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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
Shareholders Good boards balance their commitments to company and shareholder needs. For instance, the board should not necessarily authorize large dividends or help promote other shareholder goals like family employment or family... View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
there was zero budget to promote awareness of the effort and encourage completion of its online survey. “Thanks to YALP, we were able to have the support and engagement of many other networks in the community.” Educational excellence and... View Details
- 25 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Ana Barrera (MBA 2024)
The Latino Student Organization (LASO) proudly promotes and supports Harvard Business School’s Latino students and works alongside the Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA). Representing a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, interests,... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
drink mix; it’s quite another to compete with the ad spend, sales forces, and promotional programs of Gatorade and other big beverage companies in a larger but already crowded category. This entrepreneur knows her customer base, other use... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
of similar backgrounds. Perhaps they were also responding to perceived “implicit quotas,” an organization’s informal goal to promote people from certain groups. However, neither of those reasons proved as powerful as the simple notion... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang
to become better mentors, sponsors, and coaches. If organizations are serious about retaining and promoting new diverse talent, they have to think more deliberately about how to equip their leaders with the skills to develop others, and... View Details
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
whether the customer purchased a newly released product. With only those six variables, the authors show how the algorithm can better identify future heavy spenders and those who will be most responsive to future email promotions after... View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
not the top. People weren’t promoted up; they approached the center. She maintained that it helped associates achieve a different mindset toward collaboration and hierarchy. "Her bottom-line was always 'changed lives.'" Hesselbein... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
Sloan. As the case shows, Walker herself reflected on her path before an audience in 1912 at the National Negro Business League convention in Chicago: "I was promoted to the cook kitchen, and from there I View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
focus primarily on their internal capabilities—have realized this and pursued strategies that not only aggressively further their own interests but also promote their ecosystems' overall health. . . . The Keystone Advantage Keystone... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Conversational Leadership
than 100 companies. "We were struck by how often that word 'conversation' kept popping up," Slind says. "CEOs, especially, expressed an aspiration to promote a conversation in their organization. They talked about wanting everyone to be... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture
part in offering remote work. While one company may offer work-from-home options, a competitor may not, the authors found. Take the automotive industry. In 2019, almost no jobs from Honda, GM, Ford, or Tesla promoted the possibility of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
year visiting stores and employees and personally responds to any e-mail they send him." All of these factors have made QuikTrip a regular on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For. Yet the company's focus on promoting from within... View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
set a "tone at the top" that promotes long-term value creation. Serafeim: I am working on a big research project under the banner "Innovating for Sustainability." Professor Bob Eccles and I have created an MBA elective course, an... View Details
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
left But an agenda that increases the rewards of work, encourages stable, engaged families and promotes healthy community institutions could be a shared political enterprise." Is wealth distribution a problem cause or symptom? What... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Faculty and Research - Alumni
Administration Donor Stories Cameron Ogden (MBA 2006) and Peter Ogden (MBA 1973) As firm believers in education and research, Peter and Cameron have established a research fund at HBS to promote faculty freedom. Hyder Ahmad (MBA 1995)... View Details
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
vaccination rates, the campaigns led to an estimated 7 million additional people getting vaccinated. These results also point to the potential for broader use of social media platforms to promote other public health goals. Tech platforms... View Details
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Vicarious Learning in Organizations
To advance the study of how individuals learn through their interactions with others, Professor Myers has adopted a vicarious learning theory lens. Vicarious learning allows individuals to learn from the outcomes of others’ experiences, rather than solely their own... View Details