social pressures - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 May 2018
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The Work-Life Balancing Act

preparation. What does each person actually want? Men and women now often have more freedom to choose work inside or outside the home. Depending on your social circles, there can be overwhelming pressure to... View Details

20 Jan 2015
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Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

by federal law, in order to receive government reimbursements. “As a provider with limited resources and tremendous pressure to decrease cost, we can only focus on so many initiatives at once,” notes Kevin Donovan, CEO of Mt. Ascutney... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

08 May 2019
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Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities

coursework, Asamoah has served as a student consultant for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she analyzed how Grand Rapids, Michigan, could increase workforce diversity. As a summer intern at a solar energy View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness

harm as overt racism, Bazerman says. Even as most of us would agree that equality for all is good, tribalism can threaten our ability to do anything about it. “Biological and social factors pressure us to do... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

are putting pressure on intermediaries to do more with the companies that they’ve invested in. That’s in both the public and the private markets. And so at this point I don’t think it’s a question of whether this is niche or mainstream.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Oct 1999
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Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

one of the first firms in Thailand to develop its own written code of ethics. The company's philosophy is rooted in the Buddhist concept of fairness and also stresses product quality, the value of the individual, and concern for social... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium

were all over the map. There were plenty of examples of time pressure spawning creative thinking — Apollo 13, for instance — but there were also many occasions where not having enough time squelched creative thoughts. Given that creative... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

be above average. The market for executives is not one in which there are strong competitive pressures to keep compensation down; so, in the end, it's the boards that must resist the pressure to overpay... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2004
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Ideas: Books

Fair edited by Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Michael Wheeler (Jossey-Bass) Professor Wheeler and his coeditor have assembled a collection of essays from experts on ethics in negotiation. The editors and contributors examine why ethics matters individually and View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

undergraduate degree from MIT, she worked in Washington as an economist and as a consultant before pursuing her doctorate at HBS. Photo courtesy of Baker Library Historical Collections Did you feel extra pressure to succeed because you... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance

15 Nov 2020
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Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

criticism of its early social media marketing campaign targeting teens. Then Toffel, who is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, poses a tough question: “What should JUUL do now, given the View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine

be hyper-focused on developing the next Lipitor or Levitra, creating a constant drain on financial and human resources. And companies are running out of big ideas and facing gaps in their revenue thanks to patent expirations, leaving investors View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement

social enterprises here and around the world. You both mentioned that student interest is one of the drivers. What else is driving the momentum behind social enterprise? JB: Corporations face increasing... View Details

27 Aug 2019
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A Shot at Success

Feickert says. And the things she learned on the basketball court—drive, endurance, teamwork—served her well in the business world, too. The pressure of tax season at Ernst & Young in New York, where she moved after graduation, was... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 1996
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The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

the community -- its outside stakeholders. You can have responsibility at the top of the company, but if it doesn't permeate the entire organization the stakeholders can't count on it. What about bottom-line responsibility to shareholders? Any senior manager today has... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

artificially lowers wages. In March 2004, the AFL-CIO filed a trade-dispute petition seeking U.S. government action to pressure the Chinese to abolish the dual-class citizenship system. Given the growing attention to corporate View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation

For decades, the U.S. auto industry ruled America’s economy, shaped the country’s development, and influenced American culture and social mores. Now, buffeted by globalization and other powerful forces, it faces a moment of truth. The... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit

been a series of interwoven threads. Coming back to HBS has been an opportunity to tie them together," says Senior Lecturer Diana Barrett. The most recent of the three to return to HBS, Barrett joined the faculty in 1998, drawn by her love of teaching, the School's... View Details