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Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness
By: Max Bazerman
Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensions—and we needn’t seek perfection to make... View Details
Bazerman, Max. Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness. New York: Harper Business, 2020.
- 22 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem
- February 2021
- Case
Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (A)
By: Henry McGee, Nien-hê Hsieh, Sarah McAra and Christian Godwin
In 2015, Apple CEO Tim Cook debuted the iPhone 6S with enhanced security measures that enflamed a debate on privacy and public safety around the world. The iPhone 6S, amid a heightened concern for privacy following the 2013 revelation of clandestine U.S. surveillance... View Details
Keywords: Iphone; Encryption; Data Privacy; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Globalized Firms and Management; Government and Politics; National Security; Law; Law Enforcement; Leadership; Markets; Safety; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Civil Society or Community; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Electronics Industry; United States; China; Hong Kong
McGee, Henry, Nien-hê Hsieh, Sarah McAra, and Christian Godwin. "Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (A)." Harvard Business School Case 321-004, February 2021.
- December 2010
- Case
The Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating Partners: 2010 Strategic Re-assessment
By: James K. Sebenius and Shula Gilad
A network of influential Israelis and Palestinians, jointly trained in negotiation at Harvard since 2002, faces organizational, strategic, and funding challenges in 2010. Unlike "people-to-people" or "Track II" initiatives, the Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating Partners... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Negotiation Participants; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Strategy
Sebenius, James K., and Shula Gilad. "The Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating Partners: 2010 Strategic Re-assessment." Harvard Business School Case 911-025, December 2010.
- 28 Jun 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
Scaling a Fintech Startup for the Greater Good
- 25 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
believe they won’t excel in, despite having the skills to succeed, says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Katherine B. Coffman. “Our beliefs about ourselves are important in shaping all kinds of important decisions, such as what... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
The intersection of education, business, and technology is a key nexus for those looking to affect the future of our children, our economy, and our nation, according to the four panelists at the recent "Education, Business, and Technology" session at the HBS... View Details
- 14 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections
conclusion—professional social networks “may have potential benefits to companies, and not only to the individual,” says Frank Nagle, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. “What we’re trying to... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- January 2021 (Revised March 2022)
- Teaching Note
Maritz Automotive
By: Ashley V. Whillans and Lamar Pierce
This case focuses on Charlotte Blank, the Chief Behavioral Officer at Maritz, as she tries to assist a major automotive manufacturer (CarCo) with increasing their sales by prepaying monthly bonuses to independently franchised car dealers and clawing them back if the... View Details
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Employee Negativity Is Like Wildfire. Manage It Before It Spreads.
Regulating our own emotions in stressful situations is difficult enough, but business leaders face the added challenge of attempting to regulate the collective emotions of the groups they lead to guide them toward success. Now, research by Harvard Business School View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 05 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding
says Letian Zhang, the study’s author and an assistant professor of business administration at HBS. “Organizations are adopting a more bottom-up approach, so they’re trying to unleash the potential, the creativity, and the motivation of... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
Business School Case 719-417 National Australia Bank: Looking Out for the Customer After learning that most defaults were due to health, job, or marital problems, National Australia Bank revised its debt collection department to shift from penalizing people in default... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2023
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
generally refers to spiritual dryness, or profound loneliness and doubt. The best social science indicates that across the globe, our communities are becoming lonelier and less fulfilled. John of the Cross teaches how to find deep meaning... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
opportunity to recognize this issue as a pinch point, so they can do something about it.” DeCelles co-authored a September 2016 article about the two-year study in Administrative Science Quarterly called Whitened Resumes: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'
job, says Isamar Troncoso, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. They often turn to photos when they must compare two final candidates with comparable skills. “It was from my own experience as a user... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 26 Apr 2024
- HBS Case
Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory
inventory of the people he has and assumes that they’re better equipped than they are.” 2. Trust your people. When Sanders got to CU, he surrounded himself with a core team of assistant coaches and other support staff who reinforced his... View Details
- 2015
- Article
Regulator Leniency and Mispricing in Beneficent Nonprofits
By: Jonas Heese, Ranjani Krishnan and Frank Moers
We posit that nonprofits that provide a greater supply of unprofitable services (beneficent nonprofits) face lenient regulatory enforcement for mispricing in price-regulated markets. Consequently, beneficent nonprofits exploit such regulatory leniency and exhibit... View Details
- 26 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change
Julian De Freitas, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, in the article “Self-Orienting in Human and Machine Learning,” recently published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. “Our research shows that a key ingredient that... View Details
- 05 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)
the right people are confident, suggests recent research by Thomas Graeber, assistant professor at Harvard Business School. His work tested the effects of meta-cognition—essentially, whether more skilled people are also more confident... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin