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Partners - Managing the Future of Work
Partners Partners The Managing the Future of Work project thanks our partners, who play a key role in supporting our research helping business... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
putting selection decisions in the hands of the powerful, as the saying goes, invite the fox into the chicken house? How do we make sure the right people end up with power in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
The Value of the HBS Case Method – Lessons from an SVMP Participant
admission to a school like Harvard was a pursuit far above my head, something I had seen on television but not so much in my neighborhood. I have always envisioned myself as a leader in the View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
Information Session at the University of Michigan
Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and feel the flexibility of... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
social impact is important and deeply satisfying for many alumni. That’s what we’re interested in understanding and sharing, for the benefit of students who are looking for View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
- 2022
- Working Paper
A Conceptualization of Sub-Living Wages: Liabilities, Leverage, and Risk
By: Drew Keller, Katie Panella and George Serafeim
Currently the accounting system records employee wages as an expense in the income statement. However, paying below living wages can expose an organization to reputational and operational risks. In this paper, we offer an alternative conceptualization of the issue of... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Impact Accounting; Leverage; Wages; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Social Issues; Human Capital
Keller, Drew, Katie Panella, and George Serafeim. "A Conceptualization of Sub-Living Wages: Liabilities, Leverage, and Risk." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-076, June 2022.
- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
successful product managers, general managers, startup founders, and CEOs of mature technology companies. Blending technical skills and business management knowledge Like all students View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Side of Data with Your Dinner
Damian Mogavero (MBA 1996) was a frustrated restaurateur. The MBA grad wanted to answer simple business questions such as "Why did food costs go up?" but he was greeted, he tells Bloomberg Pursuits, with “blank stares and wrong answers.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
financial returns and impact in the business model of investee companies. Quite a few of the large, global PE firms have launched impact funds... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Jul 2023
- HBS Case
What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment
hand. Ironically, a leader’s past success can often become their greatest liability. Ryan Raffaelli, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, says leaders often fall into one of three... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
Increasingly, it seems, there are just two types of companies left in the world: dot-coms and "wanna-dots." The dot-coms, of course, are the pure Internet companies... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
of the factors that bound together this extraordinary class, most of whom attended HBS with help from the GI Bill. Author David Callahan has chronicled their achievements in... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
categories assigned value? One of the first studies of value construction as a detailed process in new market categories has been written by Mukti Khaire, an assistant... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Building a Powerful Network of Talent at American Tower
think about it is almost like an apartment building. We own the apartment and rent to tenants, except the tenants are T-Mobile, Telefonica, Vodafone, etc.” In this way, American Tower plays a significant View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World
the School's first-ever capital campaign was marked by tradition, awareness of the vital role of business education View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
first book, In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century (Harvard Business Press), explored these three archetypes... View Details
- October 2016 (Revised February 2019)
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 5: Building a Profit Plan
By: Robert Simons
This module reading describes how to build a profit plan to reflect the strategy of a business in economic terms. After introducing the profit wheel, cash wheel, and ROE wheel, the module illustrates how to use a profit plan to assess the viability of different... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Profit Planning; Cash Flow Analysis; Asset Utilization; Return On Equity; Business Planning; Testing Strategy; Analyzing Strategic Alternative; Strategy; Asset Management; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Management Systems; Profit
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 5: Building a Profit Plan." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-105, October 2016. (Revised February 2019.)
- February 2013 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Elasto Therm: The Next Step
By: Jim Sharpe and James Weber
Julia and Nate Burstein were living their dream running their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a large... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Sales Force Management; Acquisitions; Work/family Balance; Family-owned Business; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Work-Life Balance; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; United States
Sharpe, Jim, and James Weber. "Elasto Therm: The Next Step." Harvard Business School Case 813-030, February 2013. (Revised September 2013.)
- 2020
- Working Paper
How ESG Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors
By: George Serafeim
Management and disclosure of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have received substantial interest over the last decade. In this paper, we outline a framework of how ESG issues become financially material, affecting corporate profitability and valuation.... View Details
Keywords: Materiality; ESG; Pharmaceutical Companies; Business Ethics; Sustainability; Environment; Disclosure; Disclosure And Access; Regulation; Social Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Corporate Governance; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Accountability; Resource Allocation; Finance; Accounting; Valuation
Freiberg, David, Jean Rogers, and George Serafeim. "How ESG Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-056, November 2019. (Revised November 2020.)
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
What’s next in finance? Is bitcoin an inflation shield? What’s your favorite weightlifting exercise? Lauren Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration at... View Details