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- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
borrows. Why should this matter to us? Employees tell us in one way or another that the single most important characteristic of their job is "a boss who's fair," who hires, promotes, and recognizes the right people. Nearly all...
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by Jim Heskett
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO successfully running bioMérieux, a diagnostics company with...
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- 2019
- Working Paper
Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?
By: Shiva Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan and Forester Wong
Several government-mandated committees investigating the financial crisis highlighted four key deficiencies in the composition of bank boards before the crisis: (i) group think among bank board members; (ii) absence of prior banking experience of board members; (iii)...
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Banks and Banking;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Corporate Governance;
Financial Crisis;
Change;
Diversity
Rajgopal, Shiva, Suraj Srinivasan, and Forester Wong. "Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-108, April 2019.
- September 2017 (Revised February 2018)
- Case
Becton Dickinson: Global Health Strategy
By: Mark R. Kramer and Sarah Mehta
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) was a medical technology firm headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, with 43,000 employees and 2016 revenues of $12.5 billion. For several years, the company had pursued developing products that created shared value, defined as...
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Shared Value;
Creating Shared Value;
Odon Device;
Medical Technology;
Value Creation;
Values and Beliefs;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Testing and Trials;
Emerging Markets;
Social Issues;
Competitive Strategy;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Africa;
Asia;
Middle East
Kramer, Mark R., and Sarah Mehta. "Becton Dickinson: Global Health Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 718-406, September 2017. (Revised February 2018.)
- June 2008 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd.
By: David E. Bell and Aldo Sesia
In 2005, COFCO Ltd., one of China's largest and most successful companies, acquired Xinjiang Tunhe, a tomato processing firm, which had been, in recent years, poorly managed. COFCO changed Tunhe's management team and set out to create a culture of professionalism and...
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Agribusiness;
Customer Relationship Management;
Rural Scope;
Supply Chain Management;
Performance Consistency;
Safety;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
China
Bell, David E., and Aldo Sesia. "COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 508-079, June 2008. (Revised July 2009.)
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
better." As Chua has shown in previous research, awareness of our own cultural biases and assumptions can go a long way toward improving creativity in multicultural situations. He speculates that managers could decrease the effects of ambient cultural disharmony by...
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by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
an organization where employees are expending their energies in a number of divergent and uncoordinated directions." Leaders need to ask whether they articulate a clear vision and, just as importantly, whether their key View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/skynesher) I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. My vehicle was the only Ford product in a sea...
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by James Heskett
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
case of that high-stakes client presentation, Brooks's findings suggest that an employee might perform better after considering the opportunities for success rather than the consequences of failure. Managers, meanwhile, can help...
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by Michael Blanding
- Web
Economic Inclusion | Institute for Business in Global Society
Economic Inclusion Society is expecting businesses to help involve everyone in the benefits of economic growth. BiGS is working with faculty to understand how strategies like employee ownership, skills-based hiring, and creating good jobs...
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- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
customer satisfaction and product excellence at least as important as profitability), a collaborative spirit between employers and employees , a long-term view , and a close relationship with suppliers." Several respondents voiced serious...
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by James Heskett
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
imposes on society by securing subsidies, driving employees toward public welfare systems, creating urban sprawl, and destroying jobs in competing operations. Thus, juxtaposing these customer savings against the estimate cited by Fishman...
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- 12 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)
that as a philanthropist, impact investor, board member, employee or corporate partner. Fintech: Disruptions in Credit, Payments and Real Estate Faculty: Marco Di Maggio The advent of new technologies and big data promise to...
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- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
are unique because: They battle against what DeLong called a natural gravitational pull toward alienation within organizational life. "In other words, if you ignore your employees over time, they will start to feel left out and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their...
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by Joseph B. Fuller
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
middlemen in the industry. The company works directly with Kenyan coffee cooperatives to source coffee beans that Kahawa roasts in San Francisco. Kahawa originally sold its beans to Bay Area offices, but when most of the region’s office View Details
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
things and keep what works.” It is not by chance that nearly all of their private sector examples come from high tech, where employees are being trained in large numbers to routinely conduct experiments that appear to provide enterprise...
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- 27 Sep 2016
- HBS Seminar
Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
company takes that create unintended consequences for others—can be good or bad. An example of a positive externality is reduced healthcare costs for everyone when employees are required to get COVID-19 vaccines. A negative externality...
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by Lane Lambert
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
request. The following day, Zuckerberg personally met with employees and posted a promise to audit and restrict access to user information by the developers of apps. He also agreed to testify before a United States congressional committee...
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