Gold - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2023
News

The Imposter Among Us

needs and drivers. In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi is a worldview centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The art of kintsugi, in which broken pottery is repaired with gold powder to highlight the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

06 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

The Truth About Authentic Leaders

expanding every year. As the Harvard Business Review declared in January 2015, “Authenticity has emerged as the gold standard for leadership.” In 2003, our book Authentic Leadership proposed a new kind of leader, whose character was the... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Leadership Initiative - Leadership

named by Business Insider as one of “The 20 Best Business Books” and received the Gold Medal for the Leadership Axiom Business Book Award. Hill’s TED talk on how to manage for collective creativity has more than 2.9 million views. In... View Details

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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

capacity cost rates to allocate resource costs, has become the gold standard in measuring the true costs of health care delivery and well described in a growing literature. Currently, process mapping in health care is sporadic, covering... View Details

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MBA Class of 1959 Chapel | About

ceiling-mounted prisms. Outside the chapel, the names of the members of the Class of 1959 are inscribed on a “sun clock” tower designed by German artist Karl Schlamminger. In 2011, the building achieved LEED Gold Certification for a... View Details

26 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing

British makeup guru Katie Jane Hughes posts close-up photos of her face on Instagram almost daily for her 336,000 followers: shimmery gold eyelids; glossy pink lips that complement her auburn hair; eyebrows tinted with tiny brushstrokes... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Beauty & Cosmetics

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

balance of trade in the 1960s, and the devaluation of the U.S. dollar and the end of its convertibility into gold in 1971, provided symbolic signs of the ending of an era. There remained many restrictions on the flow of capital, trade,... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

08 Sep 2022
Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

push-the-limit culture, which some employees viewed as toxic and sexist. And WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann, whose self-aggrandizing behavior belied the company’s major troubles, proved to be an immature executive, he says. “Authenticity is the View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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McCulloch Hall | About

to persuade state banks to apply for federal charters were largely responsible for the success of the National Bank Act. In his first term as treasury secretary, McCulloch advocated for the adoption of the gold standard to counteract... View Details

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Gallatin Hall | About

was replaced with energy-efficient systems, and sustainable building materials were used throughout, earning Gallatin LEED Gold for new construction certification, an internationally recognized green building standard. More than 80... View Details

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

Harvard Business School. [Image: RichLegg] Related Reading Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You? How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs What's your best tip for... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine , September 1877, p. 614. Statement Showing the First Mortgage Gold Bearing Six Per Cent. Bonds of The Atchison & Pike’s Peak Railroad Company (Central Branch of the Union Pacific) to be A First-Class... View Details

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard? Do work rules sabotage a company?... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Morgan Hall | About

supplying the US Treasury with an infusion of gold during the Panic of 1893 in exchange for a 30-year bond issue, and in 1907, he helped resolve a Wall Street crisis that nearly crippled the US economy. A noted philanthropist and... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

of laughter from the burly men sporting crew cuts and gold DSNY shields who had gathered around her conference table. (The agency employs approximately 7,500 uniformed workers and 2,500 civilian staffers.) “I really like the modernizing... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

“Authenticity has become the gold standard for leadership” —Harvard Business Review, January 2015 In the last 10 years, authenticity has become the gold standard of leadership. This is a sea change from 2003... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration; C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator Crypto/Web 3.0 Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Marvin Bower Associate Professor John Wu (MBA 2000), Chair Avalabs The New Gold Rush in Climate... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

technology companies. Srikant Datar, Harvard Business School Srikant M. Datar is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University. A graduate with distinction from the University of Bombay, he received View Details

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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

Ouali Amina Laraki Slaoui Mostafa Terrab Melek El Nimer Helmy Abouleish Ghassan E. Nuqul Silvia Gold Christoph Schiess Sanjay Bansal Shamlu Dudeja Patrick Chalhoub Aban Pestonjee Ela Bhatt Fadi Ghandour Anu Aga Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao... View Details

Portrait Project

Carol Lin

I cried watching Michelle Kwan skate to “Fields of Gold” in the 2002 Winter Olympics after she just missed the gold medal—not out of sadness for her, but out of joy over seeing someone who looked like me shine. My fifth-grade self had... View Details

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