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    Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company's Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy

    Michael Beer

    Is silence killing your strategy? When employees can't speak truth to power, senior leaders don't hear what they need to hear. In Fit to Compete, Beer presents an antidote to silence—principles and a time-tested innovative process for holding honest conversations with everyone in your organization.

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    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 161 (November 2020): 20-33.

    Going It Alone: Competition Increases the Attractiveness of Minority Status

    Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang and Katherine L. Milkman

    Past research demonstrates that people prefer to affiliate with others who resemble them demographically. However, we posit that when competing for scarce opportunities, strategic considerations moderate the strength of this tendency toward homophily. We find that anticipated competition weakens people’s desire to join groups that include similar others.

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    Global Initiative

    Sangu Delle

    Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble

    By 2020, at age 33, Sangu Delle (MBA 2016) has already made significant progress towards his solving Africa’s myriad and diverse challenges. He is the founder and chairman of the for-profit Golden Palm Investments Corporation, CEO of Africa Health Holdings Limited, author of a book on entrepreneurship in Africa, founder of a nonprofit (Cleanacwa) that brings improved fresh water infrastructure to towns and villages, and serves in numerous other roles. Would it make more sense for him to focus on just one (or a few) industries, causes, or geographies?

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    Featured Case

    An Introduction to Money Laundering: 'The Hunter'

    Eugene Soltes, Guilhem Ros and Grace Liu

    Money laundering schemes disguise the criminal origins of an estimated 2% to 5% of the world’s gross domestic product. Money laundering not only enables criminals to escape detection, but may also be used to finance further criminal operations including terrorism. This case introduces readers to money laundering and anti-money laundering (AML) techniques.

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    Featured Case

    Zoom Video Communications: Eric Yuan’s Leadership During COVID-19

    Scott Duke Kominers, Christopher Stanton, Andy Wu and George Gonzalez

    Months into the pandemic, CEO Eric Yuan reflects on his company's newly central role in society, and considers how to leverage the platform's broad adoption into sustainable future growth. The case also discusses Zoom’s internal culture—which prioritized employee and customer happiness—as well how both the company and its customers faced the transition to remote work.

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    HBS Working Knowledge

    Best Ideas

    Miguel Antón, Randolph B. Cohen, and Christopher Polk

    The “best ideas” in investment managers’ portfolios generate statistically and economically significant risk-adjusted returns over time, and they systematically outperform other positions in the portfolios. Investors can gain substantially if managers choose less-diversified portfolios that tilt more towards their best ideas.

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    HBS Working Paper

    State and Local Government Employment in the COVID-19 Crisis

    Daniel Green and Erik Loualiche

    Local governments are facing large losses in revenues and increased expenditures because of the COVID-19 crisis. We document a causal relationship between fiscal pressures induced by COVID-19 and the layoffs of state and local government workers.

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Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

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  • Business & Environment

    The Business and Environment Initiative seeks to deepen business leaders' understanding of today’s environmental challenges and to assist them in developing effective solutions.

  • Entrepreneurship

    The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship supports Harvard Business School's mission to "educate leaders who make a difference in the world" by infusing this leadership perspective with an entrepreneurial point of view.

  • Global

    The Global Initiative builds on a legacy of global engagement by supporting the HBS community of faculty, students, and alumni in their work, encouraging a global outlook in research, study, and practice.

  • Forum for Growth and Innovation

    The Forum for Growth and Innovation is designed to discover, develop and disseminate robust, accessible theory in the areas of innovation and general management, in order to create a tighter link between research and practice in general management.

  • Health Care

    The Health Care Initiative serves as a gateway for health care research, educational programs, and collaboration across all sectors of the health care industry.

  • Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness

    The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness studies competition and its implications for company strategy; the competitiveness of nations, regions and cities; and solutions to social problems.

  • Leadership

    The Leadership Initiative undertakes cutting-edge research and course development projects about leadership and leadership development, both within HBS and through collaborations with other organizations.

  • Public Education Leadership Project (PELP)

    Faculty members from Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education launched the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) to create and disseminate knowledge about how to manage urban school districts.

  • Social Enterprise

    The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS applies innovative business practices and managerial disciplines to drive sustained, high-impact social change.

  • U.S. Competitiveness

    The U.S. Competitiveness Project is a research-led effort to understand and improve the competitiveness of the United States. The project is committed to identifying practical steps that business leaders can take to strengthen the U.S. economy.

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Deaccessioning art in the time of corona virus--
Al Roth

Art museums have long frowned on selling art from their collections, and have been frowned upon when they do so. (It used to be not ok to sell art, except to buy different art, but not e.g. to fix

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CNBC: Bill George on pharma: I'm on Trump's side
Bill George

Discussing President-elect Trump's comments on the pharmaceutical industry with Bill George, Harvard Business School senior fellow and former Medtronic CEO.

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Sam Clemens, InsightSquared Co-Founder, on Product Management Processes
Tom Eisenmann

Sam Clemens is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of InsightSquared, a Boston-based startup. Sam has been a frequent guest instructor in the Product Management 101 elective at Harvard Business School.

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Harvard Business School seeks candidates in all fields for full time positions. Candidates with outstanding records in PhD or DBA programs are encouraged to apply.

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Faculty in the News

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
Re: Leemore Dafny, Yin Wei Soon, Zoe Cullen and Christopher Stanton
HBS Working Knowledge, 17 Sep 2020

6 questions that must be answered in the race for a vaccine
By: Bill George
Fortune, 17 Sep 2020

We Really Shouldn’t Force People Back into the Office
Re: Raffaella Sadun
Bloomberg, 17 Sep 2020

Fitbit Atrial Fibrillation Approval Revs Up Competition With Apple Watch
Forbes, 15 Sep 2020

Is Happiness at Work Really Attainable?
Re: Francesca Gino
Cold Call, 15 Sep 2020

Rude work emails are bad for your health and on the rise - here's what you need to know
Re: Tsedal Neeley
World Economic Forum, 14 Sep 2020

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
Re: Raffaella Sadun and Jeffrey Polzer
HBS Working Knowledge, 14 Sep 2020

Brentwood’s Diesel bookstore launches a GoFundMe as more stores struggle through pandemic
Re: Ryan Raffaelli
Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep 2020

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    Science-based Business Seminar

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    Josh Nicholson, Cofounder and CEO, scite.ai

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    Finance/Economics Ph.D. Lunch Seminar

    Sep 25, 2020

    Gianluca Rinaldi, Harvard Business School

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    Entrepreneurial Management Seminar

    Sep 30, 2020

    David J. Deming, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education

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    Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) Seminar

    Sep 30, 2020

    Leigh Tost, USC Marshall School of Business

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The Case Method

Introduced by HBS faculty to business education in 1925, the case method is a powerful interactive learning process that puts students in the shoes of a leader faced with a real-world management issue and challenges them to propose and justify a resolution.
Today, HBS remains an authority on teaching by the case method. The School is also the world’s leading case-writing institution, with HBS faculty members contributing hundreds of new cases to the management curriculum a year via the School’s unique case development and writing process.  

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Harvard Business Publishing

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Why ‘Tell Them Something They Don't Know’ Is Bad Advice in B2B Sales
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Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital
by Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
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Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business
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