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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets
Dimensions of leadership The subject of leadership permits opposite conclusions to be drawn from the same observations and data... 24 May 2021 HBS Working Knowledge Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource? 29 May 2020 Center for... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
of the innovation. Some of them question the value of the COVID-19 vaccine and plan to take a wait-and-see approach. Others may have concerns about immunizations in general, or even outright opposition to vaccines and government efforts... View Details
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Current working papers
Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
positive, but a negative facial expression may create the opposite meaning,” says Choudhury. Finding CEOs to test But where could the researchers find enough CEOs to conduct their study? It turns out that Khanna was familiar with the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
opposite is true. For example, we trust managers to carry out the interests of shareholders: We can build contracts to align manager incentives with those of shareholders, but we are never able to completely contract on all the things we... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
the opposite effect,” Coffman says. “If anything, we see a larger gender gap in willingness to compete [when sponsorship is introduced].” Designing better sponsorship programs The researchers emphasize that sponsorship is not necessarily... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
divorced, or to have children who are being raised by an ex-wife's new spouse on the opposite coast," he says. "But the strategy that they implemented took them in that direction." Incentives Are Not The Same As Motivators Christensen... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
disadvantage; in fact, the opposite can be true. Finally, an independent national organization has grown out of my 1995 HBR article "The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City," which is included in this collection. I find that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
nobody could take this trajectory where he and his band could. But when he jumped to the next S-curve, he actually turned around 180 degrees and went the opposite direction, toward simplicity—simplicity that empowered and freed his... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
engine of finance be used in the opposite direction and foster the changes needed to address these two pressing issues? What can and cannot be achieved through financial tools such as divestment, carbon offsets, or sustainability-linked... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
and the Pepsi logo, which you would never see in Atlanta any other time. So, that was a very interesting move. Kenny: But does that signal something bigger? Is there kind of a trend moving in the opposite direction? We're in this period... View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Getting ‘Them’ Out of the Equation
dialogue. “I’ve been involved in an organization called Young Presidents Organization, or YPO, for international CEOs. Shortly after September 11, a few of us said, ‘This is crazy! We have members on opposite sides of all these conflicts.... View Details
- 02 May 2013
- News
Gil Kemp, MBA 1976 & Barbara Guss Kemp
HBS is the opposite of complacent. The School could coast on its reputation, but instead it con¬tinues to work to improve itself. The fellow¬ship program has been terrifically important in giving great students more choices, and the... View Details
- 29 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Will I Stay or Will I Go? How Gender and Race Affect Turnover at ‘Up-or-Out’ Organizations
minority junior professionals don't see senior professionals in their organization who look like them. To want to stay at a firm, women and minorities need to see other women and minorities in senior positions. However, ''peer effects'' have the View Details
- Portrait Project
Joel Segre
absurdly lucky life. I want to harness that good luck, pouring myself into the issues I find most urgent and sharing my good fortune with others around the world. Forget work-life balance. My work and my life will not carry equal and View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a more just and celebrated multicultural world
a celebration of togetherness, diversity, and understanding, just the opposite of a civil riot. “Social change is embedded in our business model,” says Endline. “Every unit we sell impacts a farmer, a plant worker, or an artist. It’s a... View Details
- 11 Jan 2018
- News
Taking the High Road
lack of exposure. What you have to do is ignore what they say and watch what they do, because the opposite of that is a lot of people know how to be extremely politically correct and have no positive intent whatsoever. “So, let's just... View Details
- 08 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Getting Laid Off: An Opportunity for Reinvention
their job. Tran had been on the opposite side of the table any number of times in his career, working on post-merger integrations and reducing redundancies. In those moments, “I kept telling myself it’s nothing personal, we just had to... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
will try to maximize every encounter for themselves, right? The question they ask is, What’s in it for me? whereas givers will ask the opposite question, How can I help this person? Not for any gain but just because it’s the right thing... View Details