Distribution Of Leadership Authority - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

In trying to encourage good moral conduct, it's common for a company to come up with a list of don'ts—wording policies such that they focus on unethical behavior employees should avoid rather than on ethical acts they should strive to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

September 2006 (Revised August 2007)
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Warner Bros. and BitTorrent

Involves the copyright issues associated with Bram Cohen's revolutionary program BitTorrent, which makes it possible to transfer very large files, such as movies, at a high speed over the Internet. The program, which is available for free over the Internet, is used for... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Copyright; Lawfulness; Distribution; Internet and the Web; Motion Pictures and Video Industry

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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

distinct means of communication and distribution to a mass audience. Trade catalogs, for example, became an integral way of merchandising new industrial products created from... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development

L. Gregory, Jr. (MBA '49), retired chairman of Rohm & Haas and chairman of the 45th Reunion campaign, noted, "Our class recognizes the importance of a superior faculty in... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

02 Mar 2015
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‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

threat is different from what retailers have faced in the past. Although Walmart took an enormous amount of market share in a diverse set of categories, many retailers were able to respond to and effectively... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail

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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising

Executive Education Company Page Executive Education Participants Friends of Executive Education Harvard Business School Leadership Fellows HBS News MBA Executive Education More HBS RSS Feeds: Alumni Baker... View Details

15 Dec 2008
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The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

Green and Black's, and Coca Cola purchasing a significant interest in HonestTea.) As the authors write, "Making a virtuous mouse and rich elephant merger work is a delicate, but potentially high-value undertaking in terms View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

07 Sep 2016
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How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

their control for leadership effectiveness. He suggested that tribal leadership, described in a book by the same name, is “a perfect fit for the fast moving networks of the Seventh Sense.” It describes... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Bibliography - A Chronicle of the China Trade

American Merchants in China . Cambridge, MA: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1971. Shaw, Samuel. The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw: The First American Consul at Canton: With a Life of the... View Details

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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library

rise with falling income mobility and middle- and lower-income households sinking into greater debt. The history of Lehman Brothers, author Peter Chapman writes, “mirrored the ascent to wealth and world... View Details

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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

and photographs.” 27 Artistic standards in advertising were recognized at Harvard Business School through the establishment of the Harvard Advertising Awards. 28 Created in 1924 with a donation from Edward W. Bok, former editor View Details

29 May 2015
News

In Popular Vote, Your Friends Usually Win

13 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

areas of focus to help move the needle on climate action. The initiative is especially active on the curriculum front through facilitating the development of innovative cases, teaching notes, and other... View Details

05 Jul 2012
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How Effective Leaders Talk (and Listen)

10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

on research when variations between professions equalized, the authors found. Those with more than one child reported losing an additional 3 percent of time spent on research. “It really is revealing, the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

Linda A. Hill

Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

John P. Kotter

John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of Leadership and Change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke... View Details

14 Apr 2021
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The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

months of the pandemic writing about marketplace design tactics that could provide support—for example, by leveraging delivery marketplaces to bring food to the elderly or by distributing hand sanitizer more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

29 Jul 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration

Keywords: by Mark Mortensen & Tsedal Neeley

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

McGinnis. A venture capitalist and author of the bestseller The 10% Entrepreneur, McGinnis has since turned FOMO and FOBO into a career unto themselves, with a podcast on the HBR network called FOMO Sapiens... View Details

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