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  • April 2024
  • Article

America’s Crisis of Civic Virtue

By: Arthur C. Brooks
The world is witnessing a loss of faith in both capitalism and democracy, which seemed nearly unimaginable just a generation ago. Many blame “the other party.” Others blame capitalism’s flaws, as market systems increase inequality, which is inherently undemocratic —... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Political Culture; Civil Society or Community; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; Values and Beliefs
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  • September 4, 2018
  • Article

Management as a Calling

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Business’s capacity to transform society is only as great as the schools that train its future leaders. This demands that business schools reform their vision to promote values of business serving society in order for students to see business as a true calling rather... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Personal Development and Career; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose
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  • 05 Dec 2013
  • News

Find Your Inner Mandela

Keywords: Nelson Mandela
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

A lifetime investment in the entrepreneurial spirit

Microsystems. As head of the San Francisco–based William K. Bowes Jr. Foundation, he supported nonprofits committed to medical research, the arts, and higher education. Bowes led USVP with the belief that venture capitalists should guide... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

been an emphasis that you're part of an ongoing process: It's not about the "I," it's about the "We." The second aspect is creating the belief within students that they can become entrepreneurs. It's important in an... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 04 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

effects and consumers' discount factor of future applications. In addition, contrary to the popular belief that indirect network effects protect incumbents and are the source of market inefficiency, we find that under certain conditions,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

impose their belief that a junior staff’s natural, curly hair makes her look more like she’s about to go to the club, while her straightened hair is more professional and sleek. The murdering type of racism is not far off from the kind of... View Details
  • Profile

Florence Evina-Ze

Florence, “said that as outsiders, we were able to see details insiders overlook.” Different regions, different styles, different leaders Florence’s experience in Chongqing challenged many of her expectations. “My grandfather and his sisters were born in China, and I... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Removing Barriers

professionally and personally as I did.” With a strong belief that “funding shouldn’t be a factor” in the decision to attend HBS, Anita points out that it can be prohibitively expensive, especially for international students. “I want to... View Details
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

How can managers encourage and create such a setting? A: Our own and others' research have shown that two beliefs are essential preconditions for the free expression of upward voice: first, the belief that... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 30 Sep 2019
  • Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

speak out about experiences of bias (Hewlett, Marshall, & Bourgeois, 2017). Silence about race in the workplace compromises relationships (Phillips, Dumas, & Rothbard, 2018) and work engagement (Hewlett et al., 2017). It also feeds into a View Details
  • October 2010 (Revised August 2016)
  • Case

On Weldon's Watch: Recalls at Johnson & Johnson from 2009 to 2010

By: Clayton S. Rose, Sandra J. Sucher, Rachel Gordon and Matthew Preble
In October of 2010, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) was unable to extricate itself from a year long recall crisis that had subjected the firm to criticism from Congress and regulators, resulted in the resignation of one of the firm's most senior officers, and cost hundreds of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Crisis Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Quality; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • December 1998
  • Case

John Hancock Sports Sponsorship: 1993-2000 and Beyond

By: Stephen A. Greyser and John Teopaco
Examines sports sponsorship at John Hancock through 1998 and prospectively beyond. From its early sponsorship of the legendary Boston Marathon, the company had expanded its activities substantially. It was one of the worldwide "Top Sponsor" companies of the Olympics, a... View Details
Keywords: Opportunities; Values and Beliefs; Marketing Strategy; Sports
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  • 19 Jun 2020
  • News

Leaders, Stop Denying the Gender Inequity in Your Organization

Keywords: gender bias
  • Portrait Project

David Malinas

Maybe I'm an eternal optimist or maybe I'm just naive, but I believe one person can make a difference in this life. With the support of friends, family, and a belief in something greater than life itself, dreams are achievable...this is... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Aahan Bhojani

regard for the social consequences and the crowd’s chuckles left me with a belief that resonates in every aspect of my life. Personal growth is a byproduct of discomfort, eccentricity, and jumping off the deep end. View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India

Through the Bharti Foundation, which was launched in 2000, Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999), founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, advances his belief that quality education is the most important tool for social and economic... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Simi Nwogugu (MBA 2004)

reaching more than 120,000 students annually and are undertaking an expansion of economic empowerment programs into northeastern Nigeria, which has been ravaged by Boko Haram. The belief in the north is that girls shouldn’t go to school... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders

event hosted by the SEI and several student clubs, Whitehead spoke with HBS students at a session titled “John Whitehead: A Life in Leadership,” moderated by HBS professor of management practice Bill George. George asked Whitehead about his View Details
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

Even so, the executives brought the issue to Harvard Business School Professor Robin J. Ely. Eighteen months and more than 100 employee interviews later, Ely’s research team reached a conclusion that challenged steadfast beliefs about the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service