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- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
buying Alstom, GE’s chief energy competitor, but ignored warnings from wary board directors and senior executives who claimed Alstom had made bad deals and otherwise performed poorly. Since the acquisition, Alstom has struggled—and today... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
charitable giving, crowding out intrinsic motivations to give by corrupting a purely social act with economic considerations. Purchase the Book: http://www.psypress.com/the-science-of-giving-9781848728851 Americans Do I.T. Better: U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. Social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
been socialized by family members, educators, and the media to associate leadership with a particular version of masculinity, an image Trump exemplified in his persona as the supremely successful businessman. He reinforced the masculine, leader-as-savior image with... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 26 May 2022
- HBS Case
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
would embroil the company in an ugly fight—one that risked alienating some shareholders—but he felt strongly that Apple should champion its customers’ basic human right to privacy. “We believe that a company that has values and acts on... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
sexist behavior without knowing that they are doing so. Or they claim credit based on the false belief that their role on the team was more important than reality would dictate. And they are affected by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
lawyer and to be able to engage with their lawyers in deciding how to proceed. Q: Just as managers have to become more learned about the law, you say that lawyers must become more business savvy. What is the lawyer's role in all this? A: Lawyers advising firms or View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?
intelligence, IQ, personality, values, and experience A demonstration of executive intelligence must lie in the demonstrable ability to act and execute." Paul Jackson took us to the next step in commenting, "Once defined, how do... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
In trying to prevent discrimination and prejudice, many companies adopt a strategy of "colorblindness"—actively trying to ignore racial differences when enacting policies and making organizational decisions. The logic is simple: if we don't even notice race, then we... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
When Your Passion Works Against You
the right context, this intense positive energy can act like a gravitational pull that sucks in other workers to invest their time and support, ultimately contributing toward the success of the idea. “Passion, like a smile, is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
restaurateurs looked to their business interruption insurers for relief. Some were dismayed to find that they had purchased policies with virus exclusions, leaving them uncovered for any losses due to the pandemic. Others, including Keller’s group, had coverage for... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
time, historians have reconceptualized commodification, sale, and ownership, recasting the market as a place of colliding human ambitions, fantasies of wealth, modes of resistance, acts of brutality, tenderness, and heroism. Slavery’s... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 25 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing
fintech lenders harvest deeper insight into those borrowers that banks typically reject after running a standard credit check. Fintech lenders claim to consult additional metrics like utility bills or rent payments to identify... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
relationship between companies' shareholders and managers, as of 2012. It recounts the shift beginning in the 1970s toward shareholders claiming an increasing amount of power relative to corporate managers. The authors argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
affected U.S. innovation. We confront two empirical challenges in assessing the impact. We map all U.S. utility patents granted by March 2013 to firm-level data using a novel Internet-based matching algorithm that corrects for a preponderance of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements
Medicare to negotiate lower prices with drug companies and allow Americans to buy drugs at more affordable prices. The facts: Some of the information in the claim was true. The prices of brand-name drugs have more than doubled during that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
maintaining a single-minded focus on profit, acting as agents for shareholders who put their capital at risk investing in their companies. It triggered an immediate controversy. Of greater importance than the issue posed in the article’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
their innovation performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51467 Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock prices do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
relationship that many scholars have claimed could greatly improve governance in many third world nations: the United States ran the currency, provided aid, posted an official inside the Panamanian government, and operated one of the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
all. Everyone would act as a free agent in a winner-take-all contest. Opportunism and selfish political behavior would be rampant. A great deal of frantic effort would be expended—but little of it would be the kind of coordinated effort... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria