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- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
for work, entertainment, and shopping. As hubs proliferate and expand their reach, the danger is that they will exacerbate economic inequality and threaten social stability. It is thus incumbent on all stakeholders—traditional companies,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
the course: One is a textbook, The Moral Leader: Challenges, Tools, and Insights, that provides historical and social context for the works read in the course, as well as instructional materials. The other is an instructor's guide,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
director and the quality of the prior LBO experience. This effect is robust to the most likely alternative explanations and supports the idea that directors and social networks play an influential role in change-of-control transactions.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog
the wide range of motivational factors that drive human behavior in an organizational context, including pay, perquisites, promotions, opportunities for skill development, social approval, fairness, stress, emotional states, autonomy,... View Details
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
this case:http://hbr.org/search/112078-PDF-ENG The Promise of Impact Investing V. Kasturi Rangan, Sarah Appleby, and Laura MoonHarvard Business School Note 512-045 This note provides an overview of the impact investing industry, a new and burgeoning field of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
the interest of business in my mind. There is also a real role for businesses to play in strengthening democracy by helping reach people at scale by giving employees time off for voting, for example, and making sure they have information... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
in understanding between departments staffed with employees whose responsibilities and training vary widely? Inherent organizational conflict takes many forms—for example, between home office staff (“who don’t understand how the business... View Details
- 19 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Building a Powerful Network of Talent at American Tower
operating revenue of $8,041.5M, you would expect an employee headcount into the tens of thousands. However, American Tower has a staff of only 6,000 worldwide and as such, each employee they bring onto the... View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Internal Medicine, American Sociological Review, American Behavioral Scientist, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Contexts, Ethnic and Racial Studies, The Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociology of Race and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
business through informal personal networks, Advanced Technology, for example, has established dialogue groups as its core tactic for achieving diversity. These groups give employees a forum in which to examine their biases and engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
information delivered by new technologies and consumers' ability to use them effectively. Gabriel pointed out that reviews are highly subjective "so you end up not knowing what to believe The Internet and social media (don't) always... View Details
- December 1999
- Article
Changes in the Work Environment for Creativity during Downsizing
By: T. M. Amabile and Regina Conti
This study examined the work environment for creativity at a large high-technology firm before, during, and after a major downsizing. Creativity and most creativity-supporting aspects of the perceived work environment declined significantly during the downsizing but... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Situation or Environment; Creativity; Resignation and Termination; Employees; Business or Company Management; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Crisis Management; Groups and Teams; Communication; Announcements; Interpersonal Communication
Amabile, T. M., and Regina Conti. "Changes in the Work Environment for Creativity during Downsizing." Academy of Management Journal 42, no. 6 (December 1999): 630–640.
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
care, social assistance, and education versus mining, construction, and manufacturing.) “It’s a generational project to shift mindsets about traditional roles and traditional industries to drive gender equality,” she says. “It has to be... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Social Change By: Eesley, Charles, K.A. DeCelles, and Michael Lenox Abstract—We examine the variety of activist groups and their tactics in demanding firms’ social change. While extant work does not usually... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
jobs, globalization all but assures that the auto industry in the United States will never again offer its employees the standard of living it once did. It's a portent for all of American industry and its workers. "The View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
website; putting their firm’s logo/board member on your website Invitations to marketing and sales events Tapping their social media presence for sharing news and events Beyond the basics: Investors look at markets all day, every day, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Harvard Business School Case 606-071 For the past eighteen months, Mandy Cabot had worried that the shoe business she had built into a thriving operation with $90 million in annual revenue and over 110 employees might instead be a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
companies that rely on employees from around the world to help the firms capitalize on the promise of their global reach and resources. Global teams, however, face significant challenges; physical separation and demographic differences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne