Filter Results:
(8,610)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(8,610)
- People (27)
- News (2,212)
- Research (4,830)
- Events (45)
- Multimedia (177)
- Faculty Publications (2,986)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(8,610)
- People (27)
- News (2,212)
- Research (4,830)
- Events (45)
- Multimedia (177)
- Faculty Publications (2,986)
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
personal computing and the power of the Internet. CEO Jack Welch responded with his typical high-energy enthusiasm. After seeking out a young mentor in the organization to help him learn, he “suggested” that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
of powerful CEOs making up Trump’s Strategy and Policy Forum. Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein even created a Twitter account in order to issue his first tweet objecting to the President’s decision.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
in their early stages, to threaten governmental control and authority. While aspects of its power may indeed be diminished, government inevitably survives these apparent challenges, Spar observes, because... View Details
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
In recent conversations with US executives doing business in China, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Roy Y.J. Chua heard about a new trend. In an East Asian version of cutting deals on the golf course, Chinese executives often take partners to teahouses to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
specificity that drives down the degree of hierarchy in the electronics sector. Differences in transaction patterns in turn may result from the differences in the power level of underlying technologies, which affect product specificity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Brands Work
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Ford has finally woken up to what Toyota knew a long time ago: the View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
Fellow Marco Piovesan, whose research on how temptation influences work productivity included field experiments with children tempted by soda and candy at an Italian summer camp. "Understanding where these... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
than ever before to measure their emissions, and it is encouraging to see companies actually using these metric to make better decisions - from making sustainable procurement choices, to using renewable energy to View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
deeper understanding of what has happened, and a broader conception of what must be done. Such understanding is all the more crucial given the evolution of business in recent years. Business is a remarkably dynamic View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
deleveraging that made them sell European sovereign debt. But the ECB's most powerful weapon - intervening in the bond market - is still locked away. Draghi needs to create consensus among the German "hawks" who worry about the... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
more likely to attract revenue-generating alliances with downstream partners; however, (ii) the positive relationship between in-licenses and downstream alliances attenuates as firms mature, and (iii) the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- November 2007 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Differences at Work: Martin (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
Martin, a gay man who was not out at his Italian firm, witnesses his division manager deliver a homophobic comment to his boss. He wonders what he should do. View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Behavior; Managerial Roles; Ethics; Gender; Diversity; Power and Influence
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Martin (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-019, November 2007. (Revised July 2009.)
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
of the Contract: How Contract Structure Shapes Inter-Firm Dispute Resolution Authors:Fabrice Lumineau and Deepak Malhotra Publication:Strategic Management Journal (in press) Abstract This paper investigates how contract structure View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
How-To Book for General Managers
Effective implementation often comes down to how well executives design, direct, and influence their organization's critical processes. HBS professor David Garvin's new book, General Management: Processes... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea Hugill Abstract—Outsourcing firms increasingly rely on social auditors to provide strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
the number of the investment choices in the 401(k) plan and the quality of optimal portfolio achievable given those investment choices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-086.pdf When View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Mexico's long history with authoritarian government shaped its judicial, taxation, and property rights institutions. These institutions, the authors argue, cannot be reformed with the stroke of a pen. Moreover, they represent View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
credit card) gulled them into ever-ascending loans. They are perpetrators in that they rang up expenses (mortgages, gizmos, travel, and frivolities) with abandon-fueling the overall indebtedness. Already this paradigm is View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Human beings are critical to the functioning of the vast majority of operating systems, influencing both the way these systems work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models of operations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
the issue in a new research paper, "Bringing Ethics into Focus: How Regulatory Focus and Risk Preferences Influence (Un)ethical Behavior," in which they distinguish between two ways a company can... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel