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  • 02 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs

degree of performance persistence, but the magnitude was quite striking." Their research, conducted with HBS professor David S. Scharfstein and former doctoral student Anna Kovner (MBA '00, PhDBE '08), raises issues that could use further... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 01 May 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

Summing Up Is the Term "Servant Leadership" an Oxymoron? Servant leadership (SL) is a concept that triggers a great deal of interest, judging by my e-mail inbox and the number of responses to this month's column. Many comments... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • November 2012 (Revised April 2013)
  • Case

Perspectives on the Great Depression

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
The case assembles texts giving perspectives on the Great Depression by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, Anna Schwartz and Ben Bernanke. This should allow for a discussion of the role of fiscal and monetary policies in reaching and... View Details
Keywords: Great Depression; Keynesian Multiplier; Monetary Policy; Zero Lower Bound Of Interest Rates; Role Of Expectations In Macroeconomics; Performance Expectations; History; Policy; Interest Rates; Macroeconomics
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  • 27 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

Online—was coauthored by Nancy P. Rothbard, David Pottruck Professor of Management of the Wharton School of Business; Lakshmi Ramarajan, the Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
  • 02 Dec 2019
  • What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

dominant cultural traits and prevailing operating climate.” Anna Johnson recommended: “We need to flip the switch on dissent, delay, and accountability by enabling leadership to take a long view. Want to do... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation
  • 14 Oct 2021
  • In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

such friction by implementing rigid policies based on the presumption that they have correctly anticipated how the pandemic will evolve. Designing and implementing any durable policy requires having a firm grasp of what the world—the “new... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • February 2022 (Revised January 2023)
  • Case

Creating and Measuring Purpose at Viega

By: Ethan Rouen, Suraj Srinivasan and James Barnett
At its headquarters in Attendorn, Germany, Viega’s chairwoman Anna Viegener gathered the company’s leadership team to discuss their progress on formalizing purpose-driven leadership as a strategic driver within the organization. Viega manufactured and distributed... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Measurement and Metrics; Germany
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  • 30 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

With more people working remotely right now, many of us have experienced a videoconference interrupted by barking dogs or hungry kids demanding snacks, punctuated, perhaps, by cabinet doors slamming and ice... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

Science. The paper was authored by Stefan Dimitriadis, a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School; Matthew Lee, an assistant professor of strategy at INSEAD; Lakshmi Ramarajan, the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

associate professor at McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business. She co-authored the paper with Lakshmi Ramarajan, the Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. Difficult for tutors... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

business executives who attended the symposium to discuss how to address inequality issues and encourage greater diversity in the workplace. Held on the Harvard Business School campus on March 31 and April 1, the symposium was co-organized View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 May 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

global challenges on their responses. Sudip Bose put it this way: "Venerated works of Milton Friedman have influenced government policies. . . . But, his shadow will be relentlessly chased primarily by global climatic concerns and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

by our unconscious mind” Both decision-making methods have strengths and weaknesses, says Harvard Business School postdoctoral fellow Maarten Bos. Our conscious mind is pretty good at following rules, but our unconscious mind—our ability... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Conference, led by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, presented two days of provocative lectures, panel discussions, and case studies surrounding questions like: What's next for healthcare? And how should smart businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 29 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

original employment—but that doesn't mean they don't dramatically shake up thousands of lives. "The one thing that's clear is that there's a lot more churn after the private equity guys come in," Lerner said. "There are a lot more jobs being created and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 14 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

commonplace, she said, but it's a false dichotomy because "we are all raced, and we are all gendered." Giddings talked of "racist, classist vitriol" in writings by renowned nineteenth-century feminists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control over El Salvador-based savings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested View Details
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap—the missing theoretical mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and discover new ones. We propose that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Summer 2013
  • Article

Real Estate Prices During the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

By: Tom Nicholas and Anna Scherbina
Using new data on market-based transactions we construct real estate price indexes for Manhattan between 1920 and 1939. During the 1920s prices reached their highest level in the third quarter of 1929 before falling by 67% at the end of 1932 and hovering around that... View Details
Keywords: Property; Market Transactions; Price; Value; Financial Crisis; Investment; Real Estate Industry; New York (state, US)
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