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  • March 12, 2024
  • Editorial

Best Practices for Family Philanthropy

By: Christina R. Wing
Philanthropy is a key priority for many families, but when sitting down and considering where to start, the vast options can be overwhelming. Social impact is not supposed to be a chore, but rather something you and your family can appreciate and look forward to... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Family Business; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

focus on your, you know-- my job and my classes and my money and my lunch and my coute. So boring. It's just so tedious. If you zoom out, wow, life changes. And you need to do that every day. Look, for me, I'm a Catholic. It's the most important thing in my life,... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • December 2020
  • Supplement

France Télécom (C): An Unprecedented Trial

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Ashley V. Whillans
In the C case we learn that former CEO Didier Lombard, Deputy Chief Executive Louis-Pierre Wenes, Human Resources Head Olivier Barberot and France Telecom itself were charged for institutional harassment by French authorities, a first for a CAC 40 company. In December... View Details
Keywords: Human Behavior; Human Dignity; Human Resource Practices; Corporate Change And Sustainability; Corporate Culture; Strategic Corporate Decisions; Strategic Change; Strategic Decision Making; Emotion; Management Challenges; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Law; Courts and Trials; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Management Practices and Processes; Employees; Well-being; Telecommunications Industry; Europe; European Union
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  • 22 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 22

https://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=12560&breadcrumlink=&breadcrum=&sub_values=&site_Bus_Man=&site_dev=&site_eco=&site_env_eco=&site_inn_tech=&site_int_pol=&site_law=&site_pub_soc= Resources or Power?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times

By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani and Zhaogang Song
This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relations shape their trading behavior in the corporate bond market. Dealers charge lower spreads to dealers with whom they have the strongest ties and more so during periods of market turmoil. Systemically important dealers... View Details
Keywords: OTC Markets; Network; Corporate Bonds; Crisis; Intermediation Chains; Leaning Against The Wind; Networks; Bonds; Behavior; Financial Crisis
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Research Community - Doctoral

and execute a major piece of original scholarly work. The School’s global connections and reputation give doctoral students access to industry, academia, government, and other organizations and institutions worldwide. A far-reaching... View Details
  • Teaching Interest

Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)

Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details

  • September 2011 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

Trucost: Valuing Corporate Environmental Impacts

By: Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice
Trucost provided corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers, but after operating for a decade had yet to achieve profitability. Trucost was struggling to effectively differentiate its high quality products... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Distribution Channels; Investment; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Information; Value; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry
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  • 17 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

over the past decade, according to coauthor Amy Konary, senior vice president of the Subscribed Institute & Marketing Strategy at Zuora. Consider companies like the cloud storage provider Dropbox; Apple, which charges monthly for... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology
  • May 2003
  • Case

Environmental Defense

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
Analyzes the strategy and management of Environmental Defense, a leading environmental advocacy group, emphasizing the group's activity in the energy and agribusiness industries. From a strategy formulation standpoint, the case encourages students to think of the... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Energy; Relationships; Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Energy Industry
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  • 23 Jul 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Informed and Interconnected: A Manifesto for Smarter Cities

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Stanley S. Litow; Technology
  • 02 Jan 2024
  • What Do You Think?

Do Boomerang CEOs Get a Bad Rap?

Kolev, “Boomerang CEOs: What Happens When the CEO Comes Back?,” MIT Sloan Management Review, September 17, 2020, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise Research Paper No. 19-27, also available at through the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

2008 book, Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It. And while his next move was to run the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) think tank, he couldn’t shake... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell

    Frances X. Frei

    Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. Her research investigates how leaders create the conditions for organizations and individuals to thrive by designing for excellence in operations, strategy, and culture.... View Details

    Keywords: airline; banking; fast food; financial services; health care; hotels ＆ motels; management consulting; media; nonprofit industry; professional services; retail financial services; service industry; sports; telecommunications; tourism; travel
    • 03 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

    2017 Emerald Group Publishing Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact

    startups might as well be located on different floors entirely, Roche says. And, the benefit, as measured by how much neighbors adopt each others’ web technology, is strongest when the neighboring startups focus on very different markets and share some View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • June 2010
    • Article

    Are You a High Potential?

    By: Douglas A. Ready, Jay A. Conger and Linda A. Hill
    Some employees are more talented than others, and nearly every company has its method for identifying their high-potential managers. So how can you get on your company's high-potential list? Douglas A. Ready, of the talent-management research center ICEDR; Jay A.... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics
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    • 01 Nov 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

    What determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research offers a surprising conclusion: The answer often lies in the technology that a company uses. Information-based systems, such as View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Research Summary

    Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa

    By: Debora L. Spar
    In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,... View Details
    • Web

    Curriculum - MBA

    fall of Year 3. Also during Year 3, all students complete a year-long capstone exercise at HKS. Participants generally complement their required and elective studies with two summer internships: either a policy, international development, or View Details