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Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?statement? Nike’s decision to feature in its ads Colin Kaepernick, an American footballer whose patriotism has been questioned, ultimately resulted in what was described by one observer as a “bold success.” On the other hand, brands like Target and Bud Light have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New ThingsBy: Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices.... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Prejudice and Bias; Value Creation
Christensen, Clayton M., Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih. "Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008).
First Look: January 4 PublicationsCases about Redefining Global Strategy Authors:Pankaj Ghemawat and Jordan I. Siegel Publication:Harvard Business Publishing, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
How is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling Natural ExperimentBuilding Sustainable CitiesBy 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details
Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Muchin which they donate a higher proportion of short-term profits. They might also reassess their marketing of programs like Pledge 1% in which companies promise to donate 1 percent of annual profits, employee time or company equity to... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?Summing Up How Do We Encourage CEOs to Manage for Sustainability? Important forces encourage short-term perspectives among managers as well as investors today. These include governance biases, tax policies, faster turnover among leaders,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
First Look: June 21Publications Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest Author: Niall Ferguson Publication: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Review the book:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)real world events, on that end of the spectrum. Audiences exchange precious time off from long jobs to engage with entertainment. I feel the stories they turn to should inspire them, uplift them, and at least, do what the category name says: entertain them. What are... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation DifferentialsKeywords: by William R. Kerr
The Value of Professional Ties in B2B MarketsBy: Navid Mojir and Sriya Anbil
We study how a particular form of social ties (i.e., professional ties proxied by past employment) affects price and profitability in business-to-business (B2B) markets. While most of the work on social ties focuses on information diffusion in business-to-consumer... View Details
Keywords: Professional Ties; Social Ties; Business-to-business Marketing; B2B Marketing; Repo; Individual Connections; B2B Pricing; Pricing; Decision-making In Financial Markets; Marketing; Relationships; Price; Financial Markets; Decision Making
Mojir, Navid, and Sriya Anbil. "The Value of Professional Ties in B2B Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-037, November 2021. (Revised September 2023.)
Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private SectorThis paper describes how the gaming of society's rules by corporations contributes to the problem of institutional corruption in the world of business. "Gaming" in its various forms involves the use of technically legal means to subvert the intent of society's rules in... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Trust; Law; Performance; Investment Funds; Private Sector; Behavior; Relationships; Goals and Objectives
Salter, Malcolm S. "Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-060, December 2010.
How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?Christensen reminded us that the root cause of every business disaster is mistakenly pursuing short-term goals ahead of long-term ones." Daniel T. C. Lee commented, "Traditional or not, strategic planning has never restricted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Sayme an invaluable amount about the world. Do you think you could have achieved your short-term goals without an MBA? Having an MBA validated my ability to think strategically and work with other bright minds from a variety of different... View Details
What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?PeopleImages What kinds of fear, if any, are appropriate in leading others? Fear has a place in leading and managing others. But if used for short-term achievement, as a negative motivator, or as a source of power over others, it can have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990
Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppersoffer the short-term loans to consumers. And it’s no wonder: Consumers using the payment method often spend more than they would with a credit card, according to new research by Harvard Business School professors Marco Di Maggio and Emily... View Details
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?that, at the end of the day, those are also the communities with the least amount of power.” Is short-term hubris clouding my judgement? As a market leader, Google might have felt invincible enough to ignore major shortcomings in key... View Details
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