Role Of Profit And Social Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

patterns of their male colleagues," says coauthor Kolb. And without women in high places, younger women lack the role models and mentors to... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

25 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

hiring, and promoting minority workers, and he hopes the research will spur them to re-evaluate ways of reducing segregation. “These research findings are depressing because we... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

“We’ve studied many industries and the biggest impact, biggest factor that impact peoples’ decisions making is word-of-mouth.” By their claim they’re kind of saying companies... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

03 Jan 2008
What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

can it be done more efficiently and at lower risk than in the "school of hard knocks" assumed in many responses? (David White's comment that " the only way to improve judgment is to make... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

Participants within a business market assume one or more of four primary roles to carry out these value-creating activities: Suppliers create component products or provide services, raw materials or talent.... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

you see as some of key factors that led to this? Luis Viceira:The Dow is an index that has traditionally included the largest companies traded in the US stock market. Its growth since its inception reflects the growth View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

protection in the pharmaceutical and life sciences arena, said Chesbrough. But if you're in IT, forget about it. Can you sustain the pace of innovation necessary for success? The answers to the previous... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

important role of the infrastructure provision in any economy and how it shapes economic activity. Infrastructure includes everything from roads View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description of the rise View Details

Keywords: by Staff

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

that preserve the legitimacy of capitalism—even if those rules don't directly support their companies' profit margins. "Managers have an agency responsibility to the market system as a whole," he said. View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

in their privacy policies, the paper states. The researchers were quick to point out that they were not recommending a restriction of disclosure practices, since "high-disclosure services play an important View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

The role of government in Africa must be to establish an "investor friendly" environment, according to Obiageli Ezekwesili, a panelist at the Africa Business Conference's debate on "Government... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2008
Op-Ed

The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations

firm's actions were threatening the system. A newly formed prudential regulator would regulate financial institutions that had some type of explicit government guarantee such as deposit insurance. In that View Details

Keywords: by Dwight Crane; Banking; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

a me-centric view of life, then what seems rational to me as an individual may appear irrational in the context of social norms." Michael Linz asked to what extent a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

immigrants might increase labor market competition for native-born workers, lowering their wages and their employment prospects. Cultural. Immigration is associated with the influx of people with different... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

access to public institutional debt and equity capital markets and the uncertainty of small business profits makes retained earnings a... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

27 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

creativity have largely focused on the factors that fuel extraordinarily creative people. But who studies the ordinary people, who may not be geniuses but nonetheless contribute creative solutions in their personal and work lives all the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

crucial role in helping to combat Ebola in Liberia. Founded in 2007 to serve the most remote of Liberia’s 15 counties grappling with the HIV/AIDS crisis, Last Mile Health recruits, trains View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

Excerpted with permission from "The Dual Edged Role of the Business Model in Leveraging Corporate Technology Investments," in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

27 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

discusses the case and his own research. Cynthia Churchwell: You have been studying the impact and workings of corruption for several years. What... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell

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