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  • 22 Dec 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Future Lock-in: Or, I’ll Agree to Do the Right Thing...Next Week

Keywords: by Todd Rogers & Max H. Bazerman
  • 11 Apr 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Managers and Market Capitalism

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson & Karthik Ramanna
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Our Mission | About

leaders, we mean people who embody a certain type of competence and character—both the competence that comes from the general manager’s perspective the School cultivates and the character to understand the difference between being View Details
  • 22 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

self-interest is deeply ingrained in your organization, yet has never been discussed. But if you haven't addressed this choice explicitly—and worked to make it happen—you have increased the potential that your strategy implementation will... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 10 Nov 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Crony Capitalism, American Style: What Are We Talking About Here?

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
  • Research Summary

Overview

I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

self-interested reasons Christine is talking about? In some ways, that’s a philosophical debate that can’t really be answered empirically. But it is important to at least ask the question: Does it even matter, if the outcome is that... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin
  • 22 Feb 2018
  • Book

The New History of American Capitalism

credit—as the path to the American dream. Other writing identifies as transformative a radical redesign of money and finance that, during the Enlightenment, institutionalized the self-interested activity of investors as the compass for... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 17 Apr 2022
  • Book

How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

when we are negotiating a contract or trying to sell a product, a certain degree of material self-interest is expected. The key phrase here is the qualifier, “a certain degree of.” Business ethics help to keep us from crossing the line... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 26 Apr 2022
  • Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

autonomy. Purpose transforms the entire basis for cooperation inside the workplace, turning the enterprise from a nexus of contracts between self-interested individuals into a nexus of commitments. As my research confirmed, the trust that... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 01 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

executives on Wall Street. According to Chua, their research found that "people who were made to think about luxury prior to a decision-making task have a higher tendency to endorse self-interested decisions that might potentially... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • Research Summary

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)

By: Rakesh Khurana
In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale... View Details
  • 29 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

opportunity that are essential to legitimizing that deployment of self-interest." In other words, capitalism earns its legitimacy through the idea that the pursuit of self-interest explicitly delivers on certain moral goods for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

the treaty, Secretary of State John Hay warned of "grave consequences" and threatened to send the Marines. The Panamanians soon capitulated. The whole thing was quite sordid, although the cynic in me can't help but admire the way View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • 20 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

inconsistent with the values they espouse, or if their self-interest appears to trump the welfare of the organization. They must realize that success ultimately depends on their ability to enlist the voluntary commitment rather than the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria
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C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection | About

Schwartz Common | Learn More Jenny Holzer Selection from Survival: It is in your self-interest , 2015 — Rock Center | Learn More Public Programs 2024 An Evening with Ursula von Rydingsvard & Film Screening Celebrating Women’s History... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

today. Meanwhile, from society's point of view, meanwhile, professional closure offers distinct benefits when the privilege of closure is granted in return for the commitments that true professionals make to serve the public good and to forgo certain forms of View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 03 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

goods can activate the concept of self-interest and affect subsequent cognition. Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers How can front-line workers be encouraged to speak up when they know how to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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