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25 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

apparel and footwear, when City Year requested fifty pairs of boots for its youth service corps program. "In the philanthropic relationship," Austin observes, "each side benefits modestly. The NPO receives funding, goods, or services, while the company enhances its... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

01 Oct 2000
News

Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney

from the center, to do new and better things with our talents and energy. Great organizations recognize that these two powerful forces must be held in balance if they want to maintain a bright constellation of managers. They therefore build and sustain cultures and... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

fashion e-commerce company, Peach. It’s also a challenge to an industry where a company’s potential is often predicted based on its similarity to other successful ventures, most often led by CEOs who look a whole lot like Mark Zuckerberg. Tech has long had a View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

unlikely achievement of sorts. After all, Rapid7 was a venture-backed, corporate client-focused cybersecurity company, and Metasploit was a white-hat hacker community with a reputation that ranged from esoteric to “notorious.” And... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

open bar happy hours with David Fairhurst, a personal friend he had promoted to oversee human resources, and the two men developed reputations for “flirting with female employees.” HR allegedly didn’t intervene despite knowledge of the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

01 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

kickbacks. A corruption scandal in Lagos could harm KPMG's reputation in New York or Shanghai. Moreover, foreign firms are bound by many laws of their home country and by international laws, notably the antibribery convention of the... View Details

Keywords: by Eric Werker

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

asset seizure by enemy governments. Negotiation Some directly negotiated favorable business arrangements with local governments and decision makers. Perseverance Some adopted the approach of resilience, working to develop legitimacy in the geographic area to build a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

30 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Rob Self (MBA 2021) – Integrating Climate into Consulting

MBA from a reputable institution. I was drawn to HBS because, beyond enjoying my campus visit, I was particularly excited about the inclusive partner culture, strong student section affiliation, and the case method. I enjoyed how engaged... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

corporations, perhaps unwittingly. Corporate facilitation of tax evasion out of foreign countries has largely been overlooked by regulatory authorities, but the climate is changing. So executives could become liable to accusations of wire or mail fraud. Furthermore,... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

Profile

Paul Lenehan

they could break down and analyze problems – especially the MBAs from HBS. Their case background was a foundation for much of the analytical work." Paul came to HBS on the strength of its reputation and "the quality of its... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment

industry giants such as Brandon Tartikoff and Grant Tinker. There he began honing the skills that have since secured his own reputation as a television programmer extraordinaire. The key, Sagansky observes, is finding the right niche, "a... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Arts, Entertainment

Walter A. Haas

Haas led Levi’s transformation from a family business to a worldwide corporation. Haas introduced a number of innovative employment policies and refused to lay off workers even during the time of the Great Depression – gaining a long-standing View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

Web

Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

succeed. "Getting the venture capital field off the ground... was as risky as the new industries it would invest in..." author and analyst Kenneth Fisher argues. "[Doriot] staked both reputation and money in an effort to prove his idea... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

also with regard to management practices and reputation in the community. The result of her efforts is the MBA elective course Globalization, Culture, and Management. According to Paine, as they examine the values and beliefs embraced by... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 1997
News

David M. Hughes

110 percent" of himself to anything he's involved in, earned a reputation among students and staff at HBS as someone who could always be counted on to do a job - and another and another - and do it right. Sometimes in highly visible... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

16 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those factories are revealed to be dangerous, illegal, or otherwise problematic. While firms are increasingly relying on private-sector "social... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Peter H. Coors

Taking the helm of the business from his father, Peter set out to re-invent the company which had been overshadowed by the political opinions and approaches of its former business leaders. Peter established solid relations with the company's unions and began a highly... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

July 2019
Article

Which of These Things Are Not Like the Others? Comparing the Rational, Emotional, and Moral Aspects of Reputation, Status, Celebrity, and Stigma

By: Timothy G. Pollock, Kisha Lashley, Violina P. Rindova and Jung-Hoon Han

In this review of the literature on reputation, status, celebrity, and stigma we develop an overarching theoretical framework based on the rational, emotional, and moral aspects of each construct’s unique sociocognitive content and the mechanisms through which it... View Details

Keywords: Celebrity; Stigma; Reputation; Status and Position; Emotions; Moral Sensibility

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The Career Effects of Scandal: Evidence from Scientific Retractions

By: Pierre Azoulay, Alessandro Bonatti and Joshua Lev Krieger

We investigate how the scientific community's perception of a scientist's prior work changes when one of his articles is retracted. Relative to non-retracted control authors, faculty members who experience a retraction see the citation rate to their earlier,... View Details

Keywords: Reputation; Perception; Status and Position; Outcome or Result

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