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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

University—from business archive to “art” collection and back again—reveals as well a deepening appreciation of photography as a significant form of cultural expression. John Paul Pennebaker. Sealed Power... View Details

13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

with less efficient governments. The findings suggest that country-level factors have an economically significant impact on the rate of corporate profitability mean reversion. The study has implications for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
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Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

crossing cultural borders. Two of the seventeen case sequences she has developed for the course so far — "Siam Cement Group: Corporate Philosophy" and "The Haier Group" — take place in... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

June 2009 (Revised October 2011)
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Mina O'Reilly at Logan Airport's TSA

By: Michel Anteby and Erin McFee

Mina O'Reilly, an officer at Logan Airport's Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in Boston, must discipline an employee responsible for a security breach that resulted in a 45-minute terminal closure during peak hours, a potential threat to traveler safety,... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Culture; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; Boston

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February 2013
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Exceptional Boards: Environmental Experience and Positive Deviance from Institutional Norms

By: Judith Walls and Andrew J. Hoffman

This paper explores the phenomenon of positive organizational deviance from institutional norms by establishing practices that protect or enhance the natural environment. Seeking to explain why some organizations practice positive environmental deviance while others do... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Networks; Organizational Culture; Governing and Advisory Boards; Environmental Management

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Harvard Business School

H. King (MBA '70), who was the assistant director of HBS admissions from 1970 to 1971, served as president and executive director of COGME from 1971 to 1984. King increased corporate contributions to the program, which provided View Details

07 Jul 2023
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Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations

culture that impacts employee experience at an even deeper level, and can have a significant impact on the company’s bottom line, is psychological safety. WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY? In her book The... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

19 Dec 2014
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China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

starting to come due for a culture not used to paying them. “Thousands of years of environmental degradation have put more strain on a finite amount of land than any other place on earth" "China has the longest political and... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

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Pasha Nahass

significant connections among so many people? The section makes it manageable. You get to meaningfully know 90 people—a home base in the larger HBS community.” After finishing his classes this spring, Pasha participated in a Field Global... View Details

Keywords: Tech

Harsh Mariwala

Keywords: Consumer Goods; Health; Beauty; Wellness

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Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online

risk-taking. Learn how to assemble a team with the diversity and expertise to solve problems, build buy-in for cultural change, and overcome resistance. Highlights Breakthrough Innovation Success Input Value High Standards and... View Details

Narayana Murthy

Keywords: IT; Software; Consulting; Outsourcing

12 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 12, 2008

selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct rule have significantly lower levels of access to schools, health centers, and roads in the post-colonial period. I find evidence that the quality of governance in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

08 Apr 2013
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Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

your smartphone to how to earn a seat on a corporate board and make socially responsible investments. They gathered Thursday evening to watch a screening of a new documentary on the history of women at HBS, "A Woman's Place."... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way

wrongdoers were just a disparate collection of lone bad actors on the corporate stage. End of story. Alternatively, the scandals reflected something systemic and pervasive in American business culture, with the trail winding its way back... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

25 Aug 2022
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On Purpose

Illustration by Nhung Lê Illustration by Nhung Lê When Jenny Cohen (MBA 1997), a longtime Disney exec, made the leap to executive VP of corporate social responsibility in early 2021, her first task was an especially existential one: “I... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde

Both Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde and her husband, Alain, had completed master’s degrees, and had considerable experience in corporate finance. But Alain was eager to go the United States to get an MBA, and in what might be considered a... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Entrepreneurship

09 Oct 2012
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significant changes in teaming networks and behaviors in ways that improved operational performance. Implications of team scaffolds for theory and practice are discussed. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1987724 Cases &... View Details