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- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive
mission-driven roles leading teams and partnering with alumni, faculty and staff. “Sarah’s positive energy, collaborative nature, and thoughtful, strategic approach focused on high impact will serve her well... View Details
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
of the unethical action—or what we call bounded ethicality. Also, Adam Barsky theorizes that focusing on goals actually distorts our perception of what is unethical behavior so that we are less likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
particularly young people: the diverse, inclusive workplaces they’ve worked hard to develop. “Job seekers are more likely to click on job ads for firms with high diversity scores when presented with this information.” “Job seekers are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Happier-ness at Work
Winfrey is a global media leader and for 25 years hosted the Oprah Winfrey Show. Their book draws on social science research and decades of experience to suggest that one can build a better life by View Details
- 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
Hisano, Ai. "The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States." Paper presented at the CHORD Conference, Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD), Leeds, UK, September 5, 2013.
- 16 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
HBS and the Arts
opportunity to combine my interests in art and finance by working for an asset management firm where I helped to establish a group focused on financial services for the art community. We worked with museums,... View Details
- Research Summary
The Panama Canal
The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste
Cover image features Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO, and Taryn Stamper (MBA 2023), High Touch Advisor, of Celeste. BEI is delighted to bring you this mini-series on HBS alumni tackling problems related to water... View Details
- 01 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love
at it a bit differently. Remembering that any team is comprised of individuals, he focuses on helping each individual reach their highest potential not just as performers but as people. Do this, and the best... View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
that the added investment to train young people may not offer enough of a return. The report, however, offers a very different picture of apprenticeships that potentially alleviates concerns of both parents and employers, focusing View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
entrepreneurs and their funders as they seek to advance the enterprise from startup to scale. It focuses on the evolution of four social entrepreneurs and their decision-making paths as they attempt to scale... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
would really love to hear this praise is her boss (or other potential customers). In this way, she defines for the appreciative customer how best to reciprocate. 3. Make Contingent Concessions One hallmark... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- Research Summary
Institutions and Corporate Lobbying
“Institutions and Make-or-Buy Decision of Lobbying: The Role of Sociopolitical Legitimacy on Foreign MNEs’ Lobbying Internalization”
In this study, I examine how legitimacy comes into play in foreign MNEs’ make-or-buy decisions... View Details
Keywords: Institutions; Make V. Buy; Lobbying; Legitimacy; Corruption; Culture; Multinational Enterprise; United States
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
by focusing Unilever’s True North on sustainability. Understanding – With their vision in hand, leaders need in-depth understanding of their organization’s capabilities and strategies to take advantage of... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About
Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on the optimal... View Details
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Mollie Breen
contest. But Girl Starter did get Mollie started in the interdisciplinary world of business. "In the show, every episode ended with a pitch," Mollie explains. "I focused mine on data and... View Details
- 20 Dec 2023
- News
New School
has invested in the foundations of this relationship. He has focused on service to employees and stakeholder communities, increasing the company’s minimum wage to $15 in 2015 and overseeing a historic gift... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
Patients are not actually the customers in the United States health care system, a fact largely to blame for the dearth of communication and data sharing between providers, according to experts at a recent Harvard Business School... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
If they didn't understand it already, executives and corporate managers have learned one huge lesson over the past couple of years: macroeconomics matters. Interest rates. Exchange rates. Trade deficits. The Gross Domestic Product.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
considering cellophane. It’s deliberately transparent, after all. You’re meant to consider whatever it’s wrapping instead. Yet, it turns out that cellophane has a story worth telling. A new research paper exposes the historical significance of the packaging material,... View Details