Human Rights First - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

in the ranks that diversity and inclusion are in the best interest of the entire organization. The question posed—Why don’t more organizations understand the power of diversity and inclusion?—may have gotten ahead of the research to date. The View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

according to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute. Yet the costs of this unbalanced approach to managing economic downturns are not always well understood by managers. LAYOFFS ARE EXTREMELY DISRUPTIVE In April, the Honeywell case was taught for the View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

02 Jun 2010
What Do You Think?

How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?

Those placing the greatest weight on strategy were characterized by Pete DeLisi's observation that "it's hard to perform if you don't have the right solutions, addressing a real need, provided to the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

That's just human nature." That leads to a “cascading effect” that is difficult for most people to anticipate, much like the way that the public was surprised by the speed with which COVID-19 spread in early 2020, Peterson says. “Consider... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

Improvement in Global Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Worker rights advocates seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains have engaged in private... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

seem to want. For example, Kodak first began to sense that digital imaging might pose a threat to its core business in the mid-1990s. It invested more than $2 billion in research and development. However, it framed the challenge as,... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

decisions are often blind to their impact on long-term value. "Resource allocation should be about putting funds behind the right high-value opportunities," Baxter continues. He recommends creating an all-in-one process in which... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

it will make investors more wary of engaging in the capital markets.” Two Supreme Court decisions, although not the only reasons, appear to have made a difference, according to the researchers. The rulings in Tellabs v. Makor (2007) and Janus v. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

12 Jun 2014
Working Paper Summaries

The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer

Keywords: by Anette Mikes

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

and faculty chair of the joint MS/MBA program in the life sciences]. We can accommodate about 10 to 12 tenant teams, which receive below-market-rent space for up to two years. On the first floor, there is general coworking space and on... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

In the summer of 2023, Initiatives intern Skye Bluestein conducted important research with the BEI on the intersection of environmental justice (EJ), policy, and business. The resulting paper posted below provides an interesting and necessary View Details

11 Oct 2023
Blog Post

A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion

new co-exist. Walking distance from our hotel was the Dongdaemun Design Plaza featuring neo-futurism architecture juxtaposed right next to the city’s ancient walls, dating back to the 14th century. I was constantly seeing a glimpse of the... View Details

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

intention of commissioning. I just wanted to do something challenging and different from the normal path. After my first year, I realized that every single cadet I admired and respected at the school had intentions to serve. I took a hard... View Details

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Influence: Medium-High 70 1970 s 19 Urban blight Rust Belt Influence: Medium-High 80 1980 s 19 Population migrates to West and Southwest Influence: High 90 1990 s Immigration tops 9 million (largest number since first decade) Baby boomers... View Details

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

again, 99 percent of the time there was something wrong with it.” 3. Create informal and formal shared context—called ba in Japan—constantly in order to construct new meaning through human interactions. Takeuchi likens the Japanese... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Pricing: Theory, Estimation and Applications.” 2022 Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2022 First Prize in the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition for "Hidden Alpha" with Manuel Ammann, Alexander Cochardt, and Stephan... View Details

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

industry,” he asserted, “has any moral right to allow itself to be unexplained, misunderstood or publicly distrusted, for by its unpopularity it poisons the pond in which we all must fish.” 17 While many companies hired outside PR... View Details

27 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

beliefs, attitudes, and demographic traits. The study, Going It Alone: Competition Increases the Attractiveness of Minority Status, will appear in the November issue of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Standing out to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

legacy remains, and he would doubtless be the first to say he had a great run. As for the right words to sum up his career, not surprisingly, MacDonald himself probably says it best. Once asked how he’d like... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

knowledge inflows into the multinational subsidiary, the literature is rooted in how subsidiaries inherit knowledge from the headquarters (HQ). In this paper we take the first step to liberate the construct of “subsidiary knowledge... View Details