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10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

With cross-sector collaborations on the rise, a new book exploring partnerships between business and social organizations in the Americas comes at just the right time. Social Partnering in Latin America: Lessons Drawn from Collaborations... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

Herb Kelleher, respectively. While neither were the first to come up with the basic notion on which their businesses were founded, it is not too much of an overstatement to say that Bogle taught us a new way to invest while Kelleher... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

02 Feb 2002
What Do You Think?

Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?

case is finally litigated, we may conclude that both involved criminal behavior. The comparison of loss of life and criminal activity between the two is so forced as to appear not only insensitive but also positively asinine. —Joe Hill MIT economist Paul Krugman argued... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

with Liang and Luc Renneboog of Tilburg University, and Sunny Li Sun of the University of Missouri—Kansas City to study whether the same held true in business. Would a company's use of language, particularly by the CEO and other top... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Dec 2009
What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

high school diploma." Instead: (1) new waves of immigrants populate the "underclass," enabling others to move up the income scale, (2) Hispanic immigrants play this role at present, enabling (or encouraging through... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

Excellence: Pay Strategies for the New Economy (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000). Alina Tugend, Secrecy About Salaries May Be on the Wane, The New York Times,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 14

unable to build on this legacy during the new wave of global banking that began in the 1960s with the advent of the Euromarkets. However, from the 1990s there was major restructuring and a much improved performance. The chapter explores... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

feedback. Based on the success of the beta test program, she expects the program to run again. "Next time," she said, "it will not be in Boston but rather in alumnae hot spots such as New York... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Understanding Users of Social Networks

networks," says Piskorski. They can address some basic search failures: "It's hard to know what my friends are up to, but online I can catch up with them quickly." But they can also fix bigger search shortcomings, such as those related to establishing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Publishing

05 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806153 L. Londell McMillan 805-084 On the plane back to New York City, L. Londell McMillan focused on the music on his... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

Sharks have been stigmatized on screen for decades, from the 1975 movie Jaws, in which a gigantic great white shark terrorizes a resort island off the coast of Massachusetts, to the 2013 movie Sharknado, in which the eponymous spout of shark-infested seawater... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

Cities and states are feeling the financial pain of this recession more quickly than in past downturns after pandemic-induced lockdowns swiftly decimated sales tax revenue that helps fund their operations. In fact, View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

23 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

factor by noting connections such as directors who come from the same city or attended the same school. But that fails to capture the richness of social relations that transcend such formal connections. Researchers found that the social... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

businesses, I’ll let Speed Trap’s content speak for itself. With respect to the book’s conservative tone, I do think I was reflecting the Zeitgeist. If you are skeptical, read Michael Lewis’s 2002 New York... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

investment deals and 2.3 percent of dollars among the investors surveyed went to women-owned firms, the Center discovered. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, an authority on entrepreneurship—especially the founding of high potential new... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

example. Many nonprofits and other organizations can't afford to hire data scientists, so DrivenData taps into college students and professionals who are looking to work with real-world data sets. For instance, the company is seeking a model for using Yelp reviews of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

survey. (Looking at pictures of endangered Acadian redfish and Atlantic halibut had no effect.) Indirect Questions The researchers also showed that people are likely to share information online if a personal question comes at them in a roundabout way. In another... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

It's well understood that cash bonuses often motivate a sales force to step up its game, but they don't work in every scenario and in some cases can backfire, a new study from Harvard Business School has found. The key variable? Whether... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

18 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

governed by a set of rules, the rules of play, according to John A. Deighton, Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Leora Kornfeld, adjunct faculty, Schulich School of Business, York... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising

13 May 2002
Op-Ed

A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

also hold the position of chief executive officer. Where the CEO and the chairman are the same person, a lead director should be chosen from the non-executive directors. The chairman of the audit committee must also be an effective leader. The View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting

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