Understanding Interests - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

rely on, so it turned to the overseas Chinese because they were the only people who could understand China well. To other people China seemed too difficult, too alien, too foreign. In the case of both countries, there is a broad spectrum... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Jul 2021
Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

smarts—“competence alone is never enough” to ensure trust, Sucher says. The other three elements need to be considered. Motive: Customers are intent on understanding a company’s motive: why they do what they do, and whose View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

Although CEOs hold positions of power, many can feel powerless in certain ways—particularly when it comes to influencing the behaviors and performance of their employees. Yet perhaps they aren’t taking the time to understand what drives... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

commerce, to greater and lesser degrees depending on the country. "This law is seen as deriving from direct, divine command," said Vogel. "This is important to grasp." Frank E. Vogel Executives who understand the basic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about." Developing disagreement and "high-contention" decision-making at the loftiest levels of the organization were... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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Our Team - Impact Investments

Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her areas of interests are Corporate Finance, Financial Institutions and Regulation, International Finance, and Public Policy. Also, Leslie has worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and... View Details

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

in the industry. We often describe the nonfinancial measures on the Balanced Scorecard as leading indicators. But the measures may be not only leading; they are also sustainable. In the short run, financial results can be affected by temporary factors—the weather,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

23 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

their first year in the role. I reveal the complexity of the transition, highlighting the expectations of these managers, their subordinates, and their superiors. I hear the new managers describe how they reframed their understanding of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Apr 2022
Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

Ranjay Gulati Chapter 7: The Purpose-Autonomy-Trust Nexus On one level, the connection between trust and autonomy seems fairly obvious, but analyzing it I found some interesting connections not only between trust and autonomy, but between... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

to help solve? What type of company culture will enable you to thrive? These questions might help inform the type of organization you might be interested in. It's important to understand that the first... View Details

09 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

influence the other side to give them what they want. As a result, most people do not go into negotiation with the goal of listening to and learning about the other party. This is unfortunate, because to get what you want in negotiation, you often need to View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

Why did a group of Harvard Business School professors become interested in an innovative new heart surgery technique? It turns out that a hospital's operating room provides an excellent controlled arena from which to explore the role that... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

discuss how these findings advance understanding of how organizational structure and corporate leadership interact and of how organizations can more effectively realize the strategic value of corporate social responsibility activities.... View Details

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

lawyer, wrote the Brown vs Board brief in 1954. He took an interest in me for reasons that I don't quite understand and I could emulate him. And so I think it's important. Mentorship is really important.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

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Events - Business History

understand the complexities of modern regulatory policy. The conference built on the HBS tradition that McCraw helped establish by bringing together business historians and legal scholars interested in... View Details

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Students and Recent Graduates Those Considering Graduate School Mid-Career Professionals Prepare for your next opportunity by learning how to apply basic statistics to real business problems. Meet Arjun, an HBS Online participant who took Business Analytics to better... View Details

30 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 30

perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf Understanding Inflation-Indexed Bond Markets Authors:John Y. Campbell, Robert J. Shiller, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2016
First Look

March 1, 2016

asset returns. We present empirical evidence that bears on some of the model’s distinctive predictions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50677 Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

also a great love of the country and understanding of the history.” She also developed a severe case of PTSD during her time living in the region. Working in such a high-profile role required her to navigate the country at a time of... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

fintech platform, the authors find that, compared to actual outcomes of the fintech platform’s model, the counterfactual outcomes based on a “traditional model” used for regulatory reporting purposes would result in a 60% higher probability of being rejected and higher... View Details

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