• Research Summary

Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights

By: Debora L. Spar

This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,... View Details

• 15 Aug 2023
• HBS Case

(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

2000s, such as Eve Online and World of Warcraft. Linden Lab’s Second Life game, with its open-world multiuser virtual environment, has also played a key role in demonstrating the potential of metaverse technology. “Metaverse-related hype... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Computer; Information Technology

• Research Summary

Overview

Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior

• 24 Mar 2022
• Research & Ideas

Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

Love them or hate them, team-building rituals can fortify bonds among coworkers and create the shared sense that work is more meaningful, which may be especially critical now as managers look to reconnect colleagues re-adjusting to work View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

• 24 Oct 2018
• Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

good to ask what lessons they learned in their last startup and how they’re bringing those lessons into their new venture. “I joined Drift in part because I wanted to learn from the experience of the co-founders. They’ve seen it before so... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

• 24 Jan 2023
• Research & Ideas

Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It

passion," he says. When employees notice that these two understandings of passion diverge, they experience uncertainty in determining what to do about it. On the one hand, employees may feel a deep appreciation for being in an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

• 27 Jun 2005
• Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

publicity and so seem more numerous than they are, that hire CEOs directly from the outside, with no previous experience with the firm. These CEOs are driven by a need to excel in a competitive environment (they want to win), and they... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

• 23 Jun 2022
• Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

Americans are lonelier than ever—a problem the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated. Could interactions on platforms like Zoom and Twitch come close to replicating the real-life contact people crave? New research suggests that’s more likely to happen if the virtual... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

• 06 Jun 2011
• Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

important issues. Values-centered Leadership Leading is high stress work. There is no way to avoid the constant challenges of being responsible for people, organizations, outcomes, and uncertainties in the environment. Leaders who move up have greater freedom to... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

• 08 Feb 2011
• First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

events—and what procedures and practices will aid in their ability to do so? Obviously, extreme events—events that are in scope or scale or type beyond the range of our ordinary experience and expectations—by definition will occur only... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne