Status - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

the word means profound reform and change—permanent, irreversible, radical change, threatening if not subverting the status quo, rarely supported by governments who represent the status quo. It is thus... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

fired after their complaints have been lodged “confidentially.” Trust has suffered among employees, customers, and suppliers alike. This prompts the question of whether boards should hire compliance officers with independent status... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

question to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who studies organizational theory and strategy with a focus on social inequalities and status hierarchies. He explores the issue in a recent paper scheduled to be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

sciences); family background (e.g. birth order and where the executive grew up); career (including years of labor market experience and number of days unemployed); and current family status (e.g. marital View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?

conditions of this non-consensual separation, and even more complex and important, what status it will allow Britain to have going forward. It will have to tow a fine line between being too harsh--to defuse contagion in other EU countries... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

office address that is legitimate in the minds of stakeholders. Firms have to work at maintaining their status in the hierarchy, while legitimacy is a critical issue only in the early stages of firms' lives. For new firms in established... View Details

12 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

Development (TvT) of Amsterdam, Holland, was deeply worried about the status of his largest ongoing project: the Amsterdam World Trade Center (WTC). As the discretionary developer, van Tartwijk needed to present his firm's recommendations... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

linear geometry that helped Vegas succeed. “A linear layout has the advantage that there is no clear status hierarchy among the resorts spread out along the street,” the authors write. That can be true as metaverse architects build... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

the contrary the poor utilization of assets, especially in poorly governed countries like Greece, is dramatic. The emerging status is pretty clear: a deeply socialist state where central planning by politicians will command the use of... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

occurred—across four experiments, we find that revealing both successes and failures encountered on the path to success (compared to revealing only successes) decreases observers’ malicious envy. This effect holds regardless of the discloser’s View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

least in part due to managers' reputational or status concerns. The ROE increase was predominantly driven by improvements in margins, which was partially driven by cutting R&D intensity—a potentially unintended consequence. Our... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

environmental groups. Had Stone taken into account the history of strained relationships between Honduras and the U.S. government and multinationals, as well as the fragile status of the presidency in this fledgling democracy, it could... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

04 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

reform. Any initiative to develop emerging economies must acknowledge that the business groups themselves may want to maintain the status quo. Those groups wield considerable economic and political power that can be used not only to block... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

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

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

its own R&D, finance, and marketing functions, and he chose the project leaders for their willingness to challenge the status quo and their ability to operate independently. Given the freedom to shape their own organizations, the new... View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

managing customer relationships in the business-to-business environment into four distinct phases: defining and building a portfolio of customers the firm wants to serve, crafting and implementing relationship-management strategies, monitoring the View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

had more than 44 million, and Coca-Cola had gathered more than 69 million fans, 800 thousand of whom reportedly liked the Coca-Cola page or posted a status update on that page; liked, shared, or commented on a Coca-Cola post; mentioned... View Details

13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's—dominated the credit ratings industry, recently controlling 97 percent of the market. But the status quo was disrupted by the 2008 global... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

April 2022
Case

Marsha Simms: Trailblazer in Corporate Law

By: Robin Ely, Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and Olivia Hull

Follows the journey of lawyer Marsha Simms from her childhood in racially-segregated St. Louis to the upper echelons of the New York legal community. Describes her education, career choices, accomplishments, and setbacks. Highlights significant moments such as her... View Details

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01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

via paper status report Expanded personal relationships throughout the organizationStrong personal connection at leadership levelEmerging infrastructure, including relationship managers, communication channels/vehicles Expanded... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

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