Point Four Program - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

example of sales-related hyperbole, Cespedes points to the dire predictions that online buying will eventually cause the real-life “death of a salesman.” While online information sources affect selling, retail sales through ecommerce... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

experiences, such as meeting President Barack Obama, joining a lifelong sisterhood in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and representing my school in the nation’s capital as a White House HBCU All-Star. I am proud to be a graduate of the largest HBCU in the nation. At... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

executives is to imply that business management itself is a profession—but is it? Sociologists who study the professions have employed a wide range of perspectives and criteria for determining what makes an occupation a profession. For the purposes of our present... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

community of scholars studying business’ role in society and supports the development of new research initiatives at BiGS. Sarah Gazzaniga Programming Manager Sarah Gazzaniga serves as Programming Manager.... View Details

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

publicly signal this position. These cloaked trades earn an abnormal return of 370 basis points in the following month, or over 36% per year. We further show that the same managers do not engage in such information-rich cloaked trading... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

earned (vs.) that which is inherited Each member of society must contribute to society's wealth by building their own and sharing Once you die, the wealth gets transferred to society." Carlos Avendano made the point that wealth... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

feel an Orwellian disease. Self-regulation within the industry seems to be the answer to the privacy question at this juncture, but Al Silk points out that given that "a series of people have fallen off the wagon," more formal... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

Viroopa to learn more about the JD/MBA experience. Given that JD/MBAs spend more time at Harvard, do they take advantage more of research opportunities and resources? Absolutely! Since the program is four... View Details

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

development programs,” Beer says. Some studies have shown that only 10 percent of corporate training is effective, he says. It’s not that the content of the training programs is necessarily bad; rather, it’s that companies are not laying... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

happening in the United States, the Chenault brothers and their four co-founders, Carter Lewis (MBA 2023), Lindsey Ferguson, Nicolle Mora, and Sesana Allen, found themselves in deep discussions about how they could help solve a centuries... View Details

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2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy - MBA

information about treatment and counseling options available to the Harvard community through Harvard University Health Services, and Harvard’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Additional health information is included in the Harvard... View Details

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Wyss House | About

Programs because of their “tremendous influence, not only through the candidates educated here, but also through the thousands of students they eventually teach and the millions more who benefit from the research and new ideas they... View Details

29 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

in the context of health programs and policies in developing nations. But her findings yield lessons that apply to almost everyone. For instance, in a recent study in Lusaka, Zambia, Ashraf and her colleagues found that providing women... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Leadership (CSML), an online, multi-course certificate program for PreK-12 school leaders, is an innovative collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School. Bridging the fields of business and... View Details

12 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

about the decline of American competitiveness, business schools are responding by changing their curriculums. But are the topics and approaches taught in today's business schools part of the solution or part of the problem? In this paper, I explore the possibility that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

our country as ‘zombie’ towns, each state may have a larger part in how Amazon operates.” Guy Higgins pointed out distinctions between practices used to gain market power in the past and present. “Standard Oil was an abusive monopoly,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

chômage partiel, under which the government pays a portion of a company’s wages in times of economic distress to limit layoffs. During the 2008-2009 recession, furlough programs were estimated to have saved 395,000 jobs in Japan and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

problems for colleagues. They are demanding to the point of being abusive, they make promises to clients that their colleagues cannot meet, they take too much credit for success, and they generally are unable to adhere to commonly shared... View Details