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- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
managers. Among the paper’s key points: Women are stuck at the bottom of the ladder Despite View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
Technology has a way of seeping into our lives. On our first encounter with a microwave, an answering machine, an ATM, a cellular phone, or a video camera, each of these innovations probably seemed foreign,... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
It's a question often debated, but seldom answered authoritatively: Do companies have a social responsibility to protect the environment beyond legal requirements? Specifically, may companies do so within View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
truth, and who inspires a sense of belonging in others." The result of such initiatives, say some experts, can be a happier, more productive cadre View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
begin? A: One of the most hopeful things we discovered in the course of this research is that the revolution, if... View Details
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
from its financial bottom line. Recent changes in financial accounting have changed this asymmetry so that there is now an expense associated with stock options, but a considerable difference still exists with tax rules. Specifically,... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
to,” the CEO said. Managers are pushed to get to the bottom of the problem and identify reasons why people don’t... View Details
- April 1995 (Revised June 1995)
- Background Note
Anchoring and First Offers in Negotiation
Describes how first or opening offers can be used effectively in negotiation. Examines how opening offers serve as an anchor, changing one side's perception of the other side's bottom line and hence the set of possible outcomes. View Details
Wu, George. "Anchoring and First Offers in Negotiation." Harvard Business School Background Note 895-070, April 1995. (Revised June 1995.)
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
at the current financial crisis in hopes of solving it? I draw a parallel between the natural world and the financial world in View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
operating system and application software. At the same time, the producers of minicomputers used the microprocessor to develop View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
redefine their roles as facilitators and supporters rather than drivers and decision makers. Thinking about regional economic strategy needs to evolve from expensive and politically complicated infrastructure-type projects into lots of... View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
eugeniek Companies looking to shed costs in an economic downturn rarely cut compensation—typically, they slash jobs instead. New research confirms the wisdom of that decision. View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
challenging to maintain a level of satisfaction, enjoyment, and meaning thinking you're the center of it all. So knowing that there's something bigger than you, whatever you... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Photos by Marc Romanelli Climate change rightfully scares a lot of people. The changes already occurring—from the die-off of coral reefs and... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
navigate conflicts both external and internal. Today, more than ever, markets exert continual pressure on organizations to cut costs and return capital to the bottom line, but building value demands that... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
thinking reader’s alternative to the cesspool of anonymous comments at the bottom of a news story. With at least... View Details
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
used to make better decisions without the influences described above. It's why, for example, some successful investors simply choose stocks of the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
The Case Method | MBA
Inaugural HBS Case “How do you go into an ambiguous situation and get to the bottom of it? That skill – the skill View Details
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
"triple bottom line." The authors posit (but do not prove) that organizations that satisfy all 3 criteria in their decision-making will realize greater economic success than those that fulfill only... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
schools and peak the interest of what may become a "Moneyball Generation" of managers and analysts who want to divine and track new measures that explain View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett