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  • 24 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

countries or even held foreign assets, they found that the more globalized a firm is, the less the type of language influenced its CSR scores. "The idea is the more exposed you are internationally, the more you encounter different... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • April 14, 2017
  • Article

Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It

By: John A. Deighton
United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs and empower its employees to put customers first in the wake of a video showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. Of all the U.S. air carriers, United should have known the power of social media and... View Details
Keywords: Crisis Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Training; Air Transportation Industry
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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

Covenants not to Compete Day 16: Coming Together – Forming a Business Day 17: Choice of Organization Day 18: Financing a Start-up Company Day 19: Employers and Employees Day 20: Employment – Compensation Day 21: Break All The Rules?... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

CEOs can meet their challenges once that top position is achieved. The book covers the importance of family, effective time management, discipline in all its meanings, and the relationships between the CEO, the board of directors,... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 30 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

M. Viceira, the George E. Bates Professor and senior associate dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. “That raises the question, who is exercising control in these corporations?” In traditional mutual funds, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • April 2006
  • Case

Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair

By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Ayesha Kanji
Adrian Ivinson is the director of Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair (HCNR), a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Power and Influence; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Alignment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 2003
  • Book

When You Say Yes But Mean No: How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies

By: Leslie Perlow
“Saying yes when you really mean no” is a problem that haunts organizations from start-ups to multi-nationals. It exists across industries, levels, and functions. And it’s exacerbated by a down economy, when the fear of losing one’s job is on everybody’s mind and the... View Details
Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Relationships; Business Ventures
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  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy

improve teaching across the faculty. The center is named after C. Roland (“Chris”) Christensen (MBA 3/’43, DCS ’53), a much-loved HBS faculty member who had a powerful impact on HBS students and faculty as... View Details
Keywords: C. Roland Christensen; Chris Christensen; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 10 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

and qualitative analysis skills to analyze Hack's current situation, and leveraging critical thinking skills to put forth recommendations. HOW HAS THE SUMMER INFLUENCED YOUR... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

value. One participant in China described how "twenty-somethings" joined C-suite meetings to share their perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of various digital projects under consideration. 4. Manage the View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 27 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

Microsoft, Intel, and Apple in the new book, Strategy Rules. Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do (32,083) While women and men believe they are equally able to attain... View Details
  • Web

Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Gandhi Evaluate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, and learn how to incorporate them into investment decisions and measure and... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

and split their time between two countries, slowly mastering a new language and making friends with the locals over long meals. Van Sickle makes wry observations on France, like the View Details
  • 2019
  • Article

Can Big Data Improve Firm Decision Quality? The Role of Data Quality and Data Diagnosticity

By: Maryam Ghasemaghaei and Goran Calic
Anecdotal evidence suggests that, despite the large variety of data, the huge volume of generated data, and the fast velocity of obtaining data (i.e., big data), quality of big data is far from perfect. Therefore, many firms defer collecting and integrating big data as... View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Analytics and Data Science; Decisions; Quality
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  • 19 Aug 2021
  • News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

my life had to be dedicated to emulating those people and giving back. I mentioned to you that my daughter Akilah, she attended Harvard Business School and my youngest daughter, Ariel, who also attended... View Details
  • October 2021
  • Article

Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

By: Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher and Michael Wahlen
We study a novel, low-cost approach to aggregating judgment from a large number of industry experts on ideas that they encounter in their normal course of business. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs... View Details
Keywords: Judgment Aggregation; Quality Uncertainty; Creative Industry; Project Evaluation And Selection; Creativity; Film Entertainment; Judgments; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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MOC Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

area of competitiveness. The mission of the network is to provide an institutional setting that teaches the MOC theoretical framework, generates knowledge through collaborative research, and influences... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
  • Web

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

brand to new heights. Since its founding in 2014, Glossier had disrupted the beauty industry, created a powerful community-driven brand, and was looking to build the business that would unlock its growth... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto

alliance, a restructuring, or entry into a new market or product category) arise relatively infrequently. Q: Is there a place for the advocacy (or "contest") approach in real time and in some situations? A: There's nothing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace