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- September 2023
- Article
Corporate Purpose in Public and Private Firms
By: Claudine Gartenberg and George Serafeim
Analyzing data from approximately 1.5 million employees across 1,108 established public and private US companies, we find that the strength of employee beliefs related to purpose is weaker in public companies. Among public companies, those beliefs are stronger for...
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Purpose;
Corporate Purpose;
Culture;
Corporate Culture;
Public And Private Organizations;
Hedge Fund;
Executive Pay;
Corporate Governance;
Corporate Strategy;
Organizational Culture;
Mission and Purpose;
Employees;
Attitudes;
Executive Compensation;
Ownership
Gartenberg, Claudine, and George Serafeim. "Corporate Purpose in Public and Private Firms." Management Science 69, no. 9 (September 2023): 5087–5111.
- January 1982
- Article
A Negativity Bias in Interpersonal Evaluation
By: T. M. Amabile and A. H. Glazebrook
Two studies were conducted to demonstrate a bias toward negativity in evaluations of persons or their work in particular social circumstances. In Study 1, subjects evaluated materials written by peers. Those working under conditions that placed them in low status...
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Social Psychology;
Status and Position;
Prejudice and Bias;
Performance Evaluation;
Situation or Environment;
Perception;
Attitudes
Amabile, T. M., and A. H. Glazebrook. "A Negativity Bias in Interpersonal Evaluation." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 18 (January 1982): 1–22.
- 29 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Emerging Into Singapore
humidity on any given day, having a "big hair, don't care" attitude is key to survival. I am looking forward to spending the next couple of weeks exploring this region further; from business and leisure trips with great company,...
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
new and adventurous attitude on the part of the business community." 67 In 1987, Doriot died at the age of 87. From an era of conservative investment and large corporations, the patient visionary and calculated risk taker paved the way...
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Commencement 2016 Address | About
of you are extraordinarily smart, you have now spent two years in classes where you have inevitably learned from someone else in the room—and this is an attitude you should continue to exhibit throughout your careers. Moral humility is...
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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
regard real estate as a new asset class. Cynthia Foster (HBS MBA '90), executive managing director of Cushman & Wakefield, the world's largest privately held real estate services firm, regards this relatively recent change in attitude...
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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business School finance professor Luis M....
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by Ann Cullen
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
College. In a talk titled "An Historical Perspective on Feminism," she discussed the intersection of the abolitionist and women's rights movements—and how attitudes of the nineteenth century mirrored those surrounding the 2008...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
future, we had to agree on very challenging goals and hold people to their commitments, making schedules, managing within budgets, and achieving sales and profit goals. Surprising as it may seem, this had not been done before. This meant changing View Details
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by Bill George
- Web
Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
trace society's changing attitudes toward money. New Directions: Building Baker Library's Collections Focuses on five new major collecting themes: contemporary leadership, global markets, intellectual capital, invention and innovation,...
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- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
who have already worked at consulting companies and I-banks arrive with the attitude of been there, done that, let's try something new." Creating Social Value For participants in the social venture track, the "something new" focuses on...
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- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
not take this attitude for granted. We should let it thrive with this generation’s outsiders, regardless of place of origin, ethnic background, religion, or gender. They can help bring a new set of perspectives and contributions that will...
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- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
The unparalleled size of Asia's markets has always caught the eye of multinational corporations. More recently, as government policies and cultural attitudes in the region continue to evolve, the strategies of multinational companies have...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
of company data and gender representations in the business press shows that the firm's approach to recruiting and retaining women more or less coincided with reported shifts in national attitudes toward women and work. "As an...
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- Student-Profile
Talia Gillis
a direct impact on shaping law and regulation. Advice for prospective HBS doctoral students I think the Business Economics program is best suited for students with an entrepreneurial attitude towards their studies and research; students...
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- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
he ran in 2009 in San Francisco, Houston, and New York, where he asked the audience about their attitudes on climate change, doing a “show-of-hands” survey. At that time, about half of the New York alumni who participated advocated for...
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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
organizations what they need to run effectively and course-correct when needed. It's that basic. One of our portfolio organizations, the Latin American Youth Center, had to course-correct when it found that a new domestic violence prevention program was actually...
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by Julia Hanna
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
“grown up,” lived, and worked with people of other backgrounds. These people are less likely to have the hidden biases that lead to a lack of diversity in hiring and employee recognition. How much emphasis should we place on that approach in our current recruiting?...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
discussing such things as the end of cheap oil, the exportation of jobs, work-life issues, the importance of attitude versus skills in work, marketing productivity, "judo management," the innovator's dilemma, the accountability...
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Re: James L. Heskett
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Ontological Foundations of Leadership and Performance: Being a Leader, and the Effective Exercise of Leadership, A New Model
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business. The intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to... View Details