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

02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

broken. It is really about people and ethics." B. V. Krishnamurthy concurred, saying "... the Act ... is unlikely to result in any radical transformation of the system. Such a transformation has to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

theories and developing new ones. Q: Professor Josh Lerner recently published an article ["Boom and Bust in the Venture Capital Industry and the View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

themselves by dutifully pumping all their profits back into the firm. By 1986, RCA's balance sheet was in shambles, and its consumer electronics division and NBC were sold to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

respond in very different ways. You have to be prepared." Innovators who are working on solving a problem can benefit from alternating between the roles of creator and critic.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

in the minds of many retailers over whether loyalty programs offer a sustainable and profitable business model. Retailers such as Sainsbury's in the United Kingdom illustrate... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

15 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

in the paper Are Bankers Worth Their Pay? Evidence from a Talent Measure by Boris Vallée, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Claire Célérier, an assistant professor at the University of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

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

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

for its carbon performance. Such ratings and rankings are largely based on companies' direct carbon footprint. For example, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJIS), which evaluates the economic, environmental, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

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

08 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief

at Harvard Business School, and Kate Barasz, an associate professor at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, asked participants in a recent study. Interestingly, 20 percent of participants wished for the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

big-brand retailer seems to have survived and even thrived in the apocalyptic retail landscape. What's its secret? Research Papers Executive Education in the Digital Vortex: The Disruption of the Supply... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

hire in cohorts are more likely to have strong organizational career imprints. These two factors socially reinforce the kinds of capabilities, connections, confidence, and... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

commemorate the HBS milestone. Beyond moving the overarching topic of women and leadership, speakers examined the role academic research plays View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

In the family of investment products, a U.S. savings bond might be cast as boring old Uncle Ned, snoozing away in the corner after dinner. There's nothing wrong with that—but HBS professor Peter Tufano envisions a more meaningful View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Becoming an Ethical Negotiator

The book What's Fair: Ethics of Negotiators is a rich collection of pointers from professional dealmakers, attorneys, academic specialists, and, not least, ethicists. Michael Wheeler, an HBS professor View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

New Year, New Habits

bad behavior causes memories of those acts to gradually become less clear—a phenomenon they call “unethical amnesia.” Research Papers Habit Formation and Rational Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing... View Details