Social Attachment To Place - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

at six contextual factors that shaped business during the last century and continue to shape it in our present century: government regulation, labor, globalization, technology, demography, and social mores.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

accounts. But, by the early twentieth century a large industry had emerged that provided basic financial services to the public. In the 1930s the modern regulatory framework for this industry was created. In broad terms, my research... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

terrible thing. Not only does it create a new social class of underground activity in the U.S., but it also creates millions of broken homes ... in Mexico." He concludes that legalizing the free flow of labor into the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Dec 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

of enablers, such as education, has the potential for leading directly to the development of ideas that actually expand the limits of even those kinds of growth that rely on physical resources with supposedly finite properties. If all... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

In a well-marked line from the movie The Social Network, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turns to the Winklevoss twins, who are suing him for stealing their invention, and says: "If you guys were the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

Asked which institutions must be in place in order for African countries to grow, experts on a panel at the Africa Business Conference had no shortage of suggestions. One panelist, representing the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

would jump-start change at SGDU, she began to suspect (correctly) that people throughout the unit were talking about its strategy—and she further suspected that plenty of managers a couple of layers down had insights that she needed View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

switches.] (CEO) Mary Barra takes over. She said, "It's not only a problem we have with safety, which we're going to correct, but we've got a cultural problem and we've got to correct it," And she... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

(@HarvardHBS) in which Working Knowledge makes experts available to Instagram users to ask questions about their research. What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned in your research? Choudhury: One of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

winning streaks, the number of leaders multiplies along with the momentum of the streak. Winning teams and successful organizations become increasingly less dependent on the person called the commander-in-chief—even though, ironically, the same top managers are more... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

08 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

efficiency, and being close to the technology is efficient." Further, William Halveson pointed out that "CRADA agreements can limit how fast the high level discoveries escape." Abbey Mutumba, on the other hand, said that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning

immediate appeal for the atypical user was that the game was simple and unintimidating. But it was also a fun social activity, a diverting game to bring out during the holidays or at informal get-togethers.... View Details

Keywords: by Youngme Moon

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

friends and acquaintances and reconnect with faces from the past. First college students, then Millennials, and soon after, their parents and grandparents were drawn in by the allure of this pioneering social network that effectively... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

Her objective of working with retailers known for carrying high-quality, premium-priced merchandise probably owed something to the social aspiration that drove her. Her interest in such stores was also... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

sectors that are booming. However, as markets in different countries have increasingly moved in tandem or correlated, from 50 or 60 percent in the 1990s to more than 90 percent after the financial crisis of 2008, that strategy has seemed... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

my interviews, among the most frequently mentioned diversity-related HR practice was the five-minute drill, which began with Gerstner's top team and has cascaded down from the chairman to two levels down from CEO. The five-minute drill... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

from Perylon Hall on the fairgrounds to the IBM exhibit at the Business Systems Building, where a precursor of a form of e-mail was displayed: Not only technology but art had a place in IBM Day. The company... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman

said, among the first places women worked outside the home were textile factories in Massachusetts. The work was often arduous and the hours long, but there was a curious upside, Koehn reminded the audience. That upside was a new kind of... View Details