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  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

(DA) at North Atlantic Hospital (NAH), faces several significant challenges. Staff satisfaction surveys confirmed her assessment that department faculty morale was low, the tenure and promotion system was perceived as opaque and biased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

rights and efficient debt enforcement mitigate the effect of excess control rights on loan spreads. Taken together, our results suggest that potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders are facilitated by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

ethical dilemma without fear of being mired in the consequences? How would you answer an inconvenient question? Courage and Conviction deals with the subject of ethical dilemmas in personal and work life. Opening with a discussion on the nature of ethical dilemmas, the... View Details
  • October 2014
  • Case

Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference

By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer
For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond... View Details
Keywords: Diversity Management; Corporate Values; Competitiveness; Demographics; Change Management; Transformation; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Literacy; Nationality; Race; Residency; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Economic Growth; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Immigration; Employee Relationship Management; Civil Society or Community; Manufacturing Industry; Construction Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; Germany; Russia; Turkey
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  • 20 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

want to tell the academy that we think CEO activism is a very interesting phenomenon well worth studying, and we think there are lots of interesting questions to explore. So we hope this is the first word rather than the last word in management research around this... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing
  • 06 Jan 2012
  • Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

plus only if consumers accept them. As an example, he cites an instance when GM and Ford customers rejected upgrades in the rear suspensions of Camaros and Mustangs because aficionados liked the feel of their "ride" just the way it was. The View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 18 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

employees believe it’s too risky to speak up, many decide it’s safer to put their heads down and keep their opinions to themselves—but that muting of views creates barriers to learning and collaboration that can be detrimental to both team View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

the course of the 20th century. We use the Wharton School as an illustration of the earliest trends and dilemmas (c. 1900-1930), when business schools found themselves caught between their business connections and their striving for moral... View Details
  • 18 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 18

  Publications 2006 Emotion Review The Power of the Cognition/Emotion Distinction for Morality By: Bazerman, Max H., Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, and Chia-Jung Tsay Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

by Reebok, an upstart competitor. Knight closeted himself in his office, faced the wall, and sat there, weak and sick and devastated for hours. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810077-PDF-ENG Moral Decision-Making:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Sam Hayes

not have an already well-developed moral compass. While we should not have to point out to students what is “right” and what is “wrong,” we can guide them through the gray areas of decision-making. HBS puts these concerns front and center... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The One That Got Away

Madison Dearborn sold Fieldglass to SAP for four times what they had paid us—$1 billion. What a miss! In retrospect, the company had just begun its growth trajectory and market dominance. Moral of the story: If you have the opportunity to... View Details
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

reached their limits; third, some products affecting the health and rights of the people as well as the related entities' behavior are challenging the legal and moral bottom line. These three aspects are required to establish a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

test systems. HP experienced both a financial loss and a morale loss, while Teradyne capitalized on an opportunity and preempted a market migration away from its products. Ultimately, financial expectations drove decisions that... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

the moral and military ambiguity of profits and power as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a mosaic of imperial theories and practices contributing to the... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2024
  • News

Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

at HBS? I loved my EC course, “The Moral Leader” with Professor Badaracco. We used literature to discuss how to make difficult decisions, especially when confronted with only bad options. I long for the days when I could read a book a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 11 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

helps modulate social interactions and emotion. Being kind is good for our own and our employees' mental health." And that translates to improved morale and performance. Here's what Psychology Today had to say about kind bosses: "They... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

Spirit at Work

The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature, adds, "What we're seeing is an increasingly felt need for people to integrate the spiritual dimension of their lives into what they do for most of the day. People are... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 31 May 2016
  • First Look

May 31, 2016

contingent ways that a corporate risk function can foster highly interactive and intrusive dialogues to surface and prioritize risks, help to allocate resources to mitigate them, and bring clarity to the value trade-offs and moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne