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  • 30 Jun 2021
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
  • 06 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

only by looking at our individual and social behaviors can we measure how effectively we adapt. Q: Why do you say the goal of a business is to achieve superior sustainable performance? "I wanted to take a look at pairs of successful... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • November 9, 2019
  • Article

Effect of Revealing Authors' Conflicts of Interests in Peer Review: Randomized Controlled Trial

By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein, Andrew Marder and Michael Callaham
Objective: To assess the impact of disclosing authors’ conflict of interest declarations to peer reviewers at a medical journal.
Design: Randomised controlled trial.

Setting: The study was conducted within the manuscript review process at the... View Details
Keywords: Conflicts Of Interest; Peer Review; Randomized Controlled Trial; Scientific Publication; Conflict of Interests; Journals and Magazines; Science
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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Full Court Press

impact in a way he hadn’t in his last job. He likes to tell the story of being at a social event not long ago when a young child, maybe 10 years old, approached him. “He reached out to me and said, ‘Mr. Williams, I just want to thank you... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 15 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

powerful economies [at the expense of] Bangladeshi rickshaws." It is neither principled nor practical for companies to stick their heads in the sand in response to an issue as fundamental as the distribution of the globalization... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • May 2010
  • Case

Clayton Industries, Inc.: Peter Arnell, Country Manager for Italy

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Benjamin H. Barlow
Clayton Industries, a sixty-year-old U.S.-based firm in the HVAC industry (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), with nearly $1 billion in revenues, has gradually built a presence in a number of countries, including several in Europe. Peter Arnell, previously... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Sales; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Wisconsin; Italy; United Kingdom
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

By: David Moss and Mary Oey
What drives policy making in a democracy? The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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  • 2008
  • Other Unpublished Work

The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

By: David Moss and Mary Oey

The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms of political support. Indeed, many... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

to engage with social issues as a business leader, a facility in talking about complex social issues, and a greater understanding of the debate around reparations. NOTE: This... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Step Change

debt. Enan, then 24 years old, leapt at the chance to work for Youssef Boutros-Ghali, an MIT-educated economist and advocate for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt’s social security and pension systems, among other... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

destination countries like the U.S. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Kerr_Kerr FEP11_ImmSurvey.pdf   Working PapersThe Organization of Firms Across Countries Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract We argue that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

[This is the fifth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] We have asked approximately 600 CEOs to share with us the most pressing challenges that are keeping them awake at night in the midst of the... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

Social Change By: Eesley, Charles, K.A. DeCelles, and Michael Lenox Abstract—We examine the variety of activist groups and their tactics in demanding firms’ social change. While extant work does not usually... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 5, 2016

fully embed the company's CSV strategy and to communicate it to shareholders and external stakeholders. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716422-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-432 A Brief Note on Global Antitrust This brief note... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. So why do many companies fail to help their workers battle mental health disorders? “There’s a silence around this View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 10 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

tasks. Aligning our prioritization and constantly talking to each other whenever there is an issue has been key for us to enjoy our campus life while securing enough family time. We couldn’t go out at night but we had many dinners at our... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Up on the Corner

issues in West Baltimore that fall at the intersection of architecture, politics, and social justice. “Housing supply has not kept up with soaring demand and with the World Bank predicting that by 2030,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts

Further, the voting cycle truncates long-term progress. "Government is an interest-group groupie," she said. "Who speaks for the less fortunate? The homeless, for example, are not a powerful interest group." Businesses, she added, "will sponsor View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

material in one annual report. This case outlines the history and trends of corporate social responsibility reporting to encourage a discussion around the decision points and implications of reporting regulations. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

issue of balance even comes up, a company must allow sufficient time for what may be the most underrated yet most important part of the innovation process: problem definition. Consider Apple: its genius lies in the ability to get to the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson