Status - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

professional status would allow me to have a better life than they had. They grew up during the Depression, and both began working at young ages to help support their families. They both continued to work long hours throughout their adult... View Details

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

disability expenses, (2) Health insurance affects health status positively, (3) Layoffs are harmful to everything from mental and physical well-being to work behavior, (4) Work schedules and length of hours affect physical well-being and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Nov 2017
News

Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress

grad Seth Moulton (MBA 2011) of Massachusetts and Republican Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin. “They validated the need for an organization that could provide strategic national support for next-generation veterans and help them win, and for the type of coalition that can... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Jan 2006
News

William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

both arenas.” Having agreed to a five-year term at Yale, Donaldson returned to Wall Street in 1980 to run his own international investment fund. But when the NYSE came calling in 1990, he couldn’t resist another opportunity to upset the View Details

18 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 18

takes the ideal of status egalitarianism to be central to human rights. Status egalitarianism holds that all members of society stand as moral equals in relation to one another and that the state has a duty... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

reform. Any initiative to develop emerging economies must acknowledge that the business groups themselves may want to maintain the status quo. Those groups wield considerable economic and political power that can be used not only to block... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

the needs of human beings, not around the needs of the status quo, didn't happen. Consumer-Driven Health Care was another book that I wrote to help change the demand for health care, to get innovation in the insurance industry. That was... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

29 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

for the venture, and regarding social networks, whether the entrepreneur had been able to tap investors who had previously invested in a company of the entrepreneur's. These entrepreneurs were much more likely to achieve Rich and Regal View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services

28 Jun 2024
News

Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

03 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Business of Animal Protection Club

altogether. In the business realm, the global pet care market is estimated at a quarter of a trillion dollars. Yet paradoxically, despite this increasing ethical clarity on the moral status of animals, business today is often a major... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

are committed to making progress both in working sessions and between meetings. Here is a status report on each committee. Global Alumni Issues This committee is looking at the results of a survey of international alumni, trying to... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

The New “In” Crowd

increase the effectiveness of social-sector organizations. It’s about opportunities that span the globe. It’s about tackling big social problems and finding ways to address their underlying causes. And sometimes that involves practicing a new brand of entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn

already in place, she says. Upon leaving HBS, she hopes to take the knowledge she's gained about well-run organizations back into the manufacturing world. “After this, I don't think I'll fall into thinking ‘Go with the status quo,'” she... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Brill

24 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Why Brexit is a Big Deal

camp offered nothing except the status quo. Anyone watching the national UK television debate on Tuesday could compare the hope and passion of the Leave campaign, led by former London mayor Boris Johnson, with the plodding, half-hearted... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

had more than 44 million, and Coca-Cola had gathered more than 69 million fans, 800 thousand of whom reportedly liked the Coca-Cola page or posted a status update on that page; liked, shared, or commented on a Coca-Cola post; mentioned... View Details

13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's—dominated the credit ratings industry, recently controlling 97 percent of the market. But the status quo was disrupted by the 2008 global... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

01 Sep 2016
News

How I Got to Google

up with Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) to gain some insider knowledge of a role cited by the Wall Street Journal for its coveted status among MBAs. Ramaswami, a senior product manager at Google (where he worked for nearly six years before... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

08 May 2025
Blog Post

Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)

are so many untapped opportunities out there, and as women we have an advantage in thinking differently from the status quo on how to identify and pursue those opportunities. My classmates in the MS/MBA were instrumental towards building... View Details

March 2007
Article

Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms

By: Julie Wulf

I show that performance incentives vary by decision-making authority of division managers. For division managers with broader authority, i.e., those designated as corporate officers, both the sensitivity of pay to global performance measures and the relative importance... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Globalization; Measurement and Metrics; Status and Position; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Divisions

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Capitalism and the State (CATS) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Capitalism and the State (CATS) Course Number 1120 Professor Debora L. Spar Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Weekly seminar Paper Enrollment by application only. Students should submit their applications by July 17, and will be informed of their registration... View Details

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