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- September 2006 (Revised June 2007)
- Teaching Note
Note on Human Behavior: Character and Situation (TN)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Aldo Sesia
Teaching Note to 9-404-091. View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
deliver value for patients, and a set of recommendations for getting there.” After two more years of research, Porter and Teisberg produced Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results. The book describes a path to... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
momentous. Since we launched in December 2013, we have already seen five of our formerly homeless artists gain housing; not simply because of this new opportunity to earn income, but because being validated—being shown their talent is View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
the fast-casuals—the bulk of those losses were to competitors like Wendy’s, Burger King, and Taco Bell. Value was key, too. McDonald’s had dropped its Dollar Menu in 2013, and the rest of the market jumped. “Just as competitors were... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
School researchers: Disregarding advice from colleagues could invite harsh backlash that just might damage valued workplace relationships, according to the recent paper Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice, published... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
change that. Going forward, we need to view diagnostics, devices, and drugs in terms of the objective value that each creates. What about patient attitudes? Do you think most health-care consumers are ready to place their faith in... View Details
- 11 Dec 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
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- July 1991 (Revised March 1992)
- Background Note
Integrity and Management
Describes the role that issues of personal integrity play in managers' decisions. Defines personal integrity, the factors that influence it, the situations in which it becomes particularly relevant to company decisions, and ways of overcoming the blind spots that can... View Details
Badaracco, Joseph L. "Integrity and Management." Harvard Business School Background Note 392-005, July 1991. (Revised March 1992.)
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
that inner voice led Ayala to launch Hybrid Social Solutions, Inc. (HSSI), a Philippine social business that distributes solar lanterns and water filtration devices specifically designed for the needs of... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
nonprofits to focus on their organizations and strategies, not just the social value their organization creates. Even more importantly, nonprofits are beginning to look at ways to produce measurable proof... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- Article
Money is No Object: Testing The Endowment Effect in Exchange Goods
By: Dan Svirsky
We present a new experimental design to test whether the endowment effect exists for exchange goods, like money. We compare three groups to a baseline: one endowed with money, one endowed with chocolate coins, and one endowed with chocolate coins described as "tokens."... View Details
Svirsky, Dan. "Money is No Object: Testing The Endowment Effect in Exchange Goods." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (October 2014): 227–234.
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Hood. “Our staff features not only business-trained project managers but also an unusually young group of scientific Ph.D.s whom we value as a new kind of expert. They bring their own innovative ideas about what directions and projects... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative advisory board. Fleishman is a founder and faculty chair of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Based on their collective... View Details
- October 2011
- Article
Under Threat: Responses to and the Consequences of Threats to Individuals' Identities
I review and reconceptualize identity threat, defining it as an experience appraised as indicating potential harm to the value, meanings, or enactment of an identity. I also develop a theoretical model and propositions that generate insights into how individuals... View Details
Petriglieri, Jennifer L. "Under Threat: Responses to and the Consequences of Threats to Individuals' Identities." Academy of Management Review 36, no. 4 (October 2011).
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders and society alike. That... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
building an agricultural and market infrastructure in places—like parts of Nepal, Romania, Haiti, and Guatemala—where little or none has previously existed. “The way we do this is through value-based development, where we engage farmers in wealth-creating View Details
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
Harvard Business School. "There seemed to be a constant need for people to give status updates on what they were doing. It was very bizarre to me." John's curiosity led to a raft of collaborative research about information disclosure in the age of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
1.0 MBA Standards of Conduct | MBA
1.0 MBA Standards of Conduct Student Handbook 1.1 HBS Community Values 1.1.1 MBA Program Guidance of Community Values 1.2 General Statement of Conduct 1.3 Academic Standards of Conduct 1.3.1 MBA Honor Code... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
is during difficult times that you can really tell which companies truly value their stakeholders and will invest in building trust with them,” says George Serafeim, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
a me-centric view of life, then what seems rational to me as an individual may appear irrational in the context of social norms." Michael Linz asked to what extent a response to the question relies on how we frame the problem? As Jim... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett