Filter Results:
(3,086)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,086)
- News (585)
- Research (2,061)
- Events (25)
- Multimedia (27)
- Faculty Publications (1,164)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,086)
- News (585)
- Research (2,061)
- Events (25)
- Multimedia (27)
- Faculty Publications (1,164)
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
the highest standards essential to responsible leadership in the modern business world. We seek to create an extraordinary environment for teaching and learning, one where our students, faculty, and staff are challenged, supported, and... View Details
- 25 Jun 2024
- News
On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)
end-to-end mindset to our executive team discussions. This holistic approach allows us to optimize our processes at every stage, ensuring a seamless experience for our customers and maintaining Nordstrom’s high standards of quality and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
HBS alumni. A few highlights: Some 71 percent of respondents expect US competitiveness to decline over the next three years, with workers' living standards under greater pressure than firms. The United States fares poorly when decisions... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
The Power of Civility
that approach in civility, I don't believe that we can turn to somebody else and say, “you need to be more civil.” It has nothing to do with that. It only has to do with how we behave and how we convey our thoughts and our actions and our deeds. By setting that View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of the nascent high-technology industry. As one of the founding fathers of venture capital - and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
proposal for an Open Profile Standard [OPS] that is widely supported by the online industry." OPS is based on the concept that users should get something of value for their personal information and that companies not only must have a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- November 1994 (Revised March 1996)
- Case
Pepsi's Regeneration, 1990-1993
By: David A. Garvin and Donald N. Sull
Craig Weatherup, the president and CEO of Pepsi Cola, leads a change process that completely transforms his company. It includes a new vision, operating philosophy, strategy, and organizational structure. He also introduces process improvement techniques and builds new... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Systems; Standards; Organizational Structure; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Food and Beverage Industry
Garvin, David A., and Donald N. Sull. "Pepsi's Regeneration, 1990-1993." Harvard Business School Case 395-048, November 1994. (Revised March 1996.)
- September 2004
- Article
Trust in Agency
Existing models of the principal-agent relationship assume the agent works only under extrinsic incentives. However, many observed agency contracts take the form of a fixed payment. For such contracts to succeed, the principal must trust the agent to work in the... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Agency Theory; Relationships; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Contracts; Business Model; Emotions; Forecasting and Prediction; Ethics; Standards; Risk and Uncertainty
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon. "Trust in Agency." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 13, no. 3 (September 2004): 375–404.
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
about the project. Why did HBS launch the project? Rivkin: Many of us at the School have come to believe that the ability of firms in the United States to be competitive in the world economy and to support living standards in America is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
matters). Thus, among its other ramifications, globalization is forcing companies to operate and conduct themselves according to certain international standards and expectations. This trend is inevitably reflected in the way these... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Aug 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
the Colorado field office of B Lab, a nonprofit organization that seeks to redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations—companies that meet certain prescribed View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
White knight in the rye
minimal standards of civility. So it was like a breath of fresh air when, as the New York Times (June 23, 1999) reported, the winning bidder for the letters, Peter Norton (13th OPM), announced his intention "to do whatever Mr. Salinger... View Details
- Fast Answer
Industries: financial analytical data and tools
analytical features. Standard & Poor's RatingsDirect (available from Capital IQ) Access to the credit research behind S&P ratings on a wide variety of debt issues from around the world. These reports can provide useful... View Details
- Web
Introduction - The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Affirming the role of the employee, then, became part of a growing trend in management as a way to inspire collaboration and reduce alienation experienced in the repetitive nature of standardized working conditions. Elton Mayo, professor... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
Are You Being Served?
surprising than my unexpected win was the fact that all through the process, the state — and its oft-reviled bureaucracy — went out of its way to be fair, courteous, and forgiving. It got me to thinking: Has government been forced to become more customer friendly... View Details
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
principles of this sort not only speak to high standards of conduct but also stretch the enterprise beyond its own formal boundaries to include the extended family of customers, suppliers, distributors, business partners, financial... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Fast Answer
Securitization process and credit rating agencies
What resources are available on the securitization process, credit rating agencies and European covered bonds? Databases Bloomberg - Use Mortgages function to get information on various forms of secured loans Standard &... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
The development of corporate integrated reporting (IR) standards has the promise to be one of the great business innovations of the 21st century, and could be pivotal in restoring public trust in business institutions, Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
and accurate commercial data (to facilitate business forecasting, for example), and a skilled workforce with seasoned supervisors. “That mix of factors does not come standard with every country,” Fields notes. As for government’s role in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Victoria Song
I will master my own destiny. As a young child, I took note of the sharp contrast between the standards that existed for boys and girls in my stoic, conservative family. My brother was encouraged to speak his mind, to defend himself, to... View Details