human rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

Summing Up Our perceptions of whether we do "what's right" depend on such things as the situation, the time frame, the expectations of others, and whether we are face-to-face with the object of our actions. And we are much poorer judges of whether we are... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

is doing, but “sideways” is rarely the right direction. For example, in early 2016, leaders of the package delivery venture Shyp were refining the company’s business model and dialing back earlier expansion moves in search of profit.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

again, 99 percent of the time there was something wrong with it.” 3. Create informal and formal shared context—called ba in Japan—constantly in order to construct new meaning through human interactions. Takeuchi likens the Japanese... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Winner of the 2024 Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) Award in the Management and Leadership category for Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Atria Books, 2023). Amy C. Edmondson : Awarded the 2024... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

his return in September 1980, Dolan was touched by a higher calling and decided to move to Rome. There, he studied philosophy and theology and in 1983 was ordained a Catholic priest. “The Spirit told me it was the right thing to do at the... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

and told him that he was interested in more responsibility, his mentor pushed back and asked if he was serious. Jeff replied, "I really would like to work on the human dimension of leading and managing but to be perfectly honest, I... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Management and Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) John Batter Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 John Batter Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Leadership and Happiness Arthur Brooks Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Managing Human Capital (also listed... View Details

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

up with the right answers, he found those who had more people in their social network from different cultures who disliked each other did about 23 percent worse on the test. This makes sense, says Chua. "Just as a child observing parents... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

analog, but it can be effective in bringing up unpleasant memories. Pushing anxiety buttons is manipulative in the worse sense of the word. But it can be an effective tactic. Once aroused, anxieties do not necessarily disappear when a person is confronted with an... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

focused on leadership, organizational behavior, managing human capital, and career management. His new book, Teaching by Heart: One Professor’s Journey to Inspire, was recently published by Harvard Business Review Press. He shares his... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Scouts of the USA Grameen America Grassroots Business Fund Habitat for Humanity International Harbor Bank of Maryland Community Development Corp Harlem Children's Zone Health Leads Hebrew SeniorLife Hospital for Special Surgery Initiative... View Details

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

Markets," looks at a wide range of practices, legal and illegal, from dwarf tossing to slavery to California's ban on the human consumption of horse meat, and asks how economists can find a common language, if not a common point of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

pregnant / a mom at HBS? Amazing. Focused. Challenged. Supported. My daughter was born right in the middle of midterm exams! I started HBS with a toddler and pregnant with my second; I have never looked back. "I don't know how you do it"... View Details

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

and the Quest for Perfection. Drew Keller Director Drew Keller is the Director of BiGS. He is in charge of setting the direction of the Institute, in collaboration with the Senior Associate Dean, and leads the implementation of BiGS’ strategy. Drew has worked on... View Details

19 May 2022
Blog Post

HKS Policy Analysis Exercise Showcase

awareness in the city of South Bend, and much more. Clients included the World Health Organization, U.S. Department of State, Human Rights Watch, San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development,... View Details

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Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online

yet it is up to the accepting university to determine eligibility. Are you interested in taking the next step in your career? Explore our online course catalog to find the right fit. Hear from our learners Empower yourself with the... View Details

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

Improvement in Global Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Worker rights advocates seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains have engaged in private... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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... View Details