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18 Apr 2022
HBS Case

Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off

Days after the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, a shaken Ed Stack, then the CEO and largest shareholder of Dick’s Sporting Goods, decided it was time for his 850-store chain to pull certain guns off its store shelves.... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

28 Jul 2009
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Working PapersNone this week PublicationsAdverse Selection in Online 'Trust' Certifications Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:Proceedings of ICEC'09 (forthcoming). ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Abstract Widely used... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2018
Case

Globalizing Japan's Dream Machine: Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

Recruit Holdings, an advertising media, staffing, and business support conglomerate was founded in 1960 by Hiromasa Ezoe. Recruit was built on the principle that the company should add value to society. To do this, it hired young and talented employees and created a... View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Crime and Corruption; Transition; Globalization; Japan

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14 Oct 2009
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Working PapersCapitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan (revised October 2009) Authors:Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2023
News

Bless this Stress

National Geographic for Disney+/Craig Parry In the first episode of the National Geographic docuseries Limitless with Chris Hemsworth, Modupe Akinola (MBA 2001/PhDOB 2009) and the Australian actor gaze across downtown Sydney to a skyscraper in the distance, teetering... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

August 1998
Case

Electronic Commerce at Air Products

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey

In 1998,chief information officers (CIOs) in the highly competitive international gases and chemicals business faced the reality that electronic commerce capability was a strategic necessity. The results of annual surveys of technology officers in the chemical industry... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Information Technology; Globalized Markets and Industries; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Business Strategy; Chemical Industry; United States

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07 May 2021
News

A Best Buy CEO on What It Takes to Fix a Struggling Retailer

23 Nov 2010
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behave ethically and actual self-interested behavior. This relationship was mediated by the more extensive mental simulation that occurred with eyes closed rather than open, which, in turn, intensified emotional reactions to the ethical situation. We discuss the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Unleashed

When leaders seek out advice, they’re often told to fix themselves. But should they? Leaders are constantly being told to develop their strengths, mine their failures for insight into what to change, and work to correct real or perceived... View Details

September 2019 (Revised October 2019)
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Bill Connors and The Farm, a Comcast NBCUniversal Innovation Hub (Powered by Boomtown)

By: Linda A. Hill and Eric Mankin

In 2017, Bill Connors, the President of Comcast’s Central Division, launched a startup accelerator in Comcast’s new Atlanta Regional headquarters. Comcast was America's largest cable and internet service provider, having built a profitable business bundling television... View Details

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02 May 2013
HBS Seminar

Thales Teixeira, Harvard Business School

Christina M. Wallace

A self-described “human Venn diagram” Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: internet; internet; internet; internet; internet

21 Apr 2015
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Publications April 2015 John Wiley & Sons The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality By: Eccles, Robert G., and Michael P. Krzus Abstract—The Integrated Reporting Movement explores the meaning of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

In this uncertain economic climate, downsizing and layoffs are a sadly frequent occurrence. Although bad news is always painful to deliver and to hear, the process of conducting "necessary evils"—such as layoffs or firings—can... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Mar 2011
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Piovesan Abstract To encourage worker productivity, offices prohibit Internet use. Consequently, many employees delay Internet activity to the end of the workday. Recent work... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2020 (Revised May 2020)
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NTT DOCOMO's Race to 5G

By: Juan Alcácer, Horst Melcher and Akiko Kanno

The case, based on extensive interviews with NTT DOCOMO’s technology leaders, focuses on the opportunities and challenges that NTT DOCOMO faces with the launch of infrastructure and services for 5G wireless telecommunication technology. With higher data rates and... View Details

Keywords: 5G; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Product Launch; Strategic Planning; Decision Making; Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry

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10 Jul 2023
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

about finding more precious time; there's this exercise where you make a list of 10 things to say “no” to in order to say “yes” to the truly meaningful stuff. Talk about empowering choices! I’m also... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Leslie K. John

Leslie K. John is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Currently, she teaches on the topics of Negotiation, Marketing and Behavioral Economics in various Executive Education courses, including in the Program for Leadership Development.... View Details

Keywords: internet; internet; internet; internet

25 Apr 2023
Op-Ed

How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

the internet has enabled high-income consumer markets that respond to direct-to-consumer branding and low-cost producer markets that respond to data-driven coordination, more tightly coordinated models of... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products

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To Drive Efforts...Don't Tiptoe Around Your Legal Risk

By: Edward Chang and Bonnie Levine

Many Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives are scuttled because DEI leaders and legal teams feel themselves to be at odds over questions of acceptable risk. DEI leaders see lawyers as guardians of the status quo, whereas legal experts, trained to... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Risk Management; Legal Liability

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