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- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
the major public goods issues of our time. Yet we live in a time when many public goods issues are global and global governance mechanisms are at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
to 80 in 2014. Another example: Some 70 percent of auditors in 1996 were likely to settle claims with some sort of cash payment. By 2016 the percentage of paid settlements had dropped to a little over 30 percent. “Reducing the bite, the risk of litigation, is not... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
During the Internet and telecom bubble, investors placed money in mutual funds, believing it was being managed carefully, only to discover that it was placed in dot-com and telecom stocks. When the bubble burst, the money was mostly lost. Disenchanted with many mutual... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
wheels of the company turning while working out of the public gaze to the CEO as a man or woman with a mixture of charm, guile, brilliance, and cruelty who remakes the industry and in some cases society as a whole and in the process... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
allowing them to weigh in on every message a brand posts—all for plenty of public eyes to see. Inappropriate messaging Cheerios attempted to express sympathy after Prince died, but its “Rest in peace” tweet received a vicious... View Details
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
citizens," in the words of Howard Gardner's recent book, Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed, who watch out not only for numero uno but for the wider public as well. There is no better example of what... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper proposes an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
Professor of Information Systems, Ivey Business School, delve into the growing neurodiversity initiative at software behemoth SAP in their case study SAP SE: Autism at Work. Software testing is exacting and requires precision, so can be a View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
the same time," Ebrahim notes. "Delivering emergency relief and basic services in sanitation, water, and housing is easier to measure than impacts on public policy or on good governance, freedoms, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
Are people who travel in town cars and on corporate jets different—on a psychological level—from you and me? Does the availability of luxury goods "prime" individuals to be less concerned about or considerate toward others? The... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54407 forthcoming ACM SIGecom Exchanges Good Markets (Really Do) Make Good Neighbors By: Kominers, Scott Duke Abstract—This article gives a (very) brief... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
exception. What they have in common are good reasons for foreign businesses and Western governments to cheer the changes. In Bahrain, the Khalifa family, members of Islam's Sunni sect, rules over a majority Shia population. This kingdom... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
purchase a home than to rent one in 95 percent of America. This one racist policy has led to an affordable housing crisis that impacts most White home buyers today. “I often ask how racism harms those at the bottom of the imaginary hierarchy and those at the top,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
findings can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
opportunity that are essential to legitimizing that deployment of self-interest." In other words, capitalism earns its legitimacy through the idea that the pursuit of self-interest explicitly delivers on certain moral goods for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
relations with governments. Emerging markets, or at least the larger and more fast-growing ones in Asia and Latin America, were increasingly seen as indispensable by MNEs in every industry. They were both a place to assemble manufactured View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
Sloan. As the case shows, Walker herself reflected on her path before an audience in 1912 at the National Negro Business League convention in Chicago: "I was promoted to the cook kitchen, and from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
talent, they will need to bridge these three gaps. The good news is that the growing assortment of online courses, social and interactive platforms, and learning tools from both traditional institutions and upstarts—which we call the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
Engaged and Motivated Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Some companies have opted to make pay cuts commensurate with salary ranges, with higher-paid employees taking a larger percentage cut than lower-paid workers. Estée Lauder... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott