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- 17 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?
Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Tim Gray
- 15 Aug 2023
- HBS Case
(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?
global pandemic,” the case says. “With lockdowns and reduced mobility, the concept of online virtual worlds that could replicate aspects of pre-pandemic social life and in-person interaction took on a new appeal.” And that new appeal... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
the World Bank or the IMF would have advised for countries to receive more foreign direct investment. But interestingly, it was slow in coming. And so the reasons for this can be many. I think one that might have been overlooked was, in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
resolution settings. It is believed that by making people more aware of their failure to notice and punish indirect unethical behavior, others can create a world where the use of intermediation will no longer provide harm doers an easy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
example, you don’t need to talk as freely about your failures—not because it’s harmful—but because people don’t tend to feel envious of you in the first place.” In another experiment, the researchers studied a different environment: a competition in which entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
writing a column. You know - we as college professors, we do our work and we put it out into the world and we bless it. And we don't know. Sometimes Oprah Winfrey is reading it. You-- and - and, so Oprah called. This is Oprah Winfrey. And... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
This is the third and final article of the "Leading in the Digital Era" series. Read parts one and two. Leaders who set out to reshape their companies to compete in a fast-evolving digital world often come to a daunting realization: To... View Details
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
refugees were shamed on social media after being photographed with smartphones, and federal agencies have reprimanded how lower-income individuals spend relief funds after natural disasters. Even groceries aren't safe, Hagerty and Barasz... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
This article considers key issues relating to the organization and performance of large multinational firms in the post-Second World War period. Although foreign direct investment is defined by ownership and control, in practice the... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
years. We argue that the current world economic conjuncture is the product of a large and unusual divergence or "wedge" between the returns on capital and the cost of capital. Globalization—in particular the integration of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
between us and some other firms relates to how we think about the CEO. A couple of years ago, we analyzed our successful companies across multiple dimensions. The one trait of all our successful companies was that the CEO we backed at View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
and Fortune 500 executives. The bet-by providing "no-strings-attached" help to ecosystem partners, the partners might someday reciprocate by steering founders seeking funding to a16z. The case closes by asking whether a16z... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
make clear, business education is at a major crossroads. For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now the business world has changed, say the authors of Rethinking... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
there was not enough customer demand for its grocery delivery service. Next, there's the matter of timing, a huge issue that can determine whether a company gets funding and whether it achieves the start-up's elusive measure of success:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Download the paper (purchase from NBER required: $5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13470 Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Abstract Civil society actors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
When Your Passion Works Against You
change the world for the better,” he said. Jobs’ passion and his ability to communicate it saved the company. Business leaders like Jobs who express passion in the workplace can reap big benefits, earning enough admiration and support... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide
opportunities. Conversely, the models also highlight opposing profiles within sectors. We recently talked to Awada and Srinivasan, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, about the study. Danielle Kost: Why should the investment View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
European market and, indeed, in the world economy. Over the first half of the twentieth century, however, the bank faced a series of national crises: defeat in WWI (1914-1918), revolution in 1919, hyperinflation in 1923, economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
The trillion-dollar size of the union pension funds gave the Office a platform from which to work. The departure of Home Depot's CEO had been a significant step by Home Depot and the company had made other concessions as well. The AFL-CIO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace