Department Of Justice - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Jun 2020
Blog Post

What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives

Here are a few ways MBAs can support the movement for Black lives: Donate to and fundraise for racial justice nonprofits. Support local Black-led organizing groups and/or invest in national organizations like Movement for Black Lives, a... View Details

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

in your head, and say, "Okay, what's reality here? Let me just take 10 minutes and let me go for a walk, and then I'll have more clarity in terms of how I'm going to think about this." Skydeck is produced by the External Relations View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System

scholars from HBS, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School, and the Department of Economics, the BFFS Project is led by Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance... View Details

04 May 2020
Blog Post

Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust

done.” Effective communication must be accompanied with efficiencies in structure. “We have to operate more like a private company in which different departments have their own authority to act without running every decision up the chain... View Details

September 1955 (Revised April 1983)
Case

Allen Distribution Co.

A new credit department manager plans to set the tone of his department by reviewing marginal accounts. View Details

Keywords: Management Style

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22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

was beginning to take hold in the 1920s. Chains and department stores opened across America, using volume sales to offer lower prices on a variety of goods. Gleason encountered competition from these chain... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

They collected application data using the US Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System database, and when data for a particular college wasn’t available, they contacted the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

26 Apr 2018
Video

2018 G&WS: Ron Sullivan Presents "Interrogating (In)Justice: #BlackLivesMatter"

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

physical proximity to communities of opportunity. The Engineering Department and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University have contributed a great deal to West... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

01 Jun 1997
News

Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey

lot of hard work, it gradually turned into a department store," Barron explains. "He treated people fairly and was well-respected. I think I gained a more positive view of... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

managers) and those focused on administrative functions (such as finance managers, HR directors, and legal department managers). Wulf explains that the administrative functional managers were those most directly affected by IT... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Jun 2014
News

Fight against short-termism is misdirected

29 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?

Department of Housing and Urban Development, the primary agency for dealing with affordable housing in this country, is about $35 billion. Realtors say the sky will fall if we end the mortgage interest... View Details

Keywords: Construction; Real Estate

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Site Credits - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Administration Elisabeth Köll, Associate Professor of Business Administration Michael Shih-ta Chen, Executive Director, Asia Pacific Research Center John D. Wong, Doctoral Candidate, History Department... View Details

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

Joseph R. Biden Jr. becomes the 46th president of the United States at a time when the nation is grappling with several sober realities at once: a deadly pandemic that is claiming the lives of thousands... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Resilience vs. Vulnerability: Psychological Safety and Reporting of Near Misses with Varying Proximity to Harm in Radiation Oncology

By: Palak Kundu, Olivia Jung, Amy C. Edmondson, Nzhde Agazaryan, John Hegde, Michael Steinberg and Ann Raldow

Background
Psychological safety, a shared belief that interpersonal risk taking is safe, is an important determinant of incident reporting. However, how psychological safety affects near-miss reporting is unclear, as near misses contain contrasting cues that... View Details

Keywords: Psychological Safety; Near-miss Reporting; Health Care and Treatment; Safety

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12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Most managers think the legal department is that office down the hall where they go to keep out of trouble or write a binding patent agreement. And that's shortsighted, says Harvard Business School professor... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Thanks to the influence of one of his physics instructors, George W. Wheelwright III, the department granted Land his own laboratory, an unusual resource for a young... View Details

02 Sep 2020
Blog Post

My MBAid Story: Christine Keung (MBA 2020)

Christine Keung (MBA 2020) shares how scholarships enabled her to explore, grow, and earn an education that far exceeded her childhood imagination—taking her from Wellesley College to the US Department of... View Details

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Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising

distribute them and local retailers to print their names on them at no cost. James C. Ayer, involved in the pharmaceutical industry, reaped enormous publicity benefits from the distribution of yearly almanacs. Ayer eventually established... View Details

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