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How do I use field tags in Factiva to create an advanced search? Factiva has a number of searchable fields that allow you to create a targeted search. The following table provides a guide to Factiva's field tags. To search using field... View Details

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

In the spring of 2020, brothers Kenneth Chenault (MBA 2019) and Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021) witnessed a series of heartbreaking events. They watched alongside the rest of the world as Ahmaud Arbery, Christian Cooper, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade were... View Details

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

surely started to shed away as I began to realize the wisdom that came from my teammates, that many people had better ideas than those that came out of either my head or out of headquarters. Hanna: About 25 years after you took the reins, you became the View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

use the right approach at the right time and change as the situation demands is going to be tough. Not everybody can do it. That's going to distinguish the true leaders from people who are capable but not leaders." Targeting Talent... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.

New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Insurance

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John H. McArthur | About

create the John and Natty McArthur University Professorship, established in 1997, with the remainder earmarked to target some of the School’s activities that held special meaning to McArthur. In 2002, a group of Canadian alumni announced... View Details

July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry

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21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

randomizing, of necessity, involves a trade-off. Focusing on short-term cost-effectiveness often leads managers to implement new programs at sites or at times when they think they will do the most good. But such targeted interventions... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Social Innovation

My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Management Sciences (INFORMS) for "Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms” (December 2019) with Umit Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers. Ranjay Gulati : Deep Purpose (Harper Business, 2022) included as one of the Next Big Idea Club’s 2022... View Details

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

harassment or racial discrimination—in which coworkers' morale or performance suffers even when they are not the direct targets of abuse. He coined a term for the phenomenon, "ambient cultural disharmony," which he discusses in depth in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

October 14, experts warned that “voluntary” carbon reduction targets being set at COP26 are far from sufficient to meaningfully address climate change. Methane, which is 60 to 80 times worse than CO2, they said, isn’t even part of the... View Details

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

People are generally receptive to talking about their careers and the choices they made that helped get them where they are today. In addition, be sure to also network outside of your target industry to get exposure to more perspectives... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

behavior across retailers? Certainly, online shopping has taken off over this period. How might that affect consumer behavior when they show up in the store? With stores like Walmart and Target carrying almost everything, including... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

to 25 percent. The company also matches the gratuities; the total has been rising steadily since Trader Joe’s began stocking the product in its 200 California stores in 2021, and Nyamumbo expects it to grow significantly following the brand’s debut in View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

target marketing as vice president for special markets. Click on photos above to learn more Between 1915 and 1930 approximately 12 African Americans attended HBS. They forged successful careers in insurance, real estate, and finance, as... View Details

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

where there are fewer distractions, is one where product teams can really make headway on their ambitious roadmaps and take the time to articulate – and take steps towards realizing—their long-term product vision. 5. Execute small, View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

Putting together the money for everything from a short-term emergency to retirement is hard enough, a challenge that low- and moderate-income families endure every day. Yet as HBS professor Peter Tufano describes, new and old products View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

last forever. Cote had used targeted layoffs for permanent changes to Honeywell’s product portfolio after becoming CEO in 2002, divesting businesses that did not meet his requirement that each Honeywell business be in a “great position in... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

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