Isle of Man - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” “There are no gains without pains.” “One today is worth two tomorrows.” Some phrases are so familiar they seem to have always existed. Referenced in every imaginable... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

25 Jan 2021
Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

17 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

constantly reiterating the organizational purpose and operationalizing it as tasks. Talk of vision and ideals may seem a luxury that a crisis does not allow for, but this is a tremendous mistake. “A man must... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

At the end of June 2022, a video was posted on TikTok with the theme, “I know Victoria’s secret.” The secret was that Victoria was “an old man who lives in Ohio making money off View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

18 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

When Katherine Coffman presents her research findings about how gender stereotypes shape the behavior of men and women in the workplace, she is often asked: What about non-binary individuals? “People understandably keep asking, ‘What... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

eyesight at age 8 to retinoblastoma, has done. When he ran for lieutenant governor of Washington in 2016, well-meaning friends expressed concern about whether the blind man could handle door-to-door... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

investment concern. It then was an early entrant into China's telecom and IT wave of the early 1990s, and became a market leader. Li is a man who seeks to establish a positive legacy. He created a foundation... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

Alison Wood Brooks and Michael Yeomans Humans spend much of their lives in conversation, where they tend to hold many simultaneous motives. We examine two fundamental desires: to be responsive to a partner and to disclose about oneself.... View Details

27 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership

In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

10 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back

series of experiments led by Harvard Business School Associate Professor Christine Exley show that people generally view women as more generous and equality-minded than men—but actually, men and women have similar behaviors and beliefs... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

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Asia Pacific - Global

Asia Pacific Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore HBS established the first of the School's international research centers in Hong Kong in 1999, the Asia-Pacific Research Center (APRC). In 2010, the Harvard Center Shanghai (HSC) opened, home to... View Details

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Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

In 1928, George Pennock, a superintendent at Western Electric, turned to Elton Mayo at Harvard Business School for guidance. “We’re going to have a man come out from one of the colleges and see what he can... View Details

07 Jul 2021
Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

take this seriously, it can be done." “Michelin wasn’t just being collaborative for the sake of being collaborative,” Sucher and Gupta write. “Its instincts were excellent.” Michelin is once again known for its restaurant ratings and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

25 Aug 2014
HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

sales rose only 5 percent, the smallest increase in five years. In January 2008, Schultz returned as Starbucks CEO, replacing Jim Donald, the man he and other senior colleagues had chosen to lead the company. Starbucks Sails Again The... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

01 Dec 2023
News

The Imposter Among Us

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

FatCamera In an interview with Harvard Business School Professor Teresa Amabile for a study on retirement, one man on the cusp of exiting his career spoke openly about how the transition was making him... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

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Employee Welfare – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

to the worker; from the machinery of industry, to the man who made, owns, or operates it. Robert Yerkes, Chairman of the Personnel Research Federation, National Research... View Details

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

And that is what it meant to be a man to me, was to get up every morning, go to work, take care of your family, take your family to church on Sunday and to make sure that your children understood the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

But it wasn't always so. Vexing problems we experience in business and society may be due in part to the neglect of leadership studies in the academy for many years. "If we had to characterize the path View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Skydeck - Alumni

1993) on navigating the new world of video meetings and the interpersonal communication principles that transcend medium “Walking a Tightrope” Author Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986) on working class America’s economic fragility and how the... View Details

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