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  • 5 Sep 2013
  • Conference Presentation

The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States

By: Ai Hisano
This paper examines the role of color in the marketing and retailing of food products by focusing on the increasingly popular presentation of food in clear packages in the early-twentieth-century United States. In the 1910s, a candy company began using cellophane to... View Details
Keywords: Food; Product Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 30 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

filings in November 2020. This requires corporations to provide a section in their annual report disclosing features of their “human capital” that they deem material to their performance. To gauge the extent that job hunters are drawn to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

high level of engagement with the material on the part of the students. One of the ways I measure that is by the e-mails I get, and I got a number of long e-mails about her. That means she pulled some chords in the students.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 31 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

Dave's external information gathering, along with his defending and selling of the vision project, provided the team with raw material for creative idea generation and encouragement to tackle the project's complexities, which, by... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

fourth book, Alignment, described principle #3, how to create and capture corporate synergies through vertical and horizontal alignment of business and support units. The fourth book also contained material on principle #4, aligning and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Managing Processes

David A. Garvin is examining the nature and use of managerial and organizational processes—the means by which work is accomplished—including strategic processes that chart corporate direction, resource allocation processes that distribute funds,... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

employers and employees as ones of material benefits.” After all, it’s not all about making money, says DeLong, a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice at HBS. What employees really crave, the paper argues, is meaning. “You... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Jan 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

of General Motors because of her skills at turning around a large organization. My colleague Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, knowing that I was preparing materials... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

bring to life the stories of a diverse and passionate array of changemakers, through projects like Pathways to a Just Digital Future and our Glass-Shattering Leaders case series, and our teaching material collections. Role models are one... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
  • 2007
  • Text Book

Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral Leader," an MBA elective taken by thousands of HBS students... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Curriculum and Courses; Moral Sensibility; Body of Literature; Books; Leadership; Personal Development and Career
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  • 03 Jul 2013
  • What Do You Think?

What Are the Limits of Transparency?

Snowden affair. They assume that much of what they do will become public knowledge regardless of any efforts to keep it secret. The late Harlan Cleveland predicted much of this more than 30 years ago when he noted that information is different than View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Jun 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

human rights commission of the war-torn African country where he was raised. He systematically used the course material to criticize hypocrisy at the commission-as well as criticize himself for not having high enough standards. "I... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

barred People already consume tabloid newspapers, racist propaganda, biased news broadcasts, and pornography willingly. Let them at least know how the general public categorizes such materials Everyone benefits from such a system. Viewers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
  • 21 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

sites in order to evaluate whether the program is effective." Or as Levine puts it: "It's costly to learn, but it's more costly to be ignorant." To Read More: If you'd like to read the researchers' article in Science, "Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Teaching Interest

Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)

By: Christopher T. Stanton

The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts.  HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details

  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Geoffrey Jones A second major influence on the diversification strategies of the trading companies was the boom in commodity prices. Industrialization in Europe and the United States stimulated a worldwide search for new sources of supply of raw View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 18 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

formed and each was given approximately one hour to arrange the "equipment." Their challenge was to create the best material flows and best interaction among operators while using the minimum amount of space. Once built, operators then... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 04 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

dissatisfaction. Motivation, according to the theory, is determined not by material incentives, but rather by interesting work, recognition, and personal growth. “Life is an unending series of extenuating circumstances.” Christensen... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Dec 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

interpersonal skills often." Grant Stanley said "rather than dismiss them I have been able to use their skills and abilities to create training materials to share their best practices." Todd Stark mused about how much we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

negotiations, we are able to add even more valuable source material to our intellectual and practical treasury. For example, when you asked above about how to get the right parties involved to set up the most promising negotiation, we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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