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  • 16 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

her time between factory floors, design meetings, setting the strategy, and crunching the numbers. “I’m happy that I was there as the production manager when we started out, but I had to determine the best use View Details
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

risk preferences, corrosion of organizational culture, and reduced intrinsic motivation,” write Lisa D. Ordóñez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman. “Rather than dispensing goal View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2018
  • Article

Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing

By: Julie Battilana
While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, today companies are increasingly expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social... View Details
Keywords: Hybrid Organizations; Hybrid Organizing; Multiple Goals; Social Enterprise; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture
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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

edge technology allowing you to build your many clones of expertise. The goal of this session is to set students up to create valuable models that pave the way toward selling... View Details
  • 14 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

express a high-level set of principles that employees are expected to abide by, but what the court effectively said is, ‘This is akin to marketing material that people don’t take literally word-for-word.” So... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • June 2013 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Governance and Sustainability at Nike (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Nien-hê Hsieh and Lara Adamsons
Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of Nike's board of directors. Set in 2012, the case traces the evolution of Nike's approach to environmental and social... View Details
Keywords: Nike; Hannah Jones; Mark Parker; Phil Knight; Philip Knight; Eric Sprunk; Jill Ker Conway; Phyllis Wise; Don Blair; Sustainable Business And Innovation; SB＆I; Flyknit; DyeCoo; Footwear; Athletic Footwear; Apparel; Athletic Apparel; Sustainability; Greenpeace; Detox Campaign; Dirty Laundry; Water; Water Use; Water Pollution; Water Resources; Corporate Responsibility Committee; Judgment; Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Footwear Industry; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Ethics; Fairness; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance; Alignment; Supply Chain; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Judgments; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Asia; China; United States; Oregon; Portland
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  • 16 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

her time between factory floors, design meetings, setting the strategy, and crunching the numbers. “I’m happy that I was there as the production manager when we started out, but I had to determine the best use View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail
  • March 1993 (Revised December 1993)
  • Case

Johnson Controls, Automotive Systems Group: The Georgetown, Kentucky Plant

Prior to the 1980s, automakers purchased individual seat components and built the seats alongside their auto assembly lines. This case describes how Johnson Controls, Automotive Systems Group, blossomed when automakers turned to outsourcing the complete seat set. The... View Details
Keywords: Production; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Kentucky
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IT Strategy: The Future of the Web at HBS | Information Technology

for their teams. Content creators will be trained on how to edit content, and also on the fundamentals of the Web Design System, SEO, and web accessibility to make sure they are set up for success. The... View Details
  • Web

Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization - Recruiting

metrics.” Set the Tone as Leaders Anti-racism work needs to happen at all levels of an organization, but the tone should be set from the top. Leaders need to take an active... View Details
  • May 22 2019
  • Interview

A New Role for CFOs

    Amy C. Edmondson

    Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of... View Details

    Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry; professional services; consulting

      Helene Hall

      Helene Hall is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program at Harvard University. Prior to coming to Harvard, she worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and studied economics and mathematics at Williams College. Her main research... View Details
      • 14 May 2024
      • Blog Post

      Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship

      Without those basic requirements, it’s pointless [ ] In my opinion, 90% of the success in any innovation process may be attributed to the setting where that innovation will be View Details
      • 31 Jan 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

      growth, offering organizations unprecedented opportunities to develop new products and services, and even reimagine their businesses. In mid-2020, we set out to understand the challenges of leading in the... View Details
      Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
      • 25 Jun 2019
      • Blog Post

      Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

      day to day basis, using different tools and different sets of vocabulary on the job.  For example, one group masters pipettes to perform immunoassays and FACS analyses, while the other masters Microsoft... View Details

        Terry Culpepper

        Terry II Culpepper researches topics in empirical industrial organization, urban economics, and organizational economics. Prior to Harvard, he studied economics at the University of Chicago, then worked there as an economic researcher in industrial organization. View Details
        • Web

        Why Soft Skills Still Matter in the Age of AI | Working Knowledge

        mastering calculus requires a prior understanding of algebra and geometry, education and career paths are both cumulative and sequential, with each step building upon the previous one,” the authors write.... View Details

          Justine Murray

          Justine is a doctoral student in the Micro Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. Her research examines how individuals experience and enact meaningful work, particularly in contexts with minimal external constraints. She finds that individuals tend... View Details
          • 17 Dec 2018
          • Blog Post

          Thinking of Joining a Board? Christiana Smith Shi (MBA 1986) Shares Her Experience

          prior to retiring, and like all of us, felt like I was juggling, trading-off, and trying to balance the impossible all the time. The gift now is that I'm able to do work that keeps me relevant through board... View Details