Responsive Expectations - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

and nutrition and readiness to learn in schools is also well established. Forthcoming revisions to the Millennium Development Goals are expected to again highlight the importance of disease prevention and health care to the global... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which assembles information from court records and other sources to create an aggregate data set of members of Congress involved in a scandal. Minor studied incidents occurring between 2005... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

countries, the conversation has to shift from talking about whether diversity affects performance to talking about the conditions under which you'd expect diversity to have a positive effect on performance." This article is part of a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity

Life & Leadership After HBS Tradeoffs & Time Limits: Work & Life for Dual-Career Families Juggling responsibilities at home and work is challenging for both men and women, particularly those parenting young children. Drawing on the most... View Details

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

expectations prior to any equity grant and using a template like the FAST agreement to solidify an adviser relationship. Most startups have at least two or three advisers filling in complementary areas, sometimes many more, but be... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

Internal Problems By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

values against what's expected of them as responsible professionals. We don't teach them about the dysfunctional aspects that we've been discussing here, and we should. As someone who's interested in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

unique. In the hybrid world, there is an expectation that those who are physically present have an advantage, and those who are remote will not feel as strong a connection. That has not been true for our students, and it is because of the... View Details

14 Apr 2021
News

The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)

I don’t have as much control of my calendar as some of our other board members. Fortunately, the team has been accommodating by scheduling board meetings on Saturday mornings or waiting until the evening to receive a response on my end.”... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

risk on bonds has been significantly smaller that the short-term return per risk on stocks. Thus short-term investors that value assets based on their expected return per unit of short-term volatility may find equities more attractive... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

25 Feb 2020
News

Teachable Moments

dean. Then, in 1991, a chance encounter with Morgan Stanley’s John Mack led to a position on Wall Street as the firm’s chief development officer, responsible for human capital and issues of organizational strategy and change. “Like the... View Details

05 Apr 2021
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

everyone is expected to give and take, teach and learn, during the discussions of issues in its classrooms. A book, Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire, by Tom DeLong (pictured above), a member of the HBS faculty,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

why leaders are inherently important to the improvement-oriented voice process—because leaders are the targets of voice. If they send signals that they are open, interested, and willing to act on subordinate voice, it is logical to expect... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

marketers, who spent $1.42 billion on online video advertising last year in the United States, an investment expected to jump 52 percent to $2.16 billion in 2011, according to analytics firm eMarketer. Tracking Eyes And Faces To help... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

30 Aug 2016
First Look

August 30, 2016

another, CFOs are currently responsible for far more than tracking financial figures. The note provides basic information about the responsibilities CFOs face, the paths that lead to the CFO role, the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, an expert on leadership and organizations. "For most of the industrial age, we expected large employers to provide essential benefits, including healthcare after retirement. That meant we didn't have... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

01 Dec 2020
News

In Review

serve us well through the rest of this pandemic and even into the future. Do you expect the remote learning the School did in 2020 to affect the faculty’s long-term thinking about the need for face-to-face classes versus online... View Details

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

the "Faster, Better, Cheaper" initiative, and what did it try to achieve? A: FBC was a response to rising development costs and the high-profile failures of several missions in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Its aim was to move... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

the financial markets nor found consistent with the firm's previous objectives. Total also learned that it had to be prepared to communicate about accidents. Its slow response when the oil tanker Erika split in 2 and sank in 1999, causing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

responsibility for preserving the vitality of a successful organization and taking it to the next level. Put another way, in realignments you have to reinvent the business; in sustaining-success situations you have to invent the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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