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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
in Minneapolis–St. Paul, last month the city saw the launch of a Minnesota-based YALP (see sidebar below). Despite these outcomes, YALP’s faculty is clear: The participants and the senior champions who select and support them—and not the... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
ambitions have been moderated substantially over the last decade. We argue that the US ought to encourage renminbi internationalization as a costless means of assurance to China, to incentivize reform and moderation, and to encourage a... View Details
- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
marketers. Fournier and Avery cite the example of Frito-Lay, which earns both positive publicity and product ideas with its annual "Do Us a Flavor" contest, which it hosts across several social media platforms. Last year's... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
strategy of the last decade has been to foster areas of specialization within its subsidiaries around the world—small cars in Europe, subcompacts in Asia, trucks and SUVs in North America—and this has started to yield great results. Now... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
the radio,” Pons and Le Pennec-Caldichoury write in a working paper released last month, Vote Choice Formation and the Minimal Effects of TV Debates: Evidence from 61 Elections in 9 OECD Countries The business of TV debates Televised... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
constant link to the Web that will place today's 56k modem in the history books next to the UNIVAC—promises to transform the advertising industry. Currently only about 1.4 million U.S. households have a high-speed Internet hookup, but... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
makes sense for me at this moment.” It’s at this self-interested point when ethics are most likely to fall by the wayside. 3. Recalling what happened after the negotiation: During this last phase as they reflect on the give-and-take, a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
pressures. It can be a brutal situation." Indeed, as the Wall Street Journal's front page proclaimed last fall in the wake of the downturn in Asia, overcapacity has become "a dire and obvious problem for countries around the world."... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
negative reaction, deep metaphors enable us to discover whether shame, guilt, or some other negative feeling is producing the aversive or negative experience. Second, deep metaphors provide the basic foundations for the brand stories... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
Before last week’s election, polls and pundits suggested that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was doomed to failure, because it could not attract enough votes from women, who saw him as a misogynist—and worse. Conventional wisdom... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
organization become “less attentive and more insensitive to others’ emotions,” quoting the authors. If their participation in the selection and promotion process also increases, what can we expect from their choices? Will they place the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
students then receive 20 percent of the profits over five years in the form of scholarship funds. Late last year PD got a celebrity boost when Bobo met former Yankees star Alex Rodriguez at a Jennifer Lopez concert in Las Vegas. A-Rod and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
Employee, The New York Times, November 3, 2019. Your feedback to last month’s column How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity? I’d like to think that the tentative nature of the few responses to this column suggest the early stages of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
expect an equal contribution from your citizens, all citizens must be treated equally,” says Tabellini. “It reveals the costs for society as a whole if you don’t.” Despite the national reckoning in the United States after the killing of George Floyd by a white police... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
balancing my left and right brain. It probably also explains why my last four cars have been sporty SUVs. —Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) Back to top “Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Tragedy” J&J was confronted with a major crisis in October... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work, allows organizations to get at the underlying drivers of inequity and build new structures to close gender—and other—gaps. Much has changed in the world over the last 100 years,... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
environmental justice defined? Looking at policy and business definitions to understand what terms mean for productive action. Policy: What policy is in place in the U.S to drive environmental justice action by businesses? Breaking down... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
legitimacy—that is, whether followers believe the leader has earned their position.” "This work suggests that trust can be engineered, at least at the organizational level." We know how to create a great place to work and how to engage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste
and data transparency, companies can collaborate with their suppliers to come up with a collective strategy to mitigate the various facets of water risk. Water issues are felt at the watershed level. It is a collective action problem. This is the core of Celeste. We... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
helping the nonprofit sector, he served as Harvard's treasurer from 1989 until last June, advising three presidents and watching over the University's resources. "It was one of the great privileges of my life," he says. In a commencement... View Details