by Michael Blanding - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2016
News

Airbnb Adopts Rules to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts

19 Aug 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The Globalization of Corporate Environmental Disclosure: Accountability or Greenwashing?

Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Michael W. Toffel

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

unfolded, without the usual biases and distortions that come from 20/20 hindsight. The story of how Levy tilled the soil for change provides lessons for any CEO in a turnaround situation. [...] Reinforcing Good Habits Without a doubt, the toughest challenge faced View Details

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

05 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

temperatures will likely increase 6 degrees C by 2100, "which would have devastating consequences for the planet." This means more super droughts, floods, storms, fires, crop failures, sea-level rise, and other major... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler

14 Sep 2017
News

How to fix US politics? Maybe start by seeing it as an ‘industrial complex.’

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

Unfortunately, superior decision making is distressingly difficult to assess in real time. Successful outcomes—decisions of high quality, made in a timely manner and implemented effectively—can be evaluated only after the fact. But by the... View Details

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

01 Oct 2015
News

A Lifesaving Smartphone App Inspired by a Brush With Tragedy

Keywords: RapidSOS; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

November – December 2009
Article

Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company

By: Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom

Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning linked to the company's business strategy and the real day-to-day challenges facing managers. The experience of Sweden-based industrial... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Development; Programs; Learning; Failure; Business Strategy; Organizations; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Design; Sweden

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Colorblindness and Diversity: Conflicting Goals in Decisions Influenced by Race

By: Michael I. Norton, Joseph A. Vandello, Andrew Biga and John M. Darley

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23 Sep 2020
News

Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method

New York members, based on research by business executive Katherine Gehl and HBS Professor Michael Porter, detailing how partisan polarization has rendered government ineffective. That research resulted in a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

the key to creating breakthrough innovations. Still others have claimed that a company may be able to shift back and forth between different organizational models, focusing on exploitation for a period and then moving into exploration mode. We recently decided to test... View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

December 2019
Supplement

Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises (B): Doing Right by Do-Rite Donuts

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Michael S. Kaufman

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09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

30 Jul 2019
Working Paper Summaries

‘Organizing’, ‘Innovating’, and ‘Managing’ in Complexity Space

Keywords: by Michael C. Moldoveanu

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

of health insurance obligations. But by disengaging, employers lose much of their ability to influence the costs of poor health. This is what many European companies have discovered. In Sweden, for example, excessive rates of absenteeism... View Details

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

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

07 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

What Environmental Ratings Miss

Keywords: by Auden Schendler & Michael Toffel

May 2024 (Revised May 2024)
Case

Market by Met Council: Revolutionizing Food Pantries in the Digital Age

By: Elisabeth Paulson and Michael W. Toffel

In fall 2023, the Food Program of Met Council—America’s largest Jewish charity dedicated to fighting poverty—completed the rollout of the newest version of its digital pantry platform to twelve food pantries in the Met Council food pantry network. The digital... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Digital Transformation; Nonprofit Organizations; Service Operations; Human Needs

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