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- 09 Nov 2023
- HBS Case
What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?
not in our division.” Now, the key to breaking the tie between these misconceptions and the stigma lies in rigorous persistence and sequential focus. Do not attempt to solve all of these in one fell swoop. Choose one misconception, and... View Details
- Research Summary
Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform Era
The aim of the book is to illustrate the dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the 1990s. The topic is important both because China is the world's second largest recipient of FDI and because there are substantial misconceptions about the drivers of... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
I learned. “There's this misconception that if you feel bad, something's wrong with you. If you feel distress and anxiety and melancholy, you're broken and you need to be fixed. Wrong.” Brooks: It's amazing teaching at a university how... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
Their outward confidence might mask fear and anxiety, but they must be ready to admit misconceptions and misinterpretations, and acknowledge early on what they don’t know or what isn’t working. Executives must be prepared to shoulder... View Details
- 18 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers
result in banks charging consumers multiple overdraft fees rather than just one, draining significant cash from people living at the edge of their means at a time when inflation is further reducing their buying power. "The misconception... View Details
- Article
Mission-Driven Governance
By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson
The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation
Fisman, Raymond, Rakesh Khurana, and Edward Martenson. "Mission-Driven Governance." Stanford Social Innovation Review 7, no. 3 (Summer 2009).
- 21 Sep 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?
posed by Instagram users and Battilana’s answers: What’s the biggest myth people tend to believe about power dynamics? In my research, I have found strikingly common misconceptions in how people think about power. The first myth is that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
urge you to get past this misconception and realize that such admissions will enhance your productivity and career. So, consider: Do you regret any significant decisions you've made about your career? If you had to do it over again, would... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
Al in his hunting cap, which now appears at the very front of the book. But a hunter he undeniably was: In the vast body of his work he located and brought down a host of misconceptions about the nature of business, establishing in their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
Many executives believe that leadership development is a job for the HR department. This may be the single biggest misconception they can have. As corporations have broken down work into manageable activities and then consolidated... View Details
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
rise of executive pay over time as a product of efficient markets and argued that the increase merely reflects the growing marginal productivity of chief executives. Unfortunately, this standard defense reflects a broad misconception of... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
has historically worked. Entrepreneurs often have misconceptions about the role that venture capitalists play in new ventures. Our book provides a framework for entrepreneurs to understand the venture capital process. But rather than... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
learned is the nature of the problem. We, perhaps like many others, had the misconception that cultural factors were the primary inhibitor to literacy development in India. However, it turns out that 85 percent of school-age children... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
of the article. Richard Eckel opined that "A basic misconception is that Section 404 increases transparency afforded to stakeholders... What 404 does is require that corporate leadership demonstrate that the processes used to produce... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
Zaltman. "Another misconception is that it doesn't take much time to understand what's going on." Companies that have succeeded at probing the psyches of their customers, he says, have "taken a lot of time to extract... View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
point out possible misconceptions about job creation by small businesses off the mark? Do they miss the point? What do you think? Original Article In the late 1990s, a group of faculty at the Harvard Business School proposed a new... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
Internet and tried as well to clarify some common fears and misconceptions of such research's effects on privacy and intellectual property. The positive aspects, according to panelist George Church, include the fact that the Internet has... View Details
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
a common misconception that people who buy niche products will have greater loyalty to them," Elberse says. "But I bet that the average viewer who likes to purchase classic black-and-white movies also tends to watch hits like... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
what can be done to reverse that trend. In doing so, they take aim at some misconceptions about what keeps voters home, and show the surprising effectiveness of door-to-door canvassing at getting more people to the polls. Voting is not... View Details