Giving Back - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

use an attribute's value to infer its weight—the value-weight heuristic—and identify the role of perceived diagnosticity: more extreme attribute values give observers the subjective sense that they know more about a decision-maker's... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

research gives the field an advantage over other disciplines and will allow us to answer big questions, such as, "What explains the success and failure of entrepreneurs?" If business historians invest in reestablishing the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

also provisions such as limits on the number of maximum votes a shareholder or a proxy could hold, which made large corporations truly democratic in the sense that decisions were consensual. Q: Back then, the salaries and bonuses of top... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

02 Feb 2023
News

Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

simulate it, which means, on the computer, you would launch a golf ball at it and watch it come off. And the simulation program would measure the speed the golf ball was moving at, its spin, all that. And it would give you a really good... View Details

09 Mar 2021
News

Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

HBS classroom experience and use HBS Online’s platform, giving the participants flexibility to fit the weekly coursework into their schedules. Those who take all four courses will earn a certificate of completion from HBS/HGSE. “We have... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

1993) (Clovercroft Publishing) After decades of success as an entrepreneur building multimillion-dollar companies and creating multimillion-dollar deals, Rodgers decided to give back and devote his time and... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

behind her. “Is Uncle Sean coming over tonight?” Her son Colson, 8, has bounced up the stairs and straight into her video frame. Dad catches up seconds later, gives Colson an about-face, and closes the door gently behind them. McKenna is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

particular, which means that profits are going to be higher. As a result, stockholders will get a bigger share of the pie. That raises stock prices all over the place. A related effect is the issue of repatriating profits from abroad – with companies bringing View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

just writing checks to charity. Many people around the world think that the United States stands for greed and domination of other countries. That's really unfair because this is also a very generous country, and I would like to get back... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

Tom Stemberg (MBA ’73), founder and former CEO of Staples, which had received start-up backing from Romney’s Bain Capital, urged him to make universal health-care coverage a priority. Certainly the stars already seemed to be aligning: As... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

early December, the board fired Wallace as CEO. A few weeks later, the company closed for good. It isn’t the sort of story that alumni like to trumpet when they return to their alma mater. But today, that is why Christina Wallace is back... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

gives rise to (i) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference for variety, users have an incentive to consume more applications than the number that maximizes joint utility); (ii) an equilibrium selection problem... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

in the careers of our alumni and grows to nearly universal participation later," Austin says. Why? "The desire to give something back and make a difference are the primary motivators," he says. "People also... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring the different sets of behaviors and activities, across all levels of the organization. Wedged: How You Became a Tool of the Partisan Political Establishment,... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

make money on it," says Vietor. "The problem is that getting back and refurbishing the parts is expensive. So they're hoping for the best." Michael E. Porter, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, believes that it is... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

stages but in a multi-stage life that's not sequential like learn, earn, retire. You will have continuous learning throughout this much longer lifespan—in your 20s, for sure. I came back to school in my 30s here. I went View Details

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

response by the Chinese authorities was extraordinary. They enacted of series of price-distorting measures that smacked of desperation. They stopped all IPOs; they asked state-owned companies to buy back their shares; they arrested... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

business leaders. “It’s disheartening to realize just how many women have had their careers and lives affected. But when you think back to Anita Hill over 20 years ago, there’s a difference now in recognizing how widespread this is, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

associated with R&D investment are uncertain, the past track records of firms may give insight into their potential for future success. We show that a long-short portfolio strategy that takes advantage of the information in past track... View Details