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- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
why would they need to bring anyone back to the office?Fuller: Let’s turn to the third thing you mentioned and talk about your response to Covid, which was enhanced your grant-making to philanthropic institutions. Eastern, within this community, has a View Details
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
the US and with 12 regional editions, reached a milestone of more than 340,000 paid annual subscribers. Launched in 1922 by Dean Wallace B. Donham with an initial print run of 6,000 copies, the magazine struggled financially for its first 25 years, even as it gained a...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
firm, he put in place a system of franchised brokerage offices that greatly reduced overhead costs and eased the impact of dramatic market downturns. Specializing in the stocks of small and medium-sized companies, the firm increased its...
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- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
results stem from the professional ownership, tighter monitoring, and reputational considerations exhibited by PE sponsors. Download the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14085 PublicationsPublic Action for Public...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
important presentation. Lester must decide how best to confront Nadine Robert, his client, knowing that his personal success and the reputation of his consulting firm hinge on his ability to build and sustain a strong relationship. How...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
find no evidence that directors lose seats on other boards, a proxy for reputational consequences, as a result of shareholder activism. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46376 The Impact of Corporate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
other groups have proven to be despots, tyrants, and men who destroy the values and institutions that lie at the heart of democracies. Homing in on Trump’s reputation as a hard-charging man of action, we can perhaps think about his...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
markets, highlighting concerns as China strives to modernize its financial system to meet global competition and support its fast growing economy. Purchase the note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
of the country’s health care system proved to be a problem that Oishi could not ignore; Platanus and Mediva represent her response. Nineteen years in, they have engineered a complete rethinking of health care offerings, which reach more...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
that confidence in your proposal dies. Fearmongering: Critics catalyze irrational anxieties about your idea. Character assassination: They slam your reputation and credibility. Smart, practical, and filled with useful advice, Buy-In...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
architectural components with 1,157 dependencies between them. We show that the architecture of this system can be classified as a "core-periphery" system, meaning it contains a single large dominant cluster of interconnected...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
system. Best practices include: Pay as well as competitors. There can be exceptions; the need to acquire applies to intangibles as well. Organizations with good reputations may be able to attract talent at a discount; the reverse may be...
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All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
system. Best practices include: Pay as well as competitors. There can be exceptions; the need to acquire applies to intangibles as well. Organizations with good reputations may be able to attract talent at a discount; the reverse may be...
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- January 2023
- Case
Natura: Weathering the Pandemic at Brazil's Cosmetic Giant
By: Brian Trelstad, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
Brazil's Natura, a multi-brand cosmetics group, has taken several measures to safeguard the livelihoods of its thousands of employees and millions of sales representatives during the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. The company has also made strides in its efforts...
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COVID-19 Pandemic;
ESG Reporting;
Acquisition;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decision Making;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Environmental Management;
Climate Change;
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Global Strategy;
Corporate Governance;
Health Pandemics;
Human Resources;
Human Capital;
Crisis Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing;
Distribution Channels;
Supply Chain;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Customer Ownership;
Relationships;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Networks;
Partners and Partnerships;
Science-Based Business;
Reputation;
Human Needs;
Social Issues;
Strategy;
Equality and Inequality;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Brazil;
Latin America
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Dutch flower industry has responded to increasingly stringent laws restricting the release of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers into the soil and groundwater. The Dutch, he reports, have created a closed-loop greenhouse system in...
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- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
retail investors much more as being like customers or employees of the company—even using a computer system to track preferences. They have both received awards by IR magazine for good investor relations. So in some ways these cases show...
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- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
skill set. A lot of companies are wrestling with that—should they be on the clock or not? Is it just remote? If the worker or the employee is relying on an outside vendor, do you only pay when they complete? How does that whole system...
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- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Understanding Boards of Directors: A Systems Perspective By: Lorsch, Jay W. Abstract—In this essay, my goal is to explore why, despite the tireless efforts of talented people, research on corporate governance has been slow and uneven, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
individual and organizational capabilities and presents the theory and research on deep smarts. The six most universally found characteristics of this particular kind of expertise are deep domain knowledge, pattern recognition–based decision making, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne