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- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
stages: Compliance: In this initial phase, companies often start with activities related to complying with regulations. Activities are not strategic or centralized. In addition to compliance, employees may volunteer to View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
businesspeople, we've seen ourselves as helpless" in eradicating seemingly intractable problems like poverty, he said. Though giving money and volunteering time are good things to do, a better solution, he insisted, is to apply... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
hundred and fifty volunteers helped screen and interview the applicants who met the September 6 deadline. Winning applicants then received hands-on coaching from McKinsey & Co. and Springboard to help them refine their business models... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
Should companies let employees keep working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? Assessing the impact of remote work has involved a lot of guesswork for business leaders, but it doesn’t have to be that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
information and assumptions went into the process, and to know how susceptible the conclusion is to small changes." Referring to an example of Royal Dutch Shell's early scenario planning efforts, Hugh Quick volunteered that "I... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
describes in a new working paper, The Better Is the Enemy of the Good. In fact, Exley argues that based on her research, people look for any excuse to avoid giving a donation and then rationalize their skinflint behavior to avoid feeling... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, HBS Working Knowledge gathered insights from Harvard Business School faculty about what’s at stake for companies, and how the election might impact workplaces. They offer an assessment as the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
"actual." "People at the top of the hierarchy generally have a more positive view of an organization than the people in the middle and on the frontlines," Paine says. "The top of the organization doesn't really know what the frontlines are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
war, neither of which add to the net wealth of the world as a whole. And GDP remains unaffected when people volunteer to help those in need or simply carry on the daily voluntary activities needed to keep a family together. But that isn’t... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
keep their eyes on the work to be done. Silverthorne: For new CEOs, what should their initial steps be in assuming power and laying out an agenda for action? Kanter: New CEOs need to be adequately informed. One thing that makes... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
evening distributing excess food they had collected from local restaurants to the less fortunate people living under the Hauz Khas flyover in South Delhi. Four years later, this initiative had developed into The Robin Hood Army, an organization entirely based on View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
television. In a recent working paper, How TV Ads Trigger Online Shopping, Teixeira explores this concept, analyzing how advertisers can turn this trend to their advantage. Along with fellow researchers Jura Liaukonyte of Cornell... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
workforce flexibility have followed, including a new case about how Honeywell weathered the Great Recession. The next step of the research will involve interviewing managers who have conducted layoffs—or who have found alternatives to them. Sucher is also View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
of damage caps on settlements, the propensity of men and women to initiate negotiations, and the readiness of each gender to volunteer for, and work on “nonpromotable tasks.” Linda won this award, however,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
Editor's note: Many economic regulators, influenced by the work of Mancur Olson, maintain the notion that consumers hold little sway over big-industry concerns. They argue that diffuse interests of the "little guys" lack the strength and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
the course: One is a textbook, The Moral Leader: Challenges, Tools, and Insights, that provides historical and social context for the works read in the course, as well as instructional materials. The other is an instructor's guide,... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
Economic difficulties need not mean that we lower our standards for leadership. If anything, we should raise our sights. New work by HBS professor Michael Beer and colleagues shows that there is still a place for what they term... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
political—should always marshal as much credibility and goodwill as possible in anticipation of having to deal with the unanticipated. Joseph Fuller (@JosephBFuller) is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and co-leads the School’s Managing the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.27.4.65 Working Papers Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We decompose capital flows-both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne