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  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

pursue her passion in technology and risk not seeing her family for a long time; or visit her family in Canada or the U.K., and risk losing her livelihood. The question she posed: Would I be willing to sign... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that the initial stage of socialization... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

mastering three models, the company has built formidable advantages that are difficult for competitors to overcome. Its example has shown how, properly applied, the implementation of multiple business models is not a risk but rather a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

Walker, who has been credited as the first self-made African-American woman millionaire, created a hair-care empire after years spent as a laundress in St. Louis, Missouri. Decades before the Civil Rights movement, her company gave View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

McMuffin—as well as what has been called one of the most famous cross-sells of all time: “Would you like fries with that?” Yet by 2015, McDonald’s found itself in what reporters called the worst slump in a decade, driven by rising competition, declining sales, and... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Golden State of Mind

long-term decisions I could.” A room-filling presence, from his broad-shouldered frame to his toothy grin and exuberant eyebrows, Draper embraces feats of physicality. Video clips show the 57-year-old dancing wildly to Pharrell Williams’s “Happy” or publicly performing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

risk and uncertainty. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-127.pdf It Is Okay for Artists to Make Money...No, Really, It's Okay Authors:Robert D. Austin and Lee Devin Abstract In this paper, we examine the apparent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

platforms to fight off rivals and grow profits? Their ability to manage five aspects of the networks they’re embedded in: network effects, in which users attract more users clustering, or fragmentation into many local markets the risk of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

Abstract Employers can choose from lots of tools when they want to encourage employees to work together toward a new corporate goal. One of the rarest managerial skills is the ability to understand which tools will work in a given... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 19

Navalny the right figure for business leaders in Russia to organize around? What were the risks of getting involved with a politically volatile activist? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112033-PDF-ENG McKesson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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  • 08 Sep 2016
  • News

How We Make It Work

multiple times, with short notice. Work-life balance became irrelevant to us. Instead, as a family we adopted what I’d best summarize as “strategic equality,” making my wife’s career the central pivot around which everything else was fair game. I went for flexibility... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. False promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

expropriated American investments, but in almost every case the U.S. government's employment of economic sanctions or covert action obtained market value or more in compensation-despite the growing strategic risks. The advent of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

activity on a massive scale-devising strategies that provide employment for the billions now outside the system, inventing business models that make better use of scarce resources, and creating institutional arrangements for coordinating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

employment regulation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50041 November 2015 Accounting Review The Effect of Target Difficulty on Target Completion: The Case of Reducing Carbon Emissions By: Ioannou,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers Authors:David I. Levine, Michael W. Toffel Abstract Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 Quality Management System standard affects organizational outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

employment system and therefore do not qualify for Infonavit, a government loan and public housing agency that grants more than half of Mexico’s mortgages and is funded in part by a 5 percent payroll tax. Their idea is validated in a talk... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

candidates: Don't underestimate the importance of likability. Help prospective employers understand why you deserve what you're requesting. Make it clear that they can get you. Understand the person across the table from you. Understand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2021
  • News

Higher Returns

social side, that talks about your relationships with employees, suppliers, and clients, and the communities in which you operate. So labor standards, employee relations, local community impact will be another one. Equal employment... View Details