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2018
Book

Business and the Natural Environment: A Research Overview

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and Susse Georg

The fields of corporate environmentalism, green business and corporate sustainability have grown significantly over the past twenty-five years, such that the academic research domains of business decision-making, accounting, organizational behaviour, and the protection... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Regulation; Research

16 Feb 2018
Blog Post

Out of PE, Into Africa

important as we think we are, and people can get by without us. If it is important to you, make it happen! You have the rest of your life to... View Details

October 2007
Journal Article

Psychosocial Development and Leader Performance of Military Officer Cadets

By: Scott Snook and Paul T. Bartone

Efforts to educate and develop future military officers aim to produce highly competent, ethical and effective leaders to serve the nation. But while there is general agreement about desired outcomes, the underlying developmental processes associated with these... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Leadership Development; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Social Psychology

2020
Book

Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter co-founded and then directed Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. Her breakthrough work with hundreds of successful professionals and executives, as well as aspiring young entrepreneurs, identifies... View Details

Keywords: Leaders; Advanced Leadership; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Community; Change Leadership; Innovation; Problem Solving; Cross-sector Collaboration; Institutional Change; Leadership; Change; Leading Change; Communication; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Civil Society or Community

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

students to this, the initial meeting of his second-semester elective. McAfee emphasizes that students should feel free to call a “technology time-out” if someone uses a buzzword or acronym they don’t... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

observed. Individuals want a sense of mastery and pleasure; relationships are important to success. The most common reason people give him and Nash is, "I want to make a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

August 2016
Article

Asymmetric Effects of Favorable and Unfavorable Information on Decision-making Under Ambiguity

By: Alexander Peysakhovich and Uma R. Karmarkar

Most daily decisions involve uncertainty about outcome probabilities arising from incomplete knowledge, i.e., ambiguity. We explore how the addition of partial information affects these types of choices using theoretical and empirical methods. Our experiments in both... View Details

Keywords: Ambiguity; Decision Making; Outcomes; Information; Decision Choices and Conditions; Outcome or Result

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22 Sep 2022
News

The Beauty Guide

Freyre learned early on the importance of mentorship in the corporate world. “Mentors have helped shape my career. They have pushed me to explore... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

16 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Finding my Passion in the Startup Space

what I wanted to do in my career. Since we spend a huge portion of our lives working, it’s important to find a job that’s fulfilling. Over time, I've found that what matters most to me is solving complex... View Details

2016
Book

Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

By: Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism... View Details

Keywords: History; Development Economics; Ethics; Social Issues; United States

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

to the study, "By far the most important factor in that [growth] is Wal-Mart." There is hard evidence that Wal-Mart has grown the... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

important but non-specified goals, harm interpersonal relationships, corrode organizational culture, and motivate risky and unethical behaviors. Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network? Download View Details

Keywords: by Staff

09 Mar 2021
News

Addressing education inequities exacerbated by the pandemic

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

how best to motivate contest entrants, and the research team has focused on these motivating factors. One important finding: Independent innovators are more likely to enter a contest if they don't know who... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

to recent research, the single most important factor is simply a sense of making progress on meaningful work. But creating an environment that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

a context apart from the complexity and sensitivity of their own company; this allows executives to engage in important discussions about, for example, risk trade-offs and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2008
Op-Ed

The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations

The U.S. Treasury recommendations for restructuring the nation's system of financial regulation are an important start in View Details

Keywords: by Dwight Crane; Banking; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services

05 Apr 2010
News

Harvard Business School's Robert Eccles Makes the Case for Integrated Reporting

February 2013 (Revised March 2015)
Case

The LEGO Group: Publish or Protect?

By: Willy C. Shih and Sen Chai

Senior managers at the LEGO Group are faced with a quandary: Should they patent inventions coming out of their manufacturing process development work, should they keep them as trade secrets, or should they publish them so that they would go into the public domain and... View Details

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