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- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
Challenging a concerning proposal Jordan studies how individuals and organizations manage their reputations. This research asked whether the desire to look good in the eyes of others might motivate people to indiscriminately share news... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
Professor George Serafeim (left) and Professor Rebecca Henderson (right); image by John Ritter CEOs are increasingly being asked to take the lead on some of the most vexing problems of our time, from climate change and data privacy to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
forthcoming Annual Review of Economics History, Micro Data and Endogenous Growth By: Akcigit, Ufuk, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—Economic growth is concerned with long-run changes, and as a result historical data should be especially... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
Image by John Ritter In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Many of us learned at an early age the expression caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware. The phrase conjured up an image of a roiling, rollicking market that consumers best entered equipped for battle and prepared for disappointment—or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
brand’s image on Amazon. “I was building buzz around my own brand, and Amazon was working against me in that sense,” she says. In August 2019, Ford stopped listing products on the site. After a difficult March and April this year when the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
usual reasons have become clichés: Disruptive technologies, emerging global competitors, changing workforce expectations, and heightened investor concerns over immediate stock price have put pressure on boards to find reassuring,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Burden Park | About
was a staff member at the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research when he died in 1962. Florence Burden (née Florence Vanderbilt Twombly) had a lifelong interest in Harvard and a deep concern for its future. The daughter of Hamilton... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
Others pointed to classical Kantian ideas such as the pacifying effects of trade and that economic ties were a mechanism of security for China, the US, and other major economies. So, it is a great irony that now, in the context of China’s growing global power and... View Details
- 21 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Going Negative in Political Advertising
McCain used high profile surrogates such as Governor Charlie Crist to reinforce concerns about his opponent. Why Don't Companies Go Negative? Unlike politicians, companies hardly ever run negative ads. Pepsi ads don't tear down Coke; they... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
resource allocation. Given the trend toward more politically similar leadership teams that we observe in the data, these concerns are particularly relevant this election season. Elisabeth Kempf is the Jaime and Raquel Gilinski Associate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
the job? Do most employers even realize some workers are having a hard time? Fuller: First of all, employees in most companies only go to their boss or to their company to discuss a caregiving issue as a last resort. Their concern is: If... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- Web
Instagram Takeover Policy | About
discussed with the HBS Social Team and agreed upon prior to the Stories Takeover time period. ___ Share images or videos of inappropriate, un-safe, or illegal behavior. ___ Post personal information about yourself, or others, that could... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
acceptance is decreased respect for everyone in their O category. The dating market. Sometimes unmarried women hide their concerns and competence because they do not want to appear to compete with potential dating partners. But... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
image by John Ritter Twenty-five years after the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) was launched at HBS, the Bulletin sits down with professors on the forward edge of the movement: Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004), who developed the EC course... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
our personal computers. In an effort to shape our individual images through the use of networking devices, we are nevertheless disclosing many things about ourselves that can be employed by clever marketers in ways that appear to violate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
herself engaging on questions of policy solutions. When one student proposed dispersing reparations in the form of college scholarships, McCray voiced concerns about overlooking those who do not attend college. “Matriculating into college... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Harvard Business School to reflect on his company's situation. Mazon was the vice president and general manager of the Imaging Systems Division of Philips Healthcare in Latin America (Latam). For three consecutive years, Philips... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel