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  • 21 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Employee Negativity Is Like Wildfire. Manage It Before It Spreads.

explores how emotions intensify within groups and uncovers ways that leaders can reorient the negative feelings of employees, shareholders, and other stakeholders to help them work toward a positive purpose. For example, if employees are... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Get In Touch | About

Business & Environment Initiative +1.617.495.6886 bei@hbs.edu Business History Initiative +1.617.495.1003 bhi@hbs.edu Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard +1.617.496.8274 d3@harvard.edu Entrepreneurship Rock Center for... View Details
  • Program

Designing and Executing Corporate Revitalization

transformation. If your company is at an inflection point, how do you proceed? Will your business be held back by old ways of thinking or is it willing to embrace new frontiers? Will your company be static and hesitant in the face of a changing View Details
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Initiatives & Projects - Faculty & Research

difference in the world. Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability The Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project supports research collaborations across Harvard University to understand, predict, and prevent financial instability. Business & View Details
  • June 2021
  • Case

Bozoma Saint John: Leading with Authenticity and Urgency

By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
In this multimedia case, Bozoma Saint John recounts numerous defining moments from her childhood and work experiences. We learn what empowered and inspired her to be her authentic self, to be vulnerable and open to new experiences, to find commonality with others, to... View Details
Keywords: Biases; Personal Development and Career; Identity; Interests; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Opportunities; Leadership Style; Diversity
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  • February 2013 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Elasto Therm: The Next Step

By: Jim Sharpe and James Weber
Julia and Nate Burstein were living their dream running their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a large... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Sales Force Management; Acquisitions; Work/family Balance; Family-owned Business; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Work-Life Balance; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; United States
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  • 2003
  • Book

When You Say Yes But Mean No: How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies

By: Leslie Perlow
“Saying yes when you really mean no” is a problem that haunts organizations from start-ups to multi-nationals. It exists across industries, levels, and functions. And it’s exacerbated by a down economy, when the fear of losing one’s job is on everybody’s mind and the... View Details
Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Relationships; Business Ventures
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  • 01 Jun 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: What's the best way to report nonfinancial metrics? How can nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 30 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

strategies that reasonable members of both major political parties should see as superior to the current state. We are currently in a political environment where beating the other side is valued over making wise decisions. We hope that... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 01 Aug 2023
  • What Do You Think?

As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?

Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Uri Gneezy, Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work (Yale University Press, 2023). Steven Kerr, “On the Folly of Rewarding A While Hoping for B,” Academy of Management Journal,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Program

Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation

longer-term opportunities while meeting shorter-term objectives Work effectively with peers and upper management to facilitate necessary change and realize the potential of pioneering ideas Embrace your role as change agent Bring out the... View Details
  • June 2008 (Revised May 2017)
  • Case

Cook Composites and Polymers Co.

By: Deishin Lee, Michael W. Toffel and Rachel Gordon
This case describes how a company improves resource efficiency and process quality in its manufacturing process by developing a waste by-product into a new product. The case describes how CCP cleans production equipment between batches using styrene, which becomes a... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Business Processes; Performance Efficiency; Natural Environment; Wastes and Waste Processing; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 21 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

For the last quarter century, many fought hard to overcome gender discrimination in the workplace by raising awareness, strengthening antidiscrimination policies, and encouraging more women to enter the corporate world. At first blush, that View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
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Cybersecurity Features of Digital Medical Devices: An Analysis of FDA Product Summaries

By: Ariel Dora Stern, William J. Gordon, Adam B. Landman and Daniel B. Kramer
Objectives:
To more clearly define the landscape of digital medical devices subject to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight, this analysis leverages publicly available regulatory documents to characterise the prevalence and trends of software and... View Details
Keywords: Digital; Medicine; FDA; Health Care and Treatment; Applications and Software; Safety; Cybersecurity; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    John C. Mulliken

    Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor.  Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

    John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
    • 26 Jan 2016
    • First Look

    January 26, 2016

    rather than gender-specific preferences and constraints. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45849 Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Jan 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

    goodwill, forged strong relationships, and created a positive environment conducive to team success. “McVay has turned the Rams’ offensive meetings into collaborative attempts to not only learn the game, but solve it,” writes May.... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
    • 11 Jul 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The New International Style of Management

    Moses (HBS MBA '03) is an American who works for VASC, a state-owned Vietnamese telecom and media company. "The people who manage business well in a foreign environment do create a new style of doing... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons
    • 27 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

    The political bent of the neighborhood where they grew up—and especially where they spent their teen years. Beyond just parental influence, environmental factors such as friends, teachers, and media environment play a statistically... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 04 Oct 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: October 4

    incentives and opportunities as influential precursors of bridging ties.   Working PapersSocial Enterprise Series No. 32: Value Creation in Business—Nonprofit Collaborations Authors:James E. Austin and M. May Seitanidi An abstract is... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne