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Choices The importance of thoughtful deliberation—and its implications for the future of capitalism Lesson Plan After serving alongside senior US Treasury officials during the financial crisis and advising... View Details

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

included plans to release a new line of sustainable merino wool socks. On a larger scale, Henderson says that Unilever has garnered good press with its plans to use only sustainably sourced agricultural raw... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Fast Answer

Sustainability in CPG and Retail

retail’s most common and significant environmental impacts and examines the origin of sustainable planning and operations, the business case for sustainability programs, and the maturation of retail sustainability programs.... View Details

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The New CEO’s Wrong Message

Bearing full responsibility for a company's success or failure, but being unable to control most of what will determine it. Having more authority than anyone else in the organization, but being unable to wield it without unhappy... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

Behavior and Human Decision Processes When and Why Randomized Response Techniques (Fail to) Elicit the Truth By: John, Leslie K., George Loewenstein, Alessandro Acquisti, and Joachim Vosgerau Abstract—By adding random noise to individual... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Kwame Owusu-Kesse

sectors," says Kwame. "I got lucky through the generosity of others and gained access to privilege. And with that, a deep responsibility to serve others." In Kwame's third year at Morgan Stanley, he was the one analyst... View Details

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Damali Brown

Damali, "and became a co-Intercollegiate Representative responsible for building those connections." During her summer internship, Damali plans to return to Morgan Stanley to work within the... View Details

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Carol Lauson

her major in college and worked full-time doing accounting for a small business. But by the time she graduated, "I wanted to do more planning and analysis." Carol's subsequent career took her through a financial rotational... View Details

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Climate Finance SIP

outlines how to make this change: “A successful transition plan leverages technological innovation and regulation. Many technologies are ready for deployment but require project financing to scale. Other earlier-stage and riskier... View Details

15 Dec 2015
News

Lovepop Woos The Sharks

our whole team was going to be focused on making sure the website was up and fielding customer service calls. We were all hands on deck—we even had a whole bunch of extra people come on to help us out. We just set up a whole response... View Details

28 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking

addition, Kurt notes that students he coaches are consistently drawn to banks with a strong HBS alumni presence. “Banks that show HBS alumni retention over one, two, and three years tend to get high response (in terms of interest and... View Details

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

Cohen and Breno Schmidt Abstract We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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1.3.1 MBA Honor Code | MBA

study groups where students or alumni divide up case preparation responsibility and then share notes electronically. Deprioritizing class attendance, including, for example, misrepresenting an absence from class, View Details

June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
Supplement

Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (B)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Victor Wu

Supplements the (A) Case. View Details

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Jessica Gelman

peers, pursue lifelong learning, climb five more 14,000 ft. mountains, teach others whenever possible and be open to new dreams and ideas. These are my goals. In realizing these goals, I plan to live my life the only way I know how: full... View Details

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The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS | MBA

And in the dorms, we have Dwell Ambassadors whose responsibility is to plan events for and build community among our residents. I met one of my closest friends and fellow section presidents, Thalia, at one... View Details

03 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

of progressive policies and programs. There was increasing flexibility in how people were employed, including alumni. But in its quest to become a globally integrated enterprise, IBM needed to continue to develop new ways of working. The company's View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

of business, and it taught me how to think as a businessperson,” says Fisher. “The case-study method is fantastic at making you assess all the factors you have to deal with. It says, Here’s the situation; what’s the action plan? And what’s your contingency View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

18 Nov 2020
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Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

some time networking. Webinar Tackles Race and Mass Incarceration Using Case Method Nearly 2.3 million individuals are currently locked up in U.S. prisons, jails, and detention centers. Of these, 60% are Black or Latinx. Why the mass incarceration, and why such... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2009
News

The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle

self-confidence, sophisticated analytical skills, and the ability to make decisions quickly. And unlike the top-down hierarchy found in the U.S. military, the IDF is a ground-up organization where local commanders are responsible for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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