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- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
Good ethical practices don’t just happen; everyone within a corporation has to continuously work on them. “People are not always comfortable talking about ethics,” Nelson says. “Some have been dismissing ethics as, ‘I don’t have to think... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 09 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
now for whom music has always been a free commodity. The more that we talk to college students and teenagers about why they buy vinyl, the common thread is that having vinyl in your dorm room or your house says something about you and who you are. I View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
relative performance incentives in addition to piece rates to encourage competition in the workplace. We find that social identity has a significant impact on competition: a weaver only competes against coworkers with a different social... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
all business units to explore the budget implications of several strategic alternatives. The following discussion will help stimulate your thinking about how your own company's budgeting process can be transformed from an exasperating... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
New Business magazine, and talked about the legal issues commonly faced by entrepreneurs, as well as her thoughts on how to successfully deal with them. In Bagley's view, there is a tendency on the part of many entrepreneurs to think that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
“I need to tell you something, okay?” “Okay.” “I just wanted to tell you that ...I’m gay.” I don’t really remember the rest of the conversation, but I will always remember the comfort I felt as she held my hand while I talked to my mom. I didn’t View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
received from abroad exceeded 160% of net investments, implying that foreign investment over these periods was dynamically efficient. Read the article: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1875750 How Great Companies Think... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
culture, setting off a K-Drama (Korean television drama) and K-Pop (Korean pop music) craze, with music exports, for example, expanding ninefold to $277 million in 2013. Think virally and socially. When New York City sought to bring back... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
businesses reinveted the image of wine. An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in TanzaniaWhy, despite being so richly endowed in touristic resources, does Tanzania receive relatively few tourists and little revenue from tourism? Image: iPhoto... View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
pessimistic viewpoint, saying there is no antidote to Surveillance Capitalism. “If your competitors use Surveillance Capitalism, you are forced into using it as well,” he wrote, continuing that there is no going back. “If you think you... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
productivity. Moss also includes numerous tools for interpreting big-picture economic developments. We asked Moss to talk about the book and some of the events now taking place on the macroeconomic horizon. Sean Silverthorne: What's the definition of macroeconomics?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
their work, so they’re searching for something to replace that work identity.” Over four years, the researchers conducted interviews and surveys of 120 professionals at three quite different companies located in different parts of the United States. To get a... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
what occurs inside of organizations as they develop novel and useful solutions to problems, and we offer a framework for how effective leaders of innovation think and act. Leadership for innovation is more about leading "from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
particular individual or branch of the family. Figure 1: Governance structures of the family business system Most experts agree that a family company board should be a relatively small group of about five to eight members. It should... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
significant complementarity between the two. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/InformationSubsidies.pdf 2013 pub Thought Calibration: How Thinking Just the Right Amount Increases One's Influence and Appeal By: Kupor,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
privilege of growing up without feeling othered, had a home where they felt like they could express their true selves. It was this prerogative that made me want to be Co-President of the Asian Affinity Business Association (AABA) at HBS and build such a community here.... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
raised in the case are how to raise the necessary capital and structure the deal and whether or not to buy the company. This case inspired me to think about small business and manufacturing in a more positive way. It confirmed that I no... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
of the things they think you need to know about the HBS/HKS joint degree. It's a three year, integrated program Taniel: Coming to HBS/HKS was an easy choice when I learned that my experience would not be bifurcated. Instead, it truly is... View Details
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
into action. That is why we have placed strategy analysis and formulation as Stage 1 of our management system, with planning and translating the strategy as Stage 2. We take the same position with the various operational improvement methodologies. We don't want to be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace