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- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
he respects have said that in Russia it is almost impossible not to pay bribes to get things done. Why? Because local and federal laws conflict as if by design, which leads to gaps that some officials believe they can exploit. But, across the globe, Ramanna says,... View Details
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
ahead. It’s not their fault: holiday season mayhem is often at odds with the clean start many desire when the calendar changes over. It’s easy to throw up your hands and give in to routine once the first few weeks of the year speed by,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
with a request for proposal, the company's largest customer performs a routine evaluation and ranks PV Technologies third behind two key competitors. The director of sales and marketing must weigh the possible consequences of the report... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
the free international flow of goods and is core to many international trade agreements. The day medical schools, medical-device companies, and continuing medical education facilities located abroad might routinely call a U.S.... View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
higher operations costs. Employees also more routinely accepted payroll deductions to help the families of fellow workers suffering from terminal illnesses. Southwest's operational approach to the airline industry was a curious niche... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
from the London School of Economics but decided to forsake the predictable routine of law and work as an investment analyst in London and on Wall Street. At HBS, Varma pursued his dream of becoming the business manager of a Formula One... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
words, you also need a management plan for your customers. To return to our manufacturing metaphor, the special challenge of service delivery is that your customers routinely wander onto the shop floor-unannounced-and tinker with the... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
the project we often slipped into routines that didn't leverage each person's expertise as well as we might have. At the time, though, I was too caught up in the work itself to reflect on why that happened. When I began researching this... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Working PapersDishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: Self-Preservation through Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting (revised) Authors:Lisa Lixin Shu, Francesca Gino, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract People routinely engage in dishonest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
among scientists that was unprecedented in human genetics research. A professor of genetics and director of Harvard Medical School's Lipper Center for Computational Genetics, Church noted that his own computer experience dates back to 1969. Until recently, he said,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
infertile women to conceive. Excess fertilized eggs are routinely discarded by clinics at the conclusion of the in vitro process. Opponents say such practices are immoral because they destroy human life; advocates assert it is immoral to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/product/european-integration-meeting-the-competitiveness-challenge/an/714405-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-023 Wal-Mart Lobbying in India? In 2012, as part of a routine disclosure under U.S. law, Wal-Mart... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
lead two Fortune 500 companies, wound up back at the beginning of startup life is one that she and Katzenberg recite with the well-rehearsed routine of a married couple telling their engagement story for the umpteenth time. Back in 2017,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
Yet a vigorous tradition in the accounting literature establishes that firms routinely sacrifice long-term investment to manage earnings and are rewarded for doing so. This paper presents a model that reconciles these apparently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Research in Black and White | Baker Library
many of those working in the lab “had graduated from Smith, some with no scientific background. Land proved many times over that a bright young liberal arts student could learn the routines of the laboratory and the structure of a... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
for having a poor location score relative to nonblack hosts," the researchers write in the paper. "These differences highlight the risk of discrimination in online marketplaces, suggesting an important unintended consequence of a seemingly View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
position is unreasonable, it may make little sense to be reasonable yourself. But if everyone routinely came to a dispute with a realistic starting position, the offers would be more or less aligned, and any negotiation that followed... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Publication:Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (forthcoming) Abstract People routinely engage in dishonest acts without feeling guilty about their behavior. When and why does this occur? Across four studies, people justified their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
everything from the decline of the U.S. automobile industry to the low penetration of techniques such as TQM and continuous improvement. Yet a vigorous tradition in the accounting literature establishes that firms routinely sacrifice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
dynamic occurs because an organization's problem-solving routines and normal patterns of communication tend to constrain the space of designs within which it searches for new solutions. Such a link, if confirmed empirically, would be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace