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- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media By: Piskorski, Mikołaj Jan Abstract—Almost no one had heard of social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
and stockholders. However, this implication is invalid when managers can manipulate information flows that influence short-term stock price movements. Neoclassical economic theory thus fosters a corporate culture that ignores the personal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
intervention by business because business had no legitimacy—"it's above my pay grade." Still others thought that business should use its influence to activate government. A final group said that companies were the only ones that... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
innovation and the opportunity to participate in the "white coat" economy and life sciences revolution of the 21st century. Writes a new social contract based on real family values, creating fair and flexible workplaces that are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- December 2000 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
Reverend Jeffrey Brown: Cops, Kids and Ministers
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Alexis Lefort
Introduces Reverend Jeffrey Brown, one of the cofounders of the Ten Point Coalition in Boston, Mass. The Ten Point Coalition, a group of ministers that worked to change the dynamics between the Boston Police Department and the kids on the street, was instrumental in... View Details
Keywords: Change; Civil Society or Community; Alliances; Interpersonal Communication; Power and Influence; Law Enforcement; City; Boston
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Alexis Lefort. "Reverend Jeffrey Brown: Cops, Kids and Ministers." Harvard Business School Case 801-284, December 2000. (Revised May 2002.)
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Nitin Nohria explore one of the most basic questions of human behavior: What motivates us to act the way we do? Drawing on theories of evolutionary biology and View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
circumstances. Last year, he launched Social Venture Partners (SVP) India is a spin-off of the Seattle-based nonprofit that pools philanthropic activities in a local area, in order to focus financial power on effectively solving local... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
strong career imprints. Your book contrasts the organizational factors that influenced young managers who worked at Baxter and Abbott in the 1970s and ’80s. What were some key differences? Both companies hired relatively large numbers of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
where he wrote Americans and Climate Change: Closing the Gap between Science and Action. "To get action," he says, "we must build public pressure, even a social movement; we hope this series will be one more catalyst for that. Our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
in their daily lives as general managers. “Because of the nature of human beings, OB is an area that never becomes obsolete,” he comments. “Organizations are social constructs; I strongly believe effective leadership involves... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
Publications September 2014 Social Entrepreneurship and Research Methods Building an Infrastructure for Empirical Research on Social Enterprise: Challenges and Opportunities By: Lee, Matthew, Julie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
the collection of data. The spread of generative AI has enabled companies and governments to train models on this data with the potential to create replicas of professional intelligence. How will this explosion of modeled intelligence View Details
- September 2004 (Revised October 2004)
- Case
Pat Anderson
By: Leslie A. Perlow and Daisy Wademan
Patten Bank's pending sale jeopardizes Pat Anderson's prospect of receiving an expected year-end bonus. What to do now? This problem follows several earlier conflicts that Anderson has confronted during the past four-and-one-half years spent working as an analyst and... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Conflict Management; Power and Influence; Executive Compensation; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
Perlow, Leslie A., and Daisy Wademan. "Pat Anderson." Harvard Business School Case 405-033, September 2004. (Revised October 2004.)
- Student-Profile
Patrick Ferguson
performance measurement and evaluation. He is interested in how and why firms use performance metrics for contracting and feedback purposes, as well as the limitations of quantitative metrics and the role of human judgment in hiring and assessing workers. He is also... View Details
- June 2023 (Revised November 2024)
- Case
Albert Einstein: Changing the World
By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the rise of Albert Einstein from a small town in Germany to a towering intellectual leader who revolutionized the field of physics. The case describes his early education and his penchant for individual thinking and non-conformity. A committed... View Details
Keywords: Science; Research; Personal Characteristics; Mission and Purpose; Success; Work-Life Balance; Higher Education; Power and Influence
Simons, Robert, and Shirley Sun. "Albert Einstein: Changing the World." Harvard Business School Case 123-025, June 2023. (Revised November 2024.)
- September 2008
- Case
Adobe Systems: Working Towards a "Suite" Release (A)
By: David A. Thomas and Lauren Barley
The case examines the tools a manager can use to keep her project on track and manage conflict and tension as Adobe prepares to launch Creative Suite 3, the biggest software release in the company's 25-year history. The protagonist, Yvonne Murray, is a group program... View Details
Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Product Launch; Projects; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Power and Influence
Thomas, David A., and Lauren Barley. Adobe Systems: Working Towards a "Suite" Release (A). Harvard Business School Case 409-014, September 2008.
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
and The Service Profit Chain and The Value Profit Chain (with Lenoard A. Schlesinger). Some of the ideas go back to Heskett's 1986 book, Managing in the Service Economy. A new book, The Ownership Quotient, is underway, written with Sasser and Wheeler. These works have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Publication:Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Five studies investigate whether the practice of "regifting"-a social taboo-is as offensive to givers as regifters assume. Participants who imagined regifting thought that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
Research focus Michelle: Ryan and I are both interested in deeply understanding what happens when customers interact with an organization’s operating system. Insights about customer behavior can influence a company to operate differently... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
can it influence voters? Source: Jaconelli The skills needed to win a party nomination are more akin to those of the commercial marketer. A distinctive appeal to a niche segment of the population is sufficient. Trump has become the... View Details