Black Lives Matter - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

Surveillance Capitalism, you are fooling yourself.” David Wittenberg stated the case for the position that the source of the problem is us. “No matter how much businesses know about us, they cannot sell to us unless their products make... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

jerks, nor does this behavior reflect their authentic selves. Rather, these individuals likely had very negative experiences early in their lives that cause them to have difficulty in managing their anger, in part because they feel like... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

economy without continued expansion." P. Maxson, assuming also that growth has limits, asked, "will we manage this change, or will we let ourselves be mauled by it?" A more basic question may be whether a stable economy and high standard of View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

citizens," in the words of Howard Gardner's recent book, Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed, who watch out not only for numero uno but for the wider public as well. There is no better example of what it really takes to be a Transcendent than the first View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

announced recently they would increase efforts to recruit persons of color, in part a response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Some of the same organizations made similar... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

percent Latino and 0.6 percent Asian). When it comes to NBA coaches, however, the exact opposite is true: there are six black head coaches among 30 teams, or just 20 percent of the league. Research by Harvard Business School Assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

That means everyone is missing out from the lack of women inventors, Koning says. “Inclusion matters not just for who you work with, but also what your products and your strategies are,” says Koning. “You're potentially losing out on... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

07 May 2012
Research & Ideas

The Art of Haggling

posturing, they settle on a price each can live with, although both know that the deal is likely better for one side than the other. “At some point, it still comes down to determining who gets which slice of the pie.” Now imagine the same... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

Midwesterner raised on a dairy farm, and Roy Whitcomb Riley, a Black Southerner, settled in Los Angeles shortly before their son’s birth, in 1981, after traveling the world for 18 years. They lived in Mid... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

Significance: Do you have a valued impact on others whom you choose? Legacy: Have you infused your values and your accomplishments into the lives of others to leave something behind? These four satisfactions are very different from each... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Jul 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

and limit ‘globalization’ to commercial terms To me, ‘globalization’ means increasing knowledge of how other people in the world live and think.” Doug Kinsey set forth a view shared more or less by many discussants when he said, “Sure,... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

By contrast, while Black entrepreneurs had lower success rates overall in raising money, support did not fluctuate as dramatically with the ups and downs of the Migration Fear Index. The paper finds that even during periods of low... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

04 Oct 2021
What Do You Think?

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

proposition included Fernando De LaTorre, who commented, “I found (it) hard to work for trust as a goal. I think you work and live your values, and trust will stay in the culture.” Alan Arnett said that “trust comes when you learn to make... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

and the additional engagement of seeing and hearing the person, not just reading about them, undoubtedly amplifies that power. While we did not analyze the use of case videos, where protagonists may not be live but students can still hear... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

a Terrorist, a deeply powerful memoir by Patrisse Cullors, the founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Cullors shares her incredible journey from childhood to adulthood as... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

work of auditors is basically a black box. Even though investors are the ones who most benefit from the auditors’ work, they don’t get to see how it takes place. And that is why they need to rely on these somewhat blunt tools of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

08 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles

Koning was talking about such studies with colleagues Ines Black and Sharique Hasan from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, however, something about that model didn’t seem right. “It really didn’t jibe with how a lot of people... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

25 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

challenge is going to be and I can't get motivated about it." Q: Are there particular experiences that lead to an impasse? A: No. Our lives are unique. We all experience impasse, and we will experience impasse many times in our... View Details