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- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
The turn of the 21st century has been laden with high-profile corporate scandals, prompting widespread concern about the standards of conduct followed by big business. Intrigued by the complexity of managing corporate behavior in a global... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
be in everything they did. It informed their strategy, it informed their organizational practices, it informed their culture and hiring, it really permeated the organization in two significant ways. The first was purpose was like a... View Details
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Disability Pride Month | Baker Library
of the featured women, Dr. Temple Grandin, transformed the cattle industry by applying her understanding of animal behavior to design low-stress livestock handling systems, now used in facilities processing over half of North America's... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
The scandal spawned widespread questions about the value of competitive rankings—and even about the value of competition in general. Was the officer's behavior understandable? Did intense competition naturally lead to unethical behavior?... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
pressure increases, team members begin to over-rely on general expertise while discounting domain-specific expertise, leading to suboptimal performance. I use longitudinal qualitative case studies to explore the underlying behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
productive teamwork. Enhance creativity through more flexible organizational structures. Bet on people. Think big. Say no respectfully. McArthur liked to say that the faculty was the “whole ball game,” and in fact, he lavished time and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
greater impact. The alumni came courtesy of the Community Action Partners (CAP) program organized by the HBS Association of Boston. Through CAP, alumni work in teams of four to six over several months to provide Boston-area nonprofits with View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
go before humans cede the craft of writing to machines—if that ever happens in an organizational context. Overcoming aversion “is the billion-dollar question in front of the AI industry,” says Choudhury, who teamed on the paper with Bart... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
throughout our system. It is perhaps a paradox that in order for a market-based system to really work effectively, you need a lot of people whose behavior and action is not based on the market, but rather on standards and principles that... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
organizational coherence in support of the strategy Developing and managing human capital Allocating resources in alignment with the strategy Using performance data for decision making and accountability Here's how these play out on the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
weaknesses relative to other top schools, the political challenges of organizational change, and the most appropriate strategy for the Dean to follow. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
What if a bedrock method that investors have relied on for decades to find cheap-but-promising stocks to buy low and sell high no longer works well? The book-to-market ratio has been used since at least the Great Depression to identify... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
the buying process and buying center but also in terms of the vastly different organizational resources and structures that are needed in each. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
offices—have promised to make patient data easier to analyze and move around to different care settings. But the biggest EHR players sell systems that are relatively closed, that are best at communicating within the walls of the hospital networks and other... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
Show. The art fair was his first real exposure to the world-class world of art, and it became a defining moment for him. “I said to myself, if I could ever buy original work, that’s something I want to do,” Price recalls. Which is what... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
additional millions of poor people to buy in. As prices have fallen, Asian brands such as Asus and Acer of Taiwan have gained share while IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo. “Critics of marketing tend to overestimate the level of... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
identified four different approaches people used to perform necessary evils effectively, so that the task got done and the victims were treated with decency and respect.” Margolis, an associate professor of business administration in the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
PublicationsLying to Level the Playing Field: Why People May Dishonestly Help or Hurt Others to Create Equity Authors:F. Gino and L. Pierce Publication:Journal of Business Ethics (forthcoming) Abstract Unethical and dishonest behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
Detroit from imminent bankruptcy will be futile. see article HBS professor Peter Tufano makes the case for allowing Americans to automatically buy U.S. savings bonds with their tax refunds, building family and national savings in a time... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
to Brown University, where he majored in organizational behavior and management. The Ivy League school was “the first place where I really felt like an adult,” he recalls. Now a member of Brown’s board of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg