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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research Associates View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
they were likely to stop investing altogether. Overall, Gross found that participants were most given to produce designs that were at least 70 percent original when they faced just one or two competitors—the “Goldilocks” zone where competitive View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
of such risk taking are not as well understood. In this paper, Falato and Scharfstein contend that market earnings pressure may have led publicly traded financial institutions to increase their risk levels for the purpose of boosting... View Details
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Drew Keller
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? We’re at an interesting time in history where the role of business in society is being challenged and the assumptions on which we have built our economic system are being questioned. Businesses are under immense View Details
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
Risk Pressures Designing and Enforcing Internal Controls Building Business Conduct Boundaries Featured Exercises Identify internal risk pressures using the Risk Exposure Calculator Propose solutions for a... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
understanding of service quality, competition, and inventory, while developing a foundation for the exploration of mobile money by operations management scholars. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48472 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, I explore how some leaders embrace “deep purpose” as a generative force that can be a catalyst to achieve both impressive economic results and positive social impact.... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. Social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
Frances X. Frei, UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management. Too often, people are advised or feel pressured to bury the special or quirky aspects of their personalities, recalibrate their speaking or personal styles, or think twice... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
of any business that it wished. This proved to be an illusion, but it was one widely shared within the business world at the time. Diversification was the fashion of the moment, which managers were constantly under pressure to follow from... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
On the face of it, social marketing is a cinch. Here's one scenario. You as a marketer want people who are living in poverty to take better care of their health. So, given your profession, what do you do? You can persuade them—through... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly influenced the lives of most people on the planet. It has changed daily activities; something as simple as a walk in the park is perceived very differently now. The same is true for businesses. Many businesses have shut down or... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
another's, or peer pressure to work on behalf of the larger group. All of those forms of incentive influence individual decisions, which are driven by expectations of future outcomes. “We make choices in anticipation of what the... View Details
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
Effectiveness Inquiry and Advocacy Show Hide Details Modules Taking Charge Leading Your Team Unleashing Potential in Yourself and Others Your Network Featured Exercises Build a foundation of self-awareness through a 360° assessment (Emotional and View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
Falato, Antonio, and David Scharfstein Abstract—We present evidence that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices and earnings leads banks to increase risk. We start by showing that banks increase risk when they transition from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
workers may feel guilty staying home. “Leaders underestimate how much what they do is mirrored by their employees,” Austin says. “Hypocrisy degrades them. Employees not only want to be told what to do, they want their managers to follow through on everything they’re... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
case study, “The Opioid Settlement and Controversy Over CEO Pay at AmerisourceBergen,” I use the lens of this crisis to study how businesses should fulfill their social obligations. In this talk, we will explore how the board of... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
change among training organizations, our research team at Harvard’s interdisciplinary Project on Workforce analyzed 316 applications to the Postsecondary Innovation for Equity initiative. The grant competition, launched by venture philanthropy New Profit, awarded... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 2009
- Chapter
Creating Superior Customer Value in a Connected World
By: Ranjay Gulati
"In the early twenty-first century, customers are more demanding than ever, and difficult economic times make them all the more so. As customers tighten their wallets and increase their demands, firms face greater pressure to provide superior customer value. Reducing... View Details