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  • 23 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

work seriously. Still, we need more researchers, more doctoral students, doing case and survey research on many topics. In particular, not enough has been done to compare the issues and performance of family versus non-family companies.... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
  • 05 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

called into question by several significant organizational stumbling blocks. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=106073   PublicationsAgency and Institutions: The Enabling Role of Individuals' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

industry forecasters," says Greyser, who, with Vadim Kogan, analyzed the issue in the HBS working paper: NBC and the 2012 London Olympics: Unexpected Success. Achieving the same kind of success in Sochi may be more difficult. There are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • August 2021
  • Supplement

Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp

By: Brian Trelstad
Video Supplement for HBS Case No. 321-099. In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how... View Details
Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Going Public; Investment Return; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Arkansas
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  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

those one-out-of-ten firms grow into successful, sustained enterprises? Assistant professor Mukti Khaire believes that small companies can grow by developing intangible social resources such as legitimacy, status, and reputation. In an... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 25 Feb 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

why they're going to be compelled to buy." A key issue is who do you do business with initially who lets the venture start moving down the "right" product road map? Turning high-potential ventures into high-performance... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

the body of empirical research on entrepreneurial resource mobilization has grown, the literature has become increasingly fragmented. We review the literature on entrepreneurs’ mobilization of resources, spanning human, social, financial, and other forms of capital. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • October 2020 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

When Institutions Fail: HIV/AIDS in the 1980s

By: Tom Nicholas and Christian Godwin
During the early 1980s, young gay men in urban centers such as San Francisco and New York City began contracting a mysterious illness that would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. A diagnosis meant almost certain death, with a less than 1% survival rate. Conflicting... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Policy; Government and Politics; Health Pandemics; History; Rights; Media; Organizations; Business and Community Relations; Religion; Social Psychology; Identity; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • February 2010 (Revised April 2010)
  • Case

China: Getting Richer Still

By: Diego A. Comin and Richard H. K. Vietor
In the last quarter of 2009, China's GDP growth rate again approached 10%. While the global financial crisis had certainly hurt - causing layoffs of as many as 20 million factory workers - a huge stimulus package on top of continuing domestic demand had restored... View Details
Keywords: History; Resource Allocation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Macroeconomics; Demand and Consumers; Leading Change; Economic Growth; China
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  • 04 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

issues at all generally brush them off, believing that the problems can and will be solved by better governance and more political will, that states will take care of it. But the third troublesome phenomenon is that governments clearly... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate
  • 08 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

your smartphone to how to earn a seat on a corporate board and make socially responsible investments. They gathered Thursday evening to watch a screening of a new documentary on the history of women at HBS, "A Woman's Place."... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
  • 13 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

underutilize these functions," Gulati says. "For years there have been arguments regarding whether they should be centralized or decentralized, but the larger issue is, how do you leverage these people to maximize their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Aug 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump

AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka and Thea Lee on Tuesday morning. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon also issued a statement to his company’s 1.5 million American employees sharply criticizing the president for not taking a clear stand against the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

preferences across issues, often with little introductory discussion. Procedural acts are scarce. The parties go straight to the issues and discuss all of them simultaneously from the onset of the interaction. Building-a-relationship... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
  • March 2001 (Revised September 2002)
  • Case

Merck Latin America (C): Brazil

By: Michael Beer and James Weber
Examines Merck's change effort in Brazil from the perspective of the local employees. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Operations; Perspective; Pharmaceutical Industry; Brazil
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  • 23 Mar 2021
  • Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

book was actually in the works for almost three years before COVID. Having been deeply involved in the issues of virtual work and global work, I was convinced that people needed an action guide that they could use as part of a team, or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

framework highlights three broad and interrelated drivers of foundational competitiveness: social infrastructure and political institutions, monetary and fiscal policy, and the microeconomic environment. We estimate this framework using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2008
  • What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

future. Gerald Nanninga, for example, commented that "If we deplete resources too quickly, the shortage of supply ... will make conservation issues more financially viable." Some felt that the free market might need some help.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 07 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

of the paper’s authors. The main reason is that party and candidate positions on key issues subtly or not-so-subtly change from election to election in reaction to shifts in voter sentiment, undercutting the demographic trends. Political... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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