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- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
allocation of resources was difficult. There was also the past legacy of vertical and horizontal integration, which left Unilever owning considerable parts of the value chain. Its trawlers caught the fish that was eventually sold in its restaurant chains. Thousands of... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
line. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=306064 The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative Harvard Business School Case 508-063 Grassroots Business Initiative was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/jubaphoto) How many times have we discussed the contributions of employee engagement and the loyalty it produces to an organization’s performance? Trust is, as it is for many things in society, the bedrock for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
nurturing an influential internal champion on the other side who would truly benefit from added quality and service. The supplier might induce such an advocate to persuade the agent on her behalf, directly or via links to senior... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
insights and practices as pandemic recovery plans are developed. Consider these five elements of organizational decision-making: information gathering; strategy; combining long-term thinking with short-term actions; clear communication View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
jail. Notably, that’s even when they are engaged in the kinds of fraudulent behavior we send people to jail for. They think the people that go to jail are the people that didn’t go to the great schools, that weren’t the Stanford dropouts.... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
prowess. This narrative stresses that Britannica’s management faced organizational diseconomies of scope between supporting lines of business in the old and new markets, which generated internal conflicts. These conflicts hindered the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
comments that reflected the views of others. She said, “ being in the office can be fun, but it is like taking a day off. You have to make up for the lost productivity later.” She described “all the people with earbuds to drown out the noise. This makes it really... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
no one knows which half. "On the Web, we can tell you which half isn't working," asserts Barry M. Salzman (MBA'89), president of the international division of New York-based DoubleClick, Inc. In just five years, DoubleClick has... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
must be more profound and open-ended, with an intent not only to discover how your customers engage with your products or services but also to understand some of the broader parameters of the constraints they are facing in their own... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
Finance can be intimidating, and many business executives don’t even try to get their arms around it. But Harvard Business School Professor Mihir Desai says business leaders need to engage with the world of finance in order to succeed.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
professor of organizational behavior at Brandeis University International Business School, have described their work in two papers: "The Emotional Tightrope of Downsizing: Hidden Challenges for Leaders and their Organizations,"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
engage in collective behaviors that diminish their ability to do so. Sarah Jane Gilbert:What led you to study the effects of performance pressure on work teams? Heidi Gardner: I experienced similar team dynamics when I worked in a... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- September 2019
- Technical Note
Care Economy in the U.S. (Primer)
By: Joseph B. Fuller, William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg
This case describes how caregiving responsibilities influence American employees, firms, and the broader economy. It details how sociodemographic trends in the late 20th century transformed the way that Americans balance their personal and professional lives, analyzing... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Demographics; Labor; Health Care and Treatment; Family and Family Relationships; Strategy; Management; United States
Fuller, Joseph B., William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman, and Carl Kreitzberg. "Care Economy in the U.S. (Primer)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 820-027, September 2019.
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
was a big piece of that. Because India did not follow a similar extreme path it didn't need to embrace FDI quite as much. So that's a reasonable reason to expect low FDI levels. On the negative side, however, India, with its indigenous entrepreneurs, still View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
focused on getting news out to media outlets, today's CCO has become an integral part of any enterprise-company, corporation, governmental, and nongovernmental entity. Today's CCO is responsible for internal and external communication;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
It's a sad, quantitative fact that bribery runs so rampant in the world that it has become a Darwinian business tool. A July 2013 report from Transparency International finds that more than one in four people paid a bribe in the past... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
remains a significant amount of empirical evidence that trade remains much stronger within countries than across borders (Mayer/Zignago, 2005), even when traditional tariff and non-tariff-barriers have been removed like in the EU's View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
incentives to recall the rules accurately (Experiment 3). Finally, moral forgetting appears to result from decreased access to moral rules after cheating (Experiment 4). Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of Hospitals' Internal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
excuses not to always say “yes,” but rather to say “no” sometimes. Zlatev: Researchers at Yale have coined phrases that I find helpful in making a distinction between giving and giving in. Giving is about your own internal motivations... View Details