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  • 15 Aug 2016
  • News

How to Make the Other Side Play Fair

  • 16 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

whether the moms held high-skill or low-skill jobs. But only women whose mothers worked medium- or high-skill jobs are more likely to have supervisory positions than women whose mothers weren’t employed. The influence of mothers’... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

profit-maximizing firm, such as Apple, that offers content available at positive prices. We characterize the size of the p2p network as a function of the firm's pricing strategy, and show that the firm may be better off setting high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

course, how you can use it and then then how you can share it. Winfrey: And also having a bank of positive emotions you can go to. Right. Positive actions you can go to when you're in the midst of all of... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Status Inconsistency: Variance in One's Status Across Groups Harms Well-being but Improves Perspective-taking

By: Catarina Fernandes and Alison Wood Brooks
Most people belong to many different groups. While some people experience consistently high or low status across all of their groups, others experience wildly different levels of status in each group. In this research, we examine how status inconsistency – the degree... View Details
Keywords: Status; Social Hierarchies; Well-being; Perspective Taking; Status and Position; Groups and Teams; Satisfaction; Perspective
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  • 2009
  • Article

Social Structure Shapes Cultural Stereotypes and Emotions: A Causal Test of the Stereotype Content Model

By: P. Caprariello, A.J.C. Cuddy and S.T. Fiske
The stereotype content model (SCM) posits that social structure predicts specific cultural stereotypes and associated emotional prejudices (Fiske et al., 2002). No prior evidence at a societal level has manipulated both structural predictors and measured both... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Mathematical Methods; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Status and Position; Culture; Competition
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  • 31 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

yourself, he says. They are best positioned to judge whether the behavior is outside the norms of the client organization and whether the behavior could impact that ability of the client to implement the recommendations you might be... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting

    Clayton S. Rose

    Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. He currently teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His research is focused on the how leaders can manage the challenges created by the intense, varied and often... View Details

    Keywords: financial services
    • September 1992 (Revised September 2010)
    • Background Note

    Executive Stock Options

    By: Henry B. Reiling
    After a brief comment on the practical problems associated with taxing options and the possible occasions on which taxation might occur, the note describes the current policy imbedded in the Internal Revenue Code and gives examples of this policy in operation. The... View Details
    Keywords: Stock Options; Policy; Taxation; Executive Compensation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan
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    • December 2004 (Revised July 2006)
    • Case

    Celtel International B.V.

    By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
    Mo Ibrahim, chairman of Celtel International, the largest provider of cellular services in sub-Saharan Africa, must decide on his company's future. After an amazing six years that took it from minority positions in three countries to nearly $1 billion in revenues and... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Initial Public Offering; Business Growth and Maturation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Africa
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    • 13 May 2015
    • News

    Small Wins Go a Long Way in Improving U.S. Rail Transportation

    • 18 Sep 2014
    • News

    Entrepreneurs anonymous

    • 09 Jun 2021
    • News

    Employees Are Lonelier Than Ever. Here’s How Employers Can Help.

    • 2010
    • Book

    Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down

    By: John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead
    You've got a good idea. You know it could make a crucial difference for you, your organization, your community. You present it to the group but get confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets in return. Before you know what's happened, your idea is dead,... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Cost vs Benefits; Problems and Challenges; Interests; Value
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    • Web

    Operational Effectiveness vs. Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Business Strategy Business Strategy The Five Forces Strategic Positioning The Value Chain... View Details
    • 9 Nov 2021
    • Interview

    How to Build Psychological Safety in Your Workplace with The Fearless Organization Author, Amy C. Edmondson

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Dominic Monkhouse
    If you want to be better at leading a team. If you want to know how to lead a good decision making process. Or how to engage and inspire people to bring their full self to work, don’t miss Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor and author of The Fearless... View Details
    Keywords: Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Motivation and Incentives
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    • March 2019
    • Supplement

    KITEA (C): A Surprise Delay

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
    This case describes the delay of IKEA’s store opening in Morocco in 2015. After Sweden ordered an internal review of its position on the independence of Western Sahara, a territory Morocco regarded as part of its own, the Moroccan government declared that IKEA did not... View Details
    Keywords: Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Strategy; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Retail Industry; Africa; North Africa; Morocco
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    • November 2, 2015
    • Article

    The Best Ways to Hire Salespeople

    By: Frank V. Cespedes and Daniel Weinfurter
    Companies typically spend more on hiring in sales than they do anywhere else in the firm. Average annual turnover in sales is 25% to 30%, while direct replacement costs for a telesales employee ranges from $75,000 to $90,000 and other sales positions cost as much as... View Details
    Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Salesforce Management; Retention
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    • September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
    • Case

    Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Gain Liquidity

    By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Evan Richardson
    Samir Kaul, a Partner at Khosla Ventures, looked out his office window. It was late June, 2011, and like almost every day in Menlo Park, the sun was shining. Kaul was reflecting on what had been a very positive 10 months in the venture capital business. Over that span,... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Business or Company Management; Partners and Partnerships; Product Development; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry
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    • June – July 2008
    • Article

    A Better Approach to Foreign Aid

    By: Justin Muzinich and Eric D. Werker
    Frustration with U.S. foreign aid is widespread. At the same time, flows of private development finance—including foreign direct investment and remittances—have begun to dwarf official aid. We suggest a new approach that harnesses the power of private development... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Foreign Direct Investment; International Relations; Taxation; Welfare or Wellbeing; United States
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