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  • 14 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

There’s something curious about the labor force in the United States. Identical jobs and industries have become unionized in some states while remaining nonunionized in others. Unionization levels vary greatly from state to state. As of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

An old adage says that it's not what you know, it's whom you know. But outsiders can take heart: even for those who don't belong to a high-power social network, there's power in simply keeping track of who went to school with whom.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

administer the exercise in class. The goals of the exercise are to examine how asking questions during conversation influences interpersonal perception, information exchange, decision making, productivity, as well as relationships View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Dec 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

Summing Up The current global recession has, judging from responses to this month's column, many origins, among them housing and credit. All, of course, are traceable to human responses to both perceived opportunities View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Growing Together

facing both nonprofits and other social-purpose enterprises. Another concerns the ways in which businesses can influence a community's health and create meaningful partnerships... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

beings grappled with and overcame material hardship, organized their political and economic communities, won great wealth and lost it, conquered View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

some new sign of the apparent retreat of government in the face of the relentless power of free market forces. Yet, in reality, contends HBS associate professor Willis Emmons, international trends in deregulation View Details
  • September 2009
  • Article

Virtue out of Necessity? Compliance, Commitment and the Improvement of Labor Conditions in Global Supply Chains

By: Akshay Mangla, Richard Locke and Matthew Amengual
Private, voluntary compliance programs, promoted by global corporations and nongovernmental organizations alike, have produced only modest and uneven improvements in working conditions and labor rights in most global supply chains. Through a detailed study of a major... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Ethics; Supply Chain; Governance Compliance; Globalization
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  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Blockbuster Deals

has considerable power to forestall any merger that doesn't appeal to him." Sometimes, however, Lorsch adds, reluctant CEOs do come under such intense pressure from boards that they are forced to accept offers, or directors recognize that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
  • 06 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

enable them to think clearly about work and personal issues. A System To Support Values-centered Leadership The reality is that people cannot stay grounded by themselves. Leaders depend on people closest to them to stay centered. They... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • Web

Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

higher political risk, and slower growth. Understanding what constitute good institutions and how institutions influence economic and political... View Details
  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

reinforce human relations. Q: What influence do organizational structure, management hierarchy, and physical space have on an organization's internal communication network? A: Huge influences! Although every... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • May 2014
  • Article

Group Membership Alters the Threshold for Mind Perception: The Role of Social Identity, Collective Identification, and Intergroup Threat

By: Leor M. Hackel, Christine E. Looser and Jay J. Van Bavel
Human faces are used as cues to the presence of social agents, and the ability to detect minds and mental states in others occupies a central role in social interaction. In the current research, we present evidence that the human propensity for mind perception is bound... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Identity; Personal Characteristics; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 20 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

refers to as “the engine of our business.” As the company continues to grow, both Surette and Peters reflect back on how their HBS experience has influenced their work as leaders. “Over the course of six... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their core business. In the first study of this phenomenon, we investigate how CEO activism can influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

computational power for model estimation. We overcome computational burden by utilizing an improved simulator for likelihood evaluation and the general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

culture at scale that supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and analyze how personal beliefs might influence decision-making. Develop techniques to combat bias. Highlights... View Details
  • 10 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

possible with this new branch of computer science, particularly the power of convolutional neural networks.  It was through this curriculum that I fell in love with data science and learned about the... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne