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  • 25 Jun 2001
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Machiavelli, Morals, and You

leadership that Badaracco gradually unfolds through literature in the course is: "Leadership is a struggle by flawed human beings to make some important human values real and effective in the world as it is." "And I say to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

Middle East: Measuring Sales Force Effectiveness Harvard Business School Case 106-063 Nutricia's Middle East and African region is transitioning from a trading to a customer focus. CEO Ernest Vandenbussche must decide how to market infant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Questions for Evaluating Company Culture and Community - Alumni

be effective in allowing members of an organization to engage in authentic and confidential discussion about their employment experience. Please tell me about your organization’s response to social justice... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

taking in the U.S. is inconclusive. The evidence for and social welfare implications of claimed effects such as fewer IPOs or loss of foreign listings are unclear. Financial reporting quality appears to have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • June 2001
  • Supplement

GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (B)

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
Early Dispute Resolution (EDR) has proved successful at GE. Yet, when Michael McIlwrath, new counsel at an Italian subsidiary, attempted to translate it to his company, problems arose. He had to gain internal acceptance, and explain the concept of early mediation to a... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Globalization; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Conflict of Interests; Complexity; Italy; New York (state, US)
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  • 13 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud

researchers documented company expenditures on political campaigns, current or former politicians serving on their boards, and contributions to political action committees. These measures were not found to have a significant effect on the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Service; Construction
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Hierarchy's Last Stand

do. The Internet and social media make position in a hierarchy less important than the ability to attract followers. Facebook pages or Twitter feeds are followed for their content, and anyone can claim a domain name in her own name. As... View Details
Keywords: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Corporate Services
  • 24 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

art is kept hidden on a broad scale, it has a ripple effect about which firms and IP experts should be concerned, Gross says. “Everybody in the system benefits from being able to access information about the cutting edge.” About the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 07 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

and pitches that rely on data and numbers can be more effective in some circumstances, notes the research, which Graeber conducted with Christopher Roth, a professor at the University of Cologne, and Florian Zimmermann, a professor at the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Alumni Books

Johnson. Understanding College and University Organization: Theories for Effective Policy and Practice. 2 vols. by James L. Bess (MBA ’60) and Jay R. Dee (Stylus Publishing) The authors aim to show how college and university... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

  Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

unethical actions through inaction—by allowing others to cheat without blowing the whistle. “If you are promoting the value of loyalty, it may be that you need to promote other values at the same time, like fairness and integrity,” he says. As View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

suggest that proactive punctuated change can be effectively managed through an engineered social process designed and led by the senior leadership team. Where reactive punctuated change is driven by crisis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

were essential, and radical corporate social responsibility concepts were pursued by some firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53419 forthcoming Capitalism Beyond Mutuality New Prospects for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

behavioral research from CEOs, policymakers, and high-stakes decision makers." —Francesca Gino "It's always been obvious to social scientists and business scholars that there are lots of things that you can't learn in the laboratory, but... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Portrait Project

Debbie Rosenbaum

Subsequently, my family stressed the importance of cultural awareness, social tolerance, and mastery of another language. But early on, I discovered that effective communication does not necessarily require... View Details
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

than predicted in equilibrium. Because talk is preference revealing, it may effectively frame bargaining around a logic of fairness or competition, moving parties on a path toward or away from equal-division agreements. These endogenous... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

everyday racism and gendered racism , she also pioneered in developing theory on social and cultural cloning . The now classical 1984 (in Dutch) Alledaags Racisme (English version, Everyday Racism , 1990 has been republished in 2018.... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

interactions reduce inefficiencies from information asymmetry. Second, banks price loans to cross-sell other fee business. These effects are additive. A one standard deviation increase in both bank relationship strength and cross-selling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne