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Building Effective Relationships Across Cultures
Trust is the foundation of any successful collaborative relationship. In my first stream of research, I draw on the basic distinction between cognition-based versus affect-based trust– that is, trust from the head versus trust from the heart – to better... View Details
- September 2025
- Article
Sticky Capital Controls
By: Miguel Acosta-Henao, Laura Alfaro and Andrés Fernández
There is much ongoing debate on the merits of capital controls as effective policy instruments. The differing perspectives are due in part to a lack of empirical studies that look at the intensive margin of controls, which in turn has prevented a quantitative... View Details
Keywords: Capital Controls; Macroprudential Policies; Stickiness; Intensive; (S, S) Costs; Capital; Management; Macroeconomics; Governance Controls; Mathematical Methods
Acosta-Henao, Miguel, Laura Alfaro, and Andrés Fernández. "Sticky Capital Controls." Art. 104104. Journal of International Economics 157 (September 2025).
- Spring 2012
- Article
Sustainability at Dow Chemical
By: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen M. Perkins and Mark Weick
Dow Chemical Company, which was founded in 1894, is now the second-largest chemical company in the world. From the outset, the company has been committed to high-technology research and commercial innovation in chemistry, advanced materials, and agro-sciences. But if... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Corporate Strategy; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Chemical Industry
Eccles, Robert G., Kathleen M. Perkins, and Mark Weick. "Sustainability at Dow Chemical." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 24, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 38–44.
- Profile
Maha Malik
were many opportunities for contributing to the conversation." As Maha's parents' careers took new turns, her perspective took on new dimensions. Her father's new enterprise, a citrus farm, led to discussions about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
for the underserved. It will provide me with a community of diverse perspectives in social impact, and the opportunity to learn from other sectors.” Madhav Datt. A joint degree student at HBS and SEAS, Madhav has founded two social... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Administration, with C.R. Christensen, N. Berg and M. Salter; The Entrepreneurial Venture, with William Sahlman. "The Importance of Entrepreneurship" and "Capital Market Myopia," with William Sahlman; "A Perspective on Entrepreneurship,"... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
Summing Up How Do We Encourage CEOs to Manage for Sustainability? Important forces encourage short-term perspectives among managers as well as investors today. These include governance biases, tax policies, faster turnover among leaders,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Managing Multiple Identities at Work
Peoples’ work identities, which are often a deep source of meaning for them, may conflict with or complement cultural, familial, or personal identities they value. A central focus of Professor Ramarajan’s work is understanding, on the individual level, how these... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
'Just Letting You Know…': Underestimating Others' Desire for Constructive Feedback
By: Nicole Abi-Esber, Jennifer Abel, Juliana Schroeder and Francesca Gino
People often avoid giving feedback to others even when it would help fix a problem immediately. Indeed, in a pilot field study (N=155), only 2.6% of individuals provided feedback to survey administrators that the administrators had food or marker on their faces.... View Details
Keywords: Feedback; Helping; Prosocial Behavior; Relationships; Social Psychology; Theory; Perception
Abi-Esber, Nicole, Jennifer Abel, Juliana Schroeder, and Francesca Gino. "'Just Letting You Know…': Underestimating Others' Desire for Constructive Feedback." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-009, August 2021.
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Maimonides' Ladder: States of Mutual Knowledge and the Perception of Charitability
By: Julian De Freitas, Peter DiScioli, Kyle A. Thomas and Steven Pinker
Why do people esteem anonymous charitable giving? We connect normative theories of charitability
(captured in Maimonides’ Ladder of Charity) with evolutionary theories of partner choice to test predictions on how attributions of charitability are affected by states of... View Details
Keywords: Charity; Reciprocity; Partner Choice; Common Knowledge; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Knowledge; Perception
De Freitas, Julian, Peter DiScioli, Kyle A. Thomas, and Steven Pinker. "Maimonides' Ladder: States of Mutual Knowledge and the Perception of Charitability." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148, no. 1 (January 2019): 158–173.
- March 2015 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)
By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-he Hsieh
In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached Barrick Gold asserting that members of the company’s security force at the Porgera Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea had on multiple occasions raped women who were trespassing onto the mine’s waste... View Details
Keywords: Human Rights; Business And Society; Rights; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations
Henderson, Rebecca, and Nien-he Hsieh. "Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)." Harvard Business School Case 315-108, March 2015. (Revised August 2020.)
Mastering the VC Game
Entrepreneurs who dream of building the next Amazon, Facebook or Google have the opportunity to take advantage of one of the most powerful economic engines the world has ever known: venture capital. To do so, you need to woo, impress, and persuade venture... View Details
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance?
This study focuses on how and why firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory with research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
- 17 Dec 2020
- News
Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta
taught the case as she would in class, giving a complete picture of the challenges and victories of launching and leading The Farm, which was envisioned by Connors as a means to infuse Comcast’s central division with innovative energy. Prince and Connors each shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job
career after graduation. On the social front, I organized concert outings in Boston and embraced my DJ hobby by becoming our designated Section I DJ during retreats and hosting “Zoom parties” for my MBA class. These experiences not only energized me, but also helped me... View Details
- 09 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
HBS Professors Ayelet Israeli and Len Schlesinger joined forces with Matt Higgins and an extraordinary lineup of speakers, to focus on delivering real-world perspectives that enable and empower students to build, operate and scale... View Details
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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
group For example, calling on a French student for the French or European perspective on an issue. Suggestions: Include in the conversation students from both within and outside of the demographic group under discussion, with an explicit... View Details
- 24 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience
leveraged a unique way of keeping students engaged and challenging them to dig deeper when problem solving. Overall, this made every discussion topic very interesting! My favorite part of the classroom environment was the debates between classmates as we defended our... View Details
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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
for a revised version of the School’s Business Policy course. Designed to give students the strategic perspective they would need as general managers, Business Policy became a jewel in the HBS curriculum and a source of many pioneering... View Details
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
Lincoln, NE FL Ethel Kennedy John I. Leonard High School Greenacres, FL Subjects: US History, Global Perspectives TX Leslie Kent Regents School Of Austin Austin, TX MA Alex Kerkhoff Springfield Honors Academy Springfield, MA NJ Regan... View Details