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  • 28 Jun 2022
  • Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

Fourthly, although a low-profile corporation, Unilever was embedded in business systems and official decision-making worldwide. This was derived from the company's long-established position as a large firm in many countries, from its role... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 20 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

“Humans would seem to have many advantages over computers, but that didn’t matter,” says Yeomans, who co-authored the recent article Making Sense of Recommendations in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. “I was especially surprised that the recommender View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

imply a belief that we may not get the right solution (to work system design) on the first try, but that if we design everything we do as a bona fide experiment, we can more rapidly converge, iteratively,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

infrastructure presents an excellent opportunity to avoid the pitfalls of complex, restrictive, digital health systems that have evolved elsewhere. We propose here a federated, patient-centric, application programming interface... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

success, are closely aligned with idealized masculine interests, attributes, and life situations is a hard sell, especially to those who have become successful within this system—whether men or women, rich or poor, white or minority. People, understandably, are... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

selective aspects of punishment in the U.S. over the period 1980-2004. We note that imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the "Reagan revolution" in economic matters. We build an economic model where View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50545 A Model of Credit Market Sentiment By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel G. Hanson, and Lawrence J. Jin Abstract—We present a model of credit market sentiment in which investors form beliefs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

sure employees were being honest in their beliefs about others’ compensation, the researchers, working with the bank’s HR department, offered monetary rewards for employees who accurately guessed the average salaries of others. They found... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

of shared beliefs resulting in similar and concurrent firm behavior; second, that firms notice and imitate the behaviors of firms from the same prior industry; and third, that as firms gain experience with particular features, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Dec 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

for the phenomenon. Munyaradzi Mushato suggested that, "my experience in industry tells me that most jerks are created by the very systems that are designed to improve performance that is, about 70% of the jerks are bred! Most... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

lengthy time horizons. Therefore, on top of this categorization of activities, it is necessary to overlay a coordination system: an explicit definition of processes, responsibilities, and structures to bring together multiple functions and organizations. The design of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

employees first, and then everything else will fall into place.” Book Excerpt Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies Ranjay Gulati Chapter 6: Be Yourself, Be Candid, Be Kind Generations of scholars have seen culture as a powerful control View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

particular law and medicine. Our criteria for calling an occupation a bona fide profession are as follows: a common body of knowledge resting on a well-developed, widely accepted theoretical base; a system for certifying that individuals... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

on how the economic system works and what history teaches us, business readers might turn to A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know, by Harvard Business School professor David A. Moss, who... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

the simple perception of the situation or facts," JR adds that "Common sense is not in the knowledge but in the application of the knowledge." Others placed emphasis on the word "common." S. A. Visotsky, for example, said that "Common... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

CalPERS' Emerging Equity Markets Principles

By: Robert G. Eccles and Aldo Sesia
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and external money managers were... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Value; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; China; California
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  • July 2021 (Revised October 2021)
  • Case

Trouble at Basecamp: Managing Politics, Polarization, and Conflict in the Workplace (A)

By: Nour Kteily, Deepak Malhotra and David Lane
As founders of the software company Basecamp, Jason Fried and David H. Hansson were used to being the subjects of social media attention. Both maintained active and dedicated Twitter followings for their unique perspectives on management and life. But on April 26,... View Details
Keywords: Change; Communication; Policy; Diversity; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Governance; Employees; Working Conditions; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Work-Life Balance; Labor and Management Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Identity; Social Issues; Equality and Inequality; Digital Platforms; Conflict Management; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

capture value from intellectual property (IP). We define what it means for a system to be "IP-modular," and illustrate the application of this concept in a number of practical situations. From the examples, we derive a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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