Publications

25 Mar 2013
News

Decide and make your move

25 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

Most people at one time or another feel as if they are just spinning their wheels, unable to gain traction either in career or in life. This feeling of being stuck in one place, while troubling, is part of a necessary crisis leading to personal growth, says Dr. Timothy... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 12 Dec 2022
Virtual Programming

HLS Book Talk - Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop

Whether were aware of it or not, almost all of us have been complicit in the unethical behavior of others. In Complicit, Professor Max Bazerman confronts our complicity head-on and offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that... View Details

01 Jun 2021
News

How to Psych Yourself up for a Return to the Office

02 Jun 2020
News

Risking Authenticity in the Digital Age

02 Mar 2022
News

Harvard Census Identifies Most Commonly Used Open Source Packages

01 Oct 2008
News

The Flawed Architecture of the Financial System

Clubs

Tech Club

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports; Technology; Entrepreneurship

February 2010 (Revised December 2011)
Case

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, Marco Iansiti and Akiko Kanno

Ricoh, the Japanese copier manufacturer, is committed to reducing its environmental impact to one-eighth of its 2000 levels by 2050. It has already introduced three stages of environmental awareness to its operations, and its recycled copier business broke even in... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Financial Reporting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Investment; Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan

11 Jun 2014
News

The Digital Opportunity Staring Credit Cards in the Face

March–April 2019
Article

Operational Transparency: Make Your Processes Visible to Customers and Your Customers Visible to Employees

By: Ryan W. Buell

Conventional wisdom holds that the more contact an operation has with its customers, the less efficiently it will run. But when customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully understand and appreciate the work going on behind the... View Details

Keywords: Operational Transparency; Customers; Services; Operations; Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Customer Satisfaction; Behavior; Service Industry

Find at Harvard

July 2018 (Revised August 2018)
Case

Project Helios: Harvesting the Sun

By: Mark Egan and E. Scott Mayfield

Aware of the impact that modern society was having on the environment, Ashley Telkes had always tried to be cognizant of her own impact on the environment and to take reasonable steps to mitigate her own effects. Having already implemented a number of passive measures... View Details

Keywords: Renewable Energy; Personal Finance; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability

12 Feb 2021
News

From the Plow to Birth Control: How Tech Reshapes Relationships

19 Dec 2016
News

The Watchers

05 Dec 2014
News

Life settlement gets a welcome face-lift

05 Jul 2012
News

Interview with Rebecca Henderson

June 1990 (Revised March 1991)
Case

Jonah Creighton (A)

By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis

How do you manage yourself and your interaction with others when you feel your personal values challenged? What should you be aware of as you proceed with sensitive, ethical issues? Jonah Creighton coordinates the company's fast-track training program, and when he... View Details

Keywords: Business Divisions; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing; Problems and Challenges

July 2023 (Revised November 2023)
Case

The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim

The Miccosukee Indians, a small tribe of indigenous people in South Florida, have a long-standing interest in protecting the land, waterways, and habitats of the Everglades, their ancestral home, which serves as a watershed for urban areas in Miami-Dade County and a... View Details

Keywords: Native Americans; Climate Change; Change; Leadership; Natural Environment; Florida; Everglades National Park