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  • 25 Aug 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

principal burdens of leadership. Every leader needs to interrogate his or her values to make this choice. How offended were you by the president’s statements? If they didn’t bother you at all, then your... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
  • 11 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

Very little scholarship has been done around the subject of marketing and democracy. In fact, many believe that politics needs less marketing. Harvard Business School professor John A. Quelch and research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Nov 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

respond, and the value of the topic in the business world. Sarah Jane Gilbert: What led to your interest to develop and teach The Moral Leader course? Sandra Sucher: My interest in the topic View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

opportunity to see both sides of the issue. When Hrad enters into a contract to create a new accounts payable system for Welsh toy distributor Tegan, the outsourcing firm from the Czech Republic views the project as another step in its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

more "collaborative." Too often, however, companies fail to distinguish among the various choices they face with respect to alternative modes of collaboration. Collaborative innovation can take a wide variety View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

are welcomed. With seed money from its founders and multiyear pledges from companies and individuals, by June 2021, the fund had raised almost $30 million toward its $100 million goal. The first round of... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

continue to raise huge new sums of money to invest, targeting some of the world’s largest and most prestigious companies. “ Greenmailers of a... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

accruing earnings for a charity instead of themselves, more targeting behavior and a more sluggish response to incentives should result. Results from an additional experiment add support to this explanation. When individuals select into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

any, difference will the “New Silk Road” make in the global educational landscape? Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55549 Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 13 Platform Systems vs. Step Processes—The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Mar 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

both results. What’s missing in this debate is a deeper understanding of how value is created, and how it benefits all stakeholders in society—especially shareholders. “Does this make Larry Fink a socialist?... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Banking
  • 15 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday

show that Prime members spend almost double the money of other customers," Gupta said. "And the conversion from search to purchase for those customers is something like four to five times higher.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail
  • 02 Aug 2004
  • What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

that Section 404 may actually have far less value than its cost. In Stephen Thomas's opinion, "... the new, exaggerated internal controls can make a company ... more risk-averse... And in aggregate it creates new risk to the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

dealing with the status quo that mashes down every kind of innovation. Q: Well, that's the next subject I want to get to, which is innovation and entrepreneurship, which you say are sadly lacking in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

adaptation of the strategy map—perhaps done annually—and provides a central resource for implementing all five management processes to become a strategy-focused organization (the subject View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification that closely held private firms are subject to fewer short-termist... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

companies' market prices. More seriously, however, the claim simply ignores the fact that a lack of cash need not be a barrier to compensating executives. Rather than issuing options directly to employees, companies can always issue them... View Details
Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton
  • 06 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

Takeaways from the Peek Women's Colleges Cohort

debated about the relative values of different managerial approaches, my peers and I began to realize how nuanced and subjective decision-making could be in the business world.... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

and French size and value portfolios, the market portfolio, bond portfolios, and the entire cross-section of stocks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-060.pdf Testing a Purportedly More... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West

that a Buddhist Rinpoche and a leadership professor have joined forces to explore this subject and see how Eastern teaching can inform our Western thinking about leadership and vice versa," George says. You can read George's summary... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

Lal, Rajiv, and Ishan Sachdev Abstract—Mobile money services are being deployed rapidly across emerging markets as a key tool to further the goal of financial inclusion. Financial inclusion, the development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne