Filter Results:
(367)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(367)
- News (103)
- Research (170)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (79)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(367)
- News (103)
- Research (170)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (79)
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
and the US auto industry are on their way to recovery and that the IPO symbolizes the beginning of a new stage in the life of GM, whose sales figures have recently shown improvement. Vineet Kumar, Assistant Professor of Business... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
it's called—it's the idea that we are depleting natural resources, but we need protein, so we can elevate that. “In all these cases, entrepreneurs have leveraged or monetized an idea that is much more a symbol than a material product”... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
corporations' environmental transparency. We also focus on the extent to which corporate environmental disclosure is symbolic and, in particular, what leads corporations to selectively disclose relatively benign environmental impacts to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Norton Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, no. 110 (2009): 152-159 Abstract The present investigation explores the neural mechanisms underlying the impact of social influence on preferences. We socially tagged View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
spirit. They must show that a winning team benefits everyone and certainly strengthens the team/company/country against the competition. They must invoke stirring symbols and grassroots heroes that a range of people can identify with. And... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
How Startups Win Deals by Resetting Expectations | Working Knowledge
that thing might work in our organization,” she says. “And because there's a certain level of uncertainty around novelty, it's not surprising that there are misinterpretations.” “Confronting the Limits of Symbolic Actions: How... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
dynamics that guide a vicarious learning interaction. Integrating theories of experiential learning and symbolic interactionism, I offer a theoretical account of coactive vicarious learning, capturing these co-constructed, interpersonal... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
elected to maintain the widely recognized rainbow motif as our visual representation for the club. To us, the rainbow symbolizes our community's spectrum of identities in much the same way that a physical rainbow is the full spectrum of... View Details
- Web
Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
serving every man, woman, and child in America.” 42 Photographs captured symbols of the corporation’s industrial power—from expansive views of mining and transporting iron ore, limestone, and coal to detailed shots of employees operating... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
overestimate how much distant others appreciate socially responsible gifts because they focus more than recipients on the symbolic meaning of the gift. Critically, givers have the most to gain from distant others, in terms of strengthened... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
stark symbol of America’s forgotten poor, tonight it is lit with the iconic symbol of Mercedes-Benz, which purchased the stadium’s naming rights in 2011. Asked how the orchestra has been important for the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
conclaves twice a year to show its commitment to the regional initiative. Such conclaves might be mainly symbolic, but symbolism can go a long way. Philips has approached regional strategy flexibly, putting in place a wide variety of... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- Web
4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy | MBA
speaking or content portion of the program. Silent Protest Displaying a sign, wearing symbolic clothing, gesturing, standing, or otherwise protesting noiselessly inside an event is acceptable unless doing so interferes with an audience... View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
Rings'—capital T, capital R—are arguably one of the most recognized brand symbols in the world. By definition, companies want to cobrand with the Olympics, at least when they aren't laden with problems. Big names such as Coca-Cola (an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
dominated by the Sunnis. To some extent, the Shias had been sort of grudgingly accepting of it, as long as there was room for gradual improvement. In the last twenty years, this kind of accommodation was turned upside down by the brutality of Saddam’s regime and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
"The problem is that there is a reason why these industries have evolved with the structure they have," Khaire points out. Art-works have much more symbolic value than material value. "The criteria for value in these... View Details
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
as the use of the symbol of the nation for a specific political, economic, or cultural purpose. It's the idea of the nation as a group of people connected to a project of some sort. Sometimes these projects may well be things that we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
LV:There’s certainly a symbolic vibe when the Dow gets to 20,000-- something to celebrate to the extent that it reflects the American economy’s long history of growth, profitability, and success. For the professional and institutional... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
national identity is a collective identity of a particular kind: an identity shared among a population and shaped by historical memory and cultural symbols. National identity can include components of language, ethnicity and religion. "Nationalism is the use of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace