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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
opinion. We’ve got where our core headquarters can seat almost 4,000 employees on a given day. We’ve probably only got 400 here. But we’ve got these two cohorts of young, energetic students who are here every day, and it’s been a great...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the business community. It's an indication that the HBS Alumni Association, which boasts over 65,000 graduates of the MBA and Executive Education Programs, is stronger than ever. As president, I want to offer my sincere thanks and...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
presentation that outlines the major initiatives currently under way at HBS. The presentation is being designed so that a club officer or a member of the board can deliver it with ease at club sessions and other meetings. In addition, the...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
fifth global research center just opened in India.) Addressing physical changes on campus, Dean Clark noted that the now-completed Baker Library renovation was “by far the biggest HBS construction project ever undertaken.” He thanked the alumni audience for their View Details
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
Research Research Featured Reports The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America’s Chronic Skills Gap By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman Healthy Outcomes: How employers' support for employees with caregiving...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
respond to the pandemic in the education space. It took a certain amount of ability to take risks. That type of support was from our CEO down through our board, who said, “We...
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- March 2023
- Teaching Note
Sustainability Reporting at Dollar Tree, Inc.
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-044. The case discusses the ESG strategy of Dollar Tree Inc., a U.S. Fortune 500 company in the deep discount retail industry and the shareholder pressure faced by the company. In 2022, the company faced a shareholder resolution from...
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Sustainability;
Shareholder Activism;
Dollar Tree;
Sustainability Reporting;
ESG Reporting;
Board Of Directors;
Shareholder Engagement;
GHG;
Environmental Accounting;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Trends;
Communication;
Announcements;
Voting;
Environmental Management;
Climate Change;
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Values and Beliefs;
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Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
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Social Issues;
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Strategy;
Adaptation;
Alignment;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Value Creation;
Retail Industry;
United States;
Virginia
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
a great segue into thinking about the span of organizations that will be the pre-AI firm. Then there’s going to be AI assisted. Then there’s going to be semi-autonomous agents. And then you can go to some...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
not working. Implement more collaboration hours—let’s say that’s 9 to 1—so people could kind of play around when they need to be available and live and work independently. The second thing I would do from a design perspective is View Details
Fighting Corruption at Siemens
On November 15, 2006, German prosecutors raided offices and homes of Siemens AG staff as part of an ongoing investigation into bribery. The subsequent investigations covered business representing 60% of Siemens' revenues and spanned operations in Asia, Africa,... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
render the most complete contemporary picture of MBA education. "The level of cross-school cooperation was unprecedented," Datar said afterward. For Datar and Garvin, the two-day session was a...
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- May 2016
- Article
Cooperation in Multicultural Negotiations: How the Cultures of People with Low and High Power Interact
By: Shirli Kopelman, Ashley E. Hardin, Christopher G. Myers and Leigh Plunkett Tost
This study examined whether the cultures of low- and high-power negotiators interact to influence cooperative behavior of low-power negotiators. Managers from four different cultural groups (Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, and the United States) negotiated face-to-face in...
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Global Collaboration;
Negotiations;
Culture;
Negotiation Process;
Negotiation Participants;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Hong Kong;
Germany;
Israel;
United States
Kopelman, Shirli, Ashley E. Hardin, Christopher G. Myers, and Leigh Plunkett Tost. "Cooperation in Multicultural Negotiations: How the Cultures of People with Low and High Power Interact." Journal of Applied Psychology 101, no. 5 (May 2016): 721–730.
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
that "Boomers aren't Zoomers." So if you have employees or colleagues in their mid 50s or older, they may not be as comfortable with video technology and you might have to have a lot more patience and offer tech support or tutorials for...
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Zoom
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The Lives and Deaths of Jobs: Technical Interdependence and Survival in a Job Structure
By: Sharique Hasan, John-Paul Ferguson and Rembrand Koning
Prior work has considered the properties of individual jobs that make them more or less likely to survive in organizations. Yet little research examines how a job’s position within a larger job structure affects its life chances and thus the evolution of the...
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Hasan, Sharique, John-Paul Ferguson, and Rembrand Koning. "The Lives and Deaths of Jobs: Technical Interdependence and Survival in a Job Structure." Organization Science 26, no. 6 (November–December 2015): 1665–1681.
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The Perils of Proactive Churn Prevention Using Plan Recommendations: Evidence from a Field Experiment
By: Eva Ascarza, Raghuram Iyengar and Martin Schleicher
Facing the issue of increasing customer churn, many service firms have begun recommending pricing plans to their customers. One reason behind this type of retention campaign is that customers who subscribe to a plan suitable for them should be less likely to churn...
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Churn/retention;
Field Experiment;
Pricing;
Tariff/plan Choice;
Targeting;
Customer Relationship Management;
Price;
Performance Effectiveness
Ascarza, Eva, Raghuram Iyengar, and Martin Schleicher. "The Perils of Proactive Churn Prevention Using Plan Recommendations: Evidence from a Field Experiment." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 53, no. 1 (February 2016): 46–60.
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
it’s a forward-looking, subjective, creative exercise that requires a lot of imagination. Think about valuing Facebook today. It requires predicting the future of privacy policies around the world, the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
you get a lot of hits. There’s a website for the project on workforce, which is the project that spans several schools. And then there is a website for the Managing the Future View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to give to whatever nonprofits they would like to support. We’ve supported diversity from the beginning. We don’t make employees sign non-competes. And then, recently, we became a public benefit corporation. So there’s a number View Details
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Entrepreneurship in the Large Corporation: A Longitudinal Study of How Established Firms Create Breakthrough Inventions
By: Gautam Ahuja and Curba Morris Lampert
We present a model that explains how established firms create breakthrough inventions. We identify three organizational pathologies that inhibit breakthrough inventions: the familiarity trap—favoring the familiar; the maturity trap—favoring the mature;...
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Radical Innovation;
Organizational Learning;
Technology;
Strategy;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business Processes;
Innovation and Invention;
Chemical Industry
Ahuja, Gautam, and Curba Morris Lampert. "Entrepreneurship in the Large Corporation: A Longitudinal Study of How Established Firms Create Breakthrough Inventions." Special Issue on Strategic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Strategies for Wealth Creation. Strategic Management Journal 22, nos. 6-7 (June–July 2001): 521–543.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
Having grown up in Pakistan, Tarim Wasim (MBA 2005) and other Boston-based students and professionals started the Association for the Development of Pakistan (ADP) in 2003 to support the best local...
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