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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
officers below the CEO, except to make sure that compensation practices are well designed and fairly implemented. Guarding Decisiveness Because of a family's desire to avoid conflict or protect traditions, View Details
- 05 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It
most people don’t,” says Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “People overestimate the negative consequences giving feedback for themselves, as well as underestimate the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
Oprah is trying to make here and we try to make in the book. That the magic of all of this is that if you want more happiness in your life, show more love to other people in your life. Winfrey: Yeah. Brooks: Love of the divine and of your View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
Jordan brand and served as president of the Portland Trail Blazers NBA team? Probably not, says HBS Professor Francesca Gino, who coauthored the case with HBS Senior Lecturer Hise Gibson and HBS Professor Frances X. Frei, as well as Alicia Dadlani, director of the... View Details
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
Political connections and family control are more common in Asian businesses than in the United States. In addition, says HBS professor D. Quinn Mills, American CEOs tend to use one of five leadership styles: directive, participative,... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-055.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 714-418 Modern Family Planning: The Business of Circle Surrogacy The business of surrogacy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
managers were showing resistance to the new changes. Meanwhile, the American manager found himself caught in the web of family and company politics, and completing his assignment without the cooperation of the middle management was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast
report was co-written by Matt Sigelman, Nik Dawson, and Gad Levanon of the Burning Glass Institute and supported by the Schultz Family Foundation. The scorecard comes as employers struggle to find skilled workers in a stagnant labor pool,... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
specific situations their workforces face by surveying home workers.” What they’ve found is that being single and working under quarantine alone carries a very different set of stresses than being a member of a working family with young... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
to innovate in the climate space, and shares his advice for those interested in careers in business and climate. Beyond Net Zero: How Seventh Generation Plans to Achieve Real Zero Carbon Ashley Orgain, chief impact officer at Seventh... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds of sell side equity analysts and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
Early COVID-19 lockdowns sparked a contentious debate that rages on in the workplace: Can businesses thrive if employees continue to work remotely? Skeptical CEOs, such as the leaders of Goldman Sachs and Starbucks, say they need workers in the View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- April 2025
- Case
Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact
By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal
In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details
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- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
chain, in which case that manager will likely be happy to consider language that you might propose regarding your contributions. Avoid a statement that you are leaving to pursue other interests or spend more time with family; these are red flags that could stoke... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
Middle East. “There is a general sense that we never stop being in front of Zoom or interacting. It’s very taxing, to be honest.” “The role of an office is to congregate and help people work together,” Sadun says. “For us, the question... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
facial-expression tracking is used to study viewers’ real-time emotional responses when watching comedy movie trailers online. These data are used to predict both viewers’ intentions to watch the movie and the movie’s box office success.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning
something we’d rather avoid than engage in with confidence,” explained Francesca Gino, Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit at Harvard Business School during the event.... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
19% less likely to seek family planning services, 25% less likely to use concealable contraception, and 27% percent more likely to give birth. However, women given access to contraception alone report a lower subjective well-being,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel