Employee Socialization - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Oct 2024
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Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

empowered and included. I’m excited to be part of elevating more BIPOC talent into senior leadership roles." Matthias Argenyi (MBA 2026)Matthias brings three years of experience from social finance, where he played a pivotal role in... View Details

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

2020 prompted reflection on how we could expand Edwards' active community engagement to provide even more support for our employees and communities, particularly as it relates to social equity and justice,"... View Details

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

disclosure of fundamentals and trading transparency. This is socially inefficient if a large fraction of market participants are speculators, and hedgers have low processing costs. But in these circumstances, forbidding hedgers’ access to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

actually increase overall social welfare. We also consider the environmental impact of BPS and derive competitive conditions under which BPS reduces and increases emissions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-098.pdf ... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About

together and in an office. Workforces today, though, can be remote or hybrid, and many are global, making this approach infeasible and ineffective. Leading in this environment requires more reliance on culture and trust. Managers will need to make View Details

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

businesses often have less than 20 days’ worth. While forecasts vary, many public health experts don’t expect the coronavirus outbreak to subside for at least eight weeks, assuming that social distancing and other mitigation efforts can... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

02 Dec 2009
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Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

warehousing industry in the Southwestern U.S. as "by and large dependable and hard working, and their children will probably have better jobs than they have." As Irv Williamson put it: "Why would anybody consider limiting access to the best View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Jun 2024
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Crash Pad

2023, according to the property data firm CoStar, with another 200 in the planning stages. Policymakers have greeted the trend with enthusiasm, as it seems to offer a single solution to twin real estate crises that were amplified by the pandemic: More and more... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate

01 Dec 1998
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A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

Business School provided him with the managerial know-how and business contacts to begin to turn that dream into a reality. "When I came to Harvard, I was keenly interested in leadership and in what the best companies were doing to make it possible for their View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
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School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg

In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details

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05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

findings can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant. Download... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?

She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the roof earlier this year, driven by... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

20 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

2016 Gurgaon, India: Penguin Random House Win-Win Corporations: The Indian Way of Shaping Successful Strategies By: Shah, Shashank Abstract—Why did Ratan Tata decide to pay for all the victims of 26/11 whether injured in the Taj or anywhere else? Why did HDFC’s Aditya... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13

strong brand, robust growth in international and domestic markets, and premium price and margins, Natura was consistently rated as one of the preferred places to work in Brazil. Its focus on social and environmental responsibility was a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

people in industrializing societies to get themselves into debt. At the same time, waged employment in booming nineteenth-century cities created a class of borrowers who lacked the social networks necessary for older types of neighborly... View Details

01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

of social responsibility." CURRENT READING In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg When Minoru Makihara was named president and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation in 1992,... View Details

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

educating our employees to recognize symptoms of 'poor health' so that they are able to self-identify themselves to their managers?" And Ulysses U. Pardey said, "(In their training, doctors) are in real contact with what they... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

managers are being held to higher standards when it comes to justifying customer investments. We foresee the need for marketing professionals to develop even greater analytical skill as the field continues to evolve. This should be a very positive development because... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle

says Srivastava, recalling that he reached out to classmate and HBS associate professor Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999, PhD 2002) to get a better sense of whether academia would be a good fit. Now, Srivastava is following three streams of research on View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Jun 2024
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Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

Ramirez said. MLT had been on her radar for her own career growth, and she applied to the program to help her reach her goals of attending business school, but she found that joining the team as an employee in partnerships and... View Details

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