Attraction - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

dispersed around the globe. But the one theme that has attracted the most HBS Working Knowledge readers over our 11-year history is how to improve personal leadership skills. A third of the articles on this page relate to improving work... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

basically to impress her. So I learned how to sing. I learned how to play music and martial arts and many of those things basically just to make sure that she was attracted to me and she found me to be a worthy match. She's a very... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

with the local economy. Another approach to cluster development is to attract multinationals that will become demanding customers of local suppliers. After that, it's essential to create specialized training programs in the local... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

Social Strategies That Work

Over a billion people use social platforms on the Internet, making them the most frequently visited category of sites. Some platforms, such as eHarmony, MeetUp, and Twitter, allow us to connect to strangers. eHarmony alone is estimated to account for one in six new... View Details

21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

democracies has been decreasing over the last decades and, in some countries, elections regularly attract less than half of the voting-age population. The lower a democracy’s participation, the more unequal it tends to be, raising... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

and attracting entirely new ones. Rethinking A Trip To The Museum A museum trip has traditionally been an intensely physical experience: walking gallery floors, hearing footsteps echo off spacious halls, and seeing up-close the brush... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

or what their personal incentives might be for listing it. (Oftentimes by the time scripts are listed, they’ve already been sold to studios, who might want to list their own scripts in order to attract top actors and directors.) “If you... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

06 Feb 2013
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Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

Summing Up Can "Conscious Capitalism" Become a Viable Antidote to Income Inequality? Conscious capitalism as an antidote to income inequality apparently is an idea that attracts the attention of a diverse community, judging from... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

solar energy has become cheap enough to compete with gas and coal. Wind energy is typically more effective than solar, and due to advances in engineering, more wind locations provide grid-parity green energy. Solar and wind will continue their impressive evolution and... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

a financial analyst with IBM's Latin American division for three years, planning all along to go back to school after gaining some work experience. "Harvard expects you to do research that has certain managerial implications. That was View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
Case

Algramo

By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal

Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details

Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile

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19 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

predictable schedules or offer bonuses in order to attract and retain employees. Dollar stores typically pay among the worst in retail, close to the minimum wage, and maintain very low staffing levels. A recent New York Times story... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

attracted to the military and what it represents – discipline, camaraderie, and service over self. The tragedy of September 11, 2001 also motivated me to join the military. My interest in aviation led me to the U.S. Air Force, where I had... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

and economic inequity that deny so many Black people safe, healthy, and attractive housing. And with multiple studies showing income inequality at its worst since the Roaring Twenties, cities around the country facing a lack of affordable... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

intrigued by the unusually esoteric world of accounting standard-setting. Unlike major government programs such as Social Security and Medicare, which attract large, general-interest groups to rally, debate, and participate in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

the same in how nice, honest, and attractive they were. “This leisure-less lifestyle is so aspirational, any products or services that are associated with it become status symbols,” Keinan says. Interestingly, this glorification of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Research Summary

Competing on a Common Platform

Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

fared poorly. Even fashion-forward discounters like Target have not done well. This doesn't necessarily mean consumers have lost their interest in upscale merchandise. Rather than returning to these same stores after the crisis, are consumers more likely to be View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

critical dimensions to organizations that want to work toward parity, not for cosmetic reasons, but to improve performance and value: Attraction and recruitment. Actively seek candidates outside managers’ networks, and assess the language... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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