Human Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

this land was under 30 feet of water. Three weeks from now this will become the largest city on earth, the largest single-purpose gathering of humanity in history. Every 12 years, when the moon and stars are aligned, this becomes the most... View Details

Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Chambers announcing further capital expenditure in China but facing growing criticism by U.S. Congress and others for Cisco's human rights record. At the same time, Cisco faced a powerful domestic competitor... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

sponsorship. With respect to end users and complementors, decisions to open or close a mature platform involve 1) backward compatibility with prior platform generations, 2) securing exclusive rights to certain complements, or 3) absorbing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

attempt to merely deflect international criticism about the countries’ human rights records. In fact, the researchers found that the treaties corresponded to better factory conditions. For each international... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

State. And, he has immense resource wealth to finance his efforts. I don't know if he'll succeed politically, but if he does not abandon human rights and constrains political power, then Russia could be a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 28

Santos Abstract—The breadth of human generosity is unparalleled in the natural world, and much research has explored the mechanisms underlying and motivating human prosocial behavior. Recent work has focused... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

to be sure, but as Wilcox explained and E Ink's experience made clear, its prospects depend on a welter of fundamentally human choices. Twenty minutes after Sahlman's finance students finished dissecting E Ink and one floor up in Aldrich... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

years later and was named the School's first George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Business Administration in 1963. One of Christensen's greatest strengths in research and case development was his ability to notice and analyze critical aspects of View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

performance to improve, only to be bitterly disappointed. For some reason, the right things still don't happen. Why is change so hard? First of all, most people are reluctant to alter their habits. What worked in the past is good enough;... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

industries. Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sowed the seeds for the internet and advanced computer graphics. And massive investments by the National Institutes of Health in biomedical research, including the View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

course of their lives,” Beshears says. “It’s not merely a matter of building it and then people will come. You actually need to place it right front and center. Otherwise it’s very easy for people to ignore.” Related Reading: The Business... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

07 Oct 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

JetBlue employees and more than 130,000 customers whose flights were cancelled, delayed, or diverted. How did the airline make it right with customers and learn from its mistakes? The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall Product failures... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

Blakeman says. A pitch to the right person at the right time at a bar led to a $100,000 angel investment. Diversifying his business, Blakeman started to work with prisons to put his search tools into the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55053 2018 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818 By: Sheth, Sudev J... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

corporate) now needed to understand how and why they were doing so and to make sure that those edits were being made in a constructive manner. In a disagreement between human and machine, Belk allowed humans... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

integrating the latest research about the interplay between human behavior, societal needs, and regulatory institutions. The book concludes by setting out a potential research agenda for the social sciences. Creating Value through... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

those areas of biotechnology that dealt with the basics of human reproduction. So I started to look into this field, and quickly realized just how radical the technology was and how vibrant commercial activity had already become. At the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

familiar faces. It's true that sometimes going outside is the right way to go. The strategic transformation at IBM required someone like Lou Gerstner to challenge the complacency. The Home Depot board felt justified in turning to outside... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

clubby groups that are widely criticized as the handpicked "captives" of self-serving management. With White House support, congressional leaders are intent on shifting the balance of power in the boardroom away from management. Senator Chuck Schumer's (D-NY)... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

well as the number of students in our entering MBA cohort (900 or more), it's hard to deny that something on a large scale is being attempted. By contrast, the term "morals" evokes what many people imagine as an individual decision or the outcome of one's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

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