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- 2008
- Working Paper
The Ontological Foundations of Leadership and Performance: Being a Leader, and the Effective Exercise of Leadership, A New Model
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business. The intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to... View Details
- June 2021 (Revised December 2021)
- Case
The Lunar Gateway, Moon vs. Mars, and the Political Governance of Space Activities
By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Mehak Sarang
In 2017, the Trump Administration made a bold claim—that they would return the next man and the first woman to the lunar surface by 2024, this time to establish a sustainable presence to enable further exploration in the solar system. With the Artemis Program, NASA has... View Details
Keywords: Space; Space Economy; Aerospace; Nasa; Governance; Policy; International Relations; Infrastructure
Weinzierl, Matthew C., and Mehak Sarang. "The Lunar Gateway, Moon vs. Mars, and the Political Governance of Space Activities." Harvard Business School Case 721-059, June 2021. (Revised December 2021.)
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
to neuropathy—a harrowing prospect for a man who stands at six-foot-eight. Suffice it to say he has seen plenty of life's curveballs. And he maintains that his strict principles have kept him steady. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Article
Kill or Die: Moral Judgment Alters Linguistic Coding of Causality
By: Julian De Freitas, Peter DiScioli, Jason Nemirow, Maxim Massenkoff and Steven Pinker
What is the relationship between the language people use to describe an event and their moral judgments?
We test the hypothesis that moral judgment and causative verbs rely on the same underlying mental
model of people’s actions. Experiment 1a finds that participants... View Details
Keywords: Moral Cognition; Moral Psychology; Causative Verbs; Trolley Problem; Argument Structure; Moral Sensibility; Judgments
De Freitas, Julian, Peter DiScioli, Jason Nemirow, Maxim Massenkoff, and Steven Pinker. "Kill or Die: Moral Judgment Alters Linguistic Coding of Causality." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 43, no. 8 (August 2017): 1173–1182.
- 2009
- Book
Let Me Explain: Eugene G. Fubini's Life in Defense of America
By: David G. Fubini
There is no necessary relationship between fame and power, and great influence is often wielded in willful obscurity. So it was with the irascible, indomitable Eugene Fubini. A physics prodigy who fled Italy when the fascists came to power, his searing intelligence and... View Details
Fubini, David G. Let Me Explain: Eugene G. Fubini's Life in Defense of America. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2009.
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
and war. The play revealed the cruelty of a system of capitalism based entirely on salesmanship, in which bosses hired and fired people when they were no longer effective. "You can't eat the orange and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
Shackleton, have some taste of the power of man to destroy others. Shackleton saw that irony. He cannot not have seen it. The reputation and survival that meant everything to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Side Effects: The Case of Propecia
You are the marketing director of Propecia, a new drug for hair restoration that's about to hit the market. But the drug can only be purchased via a physician's prescription. So do you advertise directly to balding men? Do you concentrate... View Details
- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
that he was replacing a woman as opposed to a man affect his decision?” Most likely, yes. In studying the appointments of more than 2,000 federal judges and more than 5,000 corporate board members, Chang... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Empire can set before itself in this regard,” Winston Churchill declared to the 1921 Imperial Conference, “and that is there should be no barriers of race, colour, or creed which should prevent any man by... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 23 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Founder of Modern Venture Capital
The exhibition, at Baker Library on the HBS campus, features selections from the Georges F. Doriot Collection—on permanent loan from the French Cultural Center, Boston—that reveal the ideas and ideals of a View Details
- 15 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Promises and Limitations of Big Data
financial robots, and passing along the savings to their customers. Luis Viceira explains the rise of "fintech" in a new case study. Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires? Danielle Li and... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
Fialkow, managing director of General Catalyst Partners, he would first employ the "earnest young man routine" to get an interview with an old guy in business who could explain the ins and outs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing
complaint, but the class discussion turned to the motivations of the man who revealed the wrongdoing. Have you ever thought about blowing the whistle? Dey asked her students. Their response: We’ve thought... View Details
Keywords: by April White
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
Richard S. Tedlow, MBA Class of 1949 Emeritus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of the forthcoming book, The Emergence View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jun 2012 - 24 Jun 2012
- Conference Presentation
Visual Attention to Power Posers: People Avert their Gaze from Nonverbal Displays of Power
By: Elizabeth Baily Wolf
Existing literature suggests that people visually attend more to powerful/high-status people. However, previous studies manipulated target power/status via the target’s role (e.g., CEO or judge vs. mechanic or fry cook) or clothing (e.g., business suit vs. sweat suit).... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
Americans don't know how lucky they are." Q: You explore in detail his early years growing up a Hungarian Jew who was threatened not only by the Nazis but also by the Soviet invasion of his country. What do you think this upbringing... View Details
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
the mid-1920s, Bruce Barton produced The Man Nobody Knows, comparing Jesus to a sales and advertising man. In the middle of the Great Depression, Dale Carnegie, a former Armour salesman, wrote the bestseller... View Details
- 2016
- Chapter
Wrong Paths to Right: Defining Morality With or Without a Clear Red Line
By: Ryann Elizabeth Manning and Michel Anteby
The extensive literature on organizational wrongdoing tends to assume that a clear red line divides the moral terrain. However, many organizations function not as moral orders, but as moral pursuits in which there is intentionally no explicit definition of right and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Organizational Theory; Sociology Of Ethics And Morality; Morality; Organizational Culture; Culture; Ethics; Africa; North and Central America
Manning, Ryann Elizabeth, and Michel Anteby. "Wrong Paths to Right: Defining Morality With or Without a Clear Red Line." In Organizational Wrongdoing: Key Perspectives and New Directions, edited by Donald Palmer, Kristen Smith-Crowe, and Royston Greenwood, 47–71. Cambridge Companions to Management. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
In the opening minutes of the only classroom video ever made of the man widely recognized as the world's leading authority on case-method teaching, Professor C. Roland... View Details