Responsiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

2019
Working Paper

Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

We study preferences for government action in response to layoffs resulting from different types of labor-market shocks. We consider the following shocks: technological change, a demand shift, bad management, and three kinds of international outsourcing. Respondents... View Details

Keywords: Labor; Markets; System Shocks; Trade; Attitudes; Surveys

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We study markups and pricing strategies along the supply chain. Our unique dataset combines detailed price and cost information from a large global manufacturer with matched retail prices collected online for the period July 2018 through June 2023. We show that... View Details

Sustainability in the Boardroom

More and more companies recognize the importance of corporate responsibility to their long-term success—and yet the matter gets short shrift in most boardrooms, consistently ranking at the bottom of some two dozen possible priorities. Many years ago labor conditions... View Details

May 2011
Article

The Hollow Science

By: Robert S. Kaplan

The financial meltdown made clear that the executives of many major financial institutions were operating with inadequate or distorted information about the values and risks of their firms' assets. It's fair to say that business scholars bear some... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Information; Knowledge Acquisition; Risk Management; Practice

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11 Apr 2017
News

Some Strategies to Limit Sugary Drinks May Backfire

April 2005 (Revised November 2008)
Case

Banco Real: Banking on Sustainability

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

ABN AMRO REAL made corporate social responsibility central to its brand, adding to customer focus and reflecting its values. Leaders developed the Bank of Value theme and implemented it through activities such as microfinance in poor communities, environmentally... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage

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04 May 2011
News

Pain from increased gas prices is mostly mental

15 Jun 2021
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Podcast: How Biosimilars Are Affecting the Drug Markets

28 Apr 2020
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"What Yesterday’s Leaders Can Teach Us about Today’s Crisis "

05 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Developing Black Talent for Leadership

For too long companies and governments in the U.S. have under-funded and under-resourced the anti-racist organizations leveling the playing field for the black communities we stand in solidarity with today. 100+ Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) like... View Details

09 Nov 2021
HBS Seminar

Susan Murphy, Harvard-SEAS

28 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 28

quarters following the buying pressure. These results provide new evidence that firm managers are able to identify and exploit overvalued equity. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1364974 Working PapersCorporate Social View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Dickson published Counseling in an Organization , which revisited lessons gained from the experiments. Roethlisberger described “the Hawthorne effect” as the phenomenon in which subjects in behavioral studies change their performance in View Details

Deborah M. Winshel

Deborah Winshel is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. She teaches several MBA required courses: Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Leadership and Corporate Accountability and the Field Immersion course (2025 in... View Details

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Tuition & Financial Support - Doctoral

background. To ensure accessibility we offer a suite of need-based fellowships. Lift Fellowship : For those who come from lower-income backgrounds or shoulder significant financial responsibilities for their families, the Lift Fellowship... View Details

04 Oct 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go

When does a company founder have to go? In the frenzied, early months of a new venture's launch, few entrepreneurs anticipate a future beyond their role as company leader. In the case study "Founder–CEO Succession at Wily Technology," HBS assistant professor... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Technology

January 2018 (Revised October 2020)
Case

The Rise and Rise (?) of Walmart (A): Battling Kmart

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Eric Van den Steen and Karen Elterman

This case, set in 1990, describes the history of Walmart and asks what competitive strategies Kmart might adopt in response to Walmart's success. It discusses the strategy and organization of both companies in terms of HR practices, store location, distribution,... View Details

Keywords: Walmart; Kmart; Organization; Company Culture; Pricing; Procurement; Supercenter; Strategy; Competition; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; United States; Bentonville; Arkansas

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March 1994 (Revised March 1995)
Background Note

Managing Your Team

By: Linda A. Hill

Designed as an overview note for the Managing Your Team module of the MBA second year elective course Power and Influence. Identifies some criteria for evaluating team effectiveness and outlines in detail the key areas of responsibility of team managers: managing the... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Performance Evaluation; Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues

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