recognition - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer

Stevenson has concluded that public recognition is not the major reason why people make significant gifts. Instead, they want to make a positive impact on the world, says Stevenson, Harvard Business School’s Sarofim-Rock Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

Citing corporate scandals of the past ten years, Andrew MacLennan said that " in the last 10 years there has been a growing recognition of the need to balance great ideas with concern for execution " Debra Farquharson commented... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

hard-charging, and – most of all – values driven. The most important thing I brought from the Leadership Fellows experience to Disney/ABC is the recognition that values matter, no matter where you are or what kind of business you’re in.... View Details

23 Sep 2021
News

Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies

developed the series in recognition of the fact that sustainability is “everyone’s issue” to act upon. HBS Club of Japan president Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) “We wanted to raise awareness by inviting prominent speakers and experts on... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

ultimate measure of performance is total return to the investor. There is passing reference to the fact that, without new thinking, this philosophy can be tough on employees (and one might add communities). There is recognition that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

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Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

continue to evolve. Performance improves and prices drop. Today, artificial intelligence is used in the selection of retail sites and to facilitate one-to-one marketing programs; voice recognition routes callers to specific store... View Details

Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

and managers are able to commit aggressively with the recognition that the disruptive business might eventually attack the core business. Unfortunately, threat-induced response also leads to very rigid behavior. We found that despite... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

stumble when tasked with closing the gap between a desired end-state and executing an action plan. LEAP is designed to give students pattern recognition and practice in developing action plans across a variety of challenges they are... View Details

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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016

Despite the negative impact of the revenue recognition accounting transition for Harvard ManageMentor that began in fiscal 2015, HBP’s total revenue grew by $14 million, or nearly 7 percent year over year, to $217 million—doubling our... View Details

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

Hill's cowriter on Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Good Leader. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a "team sport," not the act of a sole inventor. "Truly... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

excellent students no longer can stand out if "grade inflation" at a college leads to almost all students getting A's, so too, innovative companies find it increasingly difficult to get the visibility and recognition they... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

03 Sep 2009
What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

a penalty to the company for doing so. Shouldn't we expect some recognition on the part of the employee, perhaps expressed in terms of greater loyalty, about the company's role in doing this? Should an organization impose a quid pro quo... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

mountains were covered with a white blanket of snow. In the first rays of the morning sun they looked full of diamonds. And I thought, 'How beautiful.' "After three decades, the beauty of Latin America has not changed," Austin observed. "But everything... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

tool for attending to our robust, deeply-entrenched social issues is what we need to fulfill missions we so mindfully craft for our About pages. “I just cannot believe that there are companies out here who are developing facial View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Marked Managers

When I talk to people about this, there usually is an immediate recognition that certain organizational experiences — especially during early career — have shaped them. Understanding what, exactly, that career imprint is takes further... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

prominent citizens of Japan, Europe, and North America who served on the Trilateral Commission. Sitting in Cambridge last June before receiving a Harvard Medal in recognition of his efforts in behalf of the University in Asia, Makihara... View Details

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

implies that multiple identity organizations may not be perceived as such by lower-level organizational members, who instead are likely to recognize a single identity to the exclusion of others. Team Emotion Recognition Accuracy and Team... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?

use of AI in everything from facial recognition to predictive sentencing. She found it nonetheless. The online rental platform uses its pricing tool to increase host revenues by dynamically adjusting rental prices according to demand.... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

18 Oct 2024
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My Worst Job

mainly to be more explicit in communicating when you need something and also to recognize that some people have different work style, work hours, work needs. So, you know, by that simple recognition that do it tonight means really do it... View Details

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