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  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Interpreting the Gipper

Beschloss Photo Courtesy of The Newshour with Jim Lehrer Following the death of former President Ronald Reagan in June, presidential historian and author Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980) was frequently quoted in the media on his assessment of... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

Below are the views that faculty shared with the HBS community on Earth Day. 1. Robert G. Eccles Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (This article, titled,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • May 2008 (Revised March 2010)
  • Supplement

Palm (C): 2005

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Kevin Boudreau and Jordan Mitchell
This case series looks at three important inflection points in Palm's history that relate to decisions about its platform: when the company was debating whether to open its operating system (OS) for licensing to third-party hardware manufacturers; 2001, when the... View Details
Keywords: History; Decisions; Business Model; Technological Innovation; Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Rights; Competition
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  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Just Keep Our Money

© politicalcartoons.com The government’s ever-evolving rescue of the financial sector has already demanded enormous sums, and President Obama’s economic stimulus package will require many billions more. While a stimulus plan would lead to... View Details
Keywords: Peter Tufano; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
  • March 2006 (Revised January 2011)
  • Case

CEMEX: Rewarding the Egyptian Retailers

CEMEX has pursued an aggressive decommoditization strategy focused on its relationship with small Egyptian retailers. In particular, the strategic role and effectiveness of the Rewards Program, a tournament that rewarded the sales performance of the retailers, was... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Performance Improvement; Sales; Motivation and Incentives; Construction Industry; Egypt
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  • 14 May 2014
  • News

Is Bruce Rauner the Next Mitt Romney?

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
  • 1984
  • Book

Environmental Dispute Resolution

By: Lawrence Bacow and Michael A. Wheeler
Keywords: Conflict and Resolution
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  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

firms' social responsibility and sustainability practices. Linguists suggest that obligatory future-time-reference (FTR) in a language reduces the psychological importance of the future. Prior research has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 1986 (Revised July 1990)
  • Supplement

Kristen's Cookie Co. (A2)

Intended for distribution during class, this case contains one set of answers to the (A1) case. It introduces the concept of a Gantt chart and discusses issues raised by the case such as the value of labor flexibility. The open-ended questions in the (A1) case are only... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Employees
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  • 01 Apr 1976
  • Conference Presentation

Deadlines: Their Effect on Subsequent Intrinsic Motivation

By: W. DeJong, Teresa M. Amabile and M. R. Lepper
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
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  • Article

Does Observability Amplify Sensitivity to Moral Frames? Evaluating a Reputation-Based Account of Moral Preferences

By: Valerio Capraro, Jillian J. Jordan and Ben Tappin
A growing body of work suggests that people are sensitive to moral framing in economic games involving prosociality, suggesting that people hold moral preferences for doing the “right thing”. What gives rise to these preferences? Here, we evaluate the explanatory power... View Details
Keywords: Moral Preferences; Moral Frames; Observability; Trustworthiness; Trust Game; Trade-off Game; Moral Sensibility; Reputation; Behavior; Trust
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  • November 2007
  • Supplement

Differences at Work: Ben (B)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Ben (B) HBS Case No. 9-408-043 Ben shares his colleague's comment with another colleague who empathizes with Ben's discomfort but dismisses the remark as a joke, leaving Ben to decide whether he wants to confront his colleague. View Details
Keywords: Employees; Conflict and Resolution; Perception
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  • 07 Nov 2018
  • News

The Results Are (Mostly) In

election day.) US Senate Mitt Romney (MBA 1974), the former governor of Massachusetts and 2012 Republican presidential nominee, won the Utah seat previously held by retiring Senator Orrin Hatch. Businessman Mike Braun (MBA 1978) defeated... View Details
  • 23 Sep 2019
  • News

Leading Schools that Change Lives

Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) studied business at Harvard and has a psychology degree from Boston College. But in a career spent leading schools that transform students’ lives, he also draws regularly on his... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Decision Points

Bush: For future observers, a context for his administration. On the occasion of the publication of his memoir, Decision Points, and in his first newspaper interview since leaving the White House, a relaxed, introspective former President... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

press Journal of Applied Psychology Cooperation in Multicultural Negotiations: How the Cultures of People with Low and High Power Interact By: Kopelman, Shirli, Ashley E. Hardin, Christopher G. Myers, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2008
  • Article

Working in the Gray Zone

By: Michel Anteby
Supervisors often turn a blind eye when employees use company resources and time to work on personal projects. They realize that stamping out such behavior may do more harm than good. View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Effectiveness; Behavior
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  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

organizations. Publisher's link: http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.5465/amj.2013.0903 December 2014 Journal of Applied Psychology Preparatory Power Posing Affects Nonverbal Presence and Job... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Robert E. Dewar

    With a law degree from Wayne State University, Dewar joined S. S. Kresge (K-Mart) in the legal department. However, he became more interested in business than law and... View Details
    Keywords: Retail
    • 25 Oct 2016
    • First Look

    October 25, 2016

    knowledge about process and productivity improvements that lower costs while simultaneously maintaining or improving outcomes. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51774 in press Journal of Personality View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne