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- June 10, 2021
- Article
How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader in a Capitalist World
By: Celia Bravard, John Pontillo and Andrew J. Hoffman
Today’s business school education isn’t suited to the big challenges facing the world — climate change, economic inequality and racial injustice — that the leaders of tomorrow will be expected to solve. So, how can students and young professionals succeed in a system...
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Values and Beliefs;
Mission and Purpose;
Social Issues;
Power and Influence;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Opportunities
Bravard, Celia, John Pontillo, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader in a Capitalist World." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 10, 2021).
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Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom
Trumpeter Miles Davis is heralded as one the most influential jazz musicians ever, helping to drive forward major evolutions in the genre. While he has inspired scores of jazz musicians over the decades, a different audience can also...
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- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
thing: “Sports. Pirates, Steelers, Penguins, anything black and gold. Pittsburgh just reverberates around its sports teams.” Life lesson: Learned in HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s class. “The real engine behind being successful is...
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April White
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R.G. Dun & Co. / Dun & Bradstreet Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
reference staff can conduct name searches for up to 10 business and/or individual names in the R.G. Dun & Co. index volumes per fiscal year. Search results include the Dun volumes and page numbers for the...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
who is hypothermic and certain to die. Do you stay with this person or continue to the summit? Today I’d stay. But then, I’m pretty sure I said I’d go to the summit. We were young, and not everyone is at their best View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of...
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- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
information on where each person went to school from LinkedIn. Birds of a feather invest together The information showed that the venture capital world is incredibly homogenous, consisting mostly of white men from liberal arts colleges...
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- December 2007
- Article
Learning to Live with Governments: Unilever in India and Turkey, 1950-1980
By: G. Jones
A noteworthy characteristic of the contemporary global economy is the uneven distribution of world foreign direct investment (FDI). In 2007 three-quarters of world FDI was located in developed countries. The residual was concentrated in a small number of emerging...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Ethics;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Consumer Products Industry;
India;
Turkey
Jones, G. "Learning to Live with Governments: Unilever in India and Turkey, 1950-1980." Entreprises et histoire 49 (December 2007).
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Case Writing & Industry | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
cases emerged from business contacts and personal experiences of HBS faculty and staff. Early manuals for writing cases included procedures for undertaking the preliminary study, interviews with the company,...
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- 15 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review
alumni have navigated this past year and provide important insights about the strength of our community. Here is our roundup of notable posts published in 2020: Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student...
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- February 2016
- Case
Banking and Politics in Antebellum New York
By: David Moss and Colin Donovan
After a long period of solid Democratic control, Whigs secured a majority of seats in the New York State Assembly in 1837, the same year that a major financial panic had crippled the banking system and shaken public confidence in the state's governance. The next year,...
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- 10 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum
degree to which experiences in the same context can vary based on identity. An initial common trap in course discussion was an inclination to say, “I haven’t personally seen or...
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- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community
Leadership Development (ALD) discussion group for some of the most stimulating, vulnerable, and raw conversations I had while in business school. In a world View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
a package delivered in a week was fast. Today, it’s not uncommon to have products delivered within hours. And in the future they are going to want more than a thud at the doorstep. They are going to want a...
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- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
larger implication is in the delivery of any sort of undesirable news that an audience doesn't really want to hear. If you deliver it all at once, a person will tune out mentally. A better strategy would be...
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- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
settle in a desired geographic location while retaining a job elsewhere—the best of both worlds for many people. “I see work-from-anywhere as a policy that allows the individual to control her personal...
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by Kara Baskin
- 2020
- Working Paper
Performance Hacking: The Contagious Business Practice that Corrodes Corporate Culture, Undermines Core Values, and Damages Great Companies
By: Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan
August 7, 1955 is an important date in commercial aviation history. You could say it began the jet airliner age, though other dates might also qualify. Jet engines had proven successful in military aircraft. But no one knew then whether members of the general public...
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Austin, Robert D., and Richard L. Nolan. "Performance Hacking: The Contagious Business Practice that Corrodes Corporate Culture, Undermines Core Values, and Damages Great Companies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-003, July 2020.
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
re-tooled to successful and profitable strategic ends. In Revival of the Fittest, he draws on his extensive global research in such diverse industries as personal computers,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
Organizations and Markets Group and Deborah Kolb, a professor at the Simmons College Graduate School of Management, discussed the topic at the Women Enriching Business panel "Women Negotiating in the...
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by Martha Lagace
Joshua D. Margolis
Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details