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- 2022
- Book
Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind
By: Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna
Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.
In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna discuss the interviews they and other Harvard faculty have undertaken...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Corruption;
Gender;
Innovation and Invention;
Leadership;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Society;
India;
Pakistan;
Bangladesh;
Middle East;
Africa;
Latin America;
Philippines
Jones, Geoffrey, and Tarun Khanna. Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind. Gurgaon, India: Penguin Random House India, 2022.
- 27 Jun 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default
- September 2023
- Exercise
Irrationality in Action: Decision-Making Exercise
By: Alison Wood Brooks, Michael I. Norton and Oliver Hauser
This teaching exercise highlights the obstacle of biases in decision-making, allowing students to generate examples of potentially poor decision-making rooted in abundant and unwanted bias. This exercise has two parts: a pre-class, online survey in which students...
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Brooks, Alison Wood, Michael I. Norton, and Oliver Hauser. "Irrationality in Action: Decision-Making Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 924-007, September 2023.
- January–February 2014
- Article
Blame Me
By: Kevin Sharer
The author looks at the psychological side of management, discussing his realization that thinking about and acknowledging his own contributions to organizational underperformance or other work problems is critical to getting employees to improve and generating...
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Sharer, Kevin. "Blame Me." Harvard Business Review 92, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2014): 36.
- March 2011 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Inequality in Brazil
By: Aldo Musacchio
This case examines the evolution of inequality in Brazil in the last few years and generates two debates. First, the case discusses inequality and whether it is a problem or not for capitalist societies, in this case Brazil. Second, the case discusses some of the...
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Keywords:
Economic Growth;
Economic Systems;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Business and Government Relations;
Poverty;
Equality and Inequality;
Brazil
Musacchio, Aldo. "Inequality in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 711-086, March 2011. (Revised May 2011.)
- March 2009 (Revised May 2009)
- Background Note
Executing Strategy
By: J. Bruce Harreld
This is a note to introduce the principles for effectively implementing a new strategy. It emphasizes the interdependence of strategy and execution in developing and sustaining superior competitive performance. Primarily based on the notion that strategy should be a...
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Harreld, J. Bruce. "Executing Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 809-126, March 2009. (Revised May 2009.)
- 08 Dec 2021
- News
How to Lay Off Your Employees without Totally Blowing It
- 29 Apr 2020
- News
Huawei scores chip coup against US pressure
- September 2020
- Case
Hot Wheels: Launching The Mixed Play Experience
By: Elie Ofek, Andres Terech and Nicole Tempest Keller
Chris Down, Global Brand General Manager for Hot Wheels, and his team from the Advanced Play Group within Mattel, Inc., had developed an entirely new “mixed play” product experience that blended familiar Hot Wheels play in the physical world with breakthrough play in...
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Keywords:
Toys;
Go-to-market Strategy;
Product Development;
Technological Innovation;
Product Launch;
Product Positioning;
Decision Making;
Marketing;
Strategy;
Los Angeles
Ofek, Elie, Andres Terech, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Hot Wheels: Launching The Mixed Play Experience." Harvard Business School Case 521-017, September 2020.
- September 2017
- Case
Sensing (and Monetizing) Happiness at Hitachi
By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton
Inspired by research linking happiness and productivity, Hitachi had invested in developing new “people analytics” technologies to help companies increase employee happiness. Hitachi had begun manufacturing high-tech badges that quantify a wearer’s activity patterns....
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Keywords:
People Analytics;
Japan;
Sociometers;
Wearables;
Interpersonal Communication;
Human Resources;
Happiness;
Technology Industry;
Japan
Bernstein, Ethan, and Stephanie Marton. "Sensing (and Monetizing) Happiness at Hitachi." Harvard Business School Case 418-019, September 2017.
- 8:30 AM – 6:45 PM EDT, 15 Sep 2020
- Virtual Programming
Competing in the Age of AI and Digital Transformation
How are companies today using artificial intelligence (AI) to respond to business challenges? During this session, professors Karim Lakhani and Macro Iansiti, coauthors of the book Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the...
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- 28 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA
of Business Administration (MBA) is one of the most flexible master’s degrees you can find. We invite you to join us for Peek, an annual virtual program in January for undergrads considering an MBA. Through Peek you can explore options for your future and learn how an...
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- January 2016 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
Saudi Aramco and Corporate Venture Capital
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank
Saudi Aramco launched an internal venture capital arm in 2011, which promptly became the world's largest investor in energy related startups. In choosing to proceed, the company's New Business Development unit (NPD) wrestled with a number of challenges. How should the...
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Fuller, Joseph B., Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Nathaniel Burbank. "Saudi Aramco and Corporate Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Case 816-068, January 2016. (Revised October 2016.)
- Mar 2012
- Report
A Jobs Compact for America's Future
What's good for individual U.S. companies is no longer automatically good for business nationwide, for U.S. workers, or for the economy. That, coupled with the failure of business, government, and other institutions to engage in productive dialogue and ultimately...
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- September 19, 2019
- Article
Walmart CEO’s Decision on Guns Is the Kind of Corporate Courage We Need
Corporate courage is in short supply. CEOs generally avoid controversial public issues lest disgruntled groups strike back. That’s why Walmart’s actions to limit ammunition sales and advocate for new gun safety legislation mark a significant milestone. CEO Doug...
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Keywords:
Gun Policy;
Gun Violence;
Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Leadership;
Change;
Policy
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Walmart CEO’s Decision on Guns Is the Kind of Corporate Courage We Need." CNN.com (September 19, 2019).
- March 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Jeffrey Deitch: Art Entrepreneur
By: Henry McGee, Rohit Deshpandé and Sarah Gulick
Jeffrey Deitch is an influential gallery owner and art entrepreneur. An HBS alumnus generally credited with developing the field of bank art advisory and financing services, Deitch has had a storied career in both the commercial and non-profit art world. Wrestling with...
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Keywords:
Cultural Entrepreneurship;
Arts;
Personal Development and Career;
Fine Arts Industry;
New York (city, NY);
Los Angeles
McGee, Henry, Rohit Deshpandé, and Sarah Gulick. "Jeffrey Deitch: Art Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 320-042, March 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
- 2018
- Chapter
Will Urbanization Save the Chinese Economy or Destroy it?
By: Meg Rithmire
The Chinese leadership under Xi Jinping has announced its intentions to transition the economy from one driven by investment and exports to one driven by domestic demand. The main strategy to achieve this transformation involves massive state-led urbanization. This...
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Rithmire, Meg. "Will Urbanization Save the Chinese Economy or Destroy it?" Chap. 16 in The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power, edited by Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Manipulability in Matching Markets: Conflict and Coincidence of Interests
We study comparative statics of manipulations by women in the men-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism in the two-sided one-to-one marriage market. We prove that if a group of women employs truncation strategies or weakly successfully manipulates, then all other...
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Ashlagi, Itai, and Flip Klijn. "Manipulability in Matching Markets: Conflict and Coincidence of Interests." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-111, June 2010.
- April 2002 (Revised March 2006)
- Background Note
Economics of Retail Banking Note
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Explains the financial operations of retail banking, highlighting profitability challenges facing the industry. For U.S. banks, it is quite common for more than half of the customer base to be unprofitable and to have relatively few customers make up the vast majority...
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Keywords:
Customers;
Economics;
Cost;
Banks and Banking;
Profit;
Revenue;
Service Operations;
Banking Industry;
United States
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Economics of Retail Banking Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 602-153, April 2002. (Revised March 2006.)