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The Business Case for Curiosity

By: Francesca Gino
Although leaders might say they value inquisitive minds, in reality most stifle curiosity, fearing it will increase risk and inefficiency. Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino elaborates on the benefits of and common barriers to curiosity in the workplace and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Employees; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Learning; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 18 Jul 2018
  • Blog Post

Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East

After serving significant stints with Booz Allen, Yahoo! and Facebook, Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) can justifiably claim expertise in strategy, consulting, and social media. Although she regards her track record with pride, she sees herself... View Details

    On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition

    For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new... View Details

    • 10 Jun 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

    Not long ago, only 30 companies around the world reported data about their social and sustainability (that is, nonfinancial) endeavors. Today, more than 7,000 organizations do so. While that transparency is undoubtedly a good thing, the... View Details
    Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
    • February 2023
    • Article

    Homophily and Acrophily as Drivers of Political Segregation

    By: Amit Goldenberg, Joseph M. Abruzzo, Zi Huang, Jonas Schone, David Bailey, Robb Willer, Eran Halperin and James J. Gross
    Political segregation is an important social problem, increasing polarization and impeding effective governance. Previous work has viewed the central driver of segregation to be political homophily, the tendency to associate with others who have similar views. Here we... View Details
    Keywords: Political Affiliation; Extremism; Values and Beliefs; Identity; Groups and Teams; Emotions; Civil Society or Community
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    • May 2011 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (A)

    By: Heidi K. Gardner and Kerry Herman
    CEO Kelly Browne wrestles with the design of a new compensation system to promote the collaboration and cross-selling necessary for supporting her firm's new strategy. Marshall Gordon International, a global public relations (PR) firm, has recently expanded its service... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Customer Relationship Management; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Partners and Partnerships; Motivation and Incentives; Alignment; Public Relations Industry
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    • 12 Aug 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    ‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

    her venture. "When you are in a family background and you are socialized into that environment, you adopt certain ways of thinking and behaving and internalize certain values that are dominant in your... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 25 Jan 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategic Alliances

    a mutual course benefiting each of their strategies, HBS professor James Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was a new arena," he says, "in which the goals of different kinds of... View Details
    Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
    • 31 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 31

    mathematical models has turned the negotiated order of organizational activities, which necessarily include particularistic elements, into abstract generalizations that favor quantifiable variables. This paper offers another logic, a View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Spring 2012
    • Article

    Sustainability at Dow Chemical

    By: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen M. Perkins and Mark Weick
    Dow Chemical Company, which was founded in 1894, is now the second-largest chemical company in the world. From the outset, the company has been committed to high-technology research and commercial innovation in chemistry, advanced materials, and agro-sciences. But if... View Details
    Keywords: Value Creation; Corporate Strategy; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Chemical Industry
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    • 10 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 10, 2009

    displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      The Growth of Finance

      The U.S. financial services industry grew from 4.9% of GDP in 1980 to 7.9% of GDP in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly... View Details
      • 12 Oct 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: October 12, 2006

      legally astute manager can use legal tools to assess opportunities, develop the firm's value proposition, and select and perform the activities in the value chain. Also, explains the View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 29 Oct 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

      social network that would allow everyone to share their lives with one another across geographies. "Compared to the value of the global network idea, the value of the... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
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      Faculty & Research

      Journal of Financial Economics 165 (March 2025). Optimal Illiquidity By: John Beshears , James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian We study the socially optimal level of illiquidity in... View Details
      • August 2001 (Revised March 2008)
      • Case

      NerveWire, Inc.

      By: Nitin Nohria and Anthony Mayo
      NerveWire, a management consulting and systems integration provider based in Newton, MA, was closing in on its second anniversary. In the beginning days of NerveWire, the major challenge was recruiting--finding the right people who embodied its values and business... View Details
      Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Behavior; Internet; Newton
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      • November 2015 (Revised August 2016)
      • Case

      Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett
      In January 2009, when Paul Polman was appointed CEO of Unilever, he inherited a company in long-term decline at the beginning of a major global financial crisis. As the first outsider ever recruited to lead the company, Polman lost little time in challenging the... View Details
      Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competitive Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Consumer Products Industry
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        Rakesh Khurana

        Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

        Professor... View Details

        Keywords: executive search
        • 02 Feb 2016
        • First Look

        February 2, 2016

        multicultural social interactions in the context of negotiations, work teams, and global leadership. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50440 2015 Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research: Innovative... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

          Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions

          We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform owners that generate profits through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that... View Details