FAR - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Apr 2011
HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

the case "protagonist." There are pluses and minuses, says Garvin. The minuses are that students can be muted in their criticisms and concerns, a situation he saw teaching "National Geographic." But the good far... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

01 Dec 2018
News

Digital Transformation

and thus prepare students to be effective business leaders. “The work that is being done at HBS is going to drive change and help all our lives in a positive way over the next 5 to 20 years,” he observes. “Today’s managers need to be far... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

if anything, decreased in the 21st century. The namesake conundrums, defined as six- or twelve-month periods in which short rates and long rates move in opposite directions have become far more frequent. The authors rationalize their... View Details

02 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

discrimination; and pay increases for CEOs has far outpaced gains for the regular worker. Added to that is what the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development calls “the race to the bottom”—countries frequently lowering their... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

community after their respective accusations against Clarence Thomas and Mike Tyson. It’s one of the factors that helps explain why women of color report sexual assault at rates far below that of white women and a major force behind... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

over self-disclosing firms if they are convinced that such firms are in fact credible partners in striving to remain in compliance. And so we're looking at whether plants get fewer inspections after they self-disclose, and whether these inspections are less likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

executive positions take a toll on the health of top managers, often causing cardiovascular and immune-system illnesses. Reconstructing life and death at GE For his research, Nicholas chose to look as far back as the 1930s in examining... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

research company. These businesses were the product of past rational calculations, and some remained profitable and successful operations, but by the 1970s times had changed. Unilever found itself burdened, especially in Europe, with a high cost structure, and the task... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

Blog

Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

go well, subsequent interviews will provide the opportunity to ask in-depth questions regarding what the company is looking for, how the board operates, what the selection process will be, and the timing. Before you get too far into the... View Details

17 Apr 2022
Book

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

tempting to shoplift a small item, the opportunity to make millions of dollars by insider trading or cheating on a large contract is far more enticing.) As a result, businesspeople must always remain aware of and sensitive to their... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

Web

Antitrust & Competition Policy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Presentation to the Canadian Competition Policy: Preparing for the Future Conference Jointly sponsored by Canada’s Competition Bureau On Antitrust Policy “...countries where the intensity of competition is rising showed by far the... View Details

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

especially within traditionally male-dominated industries and job functions, women moving to new firms help shrink the gender pay gap. "Although we’re seeing progress for some, compensation remains far from equitable overall." How much a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

28 May 2020
Blog Post

How to Fit in at HBS

walked up to the second floor of Spangler for my Admissions interview. Only then did the thought of attending HBS seem close enough to visualize, but realistically so far out of reach that it remained an evasive dream. In fact, it was a... View Details

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The Gift of Global Talent

continues to grow, the three core approaches taken by corporations so far offer a playbook for companies that find themselves outside the action in today’s concentrated innovation geography. How can companies most effectively harness the... View Details

12 May 2020
Blog Post

Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

we’ll all be after graduating. But my experience so far has shown me that the HBS community will help us all land on our feet. Being here has given me more than just a network, I’ve found a family. View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

welfare of the overall firm and to its members if less powerful participants are to follow. So far we have focused on the implications of the drives to bond and to acquire and the interplay between them. The drives to learn and to defend... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

emphasize that gender is far from the only identity that matters in cases. It’s critical that the protagonists whom learners encounter represent racial and other forms of diversity beyond gender, but we weren’t able to extend our... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

January 2020
Case

Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli, Carla Larangeira and Mariana Cal

In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details