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  • 14 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

with more data and analytics, executives we talked to said that leaders still need to adopt holistic thinking and stay open to the unexpected. They must learn to stretch their "own imagination and creativity" to envision what the future... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
  • 31 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back

matters Tabellini and colleagues looked at US hate crimes against four racial and ethnic minority groups: Blacks, Hispanics/Latinx, Asians, and Arabs between 1990 and 2010. Using data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • Winter 2020
  • Article

The Economics of Maps

By: Abhishek Nagaraj and Scott Stern
For centuries, maps have codified the extent of human geographic knowledge and shaped discovery and economic decision-making. Economists across many fields, including urban economics, public finance, political economy, and economic geography, have long employed maps,... View Details
Keywords: Maps; Economic Geography; Geography; Economics; History
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

How Firms Respond to Worker Activism: Evidence from Global Supply Chains

By: Yanhua Bird, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Social movement pressures can lead organizations to concede and improve social performance to avoid disruption costs, but we theorize that such responses evoke concession costs that prompt organizations to shift resources and attention from other social domains whose... View Details
Keywords: Worker Activism; Labor Standards; Tradeoffs; Global Supply Chains; Internal Governance Structure; Public Opinion; Supply Chain; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Working Conditions
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    Dominic Russel

    Dominic Russel is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program. His current research interests are in financial economics, public economics, and the economics of social networks. He has previously worked as a financial analyst at the Consumer Financial... View Details
    • 20 Jun 2023
    • Research & Ideas

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

    newspaper article is not just numbers.” But that doesn’t mean there’s no role for statistics; arguments and pitches that rely on data and numbers can be more effective in some circumstances, notes the research, which Graeber conducted... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 12 Feb 2025
    • Video

    Who owns it? The Ownership Project on how property rights shape business

    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Empirically, Ryann uses a combination of in-depth qualitative field research and visual and textual archival data to examine moral action at multiple levels of analysis. Through observation and interviews, she aims to capture the lived experience of individuals and... View Details
    • 05 Jan 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

    Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Friends and Family Money: P2P Transfers and Financially Fragile Consumers

    By: Tetyana Balyuk and Emily Williams
    We assess the impact that real time money transfer technology has on consumer outcomes, particularly during periods of financial fragility. We do this by developing a new data set that documents use of Zelle—the most widely used P2P money transfer technology in the... View Details
    Keywords: P2P Money Transfers; Real Time Payments; Fintech; Finance; Information Technology; Personal Finance; Financial Condition
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    • July–August 2013
    • Article

    Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L. Milkman
    We investigate the role of workgroup sex and race composition on the career mobility of professionals in "up-or-out" organizations. We develop a nuanced perspective on the potential career mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the social... View Details
    Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Race And Ethnicity; Ethnicity; Race; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Legal Services Industry
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    • 07 Mar 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Mike Toffel, Harvard Business School

    • January 2021 (Revised August 2021)
    • Case

    ByteDance: TikTok and the Trials of Going Viral

    By: William C. Kirby and John P. McHugh
    In 2020, TikTok became the most valuable start-up ever. The short-form, video-sharing social media platform emerged as the crown jewel of the Chinese technology firm ByteDance, realizing 850 million monthly users and an estimated worth of $180 billion. However, a... View Details
    Keywords: China; Technology; Startup; Start-up; International Strategy; Global Strategy And Leadership; Innovation; Political Risk; Regulations; Trump; Foreign Policy; Foreign Investment; Chinese Internet Market; Global Strategy; Crisis Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Economies and Regions; Government Legislation; Innovation and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Internet and the Web; Social Media; Technology Industry; China; United States
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    • May 23, 2011
    • Article

    Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

    By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
    To determine the extent to which corporate and investor behavior is changing to contribute to a more sustainable society, researchers Robert Eccles and George Serafeim analyzed data involving over 2,000 companies in 23 countries. One result: a ranking of countries... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Society; Corporate Disclosure; Natural Environment; Rank and Position; Social Issues; Financial Statements; Behavior
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    • 26 Jul 2016
    • News

    The Science Behind Why You Don’t Save (And What To Do About It)

    • Article

    Tabulated Nonsense? Testing the Validity of the Ethnographic Atlas

    By: Duman Bahrami-Rad, Anke Becker and Joseph Henrich
    The Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock, 1967), an anthropological database, is widely used across the social sciences. The Atlas is a quantified and discretely categorized collection of information gleaned from ethnographies covering more than 1200... View Details
    Keywords: Ethnographic Atlas; Validation; Culture; Economic Anthropology
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    • 21 Sep 2018
    • News

    America traded one recession for a far more serious one

      Jon M. Jachimowicz

      Jon M. Jachimowicz is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum. He studies... View Details

      • 1978
      • Article

      Perceptions of Unfair Marketing Practices: Consumerism Implications

      By: Gerald Zaltman, Rajendra K. Srivastava and Rohit Deshpandé
      Previous research in complaint behavior has ignored the perception of unfair marketing practices as an explanatory variable. Perceptions of unfair marketing practices are related to consumer complaint behavior, although differentially related across different ages.... View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Consumer Behavior; Marketing
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      Works in Progress

      "Hunkering Down and Venturing Out:  Network Activation in Response to the Uncertainty of Organizational Restructuring." Under Review.  Awarded Best Paper in Organizational Behavior:  2011 Trans-Atlantic... View Details