Isle of Man - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

groups and asked to assess a series of hypothetical workplace conflicts between two managers. Each group reviewed identical situations—except for the names of the arguing characters: Adam and Steven (two... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

this kind of enterprise "is the worst business in the world. Period. The end." He was smart and ambitious enough as a young man to get himself into the Harvard Business School—though he also... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

identical, and every effort of every man and woman in the company is focused on satisfying those needs."5 Accordingly, the most critical decision in designing any organization is deciding who the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

01 Jun 2004
News

No Nukes

Washington’s point man in all this is James Kelly (MBA ’68), assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. Kelly, who previously served in the White House and the Pentagon during the... View Details

Keywords: nuclear; programs; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Mar 2011
News

Life Is a Marathon

A few days past his 90th birthday, Jon Mendes (MBA ’47) was featured right alongside a lot of younger, bigger, and more famous athletes in the sports pages of the New York Times (November 7, 2010). That’s... View Details

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

ultimately be bankrupt, and Americans will be forced to pay for a much higher share of their health care bills. There is a better way. The United States must make healthy living the twenty-first century equivalent View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

"Where is the historiography of business? Why have businessmen, and now women, had to fight their way into history?" Yeager is conducting research on Miriam Beard and Henrietta Larson, who were deeply engaged in writing about... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Sep 2004
News

Big Brothers

this was a chance for me to give a little back.” Carter recently recalled that the two spent time together playing basketball, reading, and talking. “The fact that I was a black male child and he was a young white man wasn’t even an... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

08 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

describes the transformation of its role from transactional to strategic. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908405 Dice-K: The Hundred (Plus) Million Dollar View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021

offshore, he was working long days on a high-rise project, and neither of us had any intention of slowing down. I didn’t think it was possible for someone to share my ambitions, passions, and silliness or... View Details

20 Apr 2017
Blog Post

Why I Love My Job: Ching Ching Chen On Her Passion For the Music Industry

labels and streaming services. What is your most memorable moment on the job? The highlight of my summer internship, was getting staffed on projects with some of my music industry heroes including Jeff... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

Portrait Project

Onaizah Panhwar

“But you need a shelter a man to provide security to your family” – a well-intentioned relative advised, trying to convince me to marry when I was seventeen. “I will be my own shelter I may not know how but I have faith in myself” – I... View Details

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

better results. To advance the full set of their interests, they understand and shape the other side's choice—deal versus no deal—such that the other chooses what they want. As Francois de Callieres, an eighteenth-century commentator,... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

“Who are the world’s best negotiators? What makes them effective?” Inevitably Henry Kissinger’s name comes up as an elite, if controversial, negotiator from whom we can learn a great deal. At a time of rancorous divisions in American... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2017
News

Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance

chaos of the world.” (PD-1923) (PD-1923) Elizabeth Bennet: The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is a master at risk management in questions of 19th-century matrimony, Desai says.... View Details

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

men. Grove's deceptively simple question stripped the blinders of denial from their eyes. It allowed them to see the situation afresh, face it squarely, and make what had instantly become the obvious choice. Grove's question did not make... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

strategies aimed at improving working conditions in global supply chains. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51347 Harvard Business School Case 919-411 AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot Describes the entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

social messages focused on the fate of the common man in a world of social injustice. The case discusses how women were depicted in Kapoor’s films and enables a discussion... View Details