Intention - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1999
News

White knight in the rye

minimal standards of civility. So it was like a breath of fresh air when, as the New York Times (June 23, 1999) reported, the winning bidder for the letters, Peter Norton (13th OPM), announced his intention "to do whatever Mr. Salinger... View Details

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

debate about gay rights in Indiana” To investigate, Toffel and Chatterji designed an experiment to gauge whether mentioning Cook’s concerns about the RFRA influenced public support for the law, and whether Cook’s opinion affected consumers’ View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

27 Oct 2020
News

How the Best Leaders Answer “What Are We Here for?”

30 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Reunions: Accelerating Climate Solutions with Professor Jim Matheson (MBA 2001)

the challenges inherent in this transition. HBS alumni, faculty and students are well positioned and will be critical in providing this leadership, but we must continue to focus intently to ensure Harvard leads the world forward on this... View Details

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

children and eight grandchildren, Marina Picasso ended up with some 10,000 of her grandfather's productions, and sent waves across the art world in February by announcing her intention to make many of them available for sale to the public... View Details

Portrait Project

Jorge-Luis Leon

better for me to stay in Ecuador. I still believe they had the best intentions that day. I believe they feared how hurt I could be if I fell short and didn’t achieve my dream. To be honest my dream scared me too. But that day I chose to... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Iron Lady

Development Bank, Oteh is now the director-general of Nigeria’s SEC and the country’s chief financial regulator. At a conference in London in September, Oteh revealed her intention to strengthen the country’s capital markets in order to... View Details

Keywords: Finance

25 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories

Actionable Climate Literacy Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)

High above the gleaming ice surface of Boston's FleetCenter, Gord Kluzak (MBA '98) gazes down intently at the fast-paced action between the Boston Bruins and the Pittsburgh Penguins. No ordinary spectator, Kluzak is an Emmy Award–winning... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

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Content & Community for Students | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

by-product, but as an intentional outcome that motivates me to get up and go to work every day. Molly: To me, social enterprise means any organization that purposefully seeks to combine positive social and environmental impact with... View Details

03 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

As a polarizing US presidential election nears, moderating controversial content on social media poses a pressing problem for tech giants. But no matter how many employees they hire, lines of code they write, or new content policies they implement, major platforms face... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology

April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
Case

Prodigy Services Company (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Top executives of Prodigy Services Co. must decide how to respond when publicly accused of allowing anti-Semitic messages to be posted on the electronic bulletin boards of the company's interactive computer service. Can they defend free expression while at the same... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Communication Intention and Meaning; Information Technology; Decision Making; Law; Management Teams; Information Technology Industry

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07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

It's all too easy, of course, to play Monday-morning quarterback when things go terribly wrong. That's not our intent here. We readily admit that many surprises are unpredictable—that some bolts out of the blue really do come out of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

30 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

increase in liberal attitudes on racial issues and vote intentions for the Democrats” in the 2020 US presidential election, the paper says. While it’s unclear why the Black Lives Matter movement shifted more views than other social... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Apr 2017
News

Going with the Flow

enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells—was her first foray into entrepreneurship. Fisher’s father, however, was reminding her that good intentions need solid financial underpinnings to be... View Details

01 Aug 2002
News

Dan Geffken (MBA '87)

Five years ago, Dan Geffken had every intention of attending his 10th Reunion — he was the organizer of his section's party. Days before the festivities were to begin, however, he and his wife, Brenda, received a phone call informing them... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Turning Point: Tell Me More

Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel By Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) My entire career has been a series of pivots: a friend who convinced me to join his firm, a conversation on an airplane that turned into a new job, a middle-of-the-night idea that... View Details

Keywords: politics; communication; voting; demographics

03 Mar 2016
News

3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)

(photo by Cade Martin) At my 20th HBS reunion I heard faculty member Michael Wheeler describe behavior people engage in when they’re being deceptive. The room was transfixed. No one was on their phone! It turned out there is a robust, well-funded body of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Online Harassment | About

without their permission with the intention and effect of intense harassment. For purposes of these policies: Someone publicly shares personal information by publishing it, posting or reposting it on social media, emailing it,... View Details

Editorial

Elon Musk's Unusual Compensation Plan Isn't Really About Compensation at All

By: George Serafeim

Earlier this year, Tesla shareholders approved likely the largest compensation package ever awarded to a CEO—for a CEO who clearly doesn’t need the money. Elon Musk is already incredibly rich and also doesn’t seem particularly motivated by further wealth. So why do it?... View Details

Keywords: Tesla; Elon Musk; Innovation; Investor Communication; Investor Relations; Short-termism; Long-termism; Disruption; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Communication Intention and Meaning; Mission and Purpose