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- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
compensation to performance, as they often fail to rein in pay when performance suffers. · Expectations placed on board members have increased. Most notably, Sarbanes-Oxley and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
rates rose when enlistment became legal. From disfranchisement to distrust The results suggest racism blunted available manpower for the war at a critical time. They also imply the US government shortchanged itself by violating its own... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
employment patterns, market share, business investment, and most prominently, stock market performance. Given Gates's achievements, it is interesting that he is throwing down a gauntlet to have global capitalism direct itself toward View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
"Better to be quiet and thought a fool than to talk and be known as one." The social virtues of silence are reinforced by our survival instincts. Many organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
organizational leaders rely on their own experiences and established success standards to form expectations for these workers, resulting in them feeling discouraged and unable to fit in. The paper,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
The problem with using crises to reduce complacency and create urgency is that the tactic is a potential diamond sitting on a rock surrounded by quicksand and very nasty beasts. Any naiveté about the downside risks can cause disaster. Big... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
themselves on the web and in social media, however, it raised the additional challenge of maintaining consistency of voice. The Tate put guidelines in place on how staff could present themselves in keeping... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
the wane. "I fear that social networks may make the problem worse," commented Gamaliel Pascual. "The technology may be hardwiring a younger generation to create virtual tribes where the congregation is based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
on the power of using popular social media avenues such as Facebook and Twitter to build a strong support base, fan by fan. Starting in March 2008, to publicize her first... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
benefits of a monopoly position in the marketplace—these are all privileges that society grants to professions in return for certain social benefits. The creation of these View Details
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
to lie than when they sign it at the end. “We’ve had the signature line in the wrong place for centuries,” Bazerman says. Negotiators also should realize that language matters. View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
gets lost in this conversation is the extent to which the US needs immigrants. We need their youth, their willingness to work at any job, their productivity, their contributions View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
Influencing Human Behavior By: Reddy, Sheila M., Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher, and Stanley T. Asah Abstract—Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
world, the best place to change the minds of voters, especially disenchanted voters, is on their doorsteps, Pons says. Voters who dismiss the canned responses of a well-groomed candidate might listen View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 27 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding
addition to contacts identified by the manager, the company should do its best to provide virtual opportunities for the employee to connect with other peers. Informal virtual... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
collaborative tasks from writing assignments to playing digital instruments. At the same time it needed to address constraints such as the lack of electrical power in many remote rural areas—a problem it... View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
not be any sort of attack on this very fundamental right. On the other hand social media platforms still have an obligation to the public that they serve YouTube needs to... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
workplace friendships, firms can minimize the psychological costs of homesickness, which increase depending on how far the employee is from home, according to Choudhury’s study, Social View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
Facebook’s vision and mission statement.” Brendan Coffey led the way in proposing that “FB needs a much more active strategy to place the user in a position of control with respect View Details