Center For The Victims Of Torture - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Apr 2021
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

(Image credit: Harvard Business School) Some years ago at Harvard Business School, on classroom and office walls we posted a motto: “We all teach, we all learn, for life.” It was intended for faculty as well... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

least in the short run. But with that increase of fossil fuel burning comes an ever-escalating cloud of CO2 emissions destined to linger in our atmosphere and oceans View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

06 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales

assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School and an affiliate of Harvard’s Center for Brain Sciences, who studies View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Advertising

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

could only be accomplished by specialists in less convenient, centralized settings. PCs, for example, brought computing power to individuals at a fraction of the cost View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

adapting the skills and practices of entrepreneurship for the public sector,” he says. Before joining the HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

times and worst of times if you're a consumer in the current U.S. housing market. On the plus side, thanks to the 1990s' economic boom, some... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

attitudes as extensions of company traditions and values. When the new attitudes are at odds with the existing culture, the challenge is even... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

businesses afloat—and even make sure they eventually thrive—is a critical question as the world economy freezes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Small businesses employ some 70 percent View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

call center they saw in Houston. Having identified contractors' need for just-in-time delivery, the team reasoned by analogy that emergency response teams faced a similar... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

26 Sep 2024
HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

people, about consequences and risks and benefits for other people, and also in a murkier but important sense, the ethics of an organization’s culture and its values.” Elon... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

23 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

due to the fact that US OSHA hasn’t developed standards to govern these issues. [US President Joseph] Biden has just tasked OSHA with doing just this, and the Centers View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

Center report in 2014, political polarization of the American public has increased, and partisan antagonism is "deeper and more extensive than at any point in View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

"treason" for 27 years by the apartheid government of South Africa, he emerged from his Robben Island purgatory as an inspiration to a nation, a continent, and people... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

10 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

primary appeal of Expedia had become convenience—and change/cancel fees were not convenient. Analysts looked at customer satisfaction rates, and they were particularly low for customers who had to pay View Details

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

research going on at Harvard Business School. Held each May on the HBS campus, the event provides the opportunity for a few faculty to share... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

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

04 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

and at best, opportunism." The long-term effects of strategies based solely on such practices appeared to some to be potentially counter-productive for their users.... View Details