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- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy
real people face-to-face at bedsides and tables, in prisons and courtrooms and classrooms, on streets and hospital wards and hotlines and frontlines of all types and sizes, day after day after day.” We also know that she believes that the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
shot and killed a teenager. Miller had served four years in juvenile detention for that murder and had later spent five additional years in prison for a smattering of armed robberies. Eventually, while behind bars, he had gotten his head... View Details
- October 2014
- Case
McKinsey & Company, 2012
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2012, McKinsey & Company (McKinsey) was the world's premier management consultancy, providing advice to CEO's and top executives of leading companies around the globe. Many consulting firms were bigger but few could match the reputation McKinsey had built over more... View Details
- 24 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Bernie Madoff Explains Himself
evening for several months. Madoff, a renowned stockbroker turned fraudster, conducted the phone calls from FCI Butner, a medium-security federal correctional institution in North Carolina. At the time, he was serving the third year of a 150-year View Details
- 31 May 2023
- HBS Case
Why Business Leaders Need to Hear Larry Miller's Story
Boston. Produced in collaboration with Danielle Kost and Dina Gerdeman of HBS Working Knowledge. Inspired by the case "Larry Miller" by Francesca Gino, Frances X. Frei, Hise Gibson, and Alicia Dadlani. The Journey of Larry Miller VIDEO: From View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
confidence, and motivation to continue. One manager, noting the need to escape what he called the “psychic prison of continuous improvement,” regularly set aside time to celebrate workplace achievements with his staff. “Reflection is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
set aside their ethical qualms in deference to perceived authority figures (Milgram, 1963). Similarly, the 1971 “prison” experiments by Stanford Professor Philip Zimbardo had demonstrated the power of context to alter people’s ethical orientation; after only a few days... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
afterward." Some of my surgical colleagues are worried. Even if using organs of executed prisoners is repugnant, it would certainly be even more repugnant to execute prisoners for their organs, instead... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?
They have been found guilty and sentenced to prison sentences of 11 and 13 years, respectively. Former McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook agreed to pay a $400,000 fine and accept a five-year ban on serving on public company boards on... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 23 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11
cutbacks Previous studies have delved into the fact that the threat of prison time and fines can deter white-collar criminals from committing crimes that can greatly harm corporations, investors, and consumers alike, not to mention... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
tried to prevent customers from showrooming. They considered changing the barcodes on products to make them hard to search for online. The company even tried to use signal jammers, like the ones they use to keep prison inmates from using... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
a greater awareness of what the concept of privacy entails, like Plato's prisoners discovering that they had been observing and talking about shadows as opposed to the objects themselves." The tone of these responses raises several... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
Prisoners were housed in old stone barracks and newly constructed huts made of corrugated iron. The researchers examined the corporate archives of three German multinationals that employed the largest number of people interned in India... View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
Stockdale, former vice presidential candidate, naval officer, and prisoner of war, said leaders must balance both realism and optimism in their messaging. In a POW camp, Stockdale said, it was the optimists who perished first—those who... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
mouths have an opportunity to do something like Harley’s doing?” A prison conviction leads to multiple employment rejections After losing his father at age 15, Blakeman fell into hard drug use. After he was incarcerated in a Georgia View Details
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
thousands of Hungarian Jews died in Auschwitz. His father's mother, for example, as well as some of the relatives of his wife Eva, a Viennese Jew. And they lost a number of other relatives, they're not sure whether it was on the Eastern Front or in a View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
Fund has outperformed the S&P 500 by a 1.2 percent annual average return, she said Amy Domini Her firm uses some 100 criteria in judging a potential investment. Immediate knockouts would be companies involved in power, alcohol, nuclear weapons, gambling, for-profit... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
he had to fend off impeachment. Had Martha Stewart and Rajat Gupta admitted their roles in insider trading, they could have plea bargained, moved past their ethical lapses, and possibly avoided prison time. Had Best Buy founder Richard... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
complex organizational patterns that emerge in lieu of genuine mirroring when actionable transparency allows people to "break the mirror." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-058.pdf Criminal Recidivism after View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
manufacturing businesses. After describing the nitty-gritty details of scraping together the firm's first purchase in a post-September 11th economy, Williams highlighted a few key takeaways for aspiring entrepreneurs: "In a democracy, your downside is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna