Black Lives Matter - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jan 2012
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PublicationsHow Leaders Kill Meaning at Work Authors:Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer Publication:The McKinsey Quarterly, no. 1 (January 2012) Abstract Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

were more convinced by persuasive appeals delivered by a Black interaction partner than by a White interaction partner. When interacting with a Black partner, Whites engaged in greater self-presentation,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

13 May 2002
Book

Bringing the Master Passions to Work

"the world" most of the time. And passions that come to rule our lives and shape our construal of reality—such as ambition and envy—are born of our inability to achieve the world, a fact that makes some turn either bitterly... View Details

Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria

18 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

design, hit it out of the ballpark. The roast beef chain tweeted Williams a message during the live broadcast: By the next morning, the tweet garnered 75,000 retweets, more than 40,000 favorites, and high-profile media coverage.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

long. She could not help but think the American Dream, or even just the chance to live a dignified life, was out of reach no matter how early she left for work or how late she stayed. Because she had been in... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

work, no matter where they are. "Let's face it," writes HBS Professor Leslie Perlow. "When that phone buzzes, few of us have the mental fortitude to ignore it." In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Perlow... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

committed to helping others achieve shared goals?" In some situations—a Wall Street trading floor or a car dealership, for example—people are paid on commission, and it doesn't matter if they're committed to helping others. In other... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

12 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

explains Michel Anteby, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Filiz Garip of Harvard University, Paul V. Martorana of Wagner College, and Scott Lozanoff of the University of Hawaii. It's a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

Children in the United States today are at risk to live shorter lives than their parents. This sobering assessment is one reason big box retailer Target is investing $40 million this year to improve the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

19 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles

they may have lived through some years of particularly bad returns. This tends to make investors more cautious. Interestingly, fund managers older than forty—just old enough to have lived through the 1987... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

trading world along with Western firms. “Mao’s China cultivated a small group of so-called Red Capitalists who were fake capitalists, but used to show off to foreign visitors as if they were real.” Does any of this matter now? I took away... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

losing out with his family, particularly after his father became seriously ill. Discussions about work-life balance need to be addressed as a matter of course in business schools, and even at the kindergarten-though-twelfth-grade levels.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

"Innovation that matters for our company and the world." The addition of those words "and the world" opened the walls of the company. There are IBM employees I've interviewed all over the world who actually invoke that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something done, ask a busy person." Throughout a distinguished career that has included often-overlapping leadership roles in business, teaching,... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

low-cost strategy, eliminating management choice going forward? And do such strategies have much longer lives than those associated with other forms of differentiation among offerings to customers? When does friction trump scale in the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

05 May 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

for the respondents. Further, data showed that women display greater satisfaction in their interactions with the police when they live in villages with a female council head (Table VIII, Panel B in the working paper). Women are slightly... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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

26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

(2011) Abstract Many studies have documented the benefits of religious involvement. Indeed, highly religious people tend to be healthier, live longer, and have higher levels of subjective well-being. While religious involvement offers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

denial has become so high. We are living in a less forgiving world than we once did." We asked Tedlow to discuss how denial can cripple a company, and what can be done about it. Martha Lagace: What is the meaning of denial as you... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

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