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Relational Contracts
George Baker is exploring (with Robert Gibbons of MIT and Kevin Murphy of the USC) how relational contracts--contracts secured by reputation and trust, rather than by legal enforcement--affect the performance and boundaries of firms. Such relational contracts are... View Details
- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
a baker whose religious beliefs compelled him to refuse to design a cake for a gay couple’s wedding reception. “My guess is that most companies don’t have a written policy that articulates how to handle religion in the workplace in a way... View Details
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
according to Sasser, a Baker Foundation Professor. These employees enjoy access to talent-identification systems. Big organizations can point to formal programs led by individuals whose sole responsibility... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Staying Under the 1.5°C Threshold: The Role of Government, Business, and Society
On Earth Day 2021, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative and the AMP199 Energy Circle co-hosted a conversation between Joan MacNaughton, Chair of the Climate Group and of the Advisory Board of the New Energy Coalition of Europe, and Professor Richard Vietor,... View Details
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
Franklin's ''The Way To Wealth.'' (Nottingham: Printed by C. Sutton, Bridlesmith-Gate, [ca.1800?]) Kress Library of Business and Economics, Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Sep 2012
- News
Harvard Business School Faculty Get Immersed in China
- 17 Jan 2020
- In Practice
6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart
theme." Leonard A. Schlesinger, Baker Foundation Professor and co-author of What Great Service Leaders Know and Do. 6. They avoid distractions “They focus!” Rebecca M. Henderson (@RebeccaReCap), John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 07 May 2015
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
The Low Risk Anomaly: Implications for Investment, Asset Allocation, and Corporate Finance
One of the basic principles of finance is that, in competitive and efficient markets, investors earn higher average returns only by taking greater risks. Asset classes follow this pattern: Stocks have returned more than bonds, and bonds have returned more than cash.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
If one thing has been made clear by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is this: The health care system in the United States (and most other nations) is not set up to respond to a large-scale medical emergency that affects tens of thousands of citizens simultaneously. But there... View Details
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
was a way of injecting a certain amount of objectivity and analysis into the decision to be made. In recent years, we have been advised to make certain decisions in a "blink" by Malcolm Gladwell,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
employees in the dark and constantly surprising them is a serious form of disrespect." Bert Baker linked it to integrity with this comment: "When I know that my manager is a person of integrity, then I know they will not... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
“I was so struck by that. He clearly felt he was going to become untethered from the person he’d been for many years, in a fundamental way,” says Amabile, a Baker Foundation professor at HBS, who is... View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Video
Professor Arthur Segel: Unexpected
- 31 Dec 2010
- News
Entrepreneur for the World Award
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
using art to sharpen the intuitiveness that goes into the moment of choice." Others maintained that choosing is neither an art nor a science. Laurence McKinney said, "We ultimately base our decisions on 'feelings'" and emotions, aided View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?— Alfred Wise,Share Our Strength The session, led by HBS professor James E. Austin, featured three managers whose experiences highlight the challenges and benefits of thinking... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
this interview he discusses the development of the German corporation and what modern managers can learn from that history. The book was edited by Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, and was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Reflections From My First Month at HBS
I’m taking a break from reading cases to write about a few thoughts in my first month. Sitting in Baker Library, I can’t help but to imagine that I’m sitting on the same leather chair on which Jamie Dimon or Sheryl Sandberg may have sat... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
issue of responsibility to the community and who you are as a person.” Written in 1458 in Italy by trade merchant Benedetto Cotrugli, The Book of the Art of Trade recently received its first English translation. View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna