beer, a New Orleans staple that had faded in recent decades. New owners took over the company and in 2019 hired General Manager Jim Birch... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2018
News

Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term

Professor Rebecca Henderson “Doing well by doing good” has rapidly gained momentum in recent years as business leaders, investors, and stakeholders have deepened their understanding of the double bottom line. To help View Details

January 2009
Article

Bank Debt and Corporate Governance

By: Victoria Ivashina, Vinay Nair, Anthony Saunders, Nadia Massoud and Roger Stover

In this paper, we investigate the disciplining role of banks and bank debt in the market for corporate control. We find that relationship bank lending intensity and bank client network have positive effects on the probability of a borrowing firm becoming a target. This... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Borrowing and Debt; Banks and Banking; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Governance Controls; Managerial Roles