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Shaila Ittycheria

Israeli company was harassed and discouraged by hostility from fellow employees after the bombings that took place on the Gaza Strip. "We talked about our responsibility as managers," Shaila says. "What's our role in this... View Details

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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

shareholder activism, board diversity, board leadership structures, executive compensation, environmental and social factors in governance, hostile takeovers, and director liability. We will consider the role of stakeholders other than... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment

available nowhere else. Although their book can benefit anyone in business, the authors maintain that it is, above all, intended for those who need a change. "Some people may drift along doing OK," says Waldroop. "We want to help those who steer the wrong course and... View Details

Keywords: Bob Binstock

01 Dec 2012
News

50 Years & Counting

how research can benefit from cross-University collaboration." While Bazerman thinks that overt bias against individuals or groups is less of a problem than it was a couple of decades ago, "that does not mean we've solved problems of inequality." "Someone could have... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

economic benefits, it triggered hostile political reactions, such as the election of more conservative legislators, higher support for anti-immigration legislation, and lower public goods provision. Stitching the economic and the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1997
News

A Better Way to Go on Strike

teach the other side a lesson? Indeed, the American pilots could impose endless costs on the airline by simply refusing agreement and management could do the same to the pilots. Yet while the impasse continues, the fund would grow, making a cessation of View Details

Keywords: David Lax and Professor James K. Sebenius

01 Sep 2010
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Dare to be Different

everyone else is doing. To be an extraordinary marketer today, you have to do something extraordinary. Something different. Something that a textbook isn’t necessarily going to prescribe. You present successful brands in several categories: reverse brands, breakaway... View Details

Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank;Youngme Moon; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

administration as Bush's third term. But he and his advisers managed the political chess board brilliantly. Early on, he anticipated and defused negative criticisms by admitting to past indiscretions in his autobiography. His campaign rebutted the criticisms in a View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

many no longer had homes. Others tried to return to the West Coast, only to find that they faced hostility and violence from their neighbors. As a result, after they were freed a few years later, many internees ended up resettling in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

differences here.' They just don't mention it because there's all this research about bias and negative speech and hostile work environments. A lot of the research focusing on negative dynamics wouldn't suggest that you create more open... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

immigrants might increase labor market competition for native-born workers, lowering their wages and their employment prospects. Cultural. Immigration is associated with the influx of people with different traditions, races, religions, languages, and social norms. This... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

should be able to do what, and who should not be able to do what? Those are hard design problems. Dan Mall On our morning commute, we catch glimpses of hostile architecture. Do the ridges or knobs on a bench render it impossible for... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Steve Schwarzman

disclose exactly what we earn. Consistently across the firm’s products, we’ve been a strong top-quartile performer. In Europe, some labor leaders and government officials have called private-equity firms “asset strippers” and “locusts.” Your response? A lot of that... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

17 Jul 2000
What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

defending the right to innovate or standing up against the Government's regulatory bias. There was some feeling in this group that Microsoft was unlucky in drawing a judge who turned out to be hostile to their cause. Matt Deter's remarks... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

collectively, they need to work harder to expose and shut down the charlatans. At the same time, critics of marketing conflate their objection to harmful products such as tobacco with hostility towards the marketing toolkit harnessed to... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

since the Civil War era brought with him to Washington like-minded men who quickly set to work segregating the federal government. Wilson’s own sympathy for Jim Crow and states’ rights animated his years-long hostility to the Susan B.... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

Eastern agreements. These include the opening to China after decades of mutual hostility with the United States; détente and the first nuclear arms control treaty with the Soviets at the height of the Cold War; the Paris peace treaty with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details