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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55030 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—After decades of both de-prioritizing shareholders'... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
not initially interested in a role because it is not quite big enough or broad enough for her, they’ll often say, ‘OK, OK. You can have this other division of the company as well.’ They will absolutely happily pay more for women. There is... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
to the job post to get more information—an indication of their interest to researchers. Participants clicked on job listings for 7,900 companies, with 7,300 companies having diversity scores. Job applicants seek diverse firms The average... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
at an urban charter school, where over 95 percent of the 500 students were minorities and more than 75 percent were low-income. They focused their attention on tutors—the employees with the closest and most extended contact with students.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
Even now, mere mention of Quaker Oats' acquisition of Snapple causes veteran dealmakers to shudder. For good reason. In 1993, Quaker paid $1.7 billion for the Snapple brand, outbidding Coca-Cola, among other interested parties. In 1997,... View Details
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
interested in improving their conversation styles to create higher quality collaboration. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor at Harvard Business School and author of Rebel Talent, began researching the conversation styles of... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
telegraph in particular provided new opportunities for direct communication between suppliers and customers, without the need for middlemen. 2 However some markets were opened more quickly, or were of more interest to, say, European... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
build relationships that allow them to sell their more lucrative consulting services. Thus, from the executive team down to individual accountants, an auditing firm's motivation to provide favorable audits runs deep. As the collision case also showed, once people... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
the brink of becoming a new battleground in the Cold War. In light of these developments Kissinger decided to intervene, seeking a negotiated solution that might bring about a peaceful end to minority rule. The account in this case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
The Brazil-USA Cotton Dispute and the Incremental Balancing of Interests Author: Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication: Trade, Law and Development (summer 2012) Abstract The World Trade Organization (WTO) features prominently in studies of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
and a minor equity injection in 2009. Now, in 2010 ,the new maturity is approaching, and refinancing is again unlikely. This time, all the firm's debt is coming due. What went wrong in the first restructuring and what should PCP do to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
subjective, and all too often women or minorities have been excluded because others have not found them to "fit." One way individuals have coped with this reality is to hide who they really are or how they really think until... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
fact that most customers who defected from a particular bank gave "interest rates" as the reason for switching banks seemed to suggest that their original bank's interest rates were not competitive. However, his additional... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
Goodyear introduced its first belted-bias tire in 1967, Firestone's Research and Development group responded with a matching product in a matter of months and provided a second generation belted bias tire within a year.8 Belted bias tires could be manufactured with... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
it to target its efforts toward specific communities and around specific visitor interests based on their clicks. Tate has also experimented with monetizing digital content directly, by either charging for apps or linking content to... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
have no interest in your special capabilities. Avoid those customers. You must also avoid prospects who cannot perceive your superior value. Simply put, schizophrenia is terminal in business. Your company must stand for a unique value... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
and management than I did since we began researching and writing this book. Datar: I am looking at how implementation and execution strategies vary across countries. I'm also continuing my research in microfinance. I am particularly View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
trust reputations. Minor also is interested in finding average trust reputations within the C-suite, such as CEOs versus CFOs, which could affect who the front person should be with investors, employees, or... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
In a three-year research project, I studied the career trajectories of minority and white professionals at three major U.S. corporations. The story of one of the participants—Stephen Williams—sheds light on many of the differences in... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas