Group Effectiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Mar 2023
News

Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

reach out to him to see if he was okay," she says. Relieved that he was, Hammerman then asked if he knew what organization was most effectively delivering aid to survivors. Atabek gave her a name: the Bridge to Turkey Fund. "I donated... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2003
News

Trust Me

can erode trust. As the pair write in “The Effects of Contracts on Interpersonal Trust,” forthcoming in the Administrative Science Quarterly, those who engage in nonnegotiable contracts often attribute their counterpart’s cooperative... View Details

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

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

personal loss, patriotism, the importance of diversity, and how best to reach out to those directly affected by the attacks. Classroom discussions became even more challenging, as students struggled with uncertainty, grief, and anger. View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2022
News

The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Apr 2015
Blog Post

India Conference 2015

Madhav (General Secretary BJP) and Mr. Prithvi Raj Chavan (Ex. Chief Minister of Maharashtra). Mr. Madhav, spoke about how the BJP was able to effectively use new social media platforms to not only gauge but also engage with the relevant... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector

The role of business in improving public education, reducing welfare dependency, and revitalizing urban areas was the subject of a stimulating forum held at HBS on April 6-8. The conference, titled "Business Leadership in the Social Sector," drew a distinguished View Details

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

provides students with the means to navigate their way through the decisions they will face and formulate an effective business strategy. This is a much-needed guide to the common strategic issues that arise when firms compete... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2011
News

Faculty Books

how we act unethically without meaning to. They demonstrate how ethical standards shift, how we neglect to notice and act on the unethical behavior of others, and how compliance initiatives can actually promote unethical behavior. Suggesting innovative individual and... View Details

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

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

we must also ensure that the School is a place where every individual is able to be the best they can be. Groups like the MBA student-led Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council as well as staff affinity View Details

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Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS - MBA

functions and, if I was any good, eventually become publisher of a magazine or group of magazines. I was ready to accept, but they said I might also want to check out this crazy new venture on the fifth floor of the Time & Life Building.... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Global Perspectives

critical links in many global supply chains, particularly on the upstream supply end, so the group of 12 HBS faculty members and a colleague from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences visited companies... View Details

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

PublicationsStrength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests Author:Gunnar Trumbull Publication:Harvard University Press, forthcoming Abstract This book investigates the sources of interest group influence has on public... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Failde (MBA 1985) and May Chao (MBA 1985) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Beliefs, Behaviors, and Results: The Chief Executive's Guide to Delivering Superior Shareholder Value by Scott Gillis (MBA 1988), Lee Mergy, and Joe Shalleck (Greenleaf Book View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

from different points of cultural reference, they learn to anticipate and deal with the kinds of value conflicts they are likely to face as global managers. Paine points out that students taking her course also develop a business philosophy and a set of values that... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

how seismic events in industry—such as the founding, merger, and dissolution of companies—have a ripple effect on the opportunities available to individuals. What Higgins has done recently, though, is to get at what she calls a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

Fútbol By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—Markets for soccer players are winner-take-all markets in which a select few top players earn extremely high rewards. The search for effective talent strategies in these conditions has led clubs to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

resources." Michael P. Cassidy (MBA '91), general manager of the Computer Telephony Product Group at Artisoft, Inc., a maker of tools that connect phones to computers, took these lessons to heart when he created his own company, Stylus... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

34 countries, leading to observations on everything from incentivization to the effects of competition on how firms are organized. “There is a branch of my field that is closer to philosophy,” she says. “Ultimately, though, I want to have... View Details

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

Women don't have a problem developing an effective leadership style. What they do struggle with more than men, however, is claiming the authority to lead, according to Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn. The gender gap in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

“I am shocked by how many entrepreneurs and how many VCs haven’t asked the question of what creates the network effect [whereby a product or service becomes more valuable to customers as more people use it], or what creates the economy of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

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