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- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
life and gives consumers the product quality they expect. Observing this decision from a distance and out of context, a skeptic might question Gotham Greens’ commitment to its purpose, concluding it had chosen a commercial logic over a... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Publication: Il Sole 24 Ore S.p.A., in press Abstract A collection of papers on ethics, translated into Italian. Social Decision Making: Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
“blockbuster” green patents, meaning they have developed foundational technologies that other companies frequently cite and build on in subsequent innovations. Cohen says many large energy companies have tried to rebuild their images, View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
Mainstream churches, meanwhile, were not benefiting from the distanced relationship, and indeed were ceding ground to secular spirituality and its offshoots from New Age crystals to personal empowerment. How to bridge the Sunday-Monday... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
a chain. Our results are robust to alternative definitions of market-type dispersion and to other determinants of franchising such as the stores' geographic distance from headquarters and geographic dispersion. Additional analyses also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
that technology diffuses slower to locations that are farther away from adoption leaders. This effect is stronger across rich countries and also when measuring distance along the south-north dimension. A simple theory of human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
the end of the year. Venture funding in a socially distanced world Discouraged entrepreneurs shouldn’t put away their pitch decks yet. For one thing, funding commitments are still outpacing those of past... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
modified Walmart's human resource practices by offering better benefits and wages to associates in response to growing social pressure. Overall, our analysis suggests that the effectiveness of a particular business model depends not only... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
to a continually evolving global business landscape. Curriculum Innovations What is the unique competence of HBS, and how will you deal with the distance learning revolution that is happening? Alan B. Steiner (MBA 1965), Colorado Springs,... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
Will you ever again step onto a crowded elevator without hesitation? Reach for a doorknob without concern (or gloves)? Easing social distancing restrictions might reopen businesses, but as long as memories... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
firms are temporarily closed and 40 percent of the workforce, on average, has been laid off or furloughed since late January. Retail, entertainment, food services, hospitality, and personal services industries have been hit hardest as View Details
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
small firms, not-for-profits, and social enterprises have successfully leveraged deep metaphors to solve a wide variety of marketing problems. Marketing Metaphoria should convince you that everything consumers think and do is influenced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
compatibility can thus increase asymmetry between the platform owners’ profit foci and, given a sufficiently large difference in the standalone utilities, yields greater profits for both platform owners. We further show that social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
taught me how to serve citizens with firm friendliness and safely lead a group with very different skill levels in unfriendly or even hostile environments.” Important read: “I fell in love with telco and media as a consultant at McKinsey. When I read The Death of View Details
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
times and exploring coping techniques. “Many alumni are in positions of leadership where their decisions and actions have huge impacts,” he says. “Some are facing the potential loss of businesses in this new downturn, and balancing the needs of family as well.” Now... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
happy hours, and if possible, having a physically distancing picnic. Social connection doesn’t always mean a Zoom call; sometimes even a text message can be enough. Use ‘job crafting’ to let employees modify... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
faulty decision making. The only evident remedy is in-depth analysis by knowledgeable people after the fact, looking a good distance ahead. This is what we attempted to do with this book. We have also filmed a discussion with experts that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace