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- 23 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do
New research from Harvard Business School reveals a stark gap in the professional ambitions of men and women. Having surveyed a diverse sample of more than 4,000 men and women, a team of social scientists reports a list of potentially View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets
negativity online makes people experience and share more negative emotions came from Facebook. In a controversial 2012 experiment, the social media giant secretly altered the news feeds of 689,003 users to see if posts about others’... View Details
- Research Summary
Wearing a Red Hat ¨C The Impact of Activist Industrial Policy on Software Development in China
The idea that the government should steer economic development by strategically hand-picking and managing certain industries is controversial but appeals to many developing countries that are eager to upgrade their industries. In this paper, I study China's recent... View Details
- 23 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Dan Kahan, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School
- Web
Business History - Faculty & Research
Ultimately, the Godcharles ruling enshrined the specialness of workingmen's labor contracts and rejected the use of equity principles to justify contract regulations, but the controversy also informed future labor strategies, especially... View Details
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
extraordinarily difficult and controversial management task." And therein lies a big problem, because how effective an organization is at making high-quality decisions consistent with its mission and objectives, the experts note, is... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 22 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning
said. She described a study at the Kennedy School executive education program that paired attendees to discuss controversial topics and then asked them to rate their partners’ receptiveness. “What we saw was interesting and hopeful,” said... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette
- 2024
- Case
Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations: Figueres the Negotiator (C)
By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Management; International Relations; Leadership
Sebenius, James K., Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro, and Mina Subramanian. "Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations: Figueres the Negotiator (C)." Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Case, 2024.
- 2007
- Book
An Experiment in Fair Value Accounting? The State of the Art in Research and Thought Leadership on Accounting for Life Assurance in the UK and Continental Europe
By: Joanne G Horton, Richard H. Macve and George Serafeim
"Fair value" is currently the central topic of debate in the development of accounting standards. While it has now been defined to mean an exit price in US GAAP, the IASB is still considering its own definition, and some commentators are arguing for versions of entry... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Financial Instruments; Framework; Market Entry and Exit; Insurance; Revenue Recognition; Fair Value Accounting; Standards; United Kingdom
Horton, Joanne G., Richard H. Macve, and George Serafeim. An Experiment in Fair Value Accounting? The State of the Art in Research and Thought Leadership on Accounting for Life Assurance in the UK and Continental Europe. London, UK: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Centre for Business Performance, 2007.
- 26 May 2022
- HBS Case
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
championing privacy as controversy was swirling around an extensive US government surveillance program that had been disclosed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Snowden had leaked information indicating that... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 03 Jan 2023
- Book
Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action
The work of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell offers a high-profile example, Opie notes. Gebru, who’s Black, and Mitchell, who’s white, explored fairness in machine learning as computer scientists at Google. They raised controversial... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 05 Jul 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?
performance of an organization has long been debated, and the debate has focused most recently on the controversy over compensation for CEOs. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton cite studies that maintain that no more than 10 percent of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
passenger operations on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts." He believed that his strong trucking company, combined with newly redesigned cargo ships, would become a formidable force in the transportation industry. Commenting on McLean's View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
controversial policies or unpopular leaders, or make an oppressive regime seem tolerant. There’s also a fine line between influential outreach and propaganda that leaves audiences feeling manipulated, Ofek says. However, the right... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster
emulated? Anything that can contribute to social capital. The content must be easy to create but not as easy as photographing one's morning cappuccino. For example, someone in Toronto snapped a selfie with the controversial mayor Rob... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
conclusion that many marketing professionals are likely to resist: There is a vital interplay between the challenge a brand faces and the culture of the corporation that owns it. When brand and culture fall out of alignment, both brand and corporate owner are likely to... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Debt Data, Stabilization Policy & Regulation More Info Sovereign Debt Relief and its Aftermath By: Carmen Reinhart & Christoph Trebesch JUN 2015 Despite the policy relevance and controversy surrounding the issue, surprisingly little is... View Details
- July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Teaching Note
Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
market in early 18th-century Japan, Wall Street’s first financial panic in 1792, and the Federal Reserve’s highly controversial response to the global financial turmoil of 1931. The course debuted in the spring 2008 term; six weeks later... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
choices he would later regret. Soon, he realized he had made as many enemies as friends. Now, in Rainmaker, Norton discusses what it was like being Tiger’s first agent, his time representing the narcissistic Greg Norman, and shining a bright light on his sudden and... View Details