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- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
- 20 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change
What determines whether a social movement will be a flash in the pan or a real catalyst for longterm change? Why did Occupy Wall Street subside in a matter of months, for instance, while the American Civil... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
Committee, and serves on the Mayo Clinic and American Red Cross boards. Davis leads with unimpeachable integrity. When arch-rival Wells Fargo encountered its problems with three million unauthorized customer accounts, he told his leaders... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
Excerpt From beauty Imagined: A History Of The Global Beauty Business By Geoffrey Jones Beauty amid War and Depression: The American color cosmetics market also expanded during these years. Still barely... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
military enrollment at the onset of World War II. He found that Black people were 90 percent more likely to sign up for military service—potentially putting their lives on the line—in communities with less overt discrimination. “For... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.
lower them offers a strategic advantage. Cavallo coauthored the paper, forthcoming in American Economic Review: Insights, with Francesco Lippi, professor of economics at Luiss Guido Carli in Rome and a research fellow at the Einaudi... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
PublicationsEngineers and the State in Modern China Author:William C. Kirby Publication:In Prospects for the Professions in China, edited by William P. Alford, William C. Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, 283-314. Routledge Studies in Civil... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
indeed, Scott became a martyr, a great hero for English history. This meant that Shackleton was perceived to be out of the loop when he started to raise money. And as the winds of what would become World War I started whipping across... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms Authors:Marco Archetti, Francisco Ubeda, Drew Fudenberg, Jerry R. Green, Naomi E. Pierce, and Douglas W. Yu Publication:The American Naturalist 177, no. 1 (January 2011) Abstract One of the main... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Abstract—This working paper examines the growth of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. German business has been regarded as pioneering corporate environmentalism after World War... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth By: Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan Abstract—At the time of the American Revolution, China was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
Democrats (e.g., tax breaks, minimum wage, fuel efficiency) and Republicans (e.g., death tax, border security, war on terror), rating each according to political slant. Zhu and Greenstein then identified some 4,000 articles that appeared... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Strollers.com, and Luggage.com. Co-founders Niraj Shah and Steve Conine were considering making a major investment to build brand equity at the corporate level. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/812044-PDF-ENG Col. Joshua Chamberlain: Background to a Challenging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
loss of soldiers during the American Civil War. It got him to wondering whether rituals were merely a traditional part of the grieving process, or whether they truly alleviated grief. "We see in every... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
making an increasing number of people feel “time poor”—stressed from having too many things to do and not enough time to do them. In 2011, 70 percent of working Americans reported that they “never had enough time,” and by 2018, that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Peter Tufano Abstract We use a unique, nationally representative cross-national dataset to document the reduction in individuals' usage of routine non-emergency medical care in the midst of the economic crisis. A substantially larger fraction of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
than how businesses use it That same monitoring capability (used to fight terrorism) could be turned against American citizens if the regime ever lessened or abandoned its commitment to personal civil... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
success in putting a man on the moon. “Slavery was mentioned, as was the Civil War, but mostly as an unfortunate chapter in American history,” Chandra says. When he later came to the US, however, he saw the... View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
present day. It covers early entrepreneurial attempts to develop solar energy, the use of passive solar in architecture before World War II, and the subsequent growth of the modern photovoltaic industry. It explores the role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
diplomat Lakdhar Brahimi. Prior to his recent efforts negotiating interim governments in Afghanistan and Iraq, he took the lead in ending the bloody, seventeen-year civil war in Lebanon. Should the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace