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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
Image by John Ritter In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.... View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
and altitude in a laboratory that included a climatic room, altitude chamber, and treadmills. The Lab made over 150 recommendations concerning clothing, nutrition, and survival gear to the War Department. View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
As a professor of decision making and negotiation, I often receive unsolicited phone calls from relatives, friends, and acquaintances seeking my advice on consumer matters such as negotiating for a house, bidding View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
demonstrating the intent to collude. My opinion was that parasitic integration had occurred: The companies made a veiled attempt to skirt the law and create value for themselves, with no apparent concern for the harmful effects of their... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
was a concern by people in business when they first got engaged in social enterprises—when they participated on boards, for instance, or gave money, or mentored people running these organizations. They... View Details
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
C. D. (“Dick”) Spangler, Jr., a Harvard Business School alumnus (MBA 1956) well known and admired for his many notable achievements in both the public and private sectors, his visionary leadership and generous philanthropy, and his constant kindness and View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
require only that patent owners grant licenses on a "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory" basis. (The requirement is ubiquitous enough that it's commonly shortened to the acronym FRAND.) Disputes over crucial patents can... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
meeting for the very latest on the coronavirus pandemic. In his work as the CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Enable Biosciences, an award-winning early and accurate disease diagnosis company in San Francisco, Seftel had been aware of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
organizational scholars, we were interested in organizations as social and cultural contexts that shape how men make sense of themselves—the stories they tell themselves as men about what it means to be male—and in the effect this sense-making has View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
When health insurer Cigna Corp. appeared in front of a judge for allegedly misleading shareholders on Medicare regulations this spring, plaintiffs thought they had a strong case. After all, Cigna had published its own document titled... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
accreditation before its first class can graduate. O'Neill is spending much of his time on funding issues (90 percent of Shackleton's students receive financial aid), but he says he is not overly concerned... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
providing for their stewardship? The age-old question! One of the biggest traps organizations like ours can fall into is acquiring property even before developing a stewardship plan, out of concern that... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
college. At the time, I was studying economics and found the topic fascinating, from an economic theory perspective; it was—and still is—an unprecedented market failure and tragedy of the commons on a global scale. “Over time, my interest... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Alvarez has visited farms, slaughterhouses, packing plants, and supermarkets to explore issues of concern to managers working around the world and across the supply chain. “We try to get into the weeds of what’s happening and speak to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
scientific experts, such as virologists, to inform decision-making. Additionally, women are more concerned about health and hygiene issues, as research on disgust-sensitivity shows, and this may also apply... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
young dreamers might not otherwise consider—including their personal lives. Early in the course, the professor essentially plays a foil to the blindly enthusiastic entrepreneur by taking on the role of a View Details
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2.16 Field Global Capstone (CAP) | MBA
student with concerns about their ability to travel, or the Global Experience Office’s ability to accommodate their needs while in-country, should contact the Global Experience Office . Depending on the... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
created by customers and clients and their increasing expectations that we be available day and night. Even more can be laid at the feet of leadership. But ultimately the primary culprit is us. That's my sense of the comments concerning... View Details
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
decision-making and even to the future and viability of capitalism. One debate concerned the primacy of profit as a goal. Deaver Brown led this argument by saying, "Profit is the only legitimate goal of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett