Goals and Objectives - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Driving Change in Education-to-Employment

where C-suites are led by Black, Latinx, and other historically marginalized groups. As a mentor of mine, Caroline Hill, has said, “Systems of inequity have been designed by people, and they can be... View Details

09 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

late 1980s, American corporations began increasingly linking the compensation of central research personnel to the economic objectives of the corporation. This paper examines the impact of the shifting compensation of the heads of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

systems with value. It is high time for employers to stop complaining about health care and modify their own practices that are perpetuating the system's problems. Employers' interests and employees'... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

ourselves that we don’t contribute to creating a better organization. Psychological safety can help businesses achieve goals like higher levels of innovation, higher quality execution, and greater agility.... View Details

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

experiment finds that the Peer Group Treatment, which combines public goal setting, monitoring in the group, and non-financial rewards, significantly increases savings in a new savings account. The number of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

in press Academy of Management Annals Scaling: Organizing and Growth in Entrepreneurial Ventures By: DeSantola, Alicia, and Ranjay Gulati Abstract—Entrepreneurial ventures face unique challenges related to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations

motivate a change? What are the goals and objectives of the change, and how will it be organized? How will performance be measured against those... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

30 May 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Sound Society

point between students and friends. Also, I would stress that Sound Society can be whatever the students want it to be — the club was created for the entire community, not just the people in the club. The View Details

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

expectations in opening a second office and execution of the plan was going well. And while the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 had affected the financial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

by the two organizations discovering, incrementally, opportunities for mutually beneficial value creation. The closer collaboration is fostered by a perception of shared objectives and values View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

7 PM – 11 PM EDT, 10 Oct 2018

HBX Strategy Execution

Identify and solve your company's strategic challenges with an exclusive group of like-minded senior leaders via HBX Live, a real-time, interactive online classroom. Program Dates: October 10, 2018 - November 7, 2018 View Details

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

in his Cabinet. He brought foreign investment back to South Africa and empowered the disenfranchised black majority to take positions in those enterprises. He knew that he was an icon and shaped a culture... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

reinforce organizational values on a constant basis, using actions to back up their words. Their goal is to change behavior, not just ways of thinking. For example, a leader can talk about values such as openness, tolerance, civility,... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

consistent with the goals and motivations of the social sector,” they write. “Men, on the other hand, are seen to be stereotypically competitive, risk taking, and agentic,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Sep 2018
Blog Post

How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment

decisions and shaped our path forward. Now, towards the end of the summer, we are finally armed with enough information and experience to create a weekly and monthly plan. I... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

11 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

Most ethical principles are pretty unambiguously good. Honesty, fairness, compassion—sure they have their downsides (being “honest to a fault”), but that’s more a by-product of something good than it is something evil in and of itself.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Profile

Suchita Prasad

defending my point of view in a class of 90 brilliant and type A section mates. Today, I have class mates from around the world, some of whom are friends for life. The journey has been truly transformative! How has your experience here... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

[ought to] have a clearly defined set of purposes or goals which keeps it moving in a deliberately chosen direction and prevents its drifting in undesired directions" (emphasis added). As shown in the... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

02 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

interests at the IASB, the standard setting body for IFRS. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111028-PDF-ENG Alnylam Pharmaceuticals: Building Value from the IP Estate Willy Shih and Sen ChaiHarvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne