Belonging - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

individuals have won the "ovarian lottery." These winners or insiders have the right parents, obtain the right education, have the right skin color, are the right gender, and belong to the right institutions. Doors open.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

what you’re trying to do, they’re going to do it as well, which will push the price up. So the price you end up paying is not the best possible price.” Notably, the researchers found no evidence of information leakage in cases where the activist investor and the broker... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

extreme example of distancing from organizational tensions: They simply decide to work on their own. Naomi Rothman—a colleague at New York University—and I are analyzing data on contingent workers and are trying to understand their resilience mechanisms. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

linguistic groups in emerging markets also affects foreign investors. In Malaysia, for instance, foreign companies should enter into joint ventures only after checking if their potential partners belong to the majority Malay community or... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

03 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising

Media Wise That sort of approach isn't possible in today's media-rich world—and probably wouldn't be very effective anyway. "It's more like the Vietnam War now," Deighton continues. "The ideas have to belong to the people you're... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising

05 Jul 2004
What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

suggests the questions of the month. He writes: "... Natural resources and geopolitical advantages played no small role in the American rise to power, but the bulk of the credit belongs to the American work ethic and entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

homegrown companies. But all that is changing as firms shape and adapt to global markets. Says HBS professor Mihir A. Desai, "The defining characteristics of what makes a firm belong to a country—where it is incorporated, where it is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

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

arena. Counter to previous studies, his team’s results indicated that a particular group that participants belonged to was less important than how trustworthy they thought the other group was. “Our biggest headline finding is that it... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

An old adage says that it's not what you know, it's whom you know. But outsiders can take heart: even for those who don't belong to a high-power social network, there's power in simply keeping track of who went to school with whom.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

12 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 12

choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that companies generally think of value as a pie that is rightfully theirs. But value is not fixed, and it neither originates with nor View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

learn new tricks: conventional companies can adapt to a platform world with a buy, build, or belong strategy. And 5) Platforms are a double-edge sword: abuse of power, bullying poor labor practices, and bad actors can undermine even the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

[having] a dictionary that lists all the words in the English language but doesn't include their meanings." How those words are defined remains to be seen, but most analysts agree that if the 1990s belonged to the Internet, the new... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

09 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 9

belonging to the Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization (LGPHO). The case describes the LGPHO physicians' experience during their first two years under the AQC, allowing students to assess the group's performance as well as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313068-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-037 Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-era Asset Restitution (A) Beginning in 1994, a series of articles and public disclosures indicated that Swiss banks... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

"a natural experiment," about 1,800 landless families (organized by a Catholic priest) occupied the area in 1981, believing it was owned by the state. In fact, it was made up of privately held tracts of land belonging to 13... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

choose to specialize because of the advantage they acquire through their social networks. ©iStock/vadimguzhva “Many immigrant groups spend a lot of time with other members of their own ethnic community,” says Kerr, who knows this firsthand—his wife is Finnish and View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

growth without undermining the progress achieved in reducing inequality and poverty. Can the Brazilian government reverse inequality and grow at the same time? What development strategy should Lula follow in his second term? Does Brazil View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

Parasitic integration often occurs when only two or three firms exist in a small industry. In many of the negotiation simulations used in value-creation training seminars, students represent firms belonging to a small market. Through... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

literature and a community of scholars, has a narrow and a broad definition. The narrower definition includes researchers such as myself who do primary archival research on the history of business, who belong to the societies, and who... View Details