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- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
industry that has an opportunity to turn an existential crisis into an opportunity: the oil and gas industry. While the oil and gas industry is not on the decline (yet) like the coal industry, it faces strong perception and regulatory... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
overworked lifestyle, rather than a leisurely lifestyle, has become an aspirational status symbol. A series of studies shows that the positive inferences of status in response to busyness and lack of leisure are driven by the perceptions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2022
- Supplement
Atlanta Ransomware Attack (B)
By: Amit Goldenberg and Julian Zlatev
This case describes the March 2018 Ransomware attack on the information technology (IT) systems of the city of Atlanta and the response by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and her administration. The case includes a brief background on Bottoms and her young administration at... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Information Technology; Cybersecurity; Information Management; Leadership; Management; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Negotiation; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Psychology; Perception; Personal Characteristics; Perspective; Power and Influence; Society; Public Administration Industry; United States; Atlanta; Georgia (state, US)
Goldenberg, Amit, and Julian Zlatev. "Atlanta Ransomware Attack (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 923-010, August 2022.
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
perceptions of firms' size and/or market power. Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly Authors:Malcolm Baker, Brendan Bradley, and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 1... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
dynamics tool that he was responsible for creating—on a Sunday when he had a major personal engagement. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407037 Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (B)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
enabled retailers to do on a mass scale of millions of customers what shopkeepers did in their villages a century ago: offer a differentiated service to each shopper. Shopkeepers knew each one personally and treated them accordingly. If... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
since 2000: “A belief in easy answers; a disagreement over the basic nature of the energy problems and the roles of various actors; sharp shifts in perceptions of shortage or glut conditions; and an inability to tie domestic energy,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
Publications August 2013 Social Psychological & Personality Science Matchmaking Promotes Happiness By: Anik, Lalin, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Four studies document and explore the psychology underlying people's proclivity to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
design, competing interests, global health, personalized medicine, residential care, and concierge medicine, among others—and structures what has been a highly fragmented research area into a coherent scientific discipline. The Handbook... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
empathy, celebration, and refelection. James Lim - JD/MBA ‘22 Tell us about your background: I am a proud American, a person of Korean heritage, and a native of Los Angeles. What difference do you hope to make in the world? The Asian... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
measures of national political instability—Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work, and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
solely financial or technological, but "very personal — it depends on you and what you bring to the opportunity." The cases and exercises then marched through "the parameters of a well-designed, de novo business," she... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
employees were overwhelmingly white.) Then there are the stories. Although few women working in the field will offer details of personal encounters with sexism and sexual harassment, they hear them frequently. In the past year, they’ve... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
Argentina and Chile? These leaders had an inside-looking-out view during this much of this time—what do we learn from them? A: These interviews supplied both contextual and personal information simply not available elsewhere. Unlike the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
and maybe even try ordering it. If that doesn’t happen, that sandwich will wither and not do well. And then as a result, we won’t be able to buy those Brussels sprouts from the farmers in Massachusetts. That’s why there’s a person we call... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
relationships when it instead primarily encourages newcomers to express their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that initial socialization focused on View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation foundations). Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Ghani_Kerr_Stanton_MSCI_OdeskDiaspora-8-26-13.pdf September 2013 Frontiers in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
who are working there, it’s not just a job. When you’re rewarded by somebody who knows you as a person and builds you up, it’s not just a job anymore; it’s a bunch of relationships. If we don’t understand that, then all we’re doing is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters