Crisis Response Plans - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD), the survey compiled anonymous input from 1,067 directors in some 58 countries. The researchers were surprised at the extent of similarity in the majority of responses related to economics and politics, not... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

taseffski When Stefan Thomke finished writing the Harvard Business School case study on A. Lange & Söhne, he sent it to the German watchmaker for feedback. The company’s response was a first for the 25-year Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

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Authentic Leader Development - Course Catalog

double-spaced (think blog). This reflection is due even if you are the group facilitator that week. In lieu of an exam, students will write a final paper on the purpose of their leadership, as well as complete and submit a Personal Leadership Development View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan

support this response by doing workforce or business-continuity planning and by helping to meet the demands that will be created by a pandemic, such as by increasing production of essential services and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

11 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

the gig economy. Things would soon change with the onset of the COVID-19 crisis in early March. Shrey posing in front of the HBS sign on campus “It was a surreal experience to be sitting in one of the final in-person classes of the... View Details

10 Oct 2024
Blog Post

High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands

The company plans to pair this with input from consumer panels, distributor and retailer feedback, and most importantly, feedback from growers. Additionally, the company performs DNA sequencing on most of the varieties it tests to build... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

HIV/AIDS and Business

Forty-two million people around the globe live with HIV/AIDS; an additional 80 million may be infected by 2010, with new cases concentrated in Russia, India, China, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The scope of the epidemic is so staggering that any View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2003
News

Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies

doctoral students, and underwrite entrepreneurship–related publications and conferences. “It’s really an amazing opportunity and responsibility that Arthur Rock has placed in front of us,” comments HBS professor William A. Sahlman, who... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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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18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

low-quality care,” says Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at HBS. Edmondson and her colleagues studied the survey responses of clinicians at a midwestern health organization over a four-year period; they... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

07 Sep 2021
News

September 2021 Alumni Books

loving and engaged parents we want to be, and remain true to ourselves in the process. Whether you’re planning a family, pushing for promotion during your kids’ teenage years, or at any phase in between, Workparent provides all the advice... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

associated increase in electronic interaction. In short, rather than prompting increasingly vibrant face-to-face collaboration, open architecture appeared to trigger a natural human response to socially withdraw from officemates and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 3

in Teaching Hospitals By: Huckman, Robert S., Hummy Song, and Jason R. Barro Abstract—We consider the impact of cohort turnover-the planned simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized entry of new... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2014
News

Team Players

city or region wins the rights to host a Super Bowl, it is required to form a host committee, Blumkin explains. "The NFL controls the game and all surrounding events. Our responsibility was to welcome guests into the region, help people... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Oct 2002
News

Faculty Research Symposium

that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for... View Details

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

crisis hit the Western markets. The use of project finance has grown at a compound rate of 0% over the last five years, 4% over the past 10 years, and 12% over the past 15 years. This note focuses primarily on private sector investment in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 12

form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a sustainable business model that also generates superior financial performance. Read the paper: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4538 An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31216 Breaking New Ground: The Emerging Frontier of CSR in the Extractive Sector Authors:V. Kasturi Rangan and Brooke Barton Publication:Chap. 9 in Global Challenges in Responsible Business,... View Details

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

Boeing CEO has focused on short-term earnings, increasingly at the expense of franchise value and safety. Will the company’s new CEO have the courage to return Boeing to its former position as the world leader in aviation? Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo sailed through the... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

objectives, even if you could. Often in this kind of work, time spent planning what you want to do will be better spent actually doing (or letting others in your charge do), trying something you haven't thought out in detail so you can... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

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