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- August 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Exercise
To Prioritize Money or Time? The P-Mot Exercise (Student)
By: Ashley Whillans and Liz Goldenberg
Working professionals are often in the predicament of needing to make a choice between activities that will grant them more money or more time. Indeed, in large-scale representative panels of working adults, most respondents report feeling pressed for both time and...
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Whillans, Ashley, and Liz Goldenberg. "To Prioritize Money or Time? The P-Mot Exercise (Student)." Harvard Business School Exercise 921-012, August 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
around issues of racism in the US and make long-term change. The team transformed the Anti-Racism Fund GoFundMe project into a nonprofit organization, ARF, and then set off to View Details
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All Industries
- December 2016 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
Ebony Magazine
By: Steven Rogers and Derrick Jackson
For nearly 75 years, the Johnson Publishing Company has been the most successful African American magazine publisher. Its flagship Ebony magazine was an iconic coffee table fixture for decades in black households of all classes, making founder John H. Johnson...
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Keywords:
Business Restructuring;
Media;
Race Characteristics;
Social History;
Contemporary History;
Fairness;
Race;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Adaptation;
Consolidation;
Culture;
Brands and Branding;
Journals and Magazines;
Decisions;
Business History;
Restructuring;
Innovation and Management;
Crisis Management;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Journalism and News Industry;
Publishing Industry;
Chicago
Rogers, Steven, and Derrick Jackson. "Ebony Magazine." Harvard Business School Case 317-043, December 2016. (Revised May 2018.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Unselfish Alibis Increase Choices of Selfish Autonomous Vehicles
Human drivers routinely make implicit tradeoffs between their selfish interests and the safety of passengers, as when they perform a rolling stop in order to reach their destination faster. Here I explore whether they are comfortable with autonomous vehicles (AVs) that...
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De Freitas, Julian. "Unselfish Alibis Increase Choices of Selfish Autonomous Vehicles." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-043, February 2023.
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy
Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution. What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
international negotiations, I've seen numerous promising deals fail because people ignored or underestimated the powerful differences in processes across cultures... . . . What are the informal influences that can make or break a deal?...
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by James K. Sebenius
- 24 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts
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by Bo Becker & Per Stromberg
- April 2023
- Case
Twitter: The Freedom to Speak Freely and Be Heard
By: Randolph B. Cohen, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Mel Martin
In April 2022, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that he would be interested in purchasing the social media site Twitter for $44 billion. With more than 100 million twitter followers, Musk had historically leveraged the site to engage with the customers of his...
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- March 2018
- Exercise
Does It Hurt To Ask?
Does It Hurt To Ask? (DIHTA) is an interactive exercise that pairs students (in groups of two) for a brief, spontaneous, open-ended conversation during class. Each student is given instructions to ask many questions (as many as possible) or few questions (ideally zero)...
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Keywords:
Interpersonal Communication;
Communication Strategy;
Perception;
Information;
Power and Influence
Brooks, Alison Wood. "Does It Hurt To Ask?" Harvard Business School Exercise 918-037, March 2018.
- January 2009 (Revised April 2009)
- Case
Disaster in April: The Obligations of Kelly Construction
By: John D. Macomber, Christopher M. Gordon and Ben Creo
A construction company experiences a crane accident with multiple fatalities. The CEO, a client, and an employee must make choices to meet the company's obligations. Set in 2006, the case looks at the choices faced by board members of a museum that is an important...
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Keywords:
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Family Business;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Compensation and Benefits;
Contracts;
Crisis Management;
Construction Industry
Macomber, John D., Christopher M. Gordon, and Ben Creo. "Disaster in April: The Obligations of Kelly Construction." Harvard Business School Case 209-099, January 2009. (Revised April 2009.)
- 04 Mar 2014
- HBS Seminar
Carey Morewedge, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
- 14 May 2019
- HBS Seminar
Patti Williams, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
team launch. Describes how to diagnose emergent team processes such as information exchange, collaboration, decision making, impression formation, and underlying identity...
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Martha Lagace
- 2011
- Article
Top Executives Need Feedback: Here's How They Can Get It
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
As executives become more senior, they are less likely to receive constructive feedback on their performance or their strategy. To get it, they should call on their junior colleagues. The problem: subordinates don't want to offend the boss. Therefore, as executives...
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Kaplan, Robert Steven. "Top Executives Need Feedback: Here's How They Can Get It." McKinsey Quarterly, no. 4 (2011): 60–71.
- 17 Jun 2015
- News
Is Small Beautiful?
- Program
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
Recognize how leadership styles and senior team characteristics affect change Make better decisions about change initiatives—even with insufficient information Develop internal...
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- June 2021 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
Asian Corporate Governance Association: Stemming a 'Race to the Bottom' by Stock Exchanges?
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Billy Chan
This case describes the movement towards dual-class listings on Asian stock exchanges and the efforts of the Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA), a not-for-profit shareholder advocacy group, to discourage this trend. As a not-for-profit organization with no...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Stocks;
Financial Markets;
Financial Services Industry;
Hong Kong;
China;
Asia
Wang, Charles C.Y., and Billy Chan. "Asian Corporate Governance Association: Stemming a 'Race to the Bottom' by Stock Exchanges?" Harvard Business School Case 121-073, June 2021. (Revised November 2021.)
- 2008
- Chapter
Life-Cycle Funds
By: Luis M. Viceira
The U.S. retirement system has experienced a substantial transformation in recent years. It has evolved from a system in which employees relied mainly on Social Security and professionally managed defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by their employers to...
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Viceira, Luis M. "Life-Cycle Funds." Chap. 5 in Overcoming the Saving Slump: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs, edited by Annamaria Lusardi. University of Chicago Press, 2008.