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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
the Levers of Control to Implement Strategy This module reading pulls together key concepts and techniques from the Strategy Execution series into an integrated model—the levers of control. The four levers are (1) belief systems, (2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Supplement
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)
By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Amram Migdal and Susan Pinckney
Arla implemented a data-based price incentive system to measure, track, and influence climate friendly changes to reduce CO2 emissions across the world’s fourth largest dairy cooperative. View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Business Earnings; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Global Strategy; Ownership Type; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Germany; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
- March 2023
- Teaching Note
Sustainability Reporting at Dollar Tree, Inc.
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-044. The case discusses the ESG strategy of Dollar Tree Inc., a U.S. Fortune 500 company in the deep discount retail industry and the shareholder pressure faced by the company. In 2022, the company faced a shareholder resolution from... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Sustainability; Shareholder Activism; Dollar Tree; Sustainability Reporting; ESG Reporting; Board Of Directors; Shareholder Engagement; GHG; Environmental Accounting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Trends; Communication; Announcements; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Reports; Business or Company Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Retail Industry; United States; Virginia
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
telecommunications to tobacco and soft drinks. The dangers of excessive market concentration are greater in finance, however, because of the systemic importance of credit to the economy and the now widely held belief that governments must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
talent. “There’s also the possibility that unprecedented competition will create a fragmented market in which nobody makes any money,” she adds. While acknowledging these concerns, as well as the daunting realities of poverty and overpopulation, Ramnath and others... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
‘Get down! Everybody get down! It's coming down!' " If any rationale underlay the nihilism and bloodlust of the WTC attacks, perhaps it was a belief that massive death and destruction in the heart of the world's most successful... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
report different levels of satisfaction or enjoyment of their interactions (Study 3). Finally, in Study 4 we document that individuals’ lay beliefs are in direct opposition to our findings: participants believe that authors of warmly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
context, reflected in its introduction of product features, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We hypothesize first, that prior industry experience shapes a set of shared beliefs resulting in similar and concurrent firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1162226 Restoring American Competitiveness Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2009) Abstract For decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. The authors discuss four types of highly successful “business builder” personalities: the Driver, the Explorer, the Crusader,... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Supplement
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that Georgia State conducted to test education technology start-up AdmitHub’s chatbot solution as a strategy for improving... View Details
Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum and Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Education Industry; Atlanta
Toffel, Michael W., Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Student Success at Georgia State University (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-039, September 2020. (Revised September 2021.)
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
motivated both to elicit sympathy and impress others. Despite the belief that combining bragging with complaining or humility confers the benefits of each strategy, we find that humblebragging confers the benefits of neither, instead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
virtually all of them shared a deep concern for the sustainability of the market system, but their beliefs about how to respond varied widely. Some said that changing their behavior would be unnecessary or even inappropriate. Others were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
competition, he also holds an abiding belief in the importance of helping others. "When you put people first and treat them right, everything else follows," he notes. In particular, he is committed to working with young people. While at... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
Colorblindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications Authors:Evan P. Apfelbaum, Michael I. Norton, and Samuel R. Sommers Publication:Current Directions in Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the pervasive endorsement of racial colorblindness-the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
payments, and deferred taxes are incrementally value-relevant but that only the impairment of goodwill and deferred taxes reveal new information. Our results indicate that mandatory IFRS adoption alters investors' beliefs about stock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
1.5 Attendance | MBA
Makeup exams are administered only after the regularly scheduled exam timeframe and may have different content than the original exam. Absences Due to Religious Beliefs In accordance with Chapter 151C, Section 2B of the General Laws of... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
began at Workhuman almost 20 years later, she had developed a set of principles for launching—and relaunching—remote teams. At the core of these principles was the belief that a strong team requires a leader who shows deep commitment to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
whether it’s the early days of Office Depot and JetBlue to what I’m doing now at MP, working with someone like Jeffrey Sachs, who wants to literally save the world and thinks he knows how to do just that. It’s a classic entrepreneurial View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
state-of-the-art graphics, to target the right audience, and to measure responses instantly. But many experts contend that Internet advertising is still in its infancy. There is a widely held belief that in the future we will compare... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young