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- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
and property damage to broader notions of racial justice. Some proponents of reparations argue that African Americans deserve compensation for slavery, Jim Crow laws, redlining practices that thwarted lending in Black neighborhoods, and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
through a new course for MBA students, Why You Should Care: Creating the Conditions for Excellence, co-taught with Senior Lecturer and venture capital guru Amy Schulman. Together, they created a course unlike any other at the school, both profoundly View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
Dowling launched Workparent, a coaching and consulting firm that supports organizations and individuals by providing practical tips and techniques that help workers excel at home and on the job. To date, the company has advised parents on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise
all, we are taught to network by leveraging our similarities, rather than our differences — a practice that disadvantages Black, Latinx, and Native American communities, some of the least-represented groups in corporate America. Two... View Details
- September 2019
- Case
JTC: Stronger Together with Shared Ownership
By: Ethan Bernstein and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Nigel Le Quesne, CEO of Jersey-based financial services firm JTC, firmly believed that "shared ownership" was at the heart of his company’s successful track record. The firm had seen its revenues, profits, and number of clients and staff grow steadily throughout its... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Employee Ownership; Leadership Style; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Going Public; Mission and Purpose; Management Practices and Processes; Human Resources; Financial Services Industry; Channel Islands; Europe; United States
Bernstein, Ethan, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "JTC: Stronger Together with Shared Ownership." Harvard Business School Case 420-008, September 2019.
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
taking a less transparent route by selling less product in the same package and perhaps hoping the consumer doesn’t notice. Here, HBS faculty members John Gourville and Alex MacKay discuss the ups and downs of the practice of... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
performance, such as the Acumen Fund, the Robin Hood Foundation, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and ActionAid International. ActionAid, for example, is practicing "downward accountability" by creating transparent measurement... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
overall effect. The study’s findings are relevant for practice in that they point to side effects of tournament performance evaluation schemes that might undermine effectiveness of incentive systems. In particular, this study shows that... View Details
- Profile
Tom Adeyemi
classroom. If you could give one piece of advice to prospective students, what would it be? Have strong opinions but be open to them being challenged. The case method encourages you to make decisions with incomplete information, which is a great way to View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
Many employees fall into a rut. They do their jobs and respond to challenges in a set way to deliver stable results. But consistency can give way to performance gaps between a company’s high achievers and its weakest links. Fortunately, seeking help and adopting the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
very active in boosting the idea. We couldn’t have picked a better time to launch.” After more than a year of studying production practices and cross-country travels to acquire state-of-the-art equipment, the Turners began producing syrup... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 08 May 2020
- Blog Post
Building a World of Trusted Leaders: Taking the MBA Oath
uphold, in letter and spirit, the laws and contracts governing my conduct and that of my enterprise. I will refrain from corruption, unfair competition, or business practices harmful to society. I will protect the human rights and dignity... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
early to say for certain, I suspect that other ice cream manufacturers will soon follow suit. Q: The practice of reducing quantity while keeping price the same could be perceived as dishonest by consumers. Have any companies experienced a... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
milestones and successes can get people energized really quickly." Andrus practices what her company's products preach: She holds both regular team meetings and one-on-ones with her direct reports; she also underscores the importance... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
PublicationsBanks as Multinationals Author:Geoffrey Jones Publication:New York: Routledge, 2012 Abstract This is a revised edition of a comparative, international study which looks at the history of multinational banks. Researchers from the United States, Japan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game
- Research Summary
Institutional influences on the firm: cross-country comparisons
A third stream of work examines the influence of country institutions on firms in a cross-country comparative context. In a paper co-authored with Jordan Siegel (published in Management Science in 2009), we employed a quasi-natural experiment: a... View Details
- 2024
- Book
The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal ... And What to Do About It
What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? In this book, I address how we can rekindle the fading light of democratic capitalism as an... View Details
Salter, Malcolm S. The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal ... And What to Do About It. Cambridge Elements, Elements in Reinventing Capitalism. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- 2019
- Article
Overcoming Cultural Resistance to Open Source Innovation
By: John Winsor, Jin Hyun Paik, Michael Tushman and Karim R. Lakhani
Purpose: This article offers insight on how to effectively help incumbent organizations prepare for global business shifts to open source and digital business models.
Design/methodology/approach: Discussion related to observation, experience and case studies... View Details
Design/methodology/approach: Discussion related to observation, experience and case studies... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Innovation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model; Technological Innovation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Winsor, John, Jin Hyun Paik, Michael Tushman, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Overcoming Cultural Resistance to Open Source Innovation." Strategy & Leadership 47, no. 6 (2019): 28–33.
- Article
The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education
By: Jone L. Pearce and Laura Huang
For centuries we have expected the best teachers also to be scholars. The practice of scholarship should do more than make scholars more humble teachers; scholarship is expected to be more than an activity done for its own sake. Here we present evidence that our... View Details
Pearce, Jone L., and Laura Huang. "The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education." Academy of Management Learning & Education 11, no. 2 (June 2012): 247–262.