Black Lives Matter - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

reality. For GE, leafy Fairfield was simply too hard a sell to make to increasingly urban millennials, who not only prefer to live in cities like Boston, San Francisco, and New York, but are willing to make employment decisions based on... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

campus is closed to most motor vehicles, a rule that encourages face-to-face encounters along the walking paths. Taxis, and often black limousines, patiently wait for their clients on the campus' margins. As the campus master plan... View Details

Keywords: Education

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

her own physician. Reflecting on his background, Shetty wrote on his Web site that he became a doctor because of the recurrent illnesses of his parents. As a child he lived in fear that he would lose his mother; his father, a diabetic,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

day face this dilemma: How do you deal with developments that are utterly and wholly…ambiguous? Living Up To Your Standards When you get right down to it, what choice do you have? You've made a commitment to openness and reaped... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

28 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

lived through the end of history more than once, however, and policymakers continue to relearn old lessons about the difficulties of regulation and the risks of liberalization. The idea that capital ought to flow unrestricted across the... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

by health insurance, such as laser eye surgery and infertility counseling. "For the exchange to work, there has to be a value proposition for both sides," Slavitt explained. "Providers today live in a world where people they have... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management? Neither Great Leadership Nor Brilliant Strategy Matters Without Operational Excellence By: Sadun, Raffaella, Nicholas Bloom, and John Van Reenen... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

behavior on an ongoing basis. Communication is a central part of that story. Negotiators can have good reasons for not saying everything they're thinking. Holding back information can be a simple matter of self-defense. If a seller... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

believes will be useful to them, and allow him to live with himself. They include advice to aspiring leaders and those who would help develop them to, among other things: Stop relying on examples that describe what should be rather than... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

the anatomical—basis of the disease." Genzyme, which currently has drugs in clinical trials for melanoma and breast cancer, hopes to have its first products on the market as early as 2004. "I think we're going to see more people in the next decade who are... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

the changing social and economic environments in which consumers live, and that their offerings enhanced people's lives in meaningful ways. A third important factor in understanding how these entrepreneurs created such successful... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

criterion is a very reasonable, perhaps the most reasonable, goal. But it is not the only one that matters to people. To prove this point, all we need do is examine one aspect of the tax policy we would use if we were fully convinced... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

controversies regarding "reverse racism" highlight Whites' increasing concern about anti-White bias. We show that this emerging belief reflects Whites' view of racism as a zero-sum game, such that decreases in perceived bias against View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

will eventually find themselves spending more and more energy fighting for a dwindling supply of resources—and the market will win anyway. Norton and Westinghouse, for example, two companies that lived by the sword—with managers who were... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. This new biography of two of America's most influential black leaders is a brilliant analysis of their two different leadership styles and is... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

social cues and other observable information to build connection with others are elusive or nonexistent. Here are elements of self-disclosure that matter to receivers: Depth: level of intimacy conveyed Breadth: amount of information... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

Krishna Palepu, sought answers and suggested some corrective measures. Highlights of the conversation follow. Krishna Palepu: Let's start with some background on these matters as they relate to your areas of interest and expertise. Then... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

14 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump

better health insurance with lower taxes, remember the essence of a brand is promise, large promise. Pin your brand to a dream, yes, but have a plan or today’s happy buyers will become tomorrow’s angry owners. Win at any price. Your offering View Details

Keywords: by John A. Deighton

01 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'

quantitatively, that it definitely matters which coach is matched up with which team" The question of whether matching matters takes on critical significance in the corporate world as well. Choosing... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

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