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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

thinking. Profits involving a social purpose represent a higher form of capitalism—one that will enable society to advance more rapidly while allowing companies to grow even more. The result is a positive cycle of company and community... View Details

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

kinds of ideas involving more consumerism in health care have not worked—and it’s not like other companies have not tried. More generally, Amazon has been interested in health care for over 20 years, but their performance is somewhere... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

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Timing - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Feedback Sample Class Case method teaching involves a delicate balance between organization and guidance on the one hand, and flexibility and responsiveness on the other. For each class session, experienced case instructors typically... View Details

September 2012 (Revised December 2012)
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Addleshaw Goddard LLP (Abridged)

By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and James Weber

Addleshaw-Goddard (AG), the 15th largest law firm in the UK, is seeking ways to serve larger clients on more important legal matters. Part of this strategy involves its "Client Development Centre (CDC)," an innovative idea and set of services launched by Dr. Jim Hever... View Details

Keywords: Price; Innovation and Invention; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Legal Services Industry; United Kingdom

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January 2010 (Revised August 2010)
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Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Rakesh Khurana

Large-scale societal issues increasingly appear on the agenda of business leaders, including poverty, health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Framework; Global Range; Leadership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Complexity

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26 Mar 2014
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Brian Kahin, MIT

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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

squid, and fish such as bass and sea bream, whose colorful glass tesserae scales would have shimmered and sparkled underwater in the ancient pool. Since early 2016, the Tethys mosaic has been the focus of an international research project View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

indoor air quality—notably involving fresh air and filtration—directly impacts productivity of healthy people and helps mitigate the onset of sick people. As Dr. Joseph Allen of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and I argue in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

partner, and doubling up on the friendships and memories. Never could we have imagined a Texas guy and California gal surviving four east coast winters. We have given up planning and stayed open to the doors God opens, following our love for each other even when... View Details

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

involve initially educating the senior leaders, as these are the folks who can open the right doors, make the needed resources available, and align the D&I process with all of the business objectives. Additionally, leadership must be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

his work. A paper he’d written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock exchange for the company to go... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

hiring new staff at higher wages, and renovating the restaurant’s interior. As his father scales back involvement in Pho Hoa, Tam realizes that significant change is needed to the restaurant’s finances and operations to ensure... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

12 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

though they left host photos on the listing pages. In June 2020, Airbnb launched Project Lighthouse, a US-based research effort that aims to identify and measure bias involving names and photos to help the company create better policies,... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

“Household routines involved making fewer things and purchasing more; consumption became a major part of the work of the household,” cultural historian Susan Strasser asserts. “Formerly customers , purchasing the objects of daily life... View Details

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

Winter 2017 MIT Sloan Management Review Why Big Data Isn't Enough By: Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract—There is a growing belief that sophisticated algorithms can explore huge databases and find relationships independent of any preconceived hypotheses. But in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Sep 2023
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MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

while fostering environmental sustainability through solar irrigation. Benjamin Schedl: During the summer, I embarked on a journey to establish Europe's inaugural neobank tailored exclusively for migrants. Drawing from my prior View Details

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

as irrational. We will also describe the dangers of doing so and explain how to avoid making such mistakes. Mistake 1: They Are Not Irrational; They Are Uninformed An executive (who is one of Deepak's students) was recently involved in a... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

07 Jun 2004
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What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

managers and executives who purposefully address the behavioral issues in demand planning. They see the problem in demand planning in terms of the behavioral dynamics involved rather than, say, as an optimization problem with objective to... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

11 May 2022
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MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

The best part about being a mom at HBS is that you have flexibility to spend time with your children and they get to be involved in many of your events during school. It makes for very special memories! What is the hardest part about... View Details

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

discussing a topic that involved bottlenecks, processing capacities, and cycle times. In the split second after my name was called, I had to think about how I wanted to answer the question, but I also looked back at my past experiences to... View Details

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