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  • 14 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

Infrastructure, and Resources"—tackled three giant subjects: water, energy, and transportation. The conference was sponsored by Harvard Business School's Business and Environment Initiative and co-chaired View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

bastions, as well as in more conservative-leaning locales. “When there is the greatest anxiety, we see this funding shortfall,” says Kerr, the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration. He cowrote the paper with John (Jianqui) Bai,... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 06 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers

idea, showing that the less time they gave people to examine a choice, the more likely they were to go for the newer option. “When you are under time pressure, you are even less likely to scrutinize the options, and particularly likely to take the revised label at face... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 01 May 2024
  • What Do You Think?

Have You Had Enough?

(Illustration created using image generated by Midjourney, an artificial intelligence tool.) Last month, I posted a column in HBS Working Knowledge titled, “What’s Enough to Make Us Happy?” Over the last few months, I’ve been asking... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • July 1998 (Revised November 2004)
  • Exercise

Succession Planning Worksheet

By: John A. Davis
Copyrighted by John Davis. View Details
Keywords: Management Succession
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  • 2020
  • Book

Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity

By: Joseph Allen and John D. Macomber
By the time you reach 80, you will have spent 72 years of your life indoors. Like it or not, humans have become an indoor species. This means that the people who design, build, and maintain our buildings can have a major impact on our health.
Ever feel tired... View Details
Keywords: Architecture; Real Estate Development; Air Pollution; Air Quality; Public Health; Productivity Gains; Buildings and Facilities; Health; Pollutants; Performance Productivity; Construction Industry
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  • 10 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote

Brierley Professor of Business Administration. “But even when firms never guarantee that consumers will choose the winner, consumers infer an implicit contract and are upset when that contract is violated.” Norton and John examine the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 10 Dec 2007
  • HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

Dell, and Lenovo. Such wide-ranging issues are the focus of the case, coauthored by HBS professor John Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop, executive director of the HBS Global Research Group. The first countries... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer
  • 22 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

and express the value of resilience to their teams, the likelihood that workers will report such incidents increases. That was the main finding of Resilience vs. Vulnerability: Psychological Safety and Reporting of Near Misses with Varying Proximity to Harm in... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health
  • June 2005 (Revised April 2008)
  • Case

Whole Foods Market, Inc.

By: John R. Wells and Travis Haglock
Can a short-sleeved, sandal-wearing, college dropout create a company manifesting love, joy, and happiness? Chainsaw John Mackey did. This CEO took a five-month sabbatical to hike the Appalachian Trail. More credentials: Sales-per-square foot of $690 and rising. Hiring... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Food; Management Practices and Processes; Groups and Teams; Success; Leadership Style; Management Teams; Business Growth and Maturation; Emerging Markets; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

Professor of Business Administration. Tip: Use COVID-19 as a time to reflect Make time for introspection. The coronavirus represents a historic inflection point that is likely to forever change us, as did the assassination of President View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

collaborator John U. Farley have studied the impact of corporate culture and national culture on global marketing strategy. A few years ago they looked at the role played by these key organizational factors... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

Summing Up Is the Term "Servant Leadership" an Oxymoron? Servant leadership (SL) is a concept that triggers a great deal of interest, judging by my e-mail inbox and the number of responses to this month's column. Many comments... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 20 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong

The Bachelor is a wildly popular reality dating game show on which 28 women compete for the hand of a single man. Along with flirting and fighting and engaging in feats of derring-do, many of the competitors spend ample time confessing insecurities to the camera.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 28 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

turbulence” Badaracco, the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, argues that, while market-based competition has been with us as long as capitalism, companies have been insulated from it over the last half-century View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

that with the first scholarly business history of Modern Turkey. Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives was co-edited by Asli M. Colpan, of the Kyoto University, Graduate School of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

Near the Guatemalan border in Mexico's Chiapas region, sandwiched between the Sierra Madres and the Pacific Ocean, there's a fertile pocket of land called the Soconusco. While once a hotbed of cacao production for the Aztecs and then the Spanish, the area was decimated... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

audits yield fewer violations when the audit team had been at that particular supplier before, when audit teams are less experienced or less trained, when audit teams are all male, and when the audits were paid for by the supplier instead... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

4 Things You Need to Know about the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

Harvard Business School has offered joint degrees for many years—including those with Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School. Harvard recently announced the launch of a new program: a joint MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences degree offered... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

forced to resign for trading in Lubrizol stock prior to recommending that Berkshire Hathaway purchase the company. Examples abound of other recent failures: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigned for submitting false expense reports concerning his relationship with a... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George