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Curriculum - Business & Environment
MBA Experience Curriculum 1ms Required Curriculum (1st Year) Cases Environmental opportunities and challenges are embedded in most Required Curriculum courses so that all students understand the importance of the natural environment to their roles as View Details
- October 2022
- Supplement
The SAH Group: The Time is Right, Spreadsheet Supplement
By: Juan Alcacer and Alpana Thapar
In January 2021, Jalila Mezni, CEO of the SAH Group, was preparing to present the company’s future growth plans to its board of directors. The Tunisian company was a leading producer and distributor of personal care and packaged hygiene products. In 2019, it expanded... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
expressed extremely negative views about people in her community, she wonders whether the company is the right place for her. Should she meet with the CEO to share her experience, or continue to conceal her sexual orientation while... View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
engineering step forward. “This is going to be really important as we confront adapting to climate change, an area the Mittal Institute is exploring in a deep way with the Salata Institute.” Gazette: What does this moon landing mean to India? Khanna: The country is... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
look at net worth and compare minorities to majority populations, particularly historically disadvantaged minorities, there's also income gaps, but the wealth gap is just really huge. And how is it that people create wealth? Certainly,... View Details
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
tips and bribes so they can avoid blurring the lines. "Informal exchanges are trickier to manage than people sometimes think," Torfason says. "Once you are embedded in a web of informal... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
domains. But we are concerned about the simple specification of stretch goals that permeates the goal setting and management by objectives literature. Q: How can goal setting go wrong? A: When people focus... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
her career in new directions and add greater value to the company, she wanted to broaden her insights, skills, and network, which prompted her to enroll in HBS’s General Management Program (GMP) in 2021, a decision made more feasible... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow
to become better employers. “Throughout my career, I have explored how private capital and public resources can be leveraged to ensure people living in historically marginalized communities have the opportunity for economic mobility,”... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
sorting work into departments, product divisions, and regions. Trouble is, managers in hierarchical organizations don't promote or reward risk and innovation—they rely on routine, and turn to the same trusted View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
people—particularly star performers—making major career transitions to management. As firms have become leaner and more dynamic, new managers have described a transition that gets more difficult all the time. But the transition is often... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2010
- Working Paper
Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans
By: Doug J. Chung, Thomas J. Steenburgh and K. Sudhir
We estimate a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus based compensation plan. The paper has two main methodological innovations: First, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2010) to accommodate unobserved latent... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives
Chung, Doug J., Thomas J. Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir. "Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-041, October 2010.
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
approaches to address the increasing demand from society for a deeper understanding of what causes even good people to cross ethical boundaries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-054.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)
company went bankrupt. I wrote up that experience as an investing principle for a quarterly newsletter: It’s always good to have a mother to buy your bad stocks. After business school, I went into management consulting, which is quite a... View Details
- August 2019
- Teaching Note
Back to the Roots
By: Elizabeth A. Keenan and Leslie K. John
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.
This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: Back to the Roots HBS case No. 518-073. Back to the Roots (BTTR) is a start-up with a... View Details
This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: Back to the Roots HBS case No. 518-073. Back to the Roots (BTTR) is a start-up with a... View Details
Keywords: Organic Food; Startup; Crowdfunding; Sustainability; Transparency; Entrepreneurship; Product Development; Product Marketing; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Making; Food; Food and Beverage Industry
Keenan, Elizabeth A., and Leslie K. John. "Back to the Roots." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 520-028, August 2019. (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
the new book Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business. Battilana co-wrote the book with Tiziana Casciaro, a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. “Cultivating humility and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
Publication:MIS Quarterly Executive 11, no. 1 (March 2012) Abstract The Chinese management software and IT services industry has grown dramatically over the past two decades and today is about the size of the Indian industry a decade ago.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
What were the management trends in 2009? Fascination with social networking and rethinking common wisdom about goal setting. Here are the Top 10 articles and Top 5 working papers that appeared in HBS Working Knowledge in 2009. Enjoy! TOP... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS
my new friends caught up on the Forum’s discussion, as well as their HBS cases that day— a LEAD case about a protagonist facing a management turnaround, a TOM case about a restaurant’s operations, and a FIN case valuing a Pharma company.... View Details
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Research Staff Services - Faculty & Research
Research Services Research Staff Services 2ms As part of the Division of Research and Faculty Development (DRFD), Research Staff Services (RSS) provides research support personnel for faculty as well as oversight and management of the... View Details