Publications

01 Apr 2015
News

Female-Run Venture Capital Funds Alter the Status Quo

Article

Going It Alone: Competition Increases the Attractiveness of Minority Status

By: Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang and Katherine L. Milkman

Past research demonstrates that people prefer to affiliate with others who resemble them demographically. However, we posit that when competing for scarce opportunities, strategic considerations moderate the strength of this tendency toward homophily. Across six... View Details

Keywords: Homophily; Group Selection; Diversity; Gender; Race; Competition

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship and venture capital, the actions of any one group are likely to have positive spillovers—or, in the language of economics, "externalities"—for their peers. It is in these types of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

Other Article

Accepting Risk and Rejecting the Status Quo: Fostering an Innovative Higher Ed Culture

By: David J. Collis

Corporations across the globe have been focused on the question of innovation for decades and longer. The desire to become leaner, better, and more efficient has driven innovative leaders for years. In higher education, however, this innovative mindset is a relatively... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Innovation Leadership

18 Nov 2003
Other Presentation

The U.S. Homebuilding Industry and The Competitive Position of Large Builders

By: Michael E. Porter

Strategy presentation at the Centex Investor Conference, New York. Topics include: The structure of the homebuilding industry, the competitive advantages of large homebuilders, market assessment of homebuilding versus other industries and the role of investors in... View Details

Keywords: Industry Analysis; Five Forces; Strategy; Five Forces Framework; United States

August 1984
Case

Competitive Positioning in the Dishwasher Industry (C): Sears, Roebuck and Co.

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Product Positioning; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry

2012
Working Paper

Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach

By: Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen

We summarize our new positive theory of integrity that has no normative content, and argue that there are large gains from putting integrity into finance—into both the theory and practice of finance. We define integrity as being whole and complete and unbroken. We... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Ethics; Theory; Practice; Change

SSRN

March 8, 2022
Article

Women Can’t Go Back to the Pre-Pandemic Status Quo

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

Survey data collected in 2018 and 2019 from Harvard Business School graduates revealed that for women—and especially women of color—well-being at work was suffering long before the pandemic. While 17% of all respondents said that they often or very often experienced... View Details

Keywords: Women; Burnout; Gender; Race; Resignation and Termination; Well-being; Employees

27 Apr 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach

Keywords: by Werner Erhard & Michael C. Jensen

28 May 2019
News

Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth

Governor of Kaduna State Malam Nasir AHMAD El-Rufai (left) and Mira Mehta (right) meet with Nigerian government officials (photo courtesy of Tomato Jos) Mira Mehta (MBA 2014) didn’t set out to become a farmer in northern Nigeria, but... View Details

Keywords: April White; Crop Production; Agriculture

June 2002
Article

A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype Content: Competence and Warmth Respectively Follow from Status and Competition

By: S.T. Fiske, A.J.C. Cuddy, P. Glick and J. Xu

Keywords: Attitudes; Competency and Skills; Competition; Rank and Position

2008
Conference Presentation

Analyzing and Using Data From Global Positioning Systems and Digital Imagery in Mathematics Courses

By: F. Wattenberg, K. Erickson, J. Helms, K. DeGregory and Hise O. Gibson

17 Oct 2016
News

The Right (And Wrong) Way To Harness Your Company's Underdog Status

October 2014
Article

The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: Normative Diversity and a Role for Equal Sacrifice

By: Matthew Weinzierl

A prominent assumption in modern optimal tax research is that the objective of taxation is Utilitarian. I present new survey evidence that most people disagree with this assumption, preferring tax policies based at least in part on a classic alternative objective: the... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; Theory

29 Jan 2025
Podcast

Positive prompts: Sal Khan on AI in the classroom and beyond

Will the technology democratize access to world-class education or increase inequality? Khan's journey from highly informed skeptic to champion of ethical AI. The HBS graduate and Khan Academy founder explains his nonprofit's pioneering strategy. Also, workforce... View Details

2009
Chapter

Position and Emotion: The Significance of Georg Simmel's Structural Theories for Leadership and Organizational Behavior

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Rakesh Khurana

Keywords: Leadership; Rank and Position; Status and Position; Organizational Culture

March 2007
Article

Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms

By: Julie Wulf

I show that performance incentives vary by decision-making authority of division managers. For division managers with broader authority, i.e., those designated as corporate officers, both the sensitivity of pay to global performance measures and the relative importance... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Globalization; Measurement and Metrics; Status and Position; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Divisions