Family Conflicts - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

of confusion and burnout. Teams are failing to meet deadlines and executives tell me they see an increase in petty conflicts and a parallel pandemic of short tempers, exposed nerves, and increased sensitivity to perceived slights. It's... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

28 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Master the Team Meeting

zones? Find a time that’s mutually convenient for all team members. Do you find the meetings always run over? Schedule them for an extra 30 minutes. If it ends early, you’re a hero. Do team members have family responsibilities in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

01 Sep 2021
Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

questions. In the process, they received feedback that was more helpful to them and their career development. Learning from the feedback we receive is often challenging, as our desire to grow conflicts with our equally strong desire to be... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

discussion around one’s relationship with money. Most adults have very different perspectives on money and typically this is rooted in deep family or personal experiences, sometimes starting in early childhood. A parent losing a job,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. It shows how Nuqul, a Christian Palestinian whose family was forced to flee to Jordan after the creation of Israel in 1948, built a business in his new home, first in trading and later... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

interested in improving their conversation styles to create higher quality collaboration. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor at Harvard Business School and author of Rebel Talent, began researching the conversation styles of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

in the family [is] the most authentic thing I can say about what Wainwright Bank does." According to Ricardo Levy, chairman of Catalytica Energy Systems, executives are trained for action—contemplation is not part of their rulebook.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration, coauthored the paper with Jon M. Jachimowicz of Columbia Business School; Julia J. Lee of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan; Bradley R. Staats of the University... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

students a particular way to ‘be.’” Lurking in the background was the fact that the tutors were mostly white and middle- or upper-middle class, while the students were racial minorities whose families had experienced deprivation. “The... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

traffic-snarled commutes. But right now, with offices, schools, and day cares closed, those time-on-your-side benefits have evaporated for many remote workers who no longer have the house to themselves and are struggling with the tremendous challenge of focusing on... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

applying knowledge in pursuit of innovation. “When you peel back the layers of these companies, you find that these six qualities are practiced, and often they have family edicts that are passed down from one generation to the next,” says... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

proactively reduce the uncertainty for themselves and their ecosystems by preempting the effects of COVID-19 even before contagion arrived in their countries. Faced with the emergence of conflicting safety protocols across the regions... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

July 1997
Case

Graffs, The (C)

By: Carl S. Sloane and Gregory C. Rogers

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Conflict Management

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July 1997
Case

Graffs, The (B)

By: Carl S. Sloane and Gregory C. Rogers

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Conflict Management

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29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

Dishonesty and Its Organizational Implications, she discussed several laboratory and field experiments meant to uncover factors that lead people to make unethical choices. "We seem to face this type of conflict at any given moment... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

mobility barriers have become essential components of conflict policies. Second, a family of hybrid conflict policies has evolved that feature elements of the "split account"... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

influence on the family's portfolio decisions. Consistent with this, we find that family trustees significantly overweight their 401(k) client firm's stock. Trustee overweighting is more pronounced when the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

consequences of a range of alternative policies. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-045_4e9f7d2d-24c3-4d8c-8843-1eb9016bc016.pdf December 2014 Negotiations in Times of Conflict Better Deals Through Level... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 2

Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the... View Details