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04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

pillars to hire contract workers with non-traditional backgrounds. Typically, these candidates, who lack relevant experience or academic qualifications, wouldn’t be eligible to work for a large corporation... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

very expensive, natural garments; Ben and Jerry's, and so on. But the evidence is very mixed as to how often CSR pays off, or serves the company strategically. Most of the authors did not think that usually... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

May–June 2021
Article

Eliminate Strategic Overload

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

As companies respond to intensifying competitive pressures and challenges, they ask more and more of their employees. But organizations often have very little to show for the efforts of their talented and engaged workers. By selecting fewer initiatives with greater... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Initiatives; Value-based Strategy; Organizational Effectiveness; Strategy; Value Creation

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01 Dec 2020
What Do You Think?

How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?

economic equality fosters economic growth, primarily by encouraging consumption among people who spend a lot and invest modestly. For example, the study concludes that the US pays handsomely for the low growth that comes with income and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 May 2009
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Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

latitude," and insuring "no negative consequences" associated with failure of innovative ideas. The right kind of leadership—capable of building trust, the willingness to take risk, and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 Nov 2023
Research & Ideas

Employee Negativity Is Like Wildfire. Manage It Before It Spreads.

Regulating our own emotions in stressful situations is difficult enough, but business leaders face the added challenge of attempting to regulate the collective emotions of the groups they lead to guide them... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

manufacturers,” Hisano writes in the conclusion of her paper. That said, color continues to be an important ingredient in packaged foods. “My research on food coloring is an early example of how companies View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

cannot be a credible champion for world trade. “Xi Jinping’s words are more of a PR stunt,” he wrote. Wildebeest added, “[A]ttempting to do meaningful work in China is basically a hassle from day one, top to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2014
News

Self-awareness is important if you want to be a good general manager

role that is part ambassador, part recruiter. “I will pay attention to job opportunities in the Greater China area,” he says, “and pass the information along to the club... View Details

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Funai Consulting Company, Ltd. (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Tomoya Nakamura

In the summer of 1997, a consultant at Japan's Funai Consulting Co. Ltd., must decide how to respond to a client's proposal to offer "open pricing" (based on willingness to pay) to customers unable to pay the standard price for the client's product. The client, Akita... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Price; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decisions; Agribusiness; Management Practices and Processes; Business Ventures; Consulting Industry; Japan

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08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

A racial salary gap has persisted in the US for more than 50 years among minority groups, with Black people currently earning 30 to 35 percent less than Whites. Now new research shows that in addition to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

commitment strategies. In later studies, Zlatev and Kristal asked participants to rate people on their degree of integrity based on their use of a commitment strategy involving paying a friend $5 if they... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Oct 2024
HBS Seminar

Rosa Ferrer, University of Pompeu Fabra and BSE

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

to package the maize. Masha's company warehouses the grain at the end of the process, commoditizes it, and sells it to food conglomerates like Nestlé, which uses it to make... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

21 May 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

within the community to operate each plant , and nonprofit organizations aid in the underlying behavioral changes required to effectively collect more waste. Without the government’s regulatory framework,... View Details

2017
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Of Margins and Modalities

05 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

says. Rising prices don’t stop consumers To test consumers’ willingness to keep buying higher-priced everyday goods, the researchers examined Kilts Nielsen scanner and consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Jan 2014
News

To Spot Financial Trouble Early, Use Three Circles: A conversation with Blythe McGarvie of Harvard Business School

21 Feb 2018
News

When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero Course Number 6066 Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi January; J; 3.0 credits Fall On-Campus Course Sessions: Thursday sessions: 3:10-5:10pm October 10... View Details

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