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  • 14 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

lately, Sweden doesn’t seem as traditionally Swedish. The far-right Sweden Democrat party finished second in September’s election, touting an anti-immigrant campaign. The party’s parliamentary votes will influence the nation’s policies in... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

released, their records follow them, casting a pall on their attempts to rejoin society. People with criminal convictions get widespread credit rejections, have limited housing options, and often get their voting rights revoked, sometimes... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
  • 06 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

can vote with your feet” Another factor: Employees at call centers like the one observed in the study do not require much specialized knowledge; the best sales staff simply seemed to know the details of what they were selling better,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 22 May 2024
  • HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

passed a bill requiring that TikTok sell itself to a US buyer or be banned; the Senate voted in favor of the legislation and US President Biden swiftly signed it into law in April. What happens next is being closely watched by users,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
  • July 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Supplement

United Rentals (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante
In April 2012, Jenne Britell, the Chairman of the board of directors of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) was preparing her notes for an upcoming stockholders' meeting. It was a meeting unlike most other meetings she had chaired. Stockholders were about to vote on a... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Board Committees; Chairman; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Construction Industry; North America
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  • Web

What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization - Recruiting

critical foundation of anti-racism work. “We’re not talking about things that happened that long ago either,” she said. “MLK would be the same age as Barbara Walters if he was still alive. My grandfather could not vote until his 30s. The... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

restaurants that received the label were white, compared to the racial makeup of reviewers of the same restaurants prior to the introduction of the feature. The authors also used voting and Census data to determine that increased demand... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage
  • 21 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

Action? It's Complicated. Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs Feedback or ideas to share? Email the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

images. In 2017, Gebru took this research a step further. She used AI to not only identify vehicle makes in Google Street View images, but connect them to demographic, crime, and voting data. For example, more Buicks meant more Black... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology
  • Web

Profiles - MBA

room to use technology to make collective decision making more efficient. Professional goals: In the short term I hope to learn more about how collective decision-making is done, whether that be through votes in local government, through... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

Can there be corporate democracy if employees can’t vote on the actions its companies take? Yes, and it’s needed now more than ever. The pandemic has brought much employee discontent and activism. Last January, for example, with one-third... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

perceived these men as too far out of her league, he says. The reverse was also true: He observed that desirable women initiated fewer matches when voted on by a less desirable man, perhaps (understandably) deflated by the whole process.... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 18 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

pleading with workers to return to offices by saying, "I'll get on my knees and do whatever you want.” While more than a few employees might love to see a CEO grovel on their knees, the critical lesson here is that Starbucks employees are View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Transportation (10) Trends (7) Trust (27) Urban Development (13) Urban Scope (1) Valuation (3) Value Creation (11) Values and Beliefs (61) Value (20) Venture Capital (47) Vertical Integration (3) Volatility (1) Voting (13) Wages (40) War... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

Before last week’s election, polls and pundits suggested that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was doomed to failure, because it could not attract enough votes from women, who saw him as a misogynist—and worse. Conventional wisdom... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

distraction and cost, versus the investors’ views that long-term environmental issues were fundamentally connected to shareholder value. While Exxon had a valid regulatory claim to exclude the proposal from its proxy statement and therefore being View Details
  • February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
  • Case

Leadership and Independence at the Federal Reserve

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
“From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy.” Ron Paul, a Republican from... View Details
Keywords: Government Legislation; Central Banking; Policy; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • February 2015
  • Case

CLP: Powering Asia

By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Dawn Lau
Richard Lancaster, taking over from Andrew Brandler, was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CLP Holdings Ltd., one of the leading power companies in Asia, with operations in China, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Australia, and India, and an energy portfolio spanning coal,... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Energy Industry; Asia; India
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  • 29 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 09 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

marketers, says HBS professor John Quelch. Credit: Gage Skidmore Show the past as prologue. Offering consumers the adventure of voting for an uncertain future never works with the majority, especially if your brand is new to the game.... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch