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- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
transition. When journaling the above, I encourage writing full sentences and fully expressing your thoughts around each. Don’t worry about being legible—you may never go back to read them—it is the act of...
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by Julia Austin
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
all ages feel strongly connected to other HBS graduates both professionally and socially. There is a strong sense of indebtedness to the alumni network and a willingness to...
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- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Companies moving to hybrid workplaces will face new challenges
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
through emotions, people reduce their guards against persuasion. The advertiser can work to put people in a better mood, which makes them more open to suggestion--and that...
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- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
around the world could improve responses to the next global financial catastrophe. Work done recently by dozens of Harvard Business School students under Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate...
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by Rachel Layne
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
organization's culture affects its economic performance. The basic working hypotheses are that: (1) people put forth more effort and produce better results for organizations whose values they identify with, and (2) therefore, it's in the...
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by Jim Heskett
- 07 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook
often—and at some point, network effects could even turn into a negative. “Imagine you have a huge network on LinkedIn,” she says. “That could just lead to more people bothering you.” As all of these examples show, there isn’t a single,...
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by Michael Blanding
- Article
Manage the Suppliers That Could Harm Your Brand: Know When to Avoid, Engage, or Drop Them
By: Jodi L Short and Michael W. Toffel
The pandemic has placed a new spotlight on working conditions in factories that supply global companies. To avert problems, firms often impose codes of conduct on their suppliers and perform audits to assess compliance. Do these measures help identify unethical...
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Auditing;
Agency Cost;
Quality And Safety;
Quality Management System;
Quality Management;
Unions;
Environmental Management;
Globalization;
Goods and Commodities;
Governance;
Labor;
Labor Unions;
Wages;
Working Conditions;
Operations;
Supply Chain;
Safety;
Quality;
China;
Bangladesh;
Asia;
Pakistan
Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Manage the Suppliers That Could Harm Your Brand: Know When to Avoid, Engage, or Drop Them." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 2 (March–April 2021).
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
On a Mission to Have an Impact
about the opportunity entrepreneurs have to make a difference in society. “I think the first thing I tried to do is really work with or even start organizations that are very...
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- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
competitor. That, in turn, drags down the firm’s revenue even faster. In contrast, if a company decides to eliminate head count, the employer can control who leaves—presumably letting go less-productive workers. The findings are presented...
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by Rachel Layne
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
are working around the world to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What are you working on this summer? I am View Details
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
IT that is not quite justified, based on all the work that continues to be done around the world, he said. Managers need to understand the opportunities and threats of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2021
Industry Spotlight Series: From Industrials to HBS
Please join us for a virtual panel discussion highlighting Harvard Business School students formerly working in the Industrials Industry. Hear what a day in the life of an HBS student is like, how they plan View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
strongly linked to the gender of the person they are competing against. “Women are competitive, but not in particular work environments or groups” "Women are competitive, but not in particular View Details
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by Kim Girard
- Article
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Distancing Response to Ethical Dissonance
By: R. Barkan, S. Ayal, F. Gino and D. Ariely
Six studies demonstrate the "pot calling the kettle black" phenomenon whereby people are guilty of the very fault they identify in others. Recalling an undeniable ethical failure, people experience ethical dissonance between their moral values and their behavioral...
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Ethical Dissonance;
Cognitive Dissonance;
Moral Judgment;
Impression Management;
Unethical Behavior;
Values and Beliefs;
Moral Sensibility;
Cognition and Thinking;
Research;
Behavior;
Judgments
Barkan, R., S. Ayal, F. Gino, and D. Ariely. "The Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Distancing Response to Ethical Dissonance." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 141, no. 4 (November 2012): 757–773.
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
of companies operate, investors can give helpful insight around people and culture. You can ask how to work through team challenges, enhance your company culture, or even how View Details
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by Julia Austin
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a...
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April White