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  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

energy, time, and resources—in balanced measure—across what he calls "the three boxes": Box 1: The present—Manage the core business at peak profitability; Box 2: The past—Abandon ideas, practices, and attitudes that could... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

positively related to attitudes of openness to others. In a third study, I conducted an interpersonal dyadic negotiation experiment with business school students and found that, as predicted, these effects replicated and extended to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

regard real estate as a new asset class. Cynthia Foster (HBS MBA '90), executive managing director of Cushman & Wakefield, the world's largest privately held real estate services firm, regards this relatively recent change in attitude... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business School finance professor Luis M.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

extension, which historically has not been a matter of contention. The juxtaposition with a change in leadership at the Federal Reserve also adds to the concern. And finally, I think that businesspeople have long had an attitude that,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 20 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

regulations may be outdated in the era of Uber—not to mention other successful companies in the so-called sharing economy, such as the travel home-rental website Airbnb (currently valued at $25.5 billion). But he argues that it’s dangerous to foster a corporate View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance
  • 06 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

asking her, "Tell me why you're here at HBS taking a place away from a man." HBS professors' attitudes toward women were a mixed bag, too. As early as the 1940s and into the 1960s, several HBS faculty members would cross the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

have been slower to that realization, and tend to view governance as something that the lawyers are driving. And therefore it is something that, at the attitude level, slows things down; it's a cost to the enterprise. It gets in the way... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
  • 10 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

More generally, multinationals often create incentives to have joint ventures by penalizing the risk-taking involved in going it alone. The overall multinational entity must reevaluate its attitude toward joint ventures and make sure that... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 22 Jul 2021
  • News

Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

be selected for this award,” says McCarthy. “As one of the first women to join the Submarine Force, I don’t often think of myself as a trailblazer, but I hope my presence and attitude demonstrates that diverse teams make stronger teams.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

costless redistribution of arbitrarily determined unequal outcomes and prefer justifying tax progressivity based on benefit received rather than on diminishing marginal social welfare of income. These attitudes are shown to be linked to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

information today? Would you estimate that they have gotten more savvy and guarded over time? A: Consumers are becoming increasingly cautious with their personal information. In Western countries, surveys of consumer attitudes towards... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

hospital fundraising efforts. An interview with a promising candidate, who is also a digital native, forces her to confront shifting attitudes toward issues of data and privacy across generations against the backdrop of continued... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • March 2023
  • Supplement

Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design

By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Consulting Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • 23 Nov 2020
  • Blog Post

We Rise

this change in attitude is an important contributor to the economic benefit of gender diversity he observed. It’s going to take years to ameliorate unconscious bias and close the gender gap in venture capital, Gompers says. “But... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

We Rise

parenting daughters and hypothesizes that this change in attitude is an important contributor to the economic benefit of gender diversity he observed. It’s going to take years to ameliorate unconscious bias and close the gender gap in... View Details
Keywords: April White; Finance
  • 20 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

these are good things. [They] don't want to just throw those out.—Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University professor Yasunobe went on to discuss the changing attitude within the Japanese government towards big business. There is currently a... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
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Arthur Rock

modern venture capital. In the early 1960s, Rock began to chafe at the conservative attitudes toward new ventures that he encountered in the east. It was “old establishment and old money,” he said. “People have been doing things one way... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

employee, and as a result leaders hire for attitude and train for skills; (5) effective operating strategies have to create value for employees, customers and investors, so leaders ensure the achievement of the leverage and edge that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Director of the Emotion and Society Lab. Her research is primarily concerned with the role of emotions and attitudes in public life. Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice (Oxford... View Details