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  • 01 May 2017
  • Blog Post

Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS

years, I wanted to learn more about how top corporate executives developed turnaround strategies for their companies and managed diverse teams. I also wanted to bring back those same strategies and approaches into social justice... View Details
  • 14 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

"Nobody outside India understands what that means instead of going to a dealer and taking a vehicle and going home, you had to make a booking, and your turn would come probably after ten years," said Bajaj. At one point the Bajaj two-wheeler became so intricately... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • News

Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future

organizing committee. “Consumers, workers, government, and financial institutions are putting increasing pressure on companies to provide more sustainable products and services. We felt it would be interesting to share how leadership is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 26 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

What should business leaders know about the ambitions of Russia, China, and the European Union? They should know how geopolitical conditions exert enormous pressure on companies, according to Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

  Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

problem when they first emerged but was ultimately overcome by changes in the innovation ecosystem. However, incumbents in the oil and power sector are different in two respects. First, they are producing a commodity and hence face little end-user View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Sheila Lirio Marcelo

“I was always intrigued by that.“ With pressure from her Asian parents to pursue a law career, Marcelo applied to Harvard Law School but deferred her acceptance. She wasn’t sure she wanted to be a lawyer and instead she took a... View Details
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

case considers Anglo American's options to stay in front of these trends. How can the protagonist promote greater professionalization of social performance inside the organization and greater integration with business decisions? The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

properties help us understand how the intensity of communication among group-members and some select structural characteristics of the group affect recognition outcomes in novel and structurally ambiguous worlds. In particular, we demonstrate that communication View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

those who were getting cash. "It isn't that money doesn't work," but that money's incentivizing power can be overvalued, Ashraf explains. "The takeaway is in fact that we have a hierarchy of needs that includes social recognition." By... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

descent into violence. For Nepal, these factors for study included poverty, social and language diversity, and even geographical conditions. What Iyer and Do found: poverty trumps all, yet in a complex, nuanced way. As Nepal's conflict... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Latin America - Global Activities 2021

so hard on yourself for not acting like the result of an equation.” That was the valuable lesson for O’Connor, who saw many similarities between her and Bruck. Through her career, O’Connor had always felt pressure to be a “wise old... View Details
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

policy we consider concerns the level of future Social Security benefits. Specifically, we examine how an agent would respond to learning in advance whether she will experience a major Social Security... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

in the generation of dissent. Our analysis uses economic tools, often accompanied by an antitrust perspective, to better understand the implications of government information control and social pressures... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

The First Scrum

Program resembled a two-year road race, a relentless marathon of cases, with only Sundays off. Three afternoons a week, a few dozen students from around the world would escape the pressure on the rough-and-tumble rugby pitch, in sharp... View Details
Keywords: rugby; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Hernando, María Luz González-Gadea, Rafael Di Tella, Agustín Ibáñez, and Mariano Sigman Abstract—Previous studies in adults demonstrated that beliefs and sharing decisions in social scenarios are closely related. However, to date, little... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals may be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We analyze conditions under which envelopment strategies are likely to succeed. Download the paper:... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

Wegrzyn cited (1) "incredible pressure from the economic side," (2) "incredible instability," and (3) a resulting "dog-eat-dog attitude." Dennis Hopwood said, "In the end, it's all about making the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

environmental performance, and social responsibility evaluation, which cover the company in the national, regional, and corporate levels for the purpose of realizing the comprehensive evaluation of economic and environmental performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne