Human Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

responsible for a jump in their pay. In fact, the new system had simply cut out the middlemen, who once took what they saw as their rightful piece of the pie. Related Content: Case: Roshan: Light at the End of the Tunnel in Afghanistan... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2014
News

Book Review: My Lunch with Warren

investment research in the right order, starting with least-biased sources. He observes that “the order in which I read the materials matters greatly since whatever I take in first will affect me unduly.” But Spier’s biggest life’s... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

You have the moving parts of human beings delivering services interacting with human beings as customers. Culture is the guiding force; it's the difference between the positive experience you have when you... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

Trichakis Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of what is View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

inclusion in organizations enhances various kinds of performance, from creativity to profitability. A growing body of research tells us this. So they are not just the right things to do; there is both an economic and social argument for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

13 Oct 2016
News

Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

included in a late-stage trial a component that is publicly available,” explains Blum. He notes that studies of the samples by independent researchers could help identify biomarkers for the disease’s causes and progression. Not Just Science and Business With degrees in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

kiosks stationed here and there; almost every one I pass has a student logged on. I find my way to my first class, Assistant Professor Andrew McAfee’s Operating an E-Business. Right off the bat, McAfee sets up a presentation on a... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

03 Feb 2020
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?

answer was “it depends.” Arie Goldshlager, for example, commented: “If the organization is on the right track, it certainly can have too much rebel talent. In this situation, the rebel talent could prove largely disruptive and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

the somewhat pessimistic view that "There has always been and will always be a dearth of quality leadership ... because self-interest continues to drive human conduct." But Mark Horstman suggests that this doesn't insure a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Mar 2008
What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

foresees. He quoted Thomas Malone's writing that "We are in the early stages of an increase of human freedom in business that may, in the long run, be as important a change for businesses as the change to democracy was for... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

20 Dec 2022
Blog Post

7 Resolutions for Recruiting in the New Year

workplace. 6. Resolve to Embrace the Right TrendsA competitor is using TikTok to attract new candidates, does that mean you should too? Maybe, and maybe not.It’s important to stay up to date on industry trends and best practices in View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

rights. Protection of property rights in the country is still poor and a major deterrent to investment. Greece scores just a 3 out of 12 on a World Bank's strength-of-legal-rights index, actually decreasing from 4 in 2007. Tellingly, the... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

01 Sep 2011
News

The City Solution

International Energy Agency’s chief economist announce that 2010 saw the largest annual rise in carbon emissions in history. So just how hot is it? Climate change, Bloomberg says, is “the greatest challenge that humanity has ever created... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

and the impact that humans have on the natural world. Initially, I wasn’t sure what aspect of conservation I wanted to pursue, but after taking an undergraduate class on climate change I became fascinated by the science behind it all. I... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Books

information technology capped an eighty-year trend in which decision rights moved mostly downward within business hierarchies," McCraw concludes, highlighting factors such as increased consumer power, intensified competition, and the... View Details

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

by serving as a central organ for distributing news of corporate activity to internal as well as external audiences. In effect, it served as a vehicle for making human conversation all but unnecessary, at least from an organizational... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

03 Oct 2019
News

Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

aside from the financial returns when it comes to investing in space? Garriott de Cayeux: Humanity is at stake. Without trying to make it bigger than it is, we can start right there with all the extinction... View Details

Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government

11 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details