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- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Photography by Gary Laufman “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Umaimah Mendhro (MBA 2009) was visiting her native Pakistan, working for a microfinance education nonprofit, when she was tasked with photographing students in a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
- Supplement
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created an innovation in public education through a business-school partnership for widespread replication and diffusion. In 2012, while P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was still in its first year operating,... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Partnerships; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Business and Community Relations; Innovation and Invention; Growth Management; Chicago; Idaho
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners." Harvard Business School Supplement 314-050, September 2013. (Revised June 2017.)
- April 2009 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
Golden Rule
By: Andrew Wasynczuk, Katherine Dowd and Sara del Nido
Jim Golden wants to radically change how catastrophic trucking accident lawsuit claims are handled by his trucking company. He wants to “do the right thing” for both the claimant and his company. Golden is a former litigator with 16 years of experience defending... View Details
Keywords: Business Ethics; Business Law; Law; Executives; Management Education; Management; Negotiator's Dilemma; Negotiations; Value; Moral Compass; Moral Leadership; Lawsuits and Litigation; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Corporate Accountability; Negotiation; Conflict and Resolution; Value Creation
Wasynczuk, Andrew, Katherine Dowd, and Sara del Nido. "Golden Rule." Harvard Business School Case 909-017, April 2009. (Revised October 2010.)
- 1985
- Book
Harvard Business Review: Essentials of Executive Development
By: L. A. Hill
Hill, L. A., ed. Harvard Business Review: Essentials of Executive Development. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing, 1985. (Reprint No. 12044.)
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
Of Bounds As for the idea of funding institutions that seem benign at first glance—education, for example—business can exceed its bounds, Ottaway said. When a company adopts a school it can also destroy the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
1991 and 2009, a period when the growing number of highly educated women in the workforce tested widely held understandings about gender and professional work, write the authors, Harvard Business School... View Details
- Article
Isolating the Symbolic Implications of Employee Mobility: Price Increases after Hiring Winemakers from Prominent Wineries
By: Peter W. Roberts, Mukti Khaire and Christopher I. Rider
When a skilled employee moves from one organization to another, the effects on the hiring organization can be substantive (i.e., changes in actual outcomes) and symbolic (i.e., changes in expectations or valuations and therefore prices). We theorize that strong or even... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Organizations; Performance Expectations; Price; Competency and Skills; Quality; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Selection and Staffing; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry
Roberts, Peter W., Mukti Khaire, and Christopher I. Rider. "Isolating the Symbolic Implications of Employee Mobility: Price Increases after Hiring Winemakers from Prominent Wineries." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 101, no. 3 (May 2011): 147–151.
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Conference Examines Intersection of Medicine and Business
With a focus on cutting-edge ideas shaping global health care, the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association drew some 300 participants to its annual three-day conference in early November, held for the first time on the Harvard Medical School campus. The conference,... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
globe which match (this) School of Management and produce high quality talent." Winfried Hermann Schoepf expressed concerns about whether we will be admiring Google's approach to management in the... View Details
- 1995
- Article
The Positive Impact of Creative Activity: Effects of Creative Task Engagement and Motivational Focus on College Student's Learning
By: R. Conti, T. M. Amabile and S. Pollack
This study assessed the effectiveness of engaging students in a creative activity on a topic as a means of encouraging an active cognitive set toward learning that topic area. This technique was examined in three motivational contexts. Before reading a short... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Behavior; Performance; Motivation and Incentives; Training
Conti, R., T. M. Amabile, and S. Pollack. "The Positive Impact of Creative Activity: Effects of Creative Task Engagement and Motivational Focus on College Student's Learning." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 21 (1995): 1107–1116.
- April 2017
- Teaching Note
Golden Rule
By: Andrew Wasynczuk
Jim Golden wants to radically change how catastrophic trucking accident lawsuit claims are handled by his trucking company. He wants to “do the right thing” for both the claimant and his company. Golden is a former litigator with 16 years of experience defending... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
Editor's note: Behavioral economist Max H. Bazerman decided to pursue the subject of noticing after realizing that he wasn't very good at it himself. "The truth is that I was truly terrible at noticing," says Bazerman, the Jesse... View Details
- February 2007
- Module Note
Endurance Summary: The Challenge of Right Versus Wrong
By: Sandra J. Sucher
A summary of the major themes discussed in the first class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details
Sucher, Sandra J. "Endurance Summary: The Challenge of Right Versus Wrong." Harvard Business School Module Note 607-065, February 2007.
- 20 Dec 2011
- News
Inside the Planning of a New Course
- December 2024
- Article
Managerial Pluralism: Thirty Years of Teaching Business Ethics
The author reflects on 30 years of teaching business ethics at Harvard Business School. The paper presents tactical lessons for teaching courses in professional ethics and introduces “managerial pluralism.” This concept is akin to Isaiah Berlin’s value pluralism and... View Details
Badaracco, Joseph L. "Managerial Pluralism: Thirty Years of Teaching Business Ethics." Society 61, no. 6 (December 2024): 678–684.
Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration in the Presence of Outliers
1. Problem definition: While artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms may perform well on data that are representative of the training set (inliers), they may err when extrapolating on non-representative data (outliers). How can humans and algorithms work together to... View Details
- summer 1997
- Article
An Empirical Exploration of a Technology Race
By: J. Lerner
An extensive theoretical literature examines technological competition, and in particular whether leaders maintain their standing. These models, however, have received little support. Innovation is examined in the disk drive industry, an environment particularly... View Details
Lerner, J. "An Empirical Exploration of a Technology Race." RAND Journal of Economics 28, no. 2 (summer 1997): 228–247.
- 15 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the World of Electric Adventure Vehicles
As a former consultant at EY-Parthenon, part of Chicago native and Northwestern University graduate Tayler Danziger’s (MBA 2020) job included travelling all over the U.S. and Europe, advising clients on growth strategy. Little did she... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019
It's been quite a year for HBS students, and as 2019 comes to a close we wanted to share some of the highlights from the MBA Voices Blog. In no particular order (since we love them all) here are the top 10 posts from 2019: How Being an... View Details