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  • 17 Oct 2016
  • HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

farmers, academics, policy makers, and social service organizations. “We’re seeing a movement to rethink what we are doing as a food industry and as consumers,” says José Alvarez, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who was once... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • November 2003 (Revised March 2005)
  • Compilation

Being a Professional

By: Ashish Nanda
We encounter in all aspects of our daily lives groups of individuals who identify themselves as professionals. Many of us aspire to be professionals in our vocation and conduct. But what are the aspects of being a professional? The following anthology of book excerpts... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Personal Development and Career
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

Lessons from Catastrophe Reinsurance

By: Kenneth A. Froot
Of the 20 most costly catastrophes since 1970, more than half have occurred since 2001. Is this an omen of what the 21st century will be? How might we behave in this new, uncertain, and more dangerous environment? Will our actions be rational or irrational? A select... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Insurance; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Disasters; Behavior
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  • 12 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

that might explain these co-altruistic behaviors," he says. "On the other hand, maybe it's that once in an occupation, one gets socialized into certain group behaviors that are typical of that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

  Working PapersDo Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance? Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Is MySpace.com Your Space?

Social networking sites such as MySpace.com are some of the most trafficked on the Web—MySpace had 46 million unique users in June and features nearly 100 million personal profiles posted by users, many of whom are in their teens and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Information; Publishing
  • 2018
  • Chapter

Organizational Remedies for Discrimination

By: R. Ely and A. Feldberg
Laws now exist to protect employees from blatant forms of discrimination in hiring and promotion, but workplace discrimination persists in latent forms. These “second-generation” forms of bias arise in workplace structures, practices, and patterns of interaction that... View Details
Keywords: Discrimination; Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality
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  • September 10, 2014
  • Article

Getting Cross-Cultural Teamwork Right

By: Tsedal Neeley
People struggle with global teamwork, even though it’s essential to success in multinational firms. Despite their efforts to nimbly manage differences in time zones, cultures, and languages, cross-border collaborators often fail to reach shared understanding or common... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Globalized Firms and Management; Conflict Management
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  • 20 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

Business, Aaron Chatterji, call “CEO activism,” in which corporate executives speak out about social or environmental issues not obviously related to their core businesses. “What prompted this research is that we kept observing instances... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • Web

    Publications - Faculty & Research

    Moralistic Punishment ; Reputation ; Moral Sensibility Citation Read Now Related Jordan, Jillian J., and Nour S. Kteily. "Punitive but Discerning: Reputation Can Fuel Ambiguously-Deserved Punishment, but Does Not Erode Sensitivity to Nuance." Journal of Personality and... View Details
    • 10 Jun 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

    Not long ago, only 30 companies around the world reported data about their social and sustainability (that is, nonfinancial) endeavors. Today, more than 7,000 organizations do so. While that transparency is undoubtedly a good thing, the... View Details
    Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
    • 05 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

    to connect groups with disparate skills—like engineering, sales, and market analysis—at key points in a project. Extensive analysis of job postings Zhang bases his conclusions on a unique linguistic analysis of more than 34 million online... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • Article

    Petting Away Pre-exam Stress: The Effect of Therapy Dog Sessions on Student Well-being

    By: Emma Ward-Griffin, Patrick Klaiber, Hanne Collins, Rhea L. Owens, Stanley Coren and Frances S Chen
    Recently, many universities have implemented programmes in which therapy dogs and their handlers visit college campuses. Despite the immense popularity of therapy dog sessions, few randomized studies have empirically tested the efficacy of such programmes. The present... View Details
    Keywords: Well-being; Happiness
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    • July 1993 (Revised October 2004)
    • Case

    Aston-Blair, Inc.

    By: John J. Gabarro
    Describes the formation, selection, and experience of a task force with multidepartmental membership. The problems faced by the task force leader at the end of the case raise issues of who does the selection; the establishment of group norms, values, and goals; the... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events

    By: Rafael Di Tella, Lucía Freira, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Ernesto Schargrodsky, Diego Shalom and Mariano Sigman
    We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices of cognitive control before and after treated... View Details
    Keywords: Crime; Biological Markers; Experiment; Victimization; Desensitization; Crime and Corruption; Perspective; Attitudes; Behavior
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    • June 2014
    • Article

    Informal Peer Interaction and Practice Type as Predictors of Physician Performance on Maintenance of Certification Examinations

    By: Melissa A. Valentine, S. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, A. Gal and R. Rhodes
    Context: Physicians can demonstrate mastery of the knowledge that supports continued clinical competence by passing a Maintenance of Certification exam. Exam performance depends on professional learning and development, which may be enhanced by informal routine... View Details
    Keywords: Training; Health Care and Treatment; Performance; Social and Collaborative Networks; Learning; Health Industry
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    • 21 Apr 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Changing In-group Boundaries: The Role of New Immigrant Waves in the US

    Keywords: by Vasiliki Fouka, Shom Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini
    • 28 Jun 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: June 28

    Chantel Lenard, Ford's Group Marketing Manager for Global Small Car and Midsize Vehicles, and Connie Fontaine, Ford's Manager of Brand Content and Alliances, pushed for a bold approach to marketing the new vehicle. They and their teams... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2008
    • Supplement

    Adobe Systems: Working Towards a "Suite" Release (B)

    By: David A. Thomas and Lauren Barley
    The case examines the tools a manager can use to keep her project on track and manage conflict and tension as Adobe prepares to launch Creative Suite 3, the biggest software release in the company's 25-year history. The protagonist, Yvonne Murray, is a group program... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Interpersonal Communication; Crisis Management; Product Launch; Projects; Conflict of Interests; Integration; Software
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