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- August 2011
- Supplement
An Interview with John Fahey, President and CEO of National Geographic Society
By: David Garvin
In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of...
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Keywords:
Transformation;
Leadership Style;
Business or Company Management;
Brands and Branding;
Problems and Challenges;
Sales;
Natural Environment;
Business Strategy;
Web Sites
Garvin, David. "An Interview with John Fahey, President and CEO of National Geographic Society." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 312-702, August 2011.
- May 23, 2011
- Article
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
To determine the extent to which corporate and investor behavior is changing to contribute to a more sustainable society, researchers Robert Eccles and George Serafeim analyzed data involving over 2,000 companies in 23 countries. One result: a ranking of countries...
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Keywords:
Change;
Society;
Corporate Disclosure;
Natural Environment;
Rank and Position;
Social Issues;
Financial Statements;
Behavior
Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim. "Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 23, 2011).
- March 2010 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
Creative Capital: Sustaining the Arts
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Creative Capital provides grants to individual artists using a venture capital model—the money comes with guidance and governance. Artists receive money as milestones are reached and also receive guidance on managing their lives and business to increase their...
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Keywords:
Arts;
Business Model;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Financial Services Industry
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Creative Capital: Sustaining the Arts." Harvard Business School Case 810-098, March 2010. (Revised August 2010.)
- July 2011
- Teaching Note
The National Geographic Society (TN)
By: David A. Garvin
Teaching Note for 311-002.
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- June 1989
- Background Note
Mastering the Art of Change: Managing Convergence and Upheaval
Outlines the differences between convergent change, which is a process of incremental innovation and continuous improvement, and divergent change, which involves revolutionary changes. Discusses how to manage each type of change and the consequences associated with...
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Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Leonard A. Schlesinger. "Mastering the Art of Change: Managing Convergence and Upheaval." Harvard Business School Background Note 389-168, June 1989.
- 26 Feb 2015
- News
Thinking Like an Entrepreneur: The Science and the Art
- 16 May 2011
- News
Dean's Award Honors Student Service to School and Society
- July–August 2018
- Article
When Technology Gets Ahead of Society
By: Tarun Khanna
New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar challenges: The rules are unclear and...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Society;
Situation or Environment;
Infrastructure;
Entrepreneurship;
Performance Effectiveness;
Cooperation
Khanna, Tarun. "When Technology Gets Ahead of Society." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 4 (July–August 2018): 86–95.
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
For the Good of Society
Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is chairman and cofounder of the Bridgespan Group and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video he talks about a new vision for guiding philanthropic...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
The Changing Role of Business in Society
Business interaction with the U.S. government, historically based on securing industry or company special interests at the expense of the public good, has enabled and furthered government dysfunction. Gridlock within the American political system has precluded the...
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Keywords:
Politics;
Shared Value;
Social Progress Index;
Competitiveness;
Walmart;
BlackRock;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
ESG;
Transparency;
Campaign Contributions;
Campaign Finance;
Lobbying;
Revolving Door;
Political Ideology;
Political Parties;
Political Partisanship;
Government And Business;
Government Innovation;
Elections;
Democracy;
Capitalism;
Stakeholder Capitalism;
Shareholder Engagement;
Competition;
Strategy;
Government and Politics;
Society;
Social Issues;
Human Needs;
Wealth and Poverty;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Corporate Accountability;
Financial Services Industry;
Banking Industry;
United States
Porter, Michael E. "The Changing Role of Business in Society." Working Paper, July 2021.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The art of thinking creatively
art collection, a practice that enhances the inventive corporate culture. “People are responsive to them,” Schwartz says. His effort at HBS is a collaborative one, and plays out in annual buying trips to...
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- 26 May 2009
- News
Graduating Students Honored for Service to the School and Society
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Last winter, a senior admissions officer at Claremont McKenna College resigned, after admitting to inflating reported SAT scores of the incoming class for six years and sending the falsified reports to U.S. News View Details
- October 2, 2000
- Article
Interests, Value and the Art of the Best Deal
By: James K. Sebenius and David A. Lax
Sebenius, James K., and David A. Lax. "Interests, Value and the Art of the Best Deal." Mastering Management, Part One, Supplement to the Financial Times Financial Times (October 2, 2000), 6–7. (Reprinted in Pickford, James, ed., Mastering Management 2.0, London: Prentice-Hall, pp. 281-5.)
The Art of Strategic Renewal
With Andy Binns, J. Bruce Harreld, and Charles A. O'Reilly: MIT Sloan Management Review 55, no. 2...
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- 30 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Sound Society
wanted to do something about it. After thinking about ways they could bring more music to HBS, they decided that setting up an official student club was the best option. They collaborated closely with Student Academic Services to get The Sound View Details
- 12 Jan 2011
- News