emergency response networks - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31216 Breaking New Ground: The Emerging Frontier of CSR in the Extractive Sector Authors:V. Kasturi Rangan and Brooke Barton Publication:Chap. 9 in Global Challenges in View Details

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

Spontaneous responses can often be quite telling. As a member of a panel discussion at the Women, Money, and Power conference, entrepreneur Joline Godfrey posed two simple questions to the mostly-female audience. "How many of you had... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

interact—everything from how people view the role of the individual versus the group to their attitudes, say, about the importance of time or relationships. In response to these challenges, a great body of literature has View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

05 Feb 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

that the emergence of the latter offers a great learning opportunity. For example, Jed Bullard maintains that "[onsite] MBA programs MUST study, embrace, and implement their own versions of e-learning programs, if only to remain... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

fabric of globalized production that comes in a period of conflict. We're betting, and hoping of course, that the conflict remains narrowly focused on breaking the terrorist networks and doesn't turn into a wider war. If it were to go to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

are experiencing increased food insecurity among vulnerable populations, disruptions throughout food systems, and difficulty getting excess supply to the people who most need it. Responses range from international food programs to... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

sector. In a way they become the catalysts for internal change. Q: Many alumni get involved with corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Critics of CSR often cite Milton Friedman, who famously said that "the social View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

characterized by underdeveloped institutions and frequent environmental shifts. Yet they also contain many firms that have survived over generations. How are firms in weak institutional environments able to persist over time? Motivated by 69 interviews with leaders of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

2004 election when Republican George W. Bush emerged victorious. Chung says that had Democratic candidate John Kerry received more advertising from outside political groups, the election would have ended up in a 269-269 electoral tie.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Michael Stepner from the University of Toronto. “The smaller-than-expected response begs the question of why so many people still haven't returned to the labor force,” Kluender says. Probing the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid

The Medicaid program provides a much needed health insurance safety net for 52 million of our nation's poor and medically needy, but its price tag threatens the financial stability of the states, growing 9.5 percent in 2004 alone—far in excess of revenues. Fiscally... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

08 Jan 2001
What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

Summing Up "What we are looking at is a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about which corporate structures work," commented Daniel Hayes in response to the recent piece on the future bounds of the organization. Raman... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 3

which focuses on three distinct relationship stages-awareness, surface contact, and mutuality-and suggests that the influence of familiarity on attraction depends on both the nature and the stage of the relationship between perceivers and targets. This article... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

silently shift in response to actions taken, even though no overt negotiation takes place. Of course, if costly misunderstandings are to be avoided, it's normally in the parties' best interests to make their expectations explicit and... View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

"You have to be absolutely conscious of standards. The reason Bill Gates is the richest man in the world after the Sultan of Brunei is because he captured the standards. Are we subject to the emergence of new standards?" he... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

many CEOs surmised that they were simply acclimating to the stress and uncertainty of the pandemic. A mission or malaise? The contrasting responses of the remaining two CEOs highlight the disconnect between circumstances and emotional... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

of 20 people, competing against each other to solve a complex algorithmic engineering problem. In each room, only 5 participants were declared winners. Rather than sort participants into rooms based on their inherent skills, however, the researchers sorted half of them... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

about government policies and consumer attitudes about the CEO’s company. We conclude by providing a roadmap for future research on this emerging phenomenon. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50763... View Details