Concerns About Social Acceptance - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

suffering rather than sacrifice substantially increases willingness to compromise with the regime to bring about peace. This effect remains strong among those who experienced greater violence. Together, these results show that even among... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 25

concept, he was hesitant to mix the non-profit oriented efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a for-profit private equity investment. Turner had heard similar concerns from other philanthropists and foundations.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty

perspectives on prioritizing breaks in service of meaningful lives and impactful careers. ----------------- Marty's story: Marty Mannion has taken three company-sanctioned sabbaticals during his 30 years in private equity with Summit Partners in Boston. During my... View Details

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

supremacists brought these once-hidden issues back to the forefront of social consciousness. Stereotyping contributes directly to unconscious bias, a subject about which Mahzarin Banaji, chair of Harvard’s... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

17 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

listens in closely to the phenomenon of "conversational blindness"—listeners' failure to notice such dodges and to socially punish transgressors unless the attempts are egregious. "More troublingly, listeners preferred... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

earned about 20 to 30 percent more than châteaux in the lower classes. The differences in price between third-, fourth-, and fifth-class wines, on the other hand, were relatively small or zero once differences in quality or reputation... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Dec 2022
News

LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway

11 HBS alumni clubs and associations currently offer forums. "I've been a member of a traditional forum here in L.A. and I think it's super powerful," says Paul Donaher (MBA 1981), copresident of the association. "One day in 2021, I was telling a friend View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1999
News

Moir Donelson

city as on his ability to navigate the inner circles of Chicago's business elite. Donelson hopes eventually to develop businesses that will create positive social changes in the part of Chicago where he grew up. "I realize this is a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Goldman Sachs

learn about the alumnus’ role and career path, and practice for interviews. Campus Ambassadors: Second-year HBS students who interned with Goldman Sachs the prior summer and have accepted full time positions... View Details

19 Nov 2015
Blog Post

What to Expect During Your Second Year at HBS

of HBS while keeping my head above the proverbial water. And just like that, everything changed my EC year – the training wheels were off! Suddenly, there were so many choices: what courses to take, what clubs and activities to prioritize, how to spend my View Details

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

cofounders have any experience in managing logistics. In addition, any move they might make to in-source fulfillment would likely destabilize the existing 3PL relationship, on which the viability of the fast-growing business depends. Cohen’s board members are View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

policy we consider concerns the level of future Social Security benefits. Specifically, we examine how an agent would respond to learning in advance whether she will experience a major View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

people use various online social platforms, makes some predictions. In the first decade of its existence, Facebook, aided by the broad adoption of mobile devices and fast internet connections, emerged as a virtual Cheers bar where people... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

26 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

IFRS as well. The EU-the IASB's main backer-is embroiled in a debt crisis that divides it; Britain-the strongest voice for IFRS in the EU-flirts with an EU exit. And China remains silent. Adding to these issues are longstanding concerns... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

firms, and it was valuable to be able to study growth in a context where growth had to be internally rather than externally funded. Q: Can you tell us about the concept of intangible social resources and how... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

01 Dec 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

1986) (Brick Tower Press) This book offers tested solutions to a variety of problems from a multitude of expert sources. The problems discussed are ones most frequently asked about by readers of the Small Business Digest (SBD) during the... View Details

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

Summing Up This month's column appears to have struck a chord with those who lament the continuing loss of implicit knowledge buried inside the heads of experienced leaders (termed "deep smarts" by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap in their book of the same... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Feb 2001
News

Drilling Down

an economic analyst," states George B. Kaiser (MBA '66), president and CEO of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company, a private concern based in Tulsa. "Analytical skills are indispensable when it comes to understanding and projecting pricing cycles... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

27 Aug 2019
News

A Shot at Success

of role model.” Trey Athletes was recently accepted into the United Way Social Innovation Accelerator, which, along with philanthropic investment and corporate partnerships, will help the fledgling View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

monetary policy rules are no short-cut to credibility in situations where vulnerability to economic and political shocks, not time-inconsistency, are overarching concerns for investors. Download the paper from SSRN ($5)... View Details