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  • February 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis and the Effort to Transform Baton Rouge

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Building on his successes as a politician and preacher in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Rev. Raymond Jetson sought to empower Baton Rouge citizens to innovate solutions for their community challenges. After stepping down as the head of the Louisiana Family Recovery Corps,... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Health ＆ Wellness; Communities; Community Impact; Farm; Agriculture; Leading Change; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Business and Community Relations; Louisiana
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    James L. Heskett

    James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

    • March 2024 (Revised May 2025)
    • Case

    Governing OpenAI (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan and Will Hurwitz
    In late November 2023, OpenAI’s new board of directors took stock of the situation. The company, which sought to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI)—computer systems with capabilities exceeding human abilities—was looking to regain its footing after a chaotic... View Details
    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Board Of Directors; Board Decisions; Board Dynamics; Corporate Boards; Governance Changes; Governance Structure; Leadership Change; Legal Aspects Of Business; Nonprofit Governance; Strategy And Execution; Technological Change; AI and Machine Learning; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Management; Mission and Purpose; Technological Innovation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resignation and Termination; Ethics; Nonprofit Organizations; Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Technology Industry; San Francisco; United States
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    • 29 Nov 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

    When your boss asks you to meet with clients for last-minute drinks, are you tempted to clear your calendar, even if it means missing your child’s piano recital? If so, you’re among the many professionals who tend to prioritize professional View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
    • 2023
    • Article

    Let's Coordinate! The Reinforcement of a ‘Liberal Bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987

    By: Sabine Pitteloud
    This article focuses on the establishment in the 1970s of a new international private governance forum, the so-called ‘Interlaken Conferences’, which gathered together the leading figures of the Industrial Federations of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Interest Association; Lobbying; Neo-Liberalism; Neocorporatism; Coordination; Economic Policy; Business and Government Relations; Labor Unions; Economics; Policy; Europe
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    • 10 May 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making

    Keywords: by Pablo Casas-Arce, F. Asís Martínez-Jerez & V.G. Narayanan; Banking
    • 20 Aug 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

    tailoring in implementation is likely to be very different across situations. Vincent Dessain: There are differences between Total and BP due to their origin and size, but they both face the challenge of building long-term relationships... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
    • Web

    Research Resources - Doctoral

    Quantitative Social Sciences The Institute for Quantitative Social Studies (IQSS) provides a wide array of data science resources to facilitate and accelerate social science... View Details
    • June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
    • Case

    Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Xiaoyu Gu
    The China Investment Corporation (CIC) was China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF), established with $200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Growth and Maturation; Decisions; Capital; Investment Banking; Investment Funds; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Wealth; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; China; United States
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    • September–October 2018
    • Article

    The Paradox of Responsive Authoritarianism: How Civic Activism Spurs Environmental Penalties in China

    By: Christopher Marquis and Yanhua Bird
    Recognizing the need to better understand institutional change processes in authoritarian states, which play an increasingly prominent role in the world economy, we examine the efficacy of civic activism aimed at spurring governmental action concerning the... View Details
    Keywords: Civic Activism; Authoritarianism; Regulation; Corporate Sustainability; Environmental Sustainability; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Social Issues; Change; China
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    • 03 Jun 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    It Is Okay for Artists to Make Money…No, Really, It’s Okay

    Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Lee Devin; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Racial Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program

    By: Sergey Chernenko and David S. Scharfstein
    Using a large sample of Florida restaurants, we document significant racial disparities in borrowing through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and investigate the causes of these disparities. Black-owned restaurants are 25% less likely to receive PPP loans.... View Details
    Keywords: Discrimination; Paycheck Protection Program; Economic Injury Disaster Loans; Bank Lending; Nonbank Lending; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Prejudice and Bias; Race
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    No Evidence for an Effect of Testosterone Administration on Delay Discounting in Male University Students

    By: Georgia Rada Ortner, Matthias Wibral, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Dietrich Klingmüller, Armin Falk and Bernd Weber
    Intertemporal choices between a smaller sooner and a larger delayed reward are one of the most important types of decisions humans face in their everyday life. The degree to which individuals discount delayed rewards correlates with impulsiveness. Steep delay... View Details
    Keywords: Delay Discounting; Impulsiveness; Intertemporal Choice; Testosterone; Decision Making; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society

    By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz
    Civil society actors have been pushing for greater accountability of the World Bank for at least three decades. This paper outlines the range of accountability mechanisms currently in place at the World Bank along four basic levels: (1) staff, (2) project, (3) policy,... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Community Relations; Social Enterprise; Motivation and Incentives
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    • August, 2022
    • Article

    Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States

    By: Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
    How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new outgroup change the ingroup's perceptions of other outgroups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of... View Details
    Keywords: In-group-out-group Relations; Ingroup-outgroup Relations; Immigration; Race; Relationships; United States
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    • Web

    Career Networking - Alumni

    Circles are designed to foster genuine relationships between alumnae, and give women the opportunity to learn from, support and inspire one another – both personally and professionally. Reunions Reconnect with classmates, participate in... View Details
    • 16 Jun 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: June 16

    of emotions in collaborative relationships in organizations and suggest that organizational policies can set in motion a cycle of negative emotions that interfere with collaborative work. Download the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Events - Business History

    Authoritarian Asia" Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed her forthcoming book, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia . Precarious Ties analyzes "the View Details
    • 28 Mar 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    What's a Boss Worth?

    exploration. “There is a growing literature in the social sciences about the importance of peer effects—many people think about how to form teams and what the right team should look like,” says Stanton. But according to this data, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service
    • 21 Jun 2012 - 24 Jun 2012
    • Conference Presentation

    Visual Attention to Power Posers: People Avert their Gaze from Nonverbal Displays of Power

    By: Elizabeth Baily Wolf
    Existing literature suggests that people visually attend more to powerful/high-status people. However, previous studies manipulated target power/status via the target’s role (e.g., CEO or judge vs. mechanic or fry cook) or clothing (e.g., business suit vs. sweat suit).... View Details
    Keywords: Nonverbal Communication; Behavior; Rank and Position; Emotions; Power and Influence
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