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- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
Terry Ott commented, "I worked in a private company that went public. . . . Post-IPO, the company has continued to do well but the morale has seriously declined because employees feel pressure to have the business look good on a... View Details
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Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization - Recruiting
“Racism is around us all the time without us doing anything. It is a system created for economic, political, and social reasons that privileges white folks and marginalizes people of color.” It’s important to understand that racism is a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 10 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization
anti-racism to the workplace is critical because racism is not simply people being unkind to one another. As Manso-Brown explains “Racism is around us all the time without us doing anything. It is a system created for economic, political, and social View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
afford groceries is the reason we see so much plastic in grocery aisles today. “Despite our best efforts, Gotham Greens is a small company with limited influence in the packaging sector. Changing the landscape requires the collective... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
particularly a very public one. But high leverage does its disadvantages. Obviously, it can increase the probability of bankruptcy. It can also create incentive problems. When equity holders have too little "skin in the game," View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
Hildreth had one day in Berkeley. “We went to lunch and started arguing about moral philosophy,” says Hildreth, who had previously worked as a manager at a global accounting firm for eight years. “When you work in an organization, you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
operate in an open and direct fashion. From my point of view as a CEO, one of the most important reasons for behaving responsibly is the effect it has on our own people and our organization. It helps attract people who will, in turn, act... View Details
- 08 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)
and leadership of complex systems. (HBS) was very helpful in shaping my leadership of self, honing my leadership of others, and giving me the tools to think about leading complex systems.” In particular, a leadership course at HBS, The View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
the moral compass to describe individuals' inner sense of right and wrong, we offer a framework to help us understand social reasons why our moral compass can come under... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
2008), offers this case study to HBS alumni: “There are many reasons for us to pursue diversification. Our client pool is made up of relatively small, local solar markets, and installations will eventually slow down; many customers (as... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
At Maverick, employees' morale had gone down, but no one had quit. In my conversations with the CEO, he was eager to learn how employees were feeling about the company, but did not express awareness of this problem. Q: In this firm or... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
regulation is appropriate in a given context rather than whether regulation itself is a moral good or evil.” Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would bring peace and prosperity to all,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
financial institutions are too big to fail? There are two valid reasons for bailing out a financial institution. First is to protect the system for processing payments, like checks, because that system is critical to the operation of the... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
impact, especially on practitioners. A central reason is that Porter addresses very specific needs of different practitioner constituencies, providing a framework and actionable ideas they could easily relate to. The final section turns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
Publications 2006 Emotion Review The Power of the Cognition/Emotion Distinction for Morality By: Bazerman, Max H., Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, and Chia-Jung Tsay Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
behavior on an ongoing basis. Communication is a central part of that story. Negotiators can have good reasons for not saying everything they're thinking. Holding back information can be a simple matter of self-defense. If a seller... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
on moral grounds, since they don’t feel they did anything wrong. The problem is a big one for stock photo agencies—not just because of loss of revenue but also because unchecked abuse cuts into future business by motivating some violators... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
Radcliffe College, indicating a personal commitment to educating women well before they were officially admitted into the full two-year MBA Program. In 1965, the School hired an administrative assistant to the Dean, whose main responsibility was to recruit women and... View Details