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- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
"If men don't take the virus as seriously as women do, and they're not wearing masks and social distancing as much, that could help explain why they are suffering the consequences more," says Harvard... View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
organizations, there should be fewer layoffs and product delays. While declining demand will remain challenging for everyone, social distancing can be achieved because disperse teams can build and distribute... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Publication:Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Five studies investigate whether the practice of "regifting"-a social taboo-is as offensive to givers as regifters assume. Participants who imagined regifting thought that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
explicit connections between historic wrongs and current social problems has gained credence over the last couple of decades. But he distances his work from the more limited notion of reparations as commonly... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
Social or regulatory systems (ownership incentives, freelancing, virtual work, distance learning, digital copyright laws) Although Industrial Age markets and power bases were built on proprietary... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
life and gives consumers the product quality they expect. Observing this decision from a distance and out of context, a skeptic might question Gotham Greens’ commitment to its purpose, concluding it had chosen a commercial logic over a... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
immigrants might increase labor market competition for native-born workers, lowering their wages and their employment prospects. Cultural. Immigration is associated with the influx of people with different traditions, races, religions, languages, and View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
“blockbuster” green patents, meaning they have developed foundational technologies that other companies frequently cite and build on in subsequent innovations. Cohen says many large energy companies have tried to rebuild their images, View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
to a continually evolving global business landscape. Curriculum Innovations What is the unique competence of HBS, and how will you deal with the distance learning revolution that is happening? Alan B. Steiner (MBA 1965), Colorado Springs,... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
the end of the year. Venture funding in a socially distanced world Discouraged entrepreneurs shouldn’t put away their pitch decks yet. For one thing, funding commitments are still outpacing those of past... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Publication: Il Sole 24 Ore S.p.A., in press Abstract A collection of papers on ethics, translated into Italian. Social Decision Making: Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
distance (how social hierarchies affect negotiation), context of communication (the degree to which messages inherit meaning from the setting in which they are delivered), and different conceptions of time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
Will you ever again step onto a crowded elevator without hesitation? Reach for a doorknob without concern (or gloves)? Easing social distancing restrictions might reopen businesses, but as long as memories... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
something missing. He was actually contending with far deeper concerns than how to gauge distance from the blackboard. He was young, the same age as some of the students he was trying to teach. He didn't believe in a lot of the teaching... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
modified Walmart's human resource practices by offering better benefits and wages to associates in response to growing social pressure. Overall, our analysis suggests that the effectiveness of a particular business model depends not only... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
inner workings of his own employer. “Vocal silence allows organizations to instill rather than impose morals” Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education chronicles Anteby's journey as a junior faculty member and observes how the School... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
times and exploring coping techniques. “Many alumni are in positions of leadership where their decisions and actions have huge impacts,” he says. “Some are facing the potential loss of businesses in this new downturn, and balancing the needs of family as well.” Now... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
farmers. The company is operating at reduced capacity to ensure social distancing in its factory and contributing to food drives in several Nigerian states. “AACE also is leading a drive to provide its... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social View Details
Keywords: All Industries