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Business History - Faculty & Research

Management ; Business Earnings ; Financial Statements ; Change Management ; Disruption ; Volatility ; Transition ; Crime and Corruption ; Cost vs Benefits ; Decision Making ; Decision Choices and Conditions ; Decisions ; Demographics ; Ethics ; Values and View Details
  • 01 Sep 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

feedback to last month’s column Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance? We would like to think that religious belief does affect organizational performance. Deb Wiesner expressed this... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

fascinated me. Why? Energy is the engine that drives the world’s economy, lifts people out of poverty, and improves quality of life. Oil and gas will be needed for decades and are fundamental to an affordable, just, and secure energy transition.” Primary care: “HBS... View Details
  • 14 Jan 2019
  • Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

Four titans who defined a new era in business during the past decade recently concluded their terms: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, Unilever’s Paul Polman, Mayo Clinic’s John Noseworthy, and US Bancorp’s Richard Davis. When they became CEOs, the Great Recession of 2008 was... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products
  • 07 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big

results don’t offer a smoking gun. Enthusiasm is inherent in the decentralized finance culture, where eager investors generally expect that market values will soar. “There's a belief that because crypto is trying to democratize investment... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • News

Fueling the Faculty Pipeline

Private Equity Group, and executive chairman of the firm’s private equity business in Asia. Melwani’s support for the School stems from the deep impact his two years in the MBA Program have had on his life as well as his belief in the... View Details
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

neoclassical business cycle model with heterogeneous firms and risky debt. To generate the size of spread increases observed during 2008-9, the model requires only disappointment of overoptimistic beliefs rather than large negative... View Details
  • Web

C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

belief that “good teachers are made, not born,” Christensen and several other faculty members responded by writing numerous cases that reflected a broad range of classroom situations. “While there were no paint-by-numbers solutions,” he... View Details
  • 03 Jan 2023
  • Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

inequities, Opie says companies need to dig deep, build bridges, and take collective action. Step 1: Digging deep Opie says leaders need to confront the entrenched beliefs that reinforce the pay and promotion gaps playing out around them.... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • Web

Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

chart images are available for download. Visit the ICCP website Social Progress Index The Social Progress Index is a rich framework for measuring the multiple dimensions of social progress motivated by the belief that to truly advance... View Details
  • 14 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Top 5 Myths About HBS

on? We have this belief that all of us are still working on getting better at some things. So who are the people that have worked closely enough with you that they can share those examples with us? “It is impossible to prepare for your... View Details
  • March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
  • Case

Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney
In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the iconoclastic founder of outdoor apparel company Patagonia, announced a new ownership model for his company. Chouinard and his family had held complete control of the company's voting and non-voting stock since its founding 50... View Details
Keywords: Trusts; Business Ventures; Business Organization; Family Business; Restructuring; Change; Disruption; Transition; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Leadership; Labor; Law; Common Law; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Ownership; Ownership Type; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Value; Value Creation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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Events - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Events Events Conferences Workshop on Belief Formation and Prediction APR 2017 The Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project at Harvard Business School hosted an interdisciplinary conference to explore how understanding... View Details
  • February 2012
  • Case

Henkel: Building a Winning Culture

By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This case illustrates a CEO-led organizational transformation driven by stretch goals, performance measurement, and accountability. When Kasper Rorsted became CEO of Henkel, a Germany-based producer of personal care, laundry, and adhesives products, in 2008, he was... View Details
Keywords: Performance Measurement; Performance Appraisals; Human Resource Management; Values; Organizational Transformations; Pay For Performance; Strategy Execution; Values and Beliefs; Work-Life Balance; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits
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  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

reprehensible, part of the religious belief is that you do not charge interest or accept interest. Now, of course, that isn't always practiced, but it is the theory." Compassion is required when a business is in trouble. "In any... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

Winter 2017 MIT Sloan Management Review Why Big Data Isn't Enough By: Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract—There is a growing belief that sophisticated algorithms can explore huge databases and find relationships independent of any... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

[an]other industry." Driving this view is a belief that there's a trade-off between hiring for experience and the amount of time and money that you don't need to spend on training and development. But these are very different things,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • September 2016
  • Case

Truly Human Leadership at Barry-Wehmiller

By: Dylan Minor and Jan Rivkin
The chief executive of Barry-Wehmiller, a large maker of industrial equipment, has resolved to run the company via “truly human leadership” in which “success is measured by the way we touch the lives of people.” With unusual people practices and a distinctive strategy,... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Employees; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 22 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

Steinberg, and Ann Raldow, and medical physicist Nzhde Agazaryan. A spectrum of close calls The research team wanted to understand the role of psychological safety—defined as “the shared belief that interpersonal risk-taking is safe”—in... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health
  • 01 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

beliefs that foam strikes incurred during the launch of the space shuttle Columbia posed no risk to its fuselage. This propensity to maintain silence, a flaw at once personal and organizational, is "widespread and problematic"... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons