social pressures - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Apr 2012
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managerial performance, found that managers higher in metacognitive cultural intelligence (CQ) were rated as more effective in intercultural creative collaboration by managers from other cultures. Study 2, a social network survey, found... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Key concepts: Business and Society, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Leadership Patagonia's change of ownership from a privately held company to a perpetual purpose trust and 501(c)(4) nonprofit in order... View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

approach these leadership roles to withstand the pressures that can divert behavior away from the espoused purposes and ethical standards of medicine? July–August 2014 Article How the Other Fukushima Plant Survived By: Ranjay Gulati ,... View Details

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

metric; you never have enough.But only you can define fulfillment. We as individuals are the only judges.— Ricardo Levy,Catalytica Energy Systems For Robert Glassman, his spirituality at work is expressed as a commitment to social... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

08 Nov 2022
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How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

infibulation, a particularly invasive form of female genital cutting. How restrictions on women are playing out Becker believes that her research has implications for women participating in the workforce. While some of those views may seem outdated, View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

15 Jun 2010
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hiring and socialization policies. Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2025
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The Changing Climate on Wall Street

By: Clayton S. Rose, Maxim Pike Harrell and Michael Norris

Increasing and conflicting regulatory requirements and political pressures regarding climate change tested the leaders of U.S. financial institutions, as they struggled to determine how best to comply while managing their business and its risks.
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Events - Business History

both history departments and law schools; however, the two disciplines have taken divergent paths. Historians have emphasized the external social and cultural pressures that have shaped firms’ behavior, such... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

Whitehall findings,” he says. “It turns out that top managers might face more health problems.” Past research has seen mixed results when exploring links between stress and high-status positions. In biology, for instance, studies of primate View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

04 Feb 2002
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How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

somebody is in bankruptcy or if somebody is experiencing financial reversals, you can't put pressure on them, because that is not an appropriate thing to do when somebody is down. You don't kick them when they're down," said Hayes.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

middle-skill career fields,” he says. Respiratory therapist Michelle Powell (above) trains Howard School students Rudy Vasquez and Junior Juan in how to take a blood pressure reading; below, Shakaya Finley and Jamesha Owens practice those... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Mark R. Kramer When it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility" and investors applying View Details

11 Apr 2012
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The High Risks of Short-Term Management

volatility, the length of time investors held a firm's stock, and the cost of capital. The results showed that short-term companies attracted short-term investors (bringing with them a whole new set of performance pressures on executives)... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

January 2008 (Revised January 2008)
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Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model

By: Robert G. Eccles

Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental health clinic based in Harvard Square. Its founder, Dr. Joan Wheelis, is a nationally recognized practicing psychiatrist who has developed outpatient treatment programs based on Dialectical Behavior... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Health Industry; United States

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15 Nov 2011
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investigate the effect of a corporate culture of sustainability on multiple facets of corporate behavior and performance outcomes. Using a matched sample of 180 companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted environmental and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2008
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skills, (2) broad perspective, (3) teaming skills, (4) expanded social network, and (5) boundary-spanning skills. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our ideas for conducting future team research. Board of Directors'... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News

and declining print advertising revenue. That was the firm foundation upon which local newspapers were built, so that pressure on the traditional sources of revenue has obviously put pressure on the rest of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

27 Jun 2011
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Recovering from the Need to Achieve

him as he prepared to land in Boston after a long transcontinental flight. Now let's continue the story. At the end of the flight Jeff felt that all his ruminations about his many pressures and responsibilities had left him more tired... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection

cases, they’re just hamstrung financially. Without traditional access to capital, their path to growth—and to social impact—is slowed down dramatically.” Beckford cofounded DLS in 2020 specifically to help these smaller operators obtain... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

28 Apr 2015
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theorized to be 1) normative or value-laden, 2) progressing in bursts of change over time, 3) socially constructed and culturally embedded, and 4) associated with logics that shape practices. We develop a framework, outlining the... View Details