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- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
technical assistance to preservation efforts across the state, and dedicating more than $40 million to hundreds of restoration projects. Among other initiatives, its public campaigns have helped stabilize the south side of Ellis Island, gain landmark View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
show that, even in a world with perfect capital markets and without differences in innate ability, wealthy parents invest, on average, more in their offspring than poorer ones. As a result, persistence of economic status is higher at the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
regulators to industry, and the importance of considering Type I and Type II errors and status quo bias when contemplating whether to evoke the precautionary principle. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
such as conforming to the status hierarchy when it comes time to make a decision (for example, "She's been here the longest, so let's just go with her idea"), the opportunity for utilizing relevant expertise to improve team results... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
work and non-work identities. Specifically, we suggest that identity compatibility is influenced by (a) the extent to which individuals can control the co-activation of identities, and (b) the routinization of identity co-activation. We argue that factors such as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972) is chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, the world's largest alternative asset manager with $991 billion in assets under management. He majored in culture and behavior at Yale and has spent a lifetime reading the zeitgeist,... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Levitt style, sparked immediate controversy. “The article did succeed in stimulating a great deal of comment,” Levitt said in a 2003 interview with Stephen Greyser on the occasion of a colloquium that marked the article’s 20th anniversary and reassessed the View Details
- March 2022 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
When Should CEOs Speak Out Publicly? The 2021 Georgia Voting Law
By: William W. George, Hubert Joly and Amram Migdal
This case describes the March 2021 passage of a voting and elections law in the U.S. state of Georgia and reactions by corporations and corporate leaders to the law. Included are a brief history of voting rights in the United States and Georgia and an overview of the... View Details
Keywords: Voting Rights; CEO Activism; Communication; Communication Intention and Meaning; Communication Strategy; Forms of Communication; Announcements; Spoken Communication; Decision Making; Judgments; Voting; Demographics; Nationality; Race; Geography; Geographic Location; Geopolitical Units; Country; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Political Elections; History; Law; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Management Skills; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Psychology; Status and Position; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Societal Protocols; United States; Georgia (state, US)
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars? Is it in the best interest of employees if... View Details
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
the determinants of entrepreneurial activity in 37 developed and developing nations. We focus both on individual characteristics and on countries' regulatory differences. We show that individual characteristics, such as gender, age, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
status 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act enacted to eliminate discriminatory barriers against qualified individuals with disabilities, individuals with a record of a disability, or individuals who are regarded as having a disability... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
nature of the wearables market. Q: Any closing thoughts? A: If you think about the traditional watch industry, Apple's competition is not the Swiss. Since the 1990s, Swiss watch manufacturers have repositioned mechanical watches as status... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
to new product and service failure rates of 80 percent or more, Zaltman urges market researchers to challenge the status quo. “The sinking of the Titanic resulted from a failure to question two-and-a-half decades of practice,” he notes.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch (Edward Elgar Publishers) In this book leading business historians compare the effects of globalization on two Latin American countries while using the historical lens of the late nineteenth century and the View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Uncover the benefits of thinking differently: Unlock your innate ability to question and challenge the status quo; Harness the insights from cognitive pitfalls to cultivate wisdom and resilience; and transform obstacles into opportunities... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review The Surprising Power of Questions By: Brooks, Alison Wood, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Much of an executive’s workday is spent asking others for information—requesting status updates from a team... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Gender-class differences are reflected in women’s employment beliefs and behaviors. Research integrating social class with gendered experiences in homes and workplaces deepens our understanding of the complex interplay between sources of power and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne