Power And Influence - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

predictor of events, but the power and sometimes outrageous language used by Levitt changed the nature of debate on the issue, and created new perspectives for managers to... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

brand-name multinationals that contract out the work. “In a sense, global supply chains are serving a regulatory function, with companies imposing an additional layer of rules and investing resources to enforce them,” says Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Jun 2000
What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

other words, according to our readers, our level of patience depends—on the nature of the task; on whether we are focused completely on just one task; on personal circumstances such as anxiety, fatigue, or available time; and on our... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Competition of Countries

and surprised by the power of effective institutional design. Q: What do you see as the most formidable globalization challenges nations have to face? What is the role of corporations within these... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an equally important quality to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

benefit. In the first instance, observing that millions of people connect to friends and strangers on social platforms, some companies have chosen to enter the fray in a similar way, by trying to build relationships with people online as... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

business leaders for intensive discussions of the spiritual dimensions of leadership and how their personal beliefs govern their lives and positively influence the roles they... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Beginning with the influential work of Professor Emeritus Robert N. Anthony in the 1960s and 1970s, Harvard Business School has given a prominent place to research and course development focusing on the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

20 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

What do Stella McCartney, Apple, Netflix, and Wal-Mart have in common? They were all subjects of the most popular episodes of Harvard Business School's Cold Call podcast in the last year. Twice monthly, host View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

26 Sep 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

Negotiation, describes how you can shape important deals through tactics, deal design, and set-up, and why three dimensions are more powerful than one. Key concepts include:... View Details

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

Power of Conversational Leadership Published: July 23, 2012 Communication is always a challenge, especially in multinational corporations. Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind discuss why it makes sense to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

billions who are in poverty; solutions must be enduring and last over generations; solutions must be truly effective and make a difference; and all this must happen... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

economies where this shift has taken place before — such as the Asian Tigers — it was generally associated with lower growth since relying on endogenous progression of domestic demand is not as powerful as relying on an exogenous inflow... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

influence how investors diversify their portfolios; the organizational and ownership decisions firms make; firm investment[PDF] decisions; and myriad financing decisions,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

performance. What struck me most from this case was the power of the great leader. It was fascinating to learn that all the reforms Ghosn implemented were originally proposed by the middle managers who had been working for Nissan for... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

“diversity” really mean? “Is it a variety of types of rich, beautiful women on magazine covers?” she asked. “Is it a variety of types of magazine editors? A variety of types of people in power on the stages of award shows View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

how individuals with limited power and resources negotiate and collaborate with the largest of corporations. Community may not be exactly the right word to describe these... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

more performance-driven if they are going to survive long-term. Socially speaking, families are becoming somewhat less enmeshed, hierarchical, and strictly controlling, which is a result of the globalization of these economies as well as... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

confrontation on potentially sensitive issues. Although, as Phil Clark put it, there are times when information must be held confidential, "What I have seen is the restriction of information to cover a multitude of power decisions or... View Details