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May 2018
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Linda Babcock: Go-getter and Do-gooder

By: Max Bazerman, Iris Bohnet, Hannah Riley-Bowles and George Loewenstein

In this tribute to the 2007 recipient of the Jeffrey Z. Rubin Theory‐To‐Practice Award from the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), we celebrate Linda Babcock's contributions to diverse lines of research, her tireless and effective efforts to put... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Biography; Research; Negotiation; Leadership; Practice

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17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

ways. A retired engineer threw himself into doing hands-on engineering work as a volunteer for the new community center being built in town. Finding a new source for valued affirmation: Retirees often miss... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsAscent Media Group (A) Harvard Business School Case 607-064 Ascent Media races to adapt to the changes resulting from increasing digitalization of its business, from creative... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2023
What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

success. They included changing the white, middle-class “Betty Crocker” image of the organization, reversing membership levels, expanding leadership, building diversity, and fundraising. Declining membership was reversed. Leadership ranks were extended beyond View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

25 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

heard that she’s good at math over and over again,” Coffman says. “You might have to encourage women a few times if you want to close these gaps.” "Our work suggests a need for structuring group decision-making in a way that assures the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

expression of personal beliefs and values. While she is famously private, we know that she values the daily service of people who are less fortunate. As she writes in a 2020 essay, her gifts went to organizations that “have dedicated their lives to helping others,... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. When the book is written on this election,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

13 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

this so much because it resonates with people, so we set out to do empirical work around that: Is this indeed the pattern we see in an experimental context? If it is, what might we be able to do about it?” she says. As it turns out,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

05 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

the right people are confident, suggests recent research by Thomas Graeber, assistant professor at Harvard Business School. His work tested the effects of meta-cognition—essentially, whether more skilled people are also more confident... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

organizations to strategies built on partnerships to accomplish both their individual and their newly shared goals. A similar incongruity seemed to exist between Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) and Visa International. RIF is a national nonprofit that View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

month to receive $25 Volunteering for 12 days and receiving $25 without prior notice Refugees will survey members of their community about how they spend their days. To test whether reducing near-term uncertainty improves well-being, some... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton%20sommers.pdf Working PapersSustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future? Authors:Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Tiona Zuzul Abstract Two trends are likely to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

In his recent Working Paper, "Marketing's Role in Cross-Sector Collaboration," HBS professor James Austin outlines three stages of collaboration between businesses and nonprofits—philanthropic, transactional, and integrative... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

01 Jun 2023
HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

street-to-prison cycle that had ravaged his youth. He had passed a high school equivalency test and had earned a college degree, and by that point could envision a bright future as a budding accountant at Arthur Andersen, the firm he longed to View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

01 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

the social apparatus may not work well because of discrimination." “The government and the bureaucracy and the social apparatus may not work well because of discrimination,” he says. “The state might be in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

hierarchy." The two systems work as one constant flow of information and activity. The approach succeeds partly because the people who volunteer for the network are already View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

introduction of IP rights. Last, we've seen open source communities evolve and now open source nonprofit foundations are setting up their own for-profit companies to compete with traditional software companies. A key question for them is "How can you to channel... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details