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- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
have been doubted, discounted, and judged reflexively on the basis of my skin color,” Brown wrote in The Washington Post. The industry remains vastly white and male-dominated. Investment management companies led by people of color and...
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Electricity - Business & Environment
alternatives to fossil fuels, especially renewables. Innovation Innovations are needed to generate vast amounts of carbon-free electricity and to use electricity much more efficiently. There is massive market potential for renewable...
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About the Institute About the Institute Contact Us Faculty & Staff Institute Associates Ludcke FAQs Institute Associates Institute Associates Kevin J. Bozic, Senior Institute Associate Dr. Kevin Bozic is the inaugural Chair of...
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- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
in Washington politicians. Fairly or not, people have become willing to believe that executives, as a class, are greedy and dishonest. However natural it might be to ask how so many executives—not to mention accountants, investment...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
captured the spirit of respondents when she said, “For Harvard Business School to give up on the case method would be a step backward, not forward.” Reminding us that the method was adapted from teaching techniques practiced at Harvard...
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by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
part of what’s driving consolidation across the country,” Hansen Shapiro observes. The National Trust used a leveraged buyout to acquire the titles, which will continue with their mission under a new public benefit corporation that is...
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- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
emeritus professor of business at Harvard Business School and a professor of management and organization at the University of Washington Business School in Seattle. McFarlan is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Albert H. Gordon...
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by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 2021
- Case
Starbucks: Opposing a Local Tax to Address Homelessness while Promoting Social Justice
In 2018, the Seattle City Council unanimously voted 9-0 for a tax that would require companies whose annual revenue surpassed $20 million to pay the city $275 per employee per year. The tax money would then be used to combat homelessness in Seattle. In response,...
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Taxation;
City;
Welfare;
Wealth and Poverty;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Seattle
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Starbucks: Opposing a Local Tax to Address Homelessness while Promoting Social Justice." William Davidson Institute Case 3-330-494, 2021.
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
to launch the first private mission to land on the moon, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The mission will use a lander to study the moon’s magnetic field. “One could imagine a trip like this becoming not...
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Business History in the Contemporary Collection | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the world from 1941-1996. ProQuest News & Newspapers /citations/proquest-news-newspapers Access to over 10 US newspapers including Boston Globe (1872-1979), Chicago Tribune (1849-1986), Los Angeles Time (1881-1986), New York Times...
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Distinction, 2016. Andy Zelleke: Recipient of the 2016 Robert F. Greenhill Award. 2015 Gerald C. Chertavian: Recipient of the Boston NAACP’s Kivie Kaplan Humanitarian Award in 2015. Hubert Joly: Recipient of the 2015 US Sciences Po...
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- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
Blagg: "Disruptive innovation" is a term you've used in your analyses of other industries, but what does it mean in the context of the health-care industry? Clayton Christensen: People think they know what disruptive innovation means, but...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
50 years of marriage, together the Krafts left a lasting legacy through their philanthropic endeavors, particularly in their work to help underserved children and to further cancer research. Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977 Administrator, US...
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Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Arts, Entertainment;
Finance;
Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support;
Government;
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations;
Personal Services;
Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services;
Professional Services
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Washington Center for Equitable Growth Grant for research with Ravi Jagadeesan (Harvard University), Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford University), and Piort Dworczak (Northwestern University in 2019. Christopher T. Stanton: Winner of the 2019...
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Mickey Konson
time there. In 2013 he co-founded StreetShares, a financial technology company that provides software to banks and credit unions to digitally process business loan and credit card applications, and decision them using AI/ML. The company...
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Finance;#64;#Software/App
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
empathy, celebration, and refelection. James Lim - JD/MBA ‘22 Tell us about your background: I am a proud American, a person of Korean heritage, and a native of Los Angeles. What difference do you hope to make in the world? The Asian...
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- November 2021 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Hitting Home: Amazon and Mary's Place
By: Paul M. Healy, Debora L. Spar and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2020, Amazon, the $386 billion online retail behemoth, built an eight-story shelter for women and families experiencing homelessness on its expanding headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The shelter, operated in partnership with a non-profit organization known as...
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Business Ethics;
Homelessness;
Business And Society;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Corporate Accountability;
Urban Development;
Society;
Information Technology;
Ethics;
Technology Industry;
Seattle;
United States;
North America
Healy, Paul M., Debora L. Spar, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Hitting Home: Amazon and Mary's Place." Harvard Business School Case 122-017, November 2021. (Revised November 2023.)
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
Experiments 1A, 1B, and 1C reveal effects of indirect agency under conditions favoring intuitive judgment, but not reflective judgment, using a joint/separate evaluation paradigm. Experiment 2A demonstrates that effects of indirect agency...
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Martha Lagace
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)