Promotion - Publications - Faculty & Research

2008
Chapter

Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis

Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior

Citation

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

decided to promote the idea of wine tastings from home. Customers can order a tasting package from the company website, including the wine, tasting notes and a link to a video that would essentially serve as a virtual tasting. As... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

analyzes the landscape and discovers that there is substitution between care, then there is a real public policy issue that needs to be debated. Q: How are marketing strategies evolving? A: My observations are that medical tourism is View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

November – December 2008
Article

Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?

By: Anette Mikes

Risk management departments in financial institutions have been undergoing major transformations. New regulatory requirements have raised the bar on compliance, and expanded the remit of risk management significantly. The compliance imperative requires banks to... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships

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25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

suppliers, and seems to have implications for policies that promote innovation and good jobs,” says the study’s coauthor, Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen Mills. For example, the research challenges the focus on reviving the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

01 Feb 1999
News

A Taste of Tradition

families now own only a small percentage of the company, one example of their continuing influence is a company "creed" adopted in 1926 and originally designed to promote internal family harmony. "It formalizes many of the traditions and... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

Web

Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

charismatic style of presentation along with Polaroid's inviting advertising literature and product packaging bolstered sales. The company's colorful, easy-to-read promotional kits for its glare-free desk lamps, crafted by industrial... View Details

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

incentive—$300 to customers who opened particular cards and charged $1,000 to them during the first 90 days. Although the promotion helped Commonwealth Bank attract more customers, they didn’t spend as much or stay as long as those gained... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

Research Summary

The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement

Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

masters to further her own career are also what the company needs. And when firms help workers acquire new skills that support their professional advancement, they often win those workers' commitment—and attract loyal new employees. This gives rise to another important... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

goods can activate the concept of self-interest and affect subsequent cognition. Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers How can front-line workers be encouraged to speak up when they know how to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

abstracts, and that journal and Academy of Management Perspectives have begun encouraging authors to create brief videos to explain their research to a broad audience. Toffel also recommends that professional societies do more to promote... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

Teaching

Overview

Laura taught undergraduate Military Leadership and Intro to Sociology for 6 and 4 semesters, respectively, at the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 2013-2016 (see course descriptions and links below). She was promoted from instructor to Assistant... View Details

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

provided those jobs are predeicted to finish before the anticipated start of the larger jobs. This depends on using the -W and -We options. This should promote efficient job throughput. LSF's scheduling algorithm prioritizes cluster... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

impact ventures. Sustainable Investing: What Does the Research Say? Professor Shawn Cole No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info Asset owners, investors, and advocates are increasingly using financial tools to support and View Details

21 Sep 2016
HBS Seminar

Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

out a quick survey post-meeting where folks vote on final options for ways forward or share ratings of prioritization. Separating discussion and deliberation from actual decision making—as described here—has been found to promote better... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

employee morale, and make sure that everyone felt secure. Senior management communicated that nobody would be laid off and deferred their variable pay on a voluntary basis. A large round of promotions was announced at the end of April,... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

controversial thing that we discuss in the book is the question of whether platforms need to be curated. Curation would try to eliminate disinformation, fake news, promotion of violence, and so on. Is it up to the platform to prevent that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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