by Stephen Haber - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

A pall hangs over Sochi. Not since the bribery scandal overshadowed the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City has an Olympic Winter Games been so fraught with controversy. Fears of a terrorist attack by Islamic extremists; outrage over Russia's... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

It was a brief dalliance, just a few weeks in length, over text and video only. The end of the affair was nonetheless just the beginning for Stephen Easterbrook, the McDonald’s CEO who went from being hailed as the company’s “savior”... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

2015
Working Paper

Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Partnership in Relationship Building and Collaborative Marketing by a Global Financial Institution and a Major Art Museum

By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser

Purpose: This paper examines cultural sponsorship from a partnership and relationship marketing perspective. It studies a case of how a partnership between two international institutions, a bank and a museum, adds value to both in terms of interaction with... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Partners and Partnerships; Marketing Strategy; Culture; Banks and Banking

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17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

Historians have the wisdom granted by time. But for researchers trying to understand current events, especially in the helter-skelter Internet age, the world can change completely before the digital ink dries on the manuscript. That... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

14 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

Work-from-home employees whose days seem longer, with more meetings and emails than ever before, may find a new Harvard Business School study validating. An analysis of the emails and meetings of 3.1 million people in 16 global cities found that the average workday... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

When Stephen Kaufman took the helm at Arrow Electronics in 1982, it was de rigueur for CEOs to sit on the boards of several other companies in addition to running their own. Back then, serving as a board member didn't require much of a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

of getting around this fact." Several studies by Norton and his colleagues show that attempting to overcome prejudice by ignoring race is an ineffective strategy that—in many cases—only serves to perpetuate... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

listen empathetically, welcome input, and rally the workforce around a common goal, according to a recent study by a team of researchers including Harvard Business School Professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller, who analyzed... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

Awards

Best Professor Award in the Evening MBA Program

Winner of the Teaching Excellence Award for the Evening MBA Program at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan for 2012 (one professor selected each year by student vote). View Details

02 Mar 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

from government. Suggestions of causes of the current challenge of rapidly rising costs in relation to quality of outcomes, at least by the imperfect measure of life expectancy, included waste in the system (Julie Maire, Edward Hare, and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

11 Jun 2024
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

22 Jan 2014
News

Financially, experts say Tanaka unlikely to be another Matsui

26 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time

also provides a visual progress cue, as borrowers see purchases vanish from their statements. Norton worked on the project with Grant E. Donnelly, an assistant professor at Ohio State University; Cait Lamberton, a marketing professor at the Wharton School of the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

16 May 2013
News

Boxing and Floyd Mayweather: Perfect Storm for Highest-Paid Athlete

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2012 New Venture Contest: Runner-up

February 2012 (Revised December 2013)
Case

Saks Incorporated

By: Carliss Baldwin and Stefon Burns

Saks Fifth Avenue, a luxury department store chain, has been hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis and stock market crash. Speculation about impending bankruptcy is rampant in the press. The CEO, Stephen Sadove, must decide how to respond. View Details

Keywords: Retail; Fashion; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Crisis; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; United States

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16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

when life goes back to normal. Forward-thinking leaders can run better organizations by creating conditions that allow customers to be more helpful. When service provision is a true partnership and customers are pitching in, employees... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Oct 2012
News

J&J CEO Amid Tylenol Scare

09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

climbed more than three-fold in the United States. In Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, openings skyrocketed by at least a factor of five. That said, in Miami; Savannah, Georgia; and Memphis, job listings with one or... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

rituals mediated the link between use of rituals and reduced grief after losses, and the benefits of rituals accrued not only to individuals who professed a belief in rituals' effectiveness but also those who did not. Although the specific rituals in which people... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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