Social Attachment To Place - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Sep 2010
What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

however, attached conditions to this course of action, typically involving some kind of financial penalty. For example, Walter Blass suggested "a negotiated skipping of his bonus, or stock options... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

joke and saying, ‘Am I being politically correct?’ is also insulting, and someone needs to let that person know. That’s when you start to tilt the balance in the culture.” View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

the data showed that customers tended to order a higher percentage of "should" items (like leafy greens) and a lower percentage of "want" items (like candy bars) the further in advance they placed an order.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Jul 2018
What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

that those creating powerful technology have to ensure what they build is used for good, and not for harm.” Within 48 hours, over 300 (out of about 120,000) Microsoft employees had attached their names View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

06 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

Planning to ask a big company for a charitable donation? You may be wise to time your request around a huge sporting event—specifically, an event that takes place in the firm's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

traded on an open market. Quite the contrary, U.S. law ensures that sufficient protection is in place so that this could never happen. However, the ability to legally acquire a cadaver and reimburse a... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

paramedics, how do gray zones operate and why are they significant? A: Occupations, de facto, provide the shared, collective level of understanding that allows moral gray zones to exist. Nurses, paramedics, or flight attendants, for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

couple it with loss aversion, and you put people in a position where they're more likely to go out and exercise." StickK has incorporated another economic principle—the power of social norms—to keep people... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

01 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics

as official sponsors and unofficial free-riders attach themselves to the Olympic logo, to particular sports, national teams, or individual athletes. Global brands, in... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Sports

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

One need only look as far as the bookshelf to see the optimism attached to China's ascension as a world economic and political power. Titles like The Dragon Awakes; The Rise of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

Fargo., objectives were put in place to broaden the bank’s relationship with its customers. This involved selling existing customers many more products, a goal based on research showing a relationship... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

again the question framed so eloquently 70 years ago by Milton Friedman in his famous article, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.” (Incidentally, Friedman made no reference... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

on to a PhD in biology that you might go to a place that's attached to a major medical school. In fact, a higher... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

place to study the misery of joblessness and the value of work, but not to Reshmaan N. Hussam, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. After... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

innovation and the opportunity to participate in the "white coat" economy and life sciences revolution of the 21st century. Writes a new social contract based on real family values, creating fair... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

accounts. But, by the early twentieth century a large industry had emerged that provided basic financial services to the public. In the 1930s the modern regulatory framework for this industry was created. In broad terms, my research... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

at six contextual factors that shaped business during the last century and continue to shape it in our present century: government regulation, labor, globalization, technology, demography, and social mores.... View Details