human rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

proactively seek out the doctor . A good manager needs to get more involved in 'preventative medicine .'" Akhil Mehta, before observing similarities, pointed out that " human life is almost never involved in managerial decision... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

20 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

There are two myths in defining creativity. One is the genius myth—that creativity is tied to genius. To the contrary, I've found that although some people have extreme levels of talent, everyone with normal human capacities is capable of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

a small sampling of the twenty-three companies pitched: Michele Honomichl GPSLink. The average corporation uses up to ten systems to manage the human resources process in moving its executives and their families both abroad and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

toss—and the pressure of real-world negotiations probably makes our actual performance even worse. Sometimes we don't realize we're being conned; other times, we wrongly suspect people who are telling us nothing but the truth. Fortunately, those skilled in View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

02 Aug 2021
What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

make more sense for a workforce that is older with fewer obligations (childcare, etc.) outside the office? Does it recognize the social needs of many (not all) humans to relate in person to those with whom we are working? We can ask how... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Apr 2011
What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

meltdown is. As Philippe Gouamba puts it, "Is it a partial collapse or a total collapse? What is at risk in this collapse; is it human lives, corporate capital or national pride?" Having asked these questions, he opts for... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

20 Jun 2012
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

precariously) nascent stage. In our opinion, the field of leadership education has reached a critical stage. After several decades of experimentation, with scores of teachers having developed and delivered a wide range of courses on the topic, we believe that the time... View Details

Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education

23 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

this loss of land, mining-related environmental degradation, and allegations of human rights abuses, a coalition of five indigenous communities forged an alliance with a group of domestic and international... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

partners investing at the same VC firm at the same time. Furthermore, our estimates suggest the partner's human capital is two to five times more important than the VC firm's organizational capital in explaining performance. Download... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

more of an excuse to spend your hours at the office, lining your workplace's pockets at the expense of your life. It's human nature in this day of "stay at work to show your worth." Thanks, but no thanks! I do my own cooking and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2008
What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

over-involvement (of) customers have led to bitter intellectual property right disputes customers simultaneously trying to drive the product in two (or more) very separate market directions (or) feature creep that literally prevents... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

organizations as being focused on tangible hard metrics like profit or market capitalization. But for-profits also do a lot of organizational capacity-building work. Venture capital investments are very much about building the organization, by making investments in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

19 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55632 forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

Lakhani said the question comes down to this: Do we have the right labor force? His research team recently held a three-weeklong contest that looked to improve the accuracy and processing speed of an algorithm designed to analyze genomic... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

are constructed. How is the notion of broadly guaranteed human rights impacted if we are increasingly divided into multiple publics? “Ads are not being sold. Audiences are being sold,” said panelist David... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

United States, expanding coverage and regulating insurers. However, it was not clear that expanding coverage would resolve a longstanding dilemma of rising costs for insurance and care. As the Department of Health and Human Services... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

quality or prices for consumers. Such mergers reduce competition in the insurance market, ultimately dampening much-needed innovation. What’s more, there’s no requirement or expectation that any savings from synergies generated from the merger would be passed onto... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

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

04 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

the somewhat pessimistic view that "There has always been and will always be a dearth of quality leadership ... because self-interest continues to drive human conduct." But Mark Horstman suggests that this doesn't insure a... View Details