Human Rights First - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

authors hail from various world regions and are themselves leading global historians. Collectively, they provide an unprecedented survey of what today is the most dynamic field in the discipline of history. As one of the first books to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

everywhere, as having an outsized influence. Frankly, I think there is more gray than black and white. “The first thing that struck me is the very many respects that business in emerging markets is just business” For a very large group... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

company in Boston, I was recruited by another speech recognition firm in Silicon Valley. At first I thought I wouldn't be able to take the job given the noncompete agreement I had signed in Boston, but I was nonetheless able to make the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads

the viewers’ attention and held it, with the right mix of attention to both the products and the company behind them. Quick quiz: Which advertiser had the most commercials? Answer: NBC. The host network used the Super Bowl platform to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Telecommunications

21 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

separate customer pools. One is the pool that is coming in on the card. The other is the pool you don't know much about that is not coming in off the card. Without [data from] the card, you may not treat these customers as well as you would treat them otherwise. A... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

unpromising situation stepped Alexander Hamilton, an orphaned, illegitimate (and brilliant) native of the West Indies who grew up in St. Croix and in 1789 became the first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton, along with Swiss-born Albert... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

21 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

demand, such as her prominent role in the recent BBC miniseries “Capital.” But Azmi’s accomplishments have gone way beyond the cinematic, using her leverage as a celebrity and a seat in the Parliament of India to help further the rights... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Oct 2016
First Look

October 18, 2016

effects from the GQ upgrades in either setting. These findings suggest that in the time frames that we can consider—the first five to seven years during and after upgrades—the economic effects of major highway projects contribute modestly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

Strumpf call "samplers"—an older crowd who downloads a song or two and then, if they like what they hear, go out and buy the music. Interestingly, the first half of this year saw the release of numbers seemingly supporting this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

01 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology

not coincidentally, after the global financial crisis. Uber needed drivers right away to create supply, and they were there because they were unemployed. The same thing with Airbnb—people needed to make money, and they were willing to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Travel; Tourism

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Berglund, from whom I might have expected as much as one of my former students, asked whether I was asking the right question. He proposed what was for him the real question: "Does it make sense to shift (to a supplier) the risk a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

in Herzlinger's health-care course. Herzlinger: Consumers should have more power over health care decisions. Participants began the first morning of the conference by discussing the current status of consumer empowerment, followed by a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

one generation. So right off the bat you need scale and permanence. Both private and public philanthropy, when they work well, play a key role in fostering the birth of new concepts and ideas. But neither philanthropy nor development... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

collaboration is no longer a "nice to have." It is a competitive necessity. Q: What are the advantages to companies that do it well? A: A big one is lower cost. In fact, that's often the primary reason that firms look to collaborate in the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jul 2024
Book

Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

share the stories of others doing the same thing so that you can see different ways to apply each C to your own situation. Each of the 5 Cs plays some role in every leadership journey—even in my season as QB of my peewee football team. Capability The View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

you'll stop when you hear profanity, even bleeped-out profanity—or when you see almost-naked people running around an office," he says. "These are just a few among many ways to garner attention quickly in the first few seconds of an ad."... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

easy for some, possibly because of my use of the term “equality” vs. parity or some other concept. Words are important. For example, Hugh Quick asked, “Why does anyone want gender equality?” JW2 commented that the column “Begs the question if equality is the View Details