Promote - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

on-the-ground advocacy—to go get a free eye exam or a blood pressure check-up. Easy. Your basic principles of sales and promotion will carry the day. If your charge is minimizing smoking or drug use, well, your job becomes rather more... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Engagement Opportunities - Business & Environment

and sustainability initiatives. Applications due in September. Harvard University Student Sustainability Associate Program HBS SSAs are hired each year to connect with their peers and engage them in promoting sustainable living and... View Details

04 Oct 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

organization become “less attentive and more insensitive to others’ emotions,” quoting the authors. If their participation in the selection and promotion process also increases, what can we expect from their choices? Will they place the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

to structure a series of studies to figure out first what politically correct and incorrect language is, and then how it affects people’s perspectives of speakers in conversation. The results were shared in the study, Tell It Like It Is: When Politically Incorrect... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

particularly important to managers and executives who make hiring and promotion decisions. Rather than following a structure of a case discussion, this presentation will focus on insights from experiments with ample time for questions.... View Details

29 Sep 2023
Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Reyna Pacheco Rios (MBA 2025)

The Latino Student Organization (LASO) proudly promotes and supports Harvard Business School’s Latino students and works alongside the Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA). Representing a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, interests,... View Details

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

that we are passionate about and that we can’t avoid discussing!” What are the best parts of working for a family business? And what do you find most challenging? “Working as a promoter of a family business means that you get to wear all... View Details

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

leaders grappling with improving racial equity in the workplace, important changes need to go beyond actively recruiting, hiring, and promoting more minority employees—and toward implementing workplace policies that challenge the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Cotting House | About

space for the ITP, which was established to train international faculty in the case method and to promote a more global view of management education. The ITP subsequently relocated to offices in France, and the building then served as... View Details

Research Summary

Designing Productive Zones of Privacy

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

A common theme that integrates my research and course development is how increasingly transparent workplaces can improve productivity and performance by putting up certain boundaries to observation. While the research above empirically and theoretically explores the... View Details

Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Field Experiments; Design; Organizational Design; Performance

2022
Report

The First Four Healthy Building Strategies Every Building Should Pursue to Reduce Risk from COVID-19

By: Joseph G. Allen, Emily Jones, Marissa V. Rainbolt, Linsey C. Marr, David Michaels, Leslie R. Cadet, Shelly L. Miller, Meira Levinson, Lidia Morawska, Richard L. Corsi, Nira R. Pollock, Yuguo Li, Alasdair P.S. Munro, Kelly Grier, Qingyan Chen, John D. Macomber and Xiaodong Cao

Understanding of the most probable transmission routes and identifying the risk environments for disease spread should always be among the first critical steps in the response to future disease threats. This is one of the most vital public health lessons of the... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Buildings and Facilities; Risk and Uncertainty; Health Industry; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry

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February 2017 (Revised December 2018)
Case

From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)

By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran

In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Israel

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August 2014 (Revised September 2016)
Case

ANA (A)

By: Doug J. Chung and Mayuka Yamazaki

All Nippon Airways (ANA) became the largest airline in Japan in 2013. Having been designated as a domestic carrier by the Japanese government till the mid-1980s and Japan being the sixth largest domestic airline market, two-thirds of ANA’s passenger revenue came from... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Analysis; Economics; Price; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Product; Policy; Air Transportation Industry; Japan

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23 Mar 2012
HBS Seminar

Dan Kahan, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School

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Diversity on Boards - Alumni

boardroom and effective governance; Distributing relevant content and resources and highlighting HBS alumni in the boardroom, sharing insights and important information for anyone who is aspiring to join a board or in the process of joining one; View Details

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to promote liberal and conservative... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

and beliefs online with the wrong colleague may expose employees to career consequences, such as not being hired or promoted and being discriminated against.” Workers are wary of friending bosses Across four studies, the authors examined... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

14 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

Keywords: by Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein & David Lazer

October 2020
Case

Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress

By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner

In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be... View Details