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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

infrastructure, input availability, and the like. The active engagement of corporations is essential to mobilizing these elements. new stakeholder roles & relationships Government and NGOs are facing limited resources and difficulty in... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

opportunities and elicit strategic responses by focal firms. We develop theory and provide empirical evidence of how innovative activity changes in response to product recalls in the U.S. medical device industry. Focal firm recalls slow... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

and innovative problem-solving tools to solve business challenges and guide their organization’s strategy. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes and applying your knowledge... View Details
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Leadership - Health Care

Hamermesh oversaw its inception and development from 2005 to 2015. Professor Hamermesh retired in the spring of 2015, but he remains involved with the Initiative on an advisory basis. Casey Otis Director Casey oversees HCI’s overall strategy and operations, manages a... View Details
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The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Transparency

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

Workplace transparency provides a foundation for learning and control, and therefore for satisfaction and productivity. Yet my research shows that an obsession with transparency-enhancing tools and structures can backfire, producing the unintended consequences of... View Details

Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Productivity; Field Experiments; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Human Resources; Leadership; United States; Europe; China; Japan
  • 17 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

tends to be sunny one day and overcast the next. The purpose of the lab study was to determine whether the distraction created by the temptation of outside activities was indeed what caused a decrease in worker productivity on sunny days.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. Of all the U.S. air carriers, United should have known the power of social media and public outrage. It had learned years earlier in a prominent case about how fast viral content spreads and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

'It Wouldn’t Have Mattered Anyway': When Overdetermined Outcomes Justify Our Sins

By: Stephanie C. Lin, Julian J. Zlatev and Dale T. Miller
We identify and document an “overdetermined outcome defense” which occurs when one learns that circumstances besides one’s own actions were sufficient to produce a negative effect (e.g., deciding not to go to the gym, but later discovering that the gym had been... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Decision Making; Outcome or Result; Behavior
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  • 16 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

that our proxy is associated with earnings and real activities management. Overall, the results show that the time horizon of conference call narratives can be informative regarding managers' myopic behavior. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2019
  • Blog Post

How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

respond, and actively avoiding being the center of attention. I list these out because 1) many of them seem to be in direct contradiction with the case method style of learning, and 2) I’ve found that acknowledging these traits is... View Details
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Redefining Productivity in the Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy Redefining Capitalism The... View Details
  • June 2023
  • Article

Can Purpose Foster Stakeholder Trust in Corporations

By: Ranjay Gulati and Franz Wohlgezogen
As part of institutional changes toward more responsible capitalism, firms increasingly articulate a purpose beyond simply profit as a central tenet of their governance. Management scholarship has noted the potential advantages of such purpose-focus for stakeholder... View Details
Keywords: Stakeholder Management; Moral Identity; Mission and Purpose; Trust; Corporate Governance; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index Philanthropy Philanthropy Beyond charity and corporate... View Details
  • 10 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

people you would expect to be most active in the field: scholars. "If we look at the leading research universities and at the business schools within them, the topic of leadership has been actually given fairly short shrift,"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
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TikTok in 2020: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dan Maher and Dan O'Brien
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around a simple idea – helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. In less than a decade, it had become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, with investors... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Business Organization; Change Management; Disruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; United States; China
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  • 07 May 2014
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

obvious that we must tax the hell out of vacant properties and/or urban land speculation?" Others suggested non-tax solutions. One such proposal was put forth by Mok Tuck Sung: "(The wealthy) should be encouraged to participate View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

Summing Up: What Next, If Manufacturing Proves Not To Be A Creator Of Those Good "factory Jobs" Of The Past? Manufacturing is essential to the health of an economy. It both fuels and results from innovation. It is natural in the course of economic View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • January – February 2011
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Stop Holding Yourself Back

By: Anne Morriss, Robin J. Ely and Frances X. Frei
After working with hundreds of leaders in a wide variety of organizations and in countries all over the globe, the authors found one very clear pattern: when it comes to meeting their leadership potential, many people unintentionally get in their own way. Five barriers... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics
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  • 15 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Carol Wright

graduate school was in my future. It helped guide my decision process regarding my job and other activities I pursued in the deferral years. What job(s) did you work during your deferral? I deferred for three years, and during that time I... View Details
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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

analytical tools and interpersonal techniques for dealing effectively with different bargaining styles and tactics. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes and applying your... View Details