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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
personal lives, but they often need the help of well-managed social institutions to succeed. Leaders have several structural devices they can use to promote this balance. For example, they can balance financial and symbolic rewards for... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
then sell this to the consumer. If you look at vinyl right now, it’s a very small segment of the market, but it has a very important, symbolic role. The vinyl record is an extension of the craft of making music, another way to connect... View Details
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Bloomberg: government bonds, bills & notes
How can I get data on government bonds, bills, and notes in Bloomberg? Type , <GOVT> TK, then hit GO to find ticker symbols of securities issued by governments and government agencies from countries around the world. On the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
Checchi puts it. "My grandparents symbolize what America is all about," says Checchi proudly, describing how his Italian immigrant forebears, from their corner store in rural Maine, first put the family on the path to self-betterment... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
effort, he mobilized Rakuten’s merchants in the south to help disaster victims in the north. The Rakuten Eagles, whose crimson uniforms symbolize the role that Harvard has played in Mikitani’s life, are based in the region hit hard by the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
What could better symbolize high-level business performance than an eight-oared crew team rowing in perfect unison, their boat powered by a selfless collaboration of strength, skill, and shared purpose? It's no wonder that advertisers... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
night. Unlike the routine habits or obligations people feel they must get done, relationship rituals are pleasurable experiences that hold significance, acting as symbolically meaningful signs of a solid and happy partnership. Couples who... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
Foundation (now the Livestrong Foundation). Since 2004, the yellow Livestrong bracelets on the wrists of his supporters had become a ubiquitous symbol of hope and determination. When Armstrong chose to break the rules of professional... View Details
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Demonstration Policy | About
program. Silent Protest —Displaying a sign, wearing symbolic clothing, gesturing, standing, or otherwise protesting noiselessly inside an event is acceptable unless doing so interferes with an audience member's view or is reasonably... View Details
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Factiva: Field tags
Factiva's free text search box. Field Name Field Tag Description Author by= au= Author's name Art art= Captions, descriptions of graphics, etc. Column clm= Column Name Corrections cx= Corrections Dow Jones Ticker Symbol* co= Company ticker View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
are taking short-term pay cuts largely to show solidarity with their employees. "A lot of it is symbolic ,” Itay Goldstein of The Wharton School commented. “When we come into a crisis like the one we have right now—where it's a difficult... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
in competitive organizations to being one of the only ones in your team or organization with your identity.” That said, choosing to be a team’s token—a member who’s held up superficially as a symbol of diversity—can be isolating and hurt... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
symbol of their masculinity or femininity, and the incursion of the other gender into the brand threatens that," explains Avery, who spent a decade managing brands for Gillette, Braun, Samuel Adams, and AT&T before pursuing her... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
and other GM executives placed a series of important bets on what American consumers wanted (different makes, models and prices; cars that were status symbols and identity holders as well as transportation sources) and they did so with... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
recently learned from such phenomena as the weak link between executive compensation and firm performance, and the impotence of so many corporate boards, American managers have become quite adept at decoupling the formal structures and View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
community who have been able to come out and live authentically as themselves. However, coming out isn't always an option for everyone. This storyboard has been intentionally left blank to symbolize these members of our community. For... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
Picture 1982 Joins Symbolics 1993 Joins Lotus Development Corp. 1995 Joins Digital Equipment Corp. 1996 Named President and CEO, AltaVista 2003 Joins Catalyst as President 2008 Named CEO, Catalyst 2015 Retires from Catalyst Retired... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
IMPRESSION McDonald focused on the startups’ cultural strategies—rhetorical activities in terms of what they said and how that mapped to what they did, and symbolic activities like using labels or analogies to similar players in other... View Details
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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Wind Sculpture (SG) V 2019 | About
inspired by Indonesian design, mass-produced by the Dutch, and then sold to the colonies in West Africa. In the 1960s, the material became a symbol of African identity and independence. As Shonibare has stated, “Based on the history of... View Details