Advocacy - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

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Values, and Damages Great Companies Performance hacking means overzealous advocacy of positive interpretations to the point of detachment from actuals. In business as in research there are strong incentives for it, but if behaviors are... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

employed, and Petter Östlund's advocacy of "more experienced class members." This leaves us with the question of not whether, but how much of the groundwork for preparing effective doers can be provided in the classroom. Is the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

below the threshold of legal advocacy for infringement prosecution. The angst ... seems(s) highly overwrought." Gerald Nanninga asks what's new. In his words, "Creative people have been exploited since the beginning of mankind... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

victims' representatives, advocacy groups, government officials, and the banks in an unprecedented attempt to obtain restitution for the victims. Unifying fractious parties within an uncertain legal, social, and business landscape,... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

less regulation of business, so they are eager to accept that advocacy groups have little control over public policy. But since the Second World War, Trumbull notes, a pro-business policy approach has given way to a stronger postwar... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

advocate, then inquire, and repeat as needed. A conversation about strategy needs to move back and forth between advocacy and inquiry. Most failures in organizations start when top management advocates a new direction and begins to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53429 September 2017 Academy of Management Discoveries The Advocacy Trap: When Legitimacy Building Inhibits Organizational Learning By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

staying away or unable to pay and rising costs for personal protective gear and new technology. “Compounding the problem, SUD treatment and prevention programs risk draconian cuts to public funding as states experience economic downturns and budget pressures,” Langford... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

other influential politicians. Bono and Bobby Shriver helped form the political advocacy organizations DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) and ONE, and the fundraising group (RED) to fight disease, poverty, and hunger in Africa. He also used... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

consumers in more-developed markets. There are few government bodies or independent publications, like Consumer Reports in the United States, that provide expert advice on the features and quality of products. Because of a lack of consumer courts and View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

surfaces the unvarnished truth about an organization's innovation strategy needs to move back and forth between advocacy and inquiry. CEOs and senior leaders need not only to defend their initiative but also to find out what others think,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

from their employees and shareholders, but also from advocacy groups, watchdog organizations, and an ever-savvier public. The news these days is filled with stories about leaders and organizations that are seen as hypocritical by either... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

positively by Visa cardholders became the basis for a cause-related marketing collaboration in which Visa donates to RIF a percentage of charges during certain periods when the reading program is promoted. Another unexpected fit is that between the human rights View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

06 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 6

authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big business and big social View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

are doing projects together with the United Nations, with the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Family and education. Joint projects are doing even better advocacy and helping social change as well as supporting the NGOs in the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

and can influence the effectiveness of the strategy. These include teachers, principals and their unions, parents, school boards, community and advocacy groups, and local politicians and policymakers, among others. Managing stakeholder... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American Cancer Society. The new Access to Care... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 2

disclosures, performance evaluations, self-regulation, participation, and adaptive learning. Nonprofit leaders must adapt any such mechanisms to suit their organization-be it a membership-based organization, a service-delivery nonprofit, or an View Details