Framing - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

transactions are a way of life. The case illustrates a classic dilemma: should organizations conform to the environment they're in, or should they export their ethical standards to other lands? In Paine's view, framing the issue as... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

respondents helped frame the challenge of "just enough." For example, Saurabh Dwivedy commented, "So long as there is humankind, there will be unfulfilled desires and broken dreams and a longing for 'being there.'"... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 1996
News

Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

rooted in the popular MBA elective, The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States, an offering designed in the 1980s by HBS professors Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Richard S. Tedlow. To expand this course into the global arena while compressing it into a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

is quite a bit in scoping out the right question with them so the community can be of value to them," Lipstein said. "If it's a simple question, there's no reason to crowdsource." DeJulio agreed that framing the question just right — free... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Jan 2008
What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

judgment calls, framing and naming the judgment call, and mobilizing and aligning the right people to carry it out), making the judgment call, making execution happen, and learning and continuously adjusting after the call is made. Good... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

stage by framing the reasons why candor is important, leaders need to encourage employees to engage in open conversation and feedback. Edmondson finds that organizations will often set the bar for participation too high, meaning that... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

02 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories

to convince consumers to buy luxury goods." The Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe promotes the idea that its products can be handed down from one generation to the next, for example. With such a limitless time frame for enjoyment, and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Liberalism, 1945–1960. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Galambos, Louis, and Barbara Barrow Spence. The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880–1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Helfgott,... View Details

14 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

Working PapersThe Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Abstract New industries sparked by technological change are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 24

analysis, which I apply to a wealth of data, I show how changes in product, organizational, and community identities associated with a legacy technology can be reconstituted to reconfigure a field. My findings highlight that three mechanisms-identity claims,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

again the question framed so eloquently 70 years ago by Milton Friedman in his famous article, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.” (Incidentally, Friedman made no reference to either short- or long-term... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

this stickiest of bottlenecks? Create business partnerships by framing the right questions, says Giusti, and then identifying and combining existing datasets for analysis to answer those questions. The organization also rallies individual... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

Early Warning System that conveyed the bank's "risk view." Management started using these tools to frame important debates, such as the evaluation of divisional heads' performance at quarterly business reviews. The system also helped the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

15 Jun 2021
News

The Value of Difficult Conversations

and Learning To prepare for the discussion of reparations for these century-old crimes, Ratajczak spent more time than usual thinking about how to best present his arguments and the language he would choose to make his point. “I wanted to View Details

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

03 Apr 2019
News

Finding Common Ground

many Cicero employees now volunteer or work pro bono on company time mentoring, coaching, and training, as well as gathering and analyzing data to frame the best approaches to ending homelessness. One outcome of this work is a database... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2006
News

William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

ten-year time frames for your next move. It's better to focus on what you're doing and stick with it until it becomes redundant or isn't fun anymore.” CURRENT READING Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris... View Details

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

right." "Those spaces that you mentioned don't fit the venture profile for time frame and liquidity," said Kapoor. "They require a ten-year, $100 million investment. With that said, the profile around energy,... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

sellers, leaving people of color out of a crucial means of wealth building. The national dearth of minority loan officers is considerable. In 2019, just 15 percent of mortgage loan officers were minorities, compared to 39 percent of the total US population, write... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

stretches a worker in a new direction. Framing and bluffing. "This is one of the most creative attributes for obtaining stretchwork," O'Mahony notes. "People who are good at presenting their prior experience in a way that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology

04 Sep 2019
News

Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

tools, expediting the time frame and accuracy of results. Using genomics and machine learning, Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) and Aikili Biosystems aim to save lives. “A common reaction to our venture is that it is ‘ambitious.’ Clearly our... View Details