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- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
leaders often fail to notice when their decisions indirectly hurt people—and how people often fail to hold organizations accountable for indirectly causing harm. book excerpt Failing To Notice Indirect Actions From The Power of Noticing:... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years."—Robin Ely But even with increasing representation, women still fill less than 15 percent of executive officer positions at Fortune 500 companies and make up just 3.6... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
major investment bank to investigate factors associated with analysts' annual compensation. We find compensation to be positively related to "All-Star" recognition, investment-banking contributions, the size of analysts'... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
more similar with time. So, while industries within a country might move separately, all that variability comes out in the wash when you average across a broad array of industries on a countrywide scale. “You don’t see the stock price of an energy View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
company ravaged by a massive fire. "They were very upset," says Sucher, the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice and Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow at HBS. "What upset them was how cavalier they thought... View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
"shameful," especially for companies in need of federal bailouts. Such pay, he said, is "exactly the kind of disregard for the costs and consequences of their actions that brought about this crisis—a culture of narrow... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
banker who has spent months and months and months analyzing a particular deal between two companies can spend only a few minutes making a hiring decision for his team, when the firm is sometimes paying millions of dollars in guaranteed... View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
small-business owners can take now Mills offers three recommendations to cash-strapped business owners: Focus on social media and email to reach customers. The coronavirus pandemic forced many analog companies to embrace digital... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
can induce ethical behavior in their employees. For example, another series of experiments showed that moving the signature line from the end to the beginning of a self-reported form leads to an increase in truthfulness in the answers. A field experiment at an auto... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Michael Dell refocused his newly private company on services and solutions, the entire corporation was pushed to embrace social media. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/building-a-social-media-culture-at-dell/an/514096-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
people," said Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA '90). In 1993, using her own capital, Fisher founded ViaCord, a business that allows customers to bank cord blood stem cells for possible future use in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
to 34 year old males. Hirai was determined to restore that supremacy, in the current generation or the next. He knew that, whether or not he publicly defined SCEI's strategy as a response to Wii, he had to find a way for his company to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
influence the companies being rated. We focus on corporate environmental ratings, the primary purpose of which is to help investors select "socially responsible" and avoid "socially irresponsible" companies. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
methods to what has been a field dominated by the quantitatively obsessed. While Underhill's work focuses on what shoppers do, Zaltman's deals with why they do what they do. Both approaches hold myriad insights for manufacturers,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
superior," noting that this may be the case only when there is a "threat of widespread panic" or "when a crisis breaks down an entire system (like the banking system)." Elaine Scheye would limit intervention only... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
hold fully rational beliefs. We find that the model captures many features of actual prices and returns; importantly, however, it is also consistent with the survey evidence on investor expectations. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
he says, will become longer, fatter, and more profitable. Elberse set out to investigate whether Anderson's long-tail theory is actually playing out in today's markets. She focused on the music and home-video industries—two markets that Anderson and others frequently... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
operatives getting out in the communities and face-to-face contacts. Phone banks were de-emphasized. "It was a historic moment for the 2008 and 2012 elections in the way ground troops were utilized," Chung says. Mass Advertising Turning... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
going to be easy, but it's critical to privatization. As we increase our regulation of banks and require them to hold more capital, we'll be driving more activity into the less-regulated securitization... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
in 2006. The case invites students to consider how domestic and multinational companies should respond to the Chinese government's invitation to comment on the proposal. The case also describes the impetus for the new legislation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne