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- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
friend, more workers are scaling back, stepping away, or choosing alternative professional opportunities that help them balance these demands. Companies that ignore this emerging crisis risk losing their hardest-to-find and highest-paid... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
you will, for an alternative to the high-yield, soil-depleting cycle of tilling, pesticides, and fertilization that could ultimately endanger the planet’s ability to grow enough food for its people. Through gardens planted with heirloom... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
yuri_arcurs Recent research shows for the first time that diversity in venture capital firms not only spawns creativity and alternative viewpoints, but also improves financial performance. Paul Gompers, Eugene Holman Professor of Business... View Details
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
Performance. An alternative explanation might go the other way: Financial Performance = Gender Diversity. Well off firms have much more flexibility to experiment, meet diversity goals and so forth.” Patrick Schild, while disagreeing with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
downside consequences are more certain. Google has some 700 employees in China, the best of whom are already finding alternative employment. So de facto, Google is going to be a much smaller entity in China. It seems unlikely to me that... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
Meeting." The fact that no one suggested an alternative to the PMM was fairly typical of our findings. Individuals are frequently convinced that keeping quiet is the best way to preserve relationships and get work done. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 16 Jun 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis
Keywords: by Venkat Kuppuswamy & Belén Villalonga
- Web
Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020
Mayo), Global Business (Forest Reinhardt), and Alternative Investments (Victoria Ivashina, Randy Cohen, and Arthur Segel). From April through June, in response to the pandemic, HBS Online offered a free Business Lessons program; more than... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
to green cement and alternative proteins. In addition, partnering to scale next-gen decarbonization solutions through Decarbonization Partners, a fund partnership we have established with BlackRock. Enabling carbon-negative solutions... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
anything as monumental as a multimillion-dollar feature film." The answer resonates beyond Hollywood, carrying implications for any industry in which the stakes are high, uncertainty looms large, and alternative methods to de-risk ideas... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
retailers will need to reconfigure as vast spaces become unproductive. The most obvious victims so far of this shift are music, video, and book retailers—these categories are virtually nonexistent outside the Internet channel. Barnes & Noble is continuously trying... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
closest airport), he kept broadening his perspective. He asked a lot of questions. He checked in with the air traffic controller and the first officer; everybody’s perspective was brought in. He considered many alternatives when most of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
alternative strategies for local newspapers so they can continue to exist,” he observes. What’s clear is that contacting the media remains a critical first step for many whistleblowers, and the local paper is a dissemination tool to get... View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
consumers are veering away from soft drinks, so they are already adding healthier alternatives to their product lines. "There could be situations where graphic warning labels could make people feel badly about themselves, so are we... View Details
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
examples of high strategic intelligence. What do they have in common that makes them successful? A: If I had to summarize very quickly, I'd say they have a pretty clear strategy, but they are not satisfied with it. They are always trying to improve it and look for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
for well-educated, successful people to work in the public sector. Especially when it comes to the military, the alternative is a risk of increased insularity and a schism between those who serve and those who don’t. Personally, I... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
needed to find alternative models that overcome the IPS, and he hopes that the FSL model will be applied in other studies that examine the effectiveness of marketing instruments. "It would be interesting to apply the FSL model in a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
(In medieval Europe, it was consumed daily because the presence of alcohol made it a safer alternative to water.) And the recipe has remained largely unchanged. To make either low- or no-alcohol beer, one begins with a batch of full-test... View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose
In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Justice; Corporate Purpose; Shareholder Value Maximization; Ethical Reciprocity; Economic Systems; Business Ventures; Mission and Purpose; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Salter, Malcolm S. "Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-104, April 2019.
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
alternative or a supplement.” Whillans says an online program may also encourage higher participation rates than certain special events that companies organize to encourage people to relax. For example, a bag lunch get-together or an ice... View Details