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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
and how it should refine its target market clients. Keywords: Service Design ; Certification ; Auditing ; Auditor Reputation ; Carbon Credits ; Carbon ; Rating Agency Disagreement ; Ratings ; Climate Change ; Business Model ;... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
sibling dominated boards accomplish much. Siblings, who are typically quite sensitive to one another, often either avoid confrontations or quickly escalate disagreements into disruptive conflicts. Siblings also often see their board... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life
impression (by seeming smart, kind, competent, funny, charming, creative, etc), and still other times we need to manage disagreement or conflict, or convey or receive information. Sometimes we need to aim for all of these things at... View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
don't. In principle one can say, absolutely, there's a slippery slope, let's be very careful not to fall down it, let's write the laws carefully and amend them when we discover abuses. You can negotiate how to write the laws. The essential View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
keeping people together when there are fundamental disagreements over a company's direction. But even these rifts must be managed in a respectful and careful way, ultimately with a commitment to preserve family unity and assets. The... View Details
- 22 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Side Effects: The Case of Propecia
physician. But there was disagreement with that tactic. The goal should be to create brand awareness with men and get them into a doctor's office. "Seventy to 80 percent of physicians will write a prescription if a drug is requested... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
that, among other things, managers need to have more "adult conversations" —conversations needed to work through "inevitable disagreements and misunderstandings" —with our direct reports. Such conversations require careful listening. In... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Blog
Celebrating 100 Years of the HBS Case Method
General Shoe Company case, with HBS Professor Jan W. Rivkin Get a case writer's perspective in An Ode to the Case Method and the Beauty of Engineering Disagreement Stay tuned for much more, including faculty videos about the case method,... View Details
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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
disciplines from which such a model could be produced—foundered for many years on disagreements about the nature of business firms and the ultimate purpose of business. The decision (made very early in the history of university-based... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
discuss different perspectives. But one speaker after another just echoed what the previous speaker had said. When any manager did dare to dissent, a colleague would quickly dismiss his idea. Having effectively tabled every discussion in which View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
isn't Black. So many Black executives feel they have to be very mild mannered and agreeable, because any disagreement will be perceived as aggression. At work, we are all being judged to some extent about our performance. But the level of... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
of these economic differences and differences in the principles that people believe most deeply in, we are seeing large and increasingly firm political differences,” he says. “The majority of Americans appear to be strongly and intransigently in View Details
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Aurora Turek
learn about their experience and what to expect. Research Aurora’s research interests center around the ways that workplace dynamics are shaped by gender and power. She is examining how women express disagreement in the... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 19 Sep 2017
- Webinars: Career
Navigate Conflict and Build Stronger Relationships at Work
Every day at work we navigate competing interests, clashing personalities, and limited time and resources. The most effective leaders know how important it is to be able to navigate difficult conversations and work through conflict to improve our relationships. View Details
Bernard Marcus
Marcus and Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank met while they were both working at a California-based home improvement chain. After a decade of disagreements about that chain's future, Marcus and Blank went out on their own, determined to... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
recent study, which compared funding decisions of startup theater productions made by art-loving masses on crowdfunding website Kickstarter with evaluations by experts in the field. “Most of the disagreements were on projects that the... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Recreation
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
nothing. To uncover the effect of disagreements between spouses about the number of children to have — women generally want fewer than men — half of the women chosen to receive vouchers got them without their husbands present, and the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
from new entrants. We further provide evidence that these effects are due to increased competition for local resources. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-112.pdf Disagreement about the Team's Status Hierarchy: An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
in different sorts of organizational cultures and situations produced many interesting insights and observations — and some disagreements — about how to handle the Parson matter. Panelists’ opinions ranged from “I’d promote this guy in a... View Details