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- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
circumstances in which the harm done by moving forward with a major strategic decision that the CEO considers a serious mistake—a large acquisition, say—is greater than the harm done by issuing orders. But,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
might create conditions harmful to its progress. In addition, we wondered what forces, largely or completely unrelated to capitalism, might challenge it from the outside. And if capitalism is threatened, what can be done to protect it,... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
lifecycle analysis, food waste is a major factor,” having tremendous harmful environmental impacts due to the unnecessary expenditure of natural resources to grow products that consumers don’t actually use, plus the additional emissions... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
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 more to try to alleviate the... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
choice, according to a team of behavioral scientists who studied the systematic harm that can result from overeager goal-setting at work. “We identify specific side effects associated with goal setting, including a narrow focus that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
Harm By: Minor, Dylan Abstract—We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and environmental harm. We find that high-powered executive compensation packages can increase the odds of environmental law breaking by 40%–60% and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
to get the best results with the lowest costs." “In the end what we're looking for is the first community that actually lowers health care costs without harming a soul." —Atul Gawande Gawande brought up the hopeful example of... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
antitrust authorities, who fear they could ultimately harm consumers by raising prices above typical competitive levels. It doesn’t seem too long ago when a price change was a major strategic decision for companies, requiring extensive... View Details
- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
the problem can be curtailed if studios adopt a multipart strategy. Key concepts include: Despite a thriving movie industry in India, Hollywood studios have experienced difficulty making much money there. Researchers discovered a complicated mix of piracy and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
with Harms in the Garment Industry SA Taxi: One Firm’s Response to Harms Long-Term Value Through Commitment to Society Featured Exercises Analyze an organization’s goals by reflecting on your company’s... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Working Papers Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency Authors: Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
IT Strategy: Building a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Strategy for HBS IT | Information Technology
of the grassroot works included anti-racism discussion groups to help staff be more comfortable discussing and addressing these difficult topics and the launch of an inclusive language guide with the goal of helping HBS IT remove harmful... View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
for customers? Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution? Millions of people have been harmed by cigarettes, defective merchandise, pollution, addiction and other business by-products. now,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
the same way at every school—single tie breaking—in a student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism. Any inefficiency associated with a realized tie breaking cannot be removed without harming student incentives. Finally, we empirically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy | MBA
possession or use of marijuana would be permitted under Massachusetts law, it remains prohibited on campus. Health Concerns Substance abuse is potentially harmful to health. In particular, synthetically-produced drugs often have... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
That’s not helpful to companies, consumers, or economies. Related Reading: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership? The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
When to Back Off You have to push yourself, Spector says, but you also have to know when pushing will do more harm than good. In athletics, “it’s unlikely that you won’t get some injury along the way that gets you down,” he says. “But if... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
result. Now, if that same equipment were used in a focused factory, only equipment relevant to that disease would be purchased, and it would be used efficiently. But should health care be market-driven, particularly when one result is managed care, which many see as... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer ChoiceThree studies examined how firms can use transparency into social and environmental responsibility initiatives to differentiate themselves in the consumer market. Complex DisclosureCompanies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne