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  • 26 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 26

individual feel dirty. We theorize that such feelings of dirtiness decrease the frequency of instrumental networking and, as a result, work performance. We also examine sources of variability in networking-induced feelings of dirtiness by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

The Art of "Posting" - The Art of American Advertising

checklists to inspect the distribution, placement, and condition of posters. At times the public landscape became so saturated with marketing images that some state legislations called for a limitation on their use. While posters provided... View Details
  • 14 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

Jonathan Wareham of ESADE Business School; the two cowrote the case with Javier Busquets, also of ESADE. As detailed in the case, these software consultants enjoy their work and are great at it. The testing process—checking and rechecking... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer
  • March 2022 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

DaVita Responds to COVID

By: Susanna Gallani and David Lane
Early in August 2021, DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez was assessing the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his firm, which provided life-sustaining kidney dialysis to roughly 240,000 people. Effective infection control practices and information sharing had ensured... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change Management; Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Wages; Working Conditions; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; United States
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  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

external funds. Conditional on issuance of new debt, we interpret firms' switching from loans to bonds as a contraction in bank credit supply. We find strong evidence of substitution from loans to bonds at times characterized by tight... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

negotiation? That's a big motivation for us. When we think about what might make women walk into a negotiation with, say, lower expectations than men, one of the explanations for that comes from social psychology. It's called the entitlement effect. That research shows... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

work more effectively, and accomplish the objectives it sets out to achieve. This idea applies to organizations across sectors. The difference for public school districts is in the orientation of strategy development. As we mentioned... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • Web

Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog

partner-based organization. In addition, many more also prepare to enter other careers where their roles will be more advisory than operational. In most cases, these students have no direct advising background whatsoever. For those who have View Details
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

available during organizational development, and the conditions of its acquisition that all work together to create a powerful influence on management behavior and organizational culture." It is therefore... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
  • 13 Dec 2022
  • News

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

decided to write a case study to bring the conversation into the classroom and to business leaders who would be able to direct capital, economic opportunities, and social services to an often-overlooked region of the country." Please talk about your View Details
  • July 2021
  • Supplement

Trouble at Basecamp: Managing Politics, Polarization, and Conflict in the Workplace (B)

By: Nour Kteily, Deepak Malhotra and David Lane
Supplement to the (A) case View Details
Keywords: Change; Communication; Diversity; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Governance; Employees; Working Conditions; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Work-Life Balance; Labor and Management Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Identity; Social Issues; Equality and Inequality; Technology Platform; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • 31 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

working across group lines and group differences. And I think that makes a lot of people wary." “A lot of policies in the workplace about diversity are based on research that's focused on the negative.” The wariness is due in part to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Fight Beyond

airfield to see what was happening. Their clandestine arrival was “a carnival,” according to one of the B-17 pilots. The crowd burst into applause at the sight of Green in his full khaki Navy work uniform, with the single star and two... View Details
Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Management, BEI Faculty Chair Michael Toffel studies how companies are managing environmental and working conditions in their operations and supply chains, including how companies are engaging in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 26 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

report their preliminary findings in their working paper BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment. (The collaborative effort addresses each of their particular interests. Karmarkar, an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 06 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

a case on solar power in China ("Sinopec: Refining its Strategy"). Now I am working on issues of geothermal energy and carbon sequestration. Q: Where does the United States stand globally in this market space? How does it compare with... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

to net zero by 2050. One example of an existing technology that can put a big dent in emissions is enVerid’s Sorbent Ventilation Technology. Commercial buildings contribute 17 percent of US carbon emissions, and heating, ventilating, and air View Details
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Martha Lagace, he discusses what companies should bear in mind going forward.Lagace: People often equate globalization with the idea that globally standardized products are displacing local ones. In... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

is no simple matter to rank the importance of myriad institutions. Minimum conditions of basic education, transportation, and communications must be in place; but the question of institutions remains centered on basic empowerment.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

companies from Germany dealt with the incarceration of thousands of their German national employees in India during World War I and World War II in her recent working paper, Countering Political Risk in Colonial India: German... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing