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Spreading the Word – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

ultimately securing national stability at a time of economic and social unrest. 11 Elton Mayo, The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization . New York: MacMillan, 1933, p. 159. The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site... View Details
  • December 1998
  • Case

Pioneer Hi-Bred: Turning Seeds Into Factories

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
The agricultural sector is among the preeminent information technology users in our economy," exclaimed an August 1998 Forbes ASAP survey of the U.S. economy's best and worst users of information technology (IT). The survey designated Pioneer Hi-Bred International,... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Multinational Firms and Management; Information Management; Infrastructure; Business Strategy; Information Technology; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Iowa
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    The Moral Leader: Challenges, Insights and Tools

    Successful leaders – at any level and in any arena – are inevitably presented with moral and ethical choices. This unique and innovative textbook is designed to encourage students and managers to confront those fundamental moral challenges, to develop skills in... View Details

    • March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
    • Case

    OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (A)

    By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
    It was December 10, 2020, and Ed Bastian, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Delta Air Lines (Delta), had just finished a meeting with Joanne Smith, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, and Keyra Lynn Johnson, the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.... View Details
    Keywords: Recruitment; Training; Race; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Job Design and Levels; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    • August 1998
    • Case

    Electronic Commerce at Air Products

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
    In 1998,chief information officers (CIOs) in the highly competitive international gases and chemicals business faced the reality that electronic commerce capability was a strategic necessity. The results of annual surveys of technology officers in the chemical industry... View Details
    Keywords: Management Teams; Information Technology; Globalized Markets and Industries; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Business Strategy; Chemical Industry; United States
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    • 01 Sep 2023
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

    Power of WE, cultivating campus cultures that harness diversity as a tool for individual and collective success. Currently a student at Harvard Medical School, she serves as national president for Future Doctors in Politics, to motivate,... View Details
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    HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

    Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) , President & CEO, World Wildlife Fund Debora L. Spar (PMD 62, 1991) , Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society; Board Director,... View Details
    • 27 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

    economists, privatized state assets. The case provides an opportunity to explore how this happened, and what its impact was both at the time and for the subsequent development of capitalism in Russia. Berevosky's business empire suffered a major reversal after the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

    and Reconstruction PA Candy Boyer Conestoga Valley High School Lancaster, PA Subjects: U.S. History MD Brendan Brace Southern High School Harwood, MD Subjects: AP US History, Historical Inquiry MA Vin Bradley Catholic Memorial School West Roxbury, MA Subjects: U.S.... View Details
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    Request the Data - Leadership

    only one copy of the Excel spreadsheet for non-commercial use. I will only provide portions of the information in print or by secure electronic means to a limited number of individuals within my organization. I agree to include the copyright notice of the View Details
    • 23 Dec 2019
    • Blog Post

    Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School

    After attending Wharton for her undergraduate studies, she worked at Lehman Brothers & Barclays. She had been promoted to vice president at PIMCO only six years out of college. But one day, Julie woke up and felt she was failing to... View Details
    • 20 Dec 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

    money to Senator Mark Hanna [R-OH] and the leaders of a Panamanian independence movement. Hanna, in turn, convinced President Roosevelt to support the independentistas. American warships prevented Colombia from responding to Panama's... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
    • 05 Mar 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

    we might ask whether, when President Franklin Roosevelt said at a particularly dark point during the Great Depression that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," did he really believe that or was he trying to exercise... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 24 Feb 2021
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

    & Peace” course stands out as a favorite. It even inspired him to write his fourth book and his first novel, The Peacemaker’s Code, released this month. The book is a science fiction thriller in which a young Cambridge historian is called to Washington to advise... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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    Joel Hurd

    Chrysler, of Detroit. Where was current Harvard President Lawrence Bacow born?! You already know, Detroit! What has changed about your understanding of leadership? In a few ways oh so much, but in many more ways nothing at all. One can... View Details
    • 28 Nov 2018
    • HBS Case

    On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

    Target was awash in customer data from these online sales, but to make sense of it, the company needed to bring in the right people. Paritosh Desai joined Target in August 2013 as vice president of business intelligence, analytics, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
    • 15 Aug 2022
    • Book

    University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

    Gerberding. The president was delayed in arriving, being held up in meetings with the legislature on the university’s budget. I will never forget his arrival. He came in, wordlessly, and he ordered an enormous Scotch. Then he told me:... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
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    Greenhill House | About

    (1890-1970), US treasury secretary under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1957. An attorney from Michigan, Humphrey became a leader in the American steel industry as the president of the M.A.... View Details
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    Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

    Vice President of Investments at the McKnight Foundation, reflected on how to effectively advance the organization’s net-zero strategy. The foundation had committed 10% of its endowment to building a portfolio of impact investments and... View Details
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    Aldrich Hall | About

    Jr. was a noted philanthropist who believed that wealth should be “an instrumentality of constructive social living.” In that spirit, he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation, funded the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg,... View Details