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23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

presenter highlighted the nutritional benefits of cow-based dairy products and said she was unsure that alternative dairy products would be able to match the nutrition and taste profile. Arla is also farmer-owned, meaning that the core... View Details

24 Jan 2011
HBS Case

Terror at the Taj

I grew up there. So the Taj is part of my memories, too. As one of the interview subjects said, the Taj is their Taj, meaning anyone who has ever walked through its doors. It's a place that means many things... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accommodations

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

opening up the shareholding of the parent trading company, but by floating separate 'free-standing' firms on the British capital markets, which the merchant houses continued to control through management contracts and other means in the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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Phillip Jones

with Bain & Co. over the summer. “I have step one – service in the military, and I know that step three means fulfilling my business goals,” Phillip explains. “Consulting is step two, a way for me to extend my education and improve my... View Details

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

a discussion on Accounting for Social Insurance (PV): http://www.fasab.gov/pdffiles/si_newsrelease.pdf Of course, dependency ratios are not reduced without other economic and social effects. For example, to the extent that current consumption is replaced by saving for... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

January 2010 (Revised August 2010)
Background Note

Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Rakesh Khurana

Large-scale societal issues increasingly appear on the agenda of business leaders, including poverty, health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Framework; Global Range; Leadership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Complexity

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07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

Global, meaning they are more likely to deliver their expected GHG reductions (see FAQ for more detail). Calyx Global is a stringent carbon credit rating organization ranked as the best by Carbon Market Watch and recommended by Harvard’s... View Details

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

think of the role of advertising as providing primes that are psychological in nature as a means of persuasion, you can take something that exists in society—a consumer preference for fair skin—and leverage it for good or for bad.”... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

05 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

Think of famous brands you know: Hallmark cards and Coca-Cola soft drinks, for example. What do these products have in common for consumers? An emotional meaning that taps into thoughts and feelings related to the positive aspects of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

spot. You can’t just impose things on them that are not meaningful.” Promote the incentives effectively. While this could mean sending out an email or text every other day, it could also involve something as simple as hanging a sign with... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

you have for prospective student moms? If you want to have or start a family at business school, then do it! I believe that while career ambitions are important, so are family ambitions. What that tactically means for every person might... View Details

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

efficiency and cost minimization shall be accompanied by more attention toward a diversification and also of the currencies used for transactions. Question: What are some implications for policymakers? Answer: Here there is role for local policies. Attention to risk... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Feb 2014
HBS Seminar

Paula Stephan, Georgia State Univ and NBER

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

were by no means evident to the pioneers of academic business education—and, as we suggest, they remain by no means evident today. During the time that the first business schools were being constituted, at... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

that click throughs are falling doesn't mean that people aren't paying attention," says Rice's Lisa Klein. "Just like in traditional media, there is still a good portion of Internet advertising that is not directly traceable.... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

directly as they walk out of the store, with no checkout required. Many cultural industries—museums and galleries, cinemas, concert halls, independent musicians and artists—found means to create, perform, and connect with their audience... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

about five months later, the employees who participated in the structured meetings had held their higher performance, with revenue-per-call up 18 percent to 21 percent. The incentive group, however, had completely fallen back to their original performance levels.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2024
News

Competing in the Age of AI

at it several times. You’re going to get scraped knees and bruised elbows.” Leaders have to persevere, he says. “They have to take the lead in learning how to use these tools so they can understand what it means for their businesses.”... View Details

Keywords: April White

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

Ebrahim says. "But donors have a role to play in enabling impact, and they have an opportunity to connect nonprofits that are working on different pieces of a social problem in isolation. This might mean building the capacity of those... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Research - Health Care

Right Incentives. By: Susanna Gallani and Derek A. Haas Health care organizations have long tried to enlist physicians in their effort to control or reduce costs. One effective means for doing so is to create an incentive system that... View Details

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