Global Understanding - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

scandal offers important lessons for all companies, the first being: It’s not OK to look the other way when a leader crosses ethical lines. In the wake of #MeToo, a global campaign against sexual abuse and harassment that started in 2017,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

19 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

"Why is it so costly to produce? It shouldn't be. Where's the inefficiency in our production by reinsurance companies? Why can't they produce enough of this coverage at a lower price? A lot of the research goes into trying to View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

decades, we find that the firm internalized the broader social discourse through iterated cycles of analysis and action, punctuated by evolving beliefs about gender and work. Outside experts and shifting social understandings played... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

Business schools are responding with increased attention to these markets in their research and curricula. However, in order to understand and leverage these opportunities for teaching and learning, it is apparent that students and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the... View Details

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

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

public, very global moment began quite simply and humbly, in Depression-era Nebraska. BW: I was born in this little town of Geneva where my family had a paint mill, they had a business there. It went bankrupt during the Depression. I was... View Details

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

thinkers, business thinkers. They understand an area of the economy and apply technology to it. These are not people who are deeply, deeply technical. I agree with Scott that when you get into the heavy-duty tools part of the business,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

Web

Art Nature Business

the case, "The Ice King," Professor Tom Nicholas illustrates how Tudor pioneered anew industry, creating a global market for a natural resource once considered worthless, and became a key figure in the history of American... View Details

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

paper we draw on the recent literature to highlight areas in which history has played a particularly prominent role in improving our understanding of growth dynamics. Research at the intersection of historical data, theory, and empirics... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

women—whose careers could provide some insight into these questions. “I wanted to understand what it is that they did to crack the code,” Kraus says of her research. Through interviews, Kraus and her research team found some common... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

of fresh orange juice. For the last 18 years, Arhodidis worked for Eurobank, one of the country’s four systemic banks. When he left last July, he was a member of the executive board and a general manager in charge of global markets,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

I believe it is good to have experienced global fluctuations when you are running a business, because it makes you a smarter, more thoughtful executive. Sahlman: In general, I find that competent people can overcome cycles, even dramatic... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

value for patients, where value is the health outcomes achieved relative to the money spent. While his initial work focused on reorganizing care and measuring outcomes, he began to understand that appropriate cost information was missing.... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 22

and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice. Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, and their colleagues aim to stimulate debate based on analysis of the opportunities and challenges presented by the various components of global... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

reminder that Atlanta is no stranger to entrepreneurial, global enterprise. And that is what the Games have become - a huge commercial and organizational endeavor that is as much about management as it is about medals. Indeed, a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 2000
News

Getting the Message

years and currently serves as faculty chair for the Managing Brand Meaning program in the Executive Education curriculum. He believes the future of Internet advertising depends on improvements in technology. "We won't really understand... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

in data. ML methods also address several issues raised by scholars pertinent to the norms of empirical research in the fields of strategy and management (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects with global effects). We provide a... View Details