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  • 14 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

personal rapid transport, or PRT for short, has been percolating since the mid-1950s and is finally gaining ground, according to HBS professor Benjamin G. Edelman. Business and communities small and large are increasingly aware of PRT as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
  • 17 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

outlays. We characterize the determinants of social and fiscal risk and argue that these two risk management motives often conflict. Using the model, we explore how the attractiveness of different financial stability programs varies with the government's fiscal burden... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

opposing views,” Minson said. She defined this characteristic as “the willingness to access, consider, and evaluate supporting and opposing views in a relatively impartial manner.” That means, she said, listening as intently to ideas from... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette
  • 19 Oct 2022
  • Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

collaboration with others. It can be great to have someone to brainstorm with, share the workload, and to commiserate with during your journey, but having cofounders—like a committed personal partnership—is also a big test of your ability... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 2022
  • Book

Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop

By: Max H. Bazerman
It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethical or criminal behavior. In each case there was a supporting cast of... View Details
Keywords: Complicity; Enabling; Ethics; Behavior; Personal Characteristics; Society
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  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

institutional pressures. In this chapter, we present current research arguing that such firms adopt heterogeneous sets of environmental management practices despite facing common institutional pressures because organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2012
  • Article

Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures

By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano
Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Customers; Social Issues; Outcome or Result; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Competition; Banks and Banking; Policy; Personal Characteristics; Credit; Employment; United States
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  • 03 Dec 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Creating Leaders: An Ontological Model

Keywords: by Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen & Kari L. Granger
  • August 15, 2014
  • Article

Can an Outside CEO Run a Family-Owned Business?

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
This article explores the intricate dynamics that often characterize family-owned businesses, shedding light on key archetypes that play prominent roles within these organizations. Using a narrative approach, the article illustrates the challenges faced by leaders... View Details
Keywords: Family Ownership; Personal Characteristics; Family and Family Relationships; Management Practices and Processes
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  • 30 Apr 2018
  • Book

How to Be a Rebel Leader

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

Easterbrook, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. Rife with bravado, New York Congressman Santos campaigned on being the “full embodiment of the American dream.” The only problem was that many of his personal claims—including tentpoles punctuating... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

this the investor has seen before. Statistical models of risk and reward, supposedly prudent investment management coupled in bizarre and undisclosed fashion with the most extremely risky investments, were characteristic of the Internet... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 01 May 2013
  • News

Raphael Geismar, MBA 2006

ask how I was doing. There was nothing wrong—I just hadn’t come to see him yet in his office. That was characteristic of HBS—it’s all about personal interactions.” A relatively recent HBS graduate, Geismar... View Details
  • 2002
  • Book

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

By: Rakesh Khurana
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Selection and Staffing; Personal Characteristics; Experience and Expertise; Investment Activism; Corporate Strategy
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  • 05 Mar 2009
  • What Do You Think?

How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

Summing Up How should context affect leaders' candor and transparency? Candor, transparency, and optimism generally trump dishonesty, deception, and pessimism as characteristics of good leaders. But is this true at all times? Conclusions... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 17 Jun 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

express to you how exceptional the experience has been," says Frei. "I have never received papers like this, ever." According to the course description, "CCE explores how to identify and overcome the barriers to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 26 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Behavioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Francesca Gino
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. We estimate sharp measures that... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 2008
  • Book

Managing Your Boss

By: John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter
Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. In this handy guidebook, the authors contend that you manage your boss for a very good reason: to do your best on the job—and thereby benefit not... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Decision Making; Information Management; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Tactics; Performance Productivity; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Personal Characteristics
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  • 24 Jan 2011
  • HBS Case

Terror at the Taj

what it would be like to have people confront the trauma again. We objectify it, keep emotion at a distance, but after 15 minutes of questions with a video camera in a darkened room, there are deeper, more personal reflections of what... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accommodations