Human Rights First - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jul 2008
What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

followership dynamics are really one and the same. Those who lead in one instance may follow in another." As C. J. Cullinane put it, "... to be a great leader you first have to be at some time in your career a great... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

them, which ultimately meant that I was representing people like my mother who is a CalPERS beneficiary, required challenging those firms who managed their money to do the right thing on behalf of their limited partners, not themselves.... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

what might lead a brand to try to disguise a price hike.—JMF John, can you give us some historical context to explain this phenomenon? John Gourville: The first instance of shrinkflation that I found was in 1988, when Chock full o’ Nuts... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

decision making process employed by many boards. In addition, shorter CEO tenures indicate that boards often fail to hire the right person. Boards also often choose the course of dismissing a CEO versus taking corrective action. Also, in... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

27 Sep 2016
First Look

September 27, 2016

district. In Ivy Academy, classes meet two out of every six days in-person, and students are expected to work asynchronously online during the other days. In the first year, 341 students (out of 3,800 eligible) and 19 teachers (out of 240... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

perhaps more so than in any other industry, as the right answer to improve performance. Owners look to their team managers (coaches) to be game changers and bring back success to the organization, especially when the manager is hired in a... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

are in an arm's-length transactional relationship, how do you move it into a fuller relationship? For the first puzzle, Narayandas and Manu Kalwani of Purdue University teamed up for an empirical study later published in The Journal of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

slogan from Apple. And thinking differently leads them to act differently. From our research, consistent patterns emerged that led us to identify five primary discovery skills that underlie innovation: associating, observing, quetioning, networking, and experimenting.... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

No one can be an effective leader in a crisis by attempting to go it alone. Leaders must be the first to recognize this reality and plan accordingly." The seven leadership lessons include: Face reality, starting with yourself. Don't... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

entrepreneurial norm. She took to shortening her first name of Maxeme, presenting herself simply as “Max.” She learned to put her HBS credentials first, rather than at the end of presentations. People who look different from the typical... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

The details differ slightly, but the story, in its telling, is always the same. Ninety or so MBA students sit nervously awaiting the start of their first Marketing class. At the appointed time—not a minute more or less—a slight man with... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

put it succinctly in saying, “Free speech, free thought and the right to be heard. How far do we go to secure the block chain of information to ensure that content is free from hate?” Gene identified the misuse of technology as the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

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Harvard Business School

on Brittain in 2011. Charles Bush MBA 1972 Charles Bush was an American civil rights activist, senior corporate executive, and United States Air Force officer. Bush was one of the first African Americans to... View Details

11 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

their True North.’” The recollection helped Kloeblen define two dimensions to his search: that the right role for him would involve collaboration, and that it would be driven by a desire to turn companies into “positive actors” in their... View Details

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

their place. I do not claim that arbitrage to exploit differences is any more a complete strategic solution than the optimal exploitation of scale economies. To the contrary: If they are to get their global strategies right in the long... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

maintained their vision of an intrinsically shared humanity and the environmental responsibility found at the core of Indigenous mythology. Building off a deep personal connection to the history and mythology of the View Details

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

one’s pre-tenure years when the opportunity cost of time seems especially high,” he writes. Colleague David A. Moss concurs. “The first priority should always be to identify truly important problems to work on,” says Moss, the Paul Whiton... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

diverse urban charter school were at first frustrated in their attempts to connect with and socialize students, but learned valuable lessons about asking questions and sharing information about themselves to break down barriers. The paper... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

Facebook. "Markets make markets work," says Ramanna. "That is the good news about capitalism. We don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water." But that doesn't mean markets always work to self-correct structural problems. The snag, as Adam... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

Summing Up What is the right mix between intuition and analysis? Several clear themes characterized responses to this month's column. Dominant among these was that the best way to reach a decision depends on a number of factors, including... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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