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- February 2020
- Article
Being 'Good' or 'Good Enough': Prosocial Risk and the Structure of Moral Self-regard
By: Julian Zlatev, Daniella M. Kupor, Kristin Laurin and Dale T. Miller
The motivation to feel moral powerfully guides people’s prosocial behavior. We propose that people’s efforts to preserve their moral self-regard conform to a moral threshold model. This model predicts that people are primarily concerned with whether their... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Perception
Zlatev, Julian, Daniella M. Kupor, Kristin Laurin, and Dale T. Miller. "Being 'Good' or 'Good Enough': Prosocial Risk and the Structure of Moral Self-regard." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 118, no. 2 (February 2020): 242–253.
- December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
- Supplement
Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,171 properties, 1.2% of the total residential energy market). This was 150% ahead of a plan for 130,000 properties and almost ten times the size the... View Details
Keywords: Rapid Growth Stage; Green Energy; Start-up; Customer Acquisition; Customer Churn; Customer Engagement; Electricity; Resources; Growth Strategy; B-Corp; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Financing; Renewable Energy; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Working Capital; Customers; Growth Management; Finance; Decision Making; United Kingdom
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-442, December 2018. (Revised June 2021.)
- October 2007
- Article
The Art of Designing Markets
By: Alvin E. Roth
Traditionally, markets have been viewed as simply the confluence of supply and demand. But to function properly, they must be able to attract a sufficient number of buyers and sellers, induce participants to make their preferences clear, and overcome congestion by... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Information Technology; Internet and the Web
Roth, Alvin E. "The Art of Designing Markets." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 10 (October 2007): 118–126.
- Web
Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Strategy Drivers of Competitiveness Drivers of Competitiveness Achieving real and sustainable competitive advantage requires a clear understanding of what “competitiveness” means and how to analyze it effectively. Such clarity is the key... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS
and accomplished. Yes, I have my anxieties, and so do others, but it’s okay because everyone is in the same boat. At HBS, a diverse student body means people with experience in every field imaginable. As a result, the learning experience... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-041_1af09bde-47f9-4364-bad6-aaac464be909.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-008 The United Kingdom and the Means to Prosperity After struggling through the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
medical care, defense, education and so on guarantees that fewer taxpayer dollars and government resources will be available for other initiatives. It may also mean that the national debt will increase, imposing a heavy burden on future... View Details
- Web
Board Use - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
headings as a means for reinforcing and supporting the structure and flow of the discussion. They also use boards to acknowledge student comments and to highlight, summarize and connect contributions by underlining, circling or drawing... View Details
- 20 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change
presidential victory. The Innovator develops a solution to address the grievances. That means anticipating roadblocks and coming up with alternative paths, as well as justifying those alternatives in appealing ways to engage individuals,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Adriana Garcia Ceja
an experience where community means more than just taking classes and getting a diploma.” Putting her values into action, Adriana ran for and became president of Section D. “Running was in a way crazy; I had to push myself to be a leader... View Details
- 2012
- Article
Evidence for the Pinocchio Effect: Linguistic Differences Between Lies, Deception by Omissions, and Truths
By: Lyn M. Van Swol, Michael T. Braun and Deepak Malhotra
The study used Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count and Coh-Metrix software to examine linguistic differences with deception in an ultimatum game. In the game, the Allocator was given an amount of money to divide with the Receiver. The Receiver did not know the precise... View Details
Van Swol, Lyn M., Michael T. Braun, and Deepak Malhotra. "Evidence for the Pinocchio Effect: Linguistic Differences Between Lies, Deception by Omissions, and Truths." Discourse Processes 49, no. 2 (2012): 79–106.
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 2017
- Working Paper
A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies
By: Valeria Giacomin
Clusters are defined as geographically concentrated agglomerations of specialized firms in a particular domain. The cluster concept in its broader meaning of industrial agglomeration has been the focus of longstanding debates in the social sciences. This working paper... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Research; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Analysis; Globalization
Giacomin, Valeria. "A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-018, August 2017.
- January – February 2011
- Article
Stop Holding Yourself Back
By: Anne Morriss, Robin J. Ely and Frances X. Frei
After working with hundreds of leaders in a wide variety of organizations and in countries all over the globe, the authors found one very clear pattern: when it comes to meeting their leadership potential, many people unintentionally get in their own way. Five barriers... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics
Morriss, Anne, Robin J. Ely, and Frances X. Frei. "Stop Holding Yourself Back." Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2011).
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
motivated, to find meaning at work during this crisis. Research by Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria and colleagues suggests that people are guided by four basic emotional needs, or drives, that are the product of our common... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
PublicationsAnnual Review of Financial Economics Editors:Andrew W. Lo and Robert C. Merton Publication:Vol. 1. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Book Abstract: http://www.annualreviews.org/catalog/2009/fe01.aspx... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Identity Work, Itinerant Careers, and Management Education
I investigate how and where individuals develop, revise and consolidate identity narratives that afford them some degree of self-esteem, a sense of direction and purpose, and social legitimacy, in the context of careers that feature discontinuities, mobility and... View Details
- Research Summary
The Role of Information Technology in the Provision of Services
By: James I. Cash
James I. Cash, Jr. is exploring the role of information technology in service management. Specifically, he is studying the implications of the ubiquity of information technology at three levels in service-providing organizations. (In the United States today, service... View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness
By: Frank Nagle
This study seeks to better understand the impact that government technology procurement regulations have on social value and national competitiveness. To do this, it examines the impact of a change in France’s technology procurement policy that required government... View Details
Keywords: Social Value; Competitiveness; Government Administration; Information Technology; Acquisition; Policy; Value
Nagle, Frank. "Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-103, March 2019.