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- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
on their choice of "How likely is it you would recommend us to a friend?" as the ultimate question. Fred Reichheld put it this way in describing the question behind the question: "our candidate for the ultimate question in business (and in life) is: Have...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
respected for the effort they have devoted to the company, and they want to leave with their dignity intact.” But other managers felt just the opposite. Precisely because layoff victims did nothing to warrant their fate, that news was...
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by Martha Lagace
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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
Teams equipped with vast budgets and elite credentials make decisions without understanding the reality of people who’ll need to make concessions for them. The decisions we make are directly tethered to human dignity and our shared...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
Unlocking Us. “I also love This American Life and The Daily from the New York Times—although there are some days when I really try to control my news consumption.” Buy the book: I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness...
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Commencement 2011 Address | About
standing in front of the gas station they owned. “I don’t think I ever saw them with clean hands,” Rob recalled. But the dignity and integrity they brought to their work transcended their surroundings. Rob worries that the erosion of...
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- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
and CEO Dan Schulman was especially vocal: “This decision reflects PayPal’s deepest values and our strong belief that every person has the right to be treated equally, and with dignity and respect,” he wrote in a statement. As the outcry...
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- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
these revolutions should be welcomed for increasing freedom and dignity for millions—but there are also hard-headed reasons to support them. Although they bring uncertainty and higher oil prices in the short term, we should cheer for the...
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- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
jobs that provide a sense of dignity for individuals.” Terry is riding the crest of the electric vehicle wave. The White House has an aspirational target of 50% of all new cars sold in the U.S. being zero-emissions models by 2030. And...
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- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
perspective, and helps stimulate ideas and connections that I wouldn’t have otherwise encountered. Three books on the meaning of dignity and loss and sacrifice that I return to often are When the Legends Die: The Timeless Coming-of-Age...
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- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
fundamental issues.” —Àlvaro Rodríguez-Arregui (MBA 1995) After founding a microfinance investment fund called the Dignity Fund in 2005 with Elizabeth Collet Funk (MBA 1996), she started Elevar in 2008, widening the investment scope to...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
profit, to crush your counterparty. It’s a different kind of choice to not do that, to aim for “win-win” outcomes, to leave the other side with profit and dignity and goodwill, to build relationships that last not for a single deal, but...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
avoided because of cultural norms. I founded SHE in 2008, and its first initiative, SHE28, was created to stem the significant costs to the health, education, productivity, and dignity of women and girls in the developing world caused by...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
influence through his writings, his speeches, and ARD’s annual meetings, in which its investment companies set up booths and enjoyed an opportunity to network and talk to potential investors. “He gave a dignity or a substance to the...
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- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
http://hbr.org/product/Transforming-Tommy-Hilfig/an/714451-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-092 Dignity Health: A Portfolio of Improvement Projects No abstract available. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
important to treat a founder with respect and kindness, to instill dignity and confidence. It's not just writing a check. And as much as people say ‘Don't take it personally,' of course it's personal. There's so much at stake. For a...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
particular, because of my passion around the dignity of work. I think that comes from my upbringing, where I saw in very stark terms the life-changing value of work. My father left my mother and four small children—I was the youngest of...
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Her current focus is on dignity and ethics of care as experience and practice in leading change. Diane Forbes Berthoud Diane Forbes Berthoud, Ph.D. is the Assistant Vice Chancellor, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion at the University of...
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- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
“Despite the progress the United States has made, Black Americans are too often denied basic privileges that others take for granted,” wrote Mason. “I am not talking about the privileges of wealth, education or job opportunities. I’m talking about fundamental human and...
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- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
the first time read versus books that I’ve re-read dozens of times. I feel like this helps me think in broader strokes, with more perspective, and helps stimulate ideas and connections that I wouldn’t have otherwise encountered. Three books on the meaning of View Details
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by Staff
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman