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- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS... View Details
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
and reaching your potential. "My objective is to help leaders reach their potential by helping them realize that they don't need to have all the answers or do this alone. I hope they will see that framing a question and listening can... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
CEO. Excerpt from The Adventures of an IT Leader, by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell: Crisis Thursday, June 28, 9:24 a.m. Barton was enjoying an unusually slow morning, finishing an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
been published in a new book: Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms: Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Business. The coauthors are Bruce L. Hay, Harvard Law School; Robert N. Stavins, John F. Kennedy School... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 14 May 2015
- News
A senseless subsidy
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Below are the views that faculty shared with the HBS community on Earth Day. 1. Robert G. Eccles Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (This article, titled,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Jul 2022
- HBS Case
How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)
Ice cream making started as a quirky hobby for Brian Smith, whose zeitgeisty flavors and fresh ingredients would become his trademark. For example, his “God Save the Cream,” inspired by the 2018 Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 14 Feb 2014
- News
Executives’ Biggest Productivity Challenges, Solved
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?
Do you have that one friend who seems to snag the coolest, most fashionable shoes, jewelry, or clothes? Now new research shows that when luxury goods companies cater to these trendy consumers by controlling how rare certain items... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
the organization to support One Report in terms of measurement methodologies, processes, policies, structure, compensation, internal reporting, and external reporting. Excerpt From One Report: Integrated Reporting For A Sustainable Strategy View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams
During a 2017 Amgen earnings call, CEO Robert Bradway began answering an analyst’s question, then turned to colleague Sean Harper and said, “Sean, I'll let you talk about the specifics.” Bradway’s simple act of calling on Harper to add... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
in the August 2015 issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, the paper was co-authored by a team of behavioral economists and psychologists: Jooa Julia Lee, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University; Francesca Gino, a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
treated fairly within their larger organizations. “These surveys should be broken down by demographic categories, including race and gender, to identify certain populations that have a lower engagement or sense of commitment to the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
remote work. “There’s a huge value to real interactions even if they are occurring virtually,” says Goldenberg, who is a psychologist by training and an assistant professor at HBS. To test online experiences, the group took advantage of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
that all of this amount could be recouped eventually through the elimination of healthcare expenses incurred by those unable to pay now. Now comes Robert Frank, a Cornell economist, who has proposed ways of... View Details
- 06 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business
between Vietnamese women and US servicemen, writing that they were largely “jobless, homeless, uneducated, unwanted, barely able to speak English” when they arrived to America. Spurred in part by outrage sparked View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne