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  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Up to the Highest Heights

reveals: “My style says I’m super-versatile. I’ll do everything.” “The wind isn’t always blowing”: Off the water, Tai is focused on harnessing the resources and influence of the ACTAI nonprofit to support ocean conservation, among other... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • November 2008 (Revised January 2011)
  • Exercise

Breaking Through Action Plan

By: David A. Thomas and Karen J. Watai
The "Breaking Through Action Plan" is a developmental tool based on the book, Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America by David A. Thomas and John J. Gabarro. The Action Plan was originally designed as part of a facilitated session but... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Power and Influence; Trust
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  • 10 Dec 2007
  • HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

great gadget" and improve the educational possibilities for children in impoverished environments? Tech-savvy people as well as the socially conscious have been intrigued by the idea of "one laptop per child" since it made... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer
  • January 2024
  • Case

Mariam Braimah: Designing a Career in Tech

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Hannah Riley Bowles and Michael Norris
In 2022, Mariam Braimah, a digital designer working at Netflix, is considering the next move in her career. She has spent several years at Netflix, and in her spare time, using her savings, has founded a design-focused fellowship program and a consumer insights company... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Technology Industry; Nigeria; United States; New York (city, NY); San Francisco
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  • June 2011
  • Teaching Note

Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq (TN)

By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Teaching Note for 411010. View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Civil Society or Community; War; Decisions; Iraq; District of Columbia
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  • August 2006 (Revised October 2020)
  • Case

Jamnalal Bajaj, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Struggle for Indian Independence

By: Geoffrey Jones, Prabakar 'PK' Kothandaraman and Kerry Herman
Describes the role of a leading Indian business leader in the campaign for independence before 1947 and his close relationship with the legendary Mahatma Gandhi. Provides the opportunity to consider the impact of colonialism on shaping Indian entrepreneurship and the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Business History; Leadership; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; India
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  • 10 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

Harvard Business School. "There seemed to be a constant need for people to give status updates on what they were doing. It was very bizarre to me." John's curiosity led to a raft of collaborative research about information disclosure in the age of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • February 2003 (Revised August 2004)
  • Case

Flextronics: Deciding on a Shop Floor System for Producing the Microsoft Xbox

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Jim McCusker must guide a group decision-making process aimed at getting input and buy-in from key people in California, Mexico, and Austria to choose a shop floor IT system for Flextronics. McCusker is Flextronics' account manager for the Microsoft Xbox project.... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Power and Influence; Geographic Location; Problems and Challenges; Leadership; California; Mexico; Austria
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  • Profile

Juan Camargo

in both tech and aesthetics." TARGET THE TASTEMAKERS To reach the cool kids, Camargo and Cadillac partnered with IvyConnect, a members-only social network founded by Philipp Triebel and Beri Meric (both MBA 2010). "Using the... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology; Consumer Products
  • Web

Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

Latin America. Throughout the course, we will explore differing conceptions of “good governance” and what they mean in practice. We will consider, for instance, departures from the long-standing norm of “one-share, one-vote” as seen in... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

U.S. Census of Services for 1982-2007, we find agencies are more likely to unbundle with increasing size, diversification, and higher media prices and less likely with increasing age, larger media volume, and an interaction between media prices and volume. Lords of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Life Lessons

delegating authority to them.” Currently a marketing manager at General Mills, Sundy has a long-term goal: He’d like to become a member of the U.S. Senate, “to influence public policy and make a real contribution to society.” — GE Martín... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change

The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Energy; Utilities
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

expenditures, general consumer inability to budget and forecast, bank incentives, and community norms and social capital. Furthermore, using both national data and a natural experiment, we find that access... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Honoring HBS’s Organization Men

sole influence was rational self-interest. “We have acquisitive and social instincts. It’s not all or nothing, it’s both — that’s what makes us such interesting creatures.” Related Links A Modern-Day Classic View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

http://people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Investor_Sentiment_JFE_Article_In_Press.pdf Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior Authors:F. Gino and S. Desai Publication:Journal of Personality and Social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

that created a tone for much of corporate America throughout the 1990s. When that bubble burst, we suddenly discovered a lot had been hidden by the fact that everybody was doing well—nobody was being critical of what was transpiring. The question is, How did we get... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • May 2011
  • Article

The Growing Power of Non-financial Reports

By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
We are exploring the value of forcing corporations to issue sustainability reports, which provide information about corporate performance in terms of social, environmental and governance issues. In a breakthrough study they asked, what is the effect of mandatory... View Details
Keywords: Value; Reports; Performance; Management Practices and Processes; Globalization; Power and Influence; Natural Environment; Governance; Social Issues
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  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

As collaborating with colleagues of different cultures is becoming more the norm in business, Chua speculates that those with a greater multicultural social networks will win out in terms of innovation that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 28 Feb 2011
  • News

Rebooting the Human Condition

(with former Harvard Medical School faculty member Steve Gullans), Homo Evolutis: A Short Tour of Our New Species. Enriquez cites as particular influences HBS professors Ray Goldberg on agribusiness as a global system, Bruce Scott on... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance