the Women's Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

Advertisement for DuPont Cellophane from The Saturday Evening Post, 1950. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Advertising Department records (Accession 1803), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

28 May 2019
News

Case Study: Building the Base

initial step in his quest to help readers—particularly millennials and Gen Zers—better understand how the news is spun. The company’s launch product is a free daily newsletter... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

03 Oct 2023
Research Event

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

And for a day I allowed myself to feel the feelings. I allowed myself to-- I didn't go down the rabbit hole of reading them all. So I was so excited when we initially announced... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Women Negotiating in the New Millenium

men are more interested in group identity. "Women hold back on what they want to claim," she said, adding that, "this may be a more functional strategy for women. Strong personal relationships may be more important to View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business

A good book on CEO succession is The CEO Within by my Harvard Business School colleague Joe Bower. Bower studied how companies perform after hiring a new CEO, noting whether the successor had been recruited... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Auto

29 Jan 2018
Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

initial best option for extracting the miners. At that point, no expert considered rescue of the 33 men a reasonable possibility. Nonetheless, within 70 days all of them would... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

01 Apr 1999
News

An Eye to the East

is part of the HBS Global Initiative spearheaded by Dean Kim B. Clark to ensure that the School fosters a global culture in its curriculum and programs and instills an... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

associated with firm performance. Nicholas’s findings, detailed in the working paper, Status and Mortality: Is there a Whitehall Effect in the United States?, contradict the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

30 Jun 2017
News

Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

spent more than a decade at PepsiCo, for the most part undertaking brand management for well-known products such as Aquafina and Starbucks Bottled Frappuccino. During her time at the company, she was also... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2016
News

Advancing the Vision for HBS

other initiatives ensure that the School remains the standard for excellence in management education worldwide. Thanks to the extraordinary... View Details

Fast Answer

Sustainability in the Transportation Industry

concrete initiatives which the European Commission adopted for the next decade to build a competitive transport system to increase mobility, remove major barriers in... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

governments that a door-to-door transportation agreement between the two countries was signed. Such "bottom-up" policy changes, initiated by the business people and encouraged... View Details

Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

leather that is produced through sustainable, non-polluting practices. Many years later, it’s gratifying to see the positive results of that project.” As CEO of Competitiveness.com until 2012, Duch personally led more than 120 of View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

19 Sep 2024
Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

increasingly vital as carbon emissions associated with the production and distribution of flowers are increasingly being scrutinized by consumers. Therefore, RFH is actively advocating for certifications that highlight View Details

autumn 1993
Article

Motivational Synergy: Toward New Conceptualizations of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in the Workplace

By: T. M. Amabile

The foundation for a model of motivational synergy is presented. Building upon but going beyond previous conceptualizations, the model outlines the ways in which intrinsic motivation (which arises from the intrinsic value of the work for the individual) might interact... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Theory; Creativity; Situation or Environment; Organizational Culture

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10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

HBS Social Enterprise Initiative executive director Stacey Childress discusses the study and its implications for investors. Salls: Tell us about the study. What did View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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HBS - From The Dean

exciting new initiatives that have the potential to reshape management practice and the very role of business in society. We began the academic... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

Development (now known as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development). Their initial work culminated in the publication of the book... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

clusters," Pisano says. "What we came to is it really depends. It's not all or one." The four clusters used in the field study had differing fates. Two—sports shoes and wooden chairs—declined while View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

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