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  • January 1995 (Revised June 1995)
  • Case

Managing Conflict in a Diverse Workplace

Consists of several vignettes and discussion points around issues of conflict in the workplace. Issues presented are differences of race, gender, nationality, culture, religion; access to power, training, advancement; tolerance of style of management, language,... View Details
Keywords: Conflict Management; Working Conditions; Diversity Characteristics
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  • 01 Dec 2020
  • What Do You Think?

How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?

the lower ranks. One of the causes may well be inequities in the ability of executives and frontline labor to negotiate compensation for their skills. In particular, the declining power of unions and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • February 2004 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor's Edge

By: Noam T. Wasserman
Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Conflict Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employees; Management Teams; Product Development; Technology Industry
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  • October 18, 2024
  • Article

Why Workplace Well-Being Programs Don’t Achieve Better Outcomes

By: Jazz Croft, Acacia Parks and Ashley Whillans
By 2026, global corporate spending on wellness programs is set to top $94.6 billion, yet anticipated improvements in well-being are not being realized, and, in fact, mental health needs are continuing to rise around the world. Drawing on a large body of recent... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Employees; Well-being
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  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

management practices. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of mandatory sustainability reporting laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business leaders increases. We also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2008
  • Article

Excess Comovement of Stock Returns: Evidence from Cross-sectional Variation in Nikkei 225 Weights

By: Robin Greenwood
In the presence of limits to arbitrage, cross-sectional variation in periodic investor demand should be related to the degree of comovement of returns. I exploit the unusual weighting system of the Nikkei 225 index in Japan to identify cross-sectional variation in... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Investment; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Weight; Performance Expectations; Behavior; Japan
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  • January 1991 (Revised January 1992)
  • Supplement

IBM-Fujitsu Settlement

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
Describes the decision by the arbitrators chosen to resolve the intellectual property dispute between IBM and Fujitsu. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Intellectual Property; Business or Company Management; Conflict Management
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  • March 2000
  • Article

The Structure of Licensing Contracts

By: B. Anand and T. Khanna
Keywords: Contracts
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  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

and growth. That triumph can be attributed to the Valley's distinctive geography, history, and culture. Why The Triumph Viewing the valley from the flight approach to San Francisco International, one is... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) Harvard Business School Note 209-133 In 2005, new legislation was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by the President... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2023
  • Technical Note

Two Ways of Pursuing a Calling

By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman
Work can be a means to a financial end, a stepping stone to higher-level jobs, or a meaningful end in itself: a calling. The technical note provides an overview of two different ways people can pursue a calling: with an internal focus or external focus. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Happiness; Identity; Well-being; Motivation and Incentives; Human Needs; Satisfaction; Mission and Purpose; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • 1989
  • Other Unpublished Work

Congressional Testimony on Dealing with Persistent Acquisition Problems - U.S. Senate, Committee on Armed Services

By: J. Ronald Fox
Keywords: Government and Politics; Contracts; Problems and Challenges; United States
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  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

Law Review 126, no. 4 (forthcoming).18-23: (February 2013) Abstract Roger Fisher's career and writings not only offer lessons about negotiation but also about how an academic, especially in a professional... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

Authors:Leigh Plunkett Tost, Francesca Gino, and Richard P. Larrick Abstract We examine the impact of subjective power on leadership behavior and demonstrate that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

Why I Spent This Summer Coding

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai, Cloudflare's Matthew Prince). That’s not to say that non-technical business leaders will be less successful, but there’s a compelling argument that coding is becoming the new business literacy.Technology is always the... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

hands-off with long-range planning. That exposes corporations and their shareholders to another—perhaps even greater—risk, say professors Lorsch, of Harvard Business School, and Clark, of Harvard View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

respondents concerned the misuse of such techniques. As Tom Henkel put it, "I'm sure the same companies that wasted time and money on poorly designed surveys and focus groups will engage in similarly... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • April 24, 2024
  • Editorial

Absolute Presidential Immunity Threatens National Security

By: Louis Caldera, George W. Casey Jr., Thad Allen, Deborah Lee James, Carlton Fulford, Craig McKinley, Sean O'Keefe and John Jumper
Keywords: Government Administration; Lawfulness; National Security
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  • 02 Nov 2020
  • Blog Post

WE RISE

engine of the country’s innovation sector is stuck in the past. Professional spaces such as hospitals, law offices, and boardrooms still have significant work to be done to achieve diversity in leadership,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • 19 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 19

("administrative" functions, e.g., finance / law / HR). We argue that this distinction is driven by differences in the information-processing activities associated with each function and apply this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne