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15 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

doing so may expose a weakness: a lack of self-control that would make others judge them harshly, says Harvard Business School Associate Professor Julian Zlatev in a recent paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

Weapon", was originally published on Harvard Business Review's faculty blog on April 19, 2010.) Spring brings April showers, May flowers—and a flurry of annual reports. Mine have been arriving in the mail, and I am always interested... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

Alesina, one of the most influential political economists, and I explored these questions before he passed away in 2020. Our work was published recently in the Journal of Economic Literature. We found that anti-immigration arguments tend... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

to owners on the brink of ruin. Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness The pandemic has challenged managers as never before, but one powerful leadership strategy is being overlooked, say Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson: Be kind. The 5 most-downloaded research papers... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience edited by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and David A. Thomas. Copyright 2019 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. View Details

27 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie

encourages people to take more risks when they decide to post. So the impression from those posts can linger in the mind of an observer, say, a colleague or employer, and “come back to haunt,” according to new research published in a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

been published in a new book: Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms: Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Business. The coauthors are Bruce L. Hay, Harvard Law School; Robert N. Stavins, John F. Kennedy School... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

Clinkscales founded Vanguarde Media, Inc., publisher of Heart & Soul, HONEY, SAVOY, and impact! magazines. "The marketplace today has recognized that without brown people, you can't win," he stated. L. Londell McMillan,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

things done in real life or not. The authors of a recently published book, Execution, perhaps unintentionally suggest the nature of the challenge. Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan converse about a treatise based on their many years of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

to be published by Princeton University Press. In this recent interview conducted by e-mail, Lodge is hopeful that the World Development Corporation will be formed. He explains why nonprofits aren't the answer to ending poverty and asks... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

published his two-volume, 1,095-page tome, Business Cycles, after more than seven years of concentrated research. He was fifty-six years old at the time and had been a professor at Harvard since 1932. He was well known throughout the... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

06 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

thought. However, that wasn’t that case, according to the study, Creating Exercise Habits Using Incentives: The Trade-off Between Flexibility and Routinization, published by the journal Management Science in October. Rigid exercise... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

08 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer

In his book Getting to Giving: Fundraising the Entrepreneurial Way, published in 2011, Stevenson, with Shirley Spence, details an approach to fundraising that is almost Zen-like in its philosophy, even as it offers plenty of concrete,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

of all, the studies show. The findings are detailed in the paper Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men, published in the March 2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Our paper provides... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

21 Aug 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study

ensures that the information within it is correct. If the draft contains certain observations or data they prefer not to have mentioned, they let the researcher know. Then the company authorizes the case. A case is never published without... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

that, in practice, many users don’t trust platforms to do the right thing, often thinking of them as biased actors. When social media companies publish their policies completely, bad actors could more easily circumvent and exploit their... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology

28 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 28

examining several options for expansion and growth. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/115023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-053 Curriculum Associates: Turning the Page from Tradition to Innovation Set in fall 2014, the traditional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Teaching Interest

Overview

By: John A. Deighton

I teach about the ecosystem of big data, the role of data in advertising and creative industries, and customer management and personal privacy in an era of individual addressability. View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Database Marketing; Social Media; Data Analytics; Information; Advertising; Marketing; Media; Technology; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

hope of creating a company that could command the high valuations seen recently by a number of social networking concerns. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/813147-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-079 The LEGO Group: View Details