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  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

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Sustainability company policies reflect the underlying culture of the organization, where environmental and social performance, in addition to financial performance, are important, but these policies also forge a strong View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • October 2004 (Revised November 2004)
  • Case

Mavens & Moguls: Creating a New Business Model

By: Myra M. Hart, Victoria Winston and Kristin Lieb
Mavens & Moguls is a "virtual" marketing-consulting firm of approximately 40 professionals. Examines the processes by which its founder, Paige Arnof-Fenn, learns the business, builds a power network of industry experts and potential customers, and uses this expertise... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Values and Beliefs; Work-Life Balance; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Operations; Networks; Business Model; Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Consulting Industry
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  • 21 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

organization, but was far from broken. "Women's progress has really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years," says Robin J. Ely, the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and senior associate dean for... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

organizational adoption of practice variants that differ in their degree of customization.   Working Papers X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

corporate culture— and not against the law in Germany until 1999. The competitive environment and permissive culture both played a role in the future bribery scandal. "There are three elements that lead individuals in companies to get... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

the quality of their own work and to deliver it effectively to clients. Q: What is important now about knowledge workers from both a business and a theoretical perspective? Where do you see beliefs about performance playing out in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Profile

Jason A. Kilar

employees, Bezos was unknown and unheralded. When he got up to close the case and give his point of view, he laughed out loud and told the class that he completely understood their belief that he would fail. But he was clearly undaunted... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-002.pdf Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity Author:Eric Van den Steen Abstract This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture—in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2470523 Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements By: Schmidt, William, and Ryan W. Buell Abstract—We explore how individuals make decisions in an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Blockbuster Deals

investment banking, also invokes the 1960s as a point of reference, specifically with regard to that era's conglomerate-building mania. "We saw huge companies of ill-fitting parts all held together by financial glue and the belief that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
  • 07 Dec 2016
  • HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

replaced financial advisors with robo-advisors, which use big data and algorithms to determine the best places to put clients’ money—and appeal to a whole new generation of investors. Technology replaces the financial advisor “They have a firm View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • Web

Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

painted image of a fully stocked refrigerator. Apagya’s works are both a contemplation of contemporary consumer culture and a reflection on the relationship between art and artifice, dreams and reality. RADCLIFFE BAILEY (American, born... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

competitive advantage. It is tacit (non-quantifiable, implicit, and often very subtle in nature) knowledge based on "first-hand life experiences" and "shaped by beliefs and social forces" based primarily on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

telecommunications to tobacco and soft drinks. The dangers of excessive market concentration are greater in finance, however, because of the systemic importance of credit to the economy and the now widely held belief that governments must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

America, the rural South, or a global cosmopolitan city. Moreover, this worldview has been one of America’s most effective cultural products and exports, influencing how generations of immigrants and much of the world perceives Blackness... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

Slovakia highlights the fact that the beliefs and views of a country on what is fair [do] matter for the long-term sustainability of reforms," says Alfaro. Alfaro, Dessain, and Jensen joined forces for an e-mail interview with HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

Summing Up Is Our Thinking About Work Outmoded? In spite of contrary evidence, there is still a popular belief that working more hours produces more results. People too often assume that being "at work" is equivalent to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

the nation that nurtured her ambitions. "We are fortunate to live in a risk-based culture that is reinforced by a democratic system of government," says Franklin. "As Americans, one of our competitive edges is our ability to create and... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

Ziegler Professor of Business Administration, discuss this development and its effect on democratic societies. What is populism? Rafael Di Tella: There are so many different definitions, but at its core, populism is not about being on the left or on the right; it’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 15 Apr 2017
  • News

Bringing Markets to Myanmar

we also knew that the biggest challenge-- the biggest need-- was going to be to have hundreds more champions working all over the government and the private sector. The reason we needed exponentially more champions was because the entire governance View Details
Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government