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- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
white people looted their homes and businesses. “The case brings to life the enormous success of the Greenwood district, or ‘Black Wall Street,’ the economic and psychological damage that its destruction wrought, and the question of what to View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
leaders teach? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. Reference: Thomas J. DeLong, Teaching by Heart: One Professor’s Journey to Inspire (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2019)...
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by James Heskett
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
through algorithms. Algorithms can be debiased by altering their inputs, but doing so requires managers to think about their goals around diversity and fairness. For example, LinkedIn redesigned its...
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- 31 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’
Businesses seeking highly educated talent would do well to appeal to college graduates’ desire to “change the world.” And in doing so, they might change the world a little, too—by offering jobs that come...
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by Rachel Layne
- 02 Apr 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
variety of possible constraints exist." Within a few weeks of her promotion, Leslie decided that she would rather quit her job than be treated this poorly. By doing so, she lost 2 years of compensation...
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by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 25 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
their contributions, despite gender stereotypes.” It's important to note, Coffman says, that these studies also show that men have less confidence than women in their ability to shine in fields dominated by women. “It’s not that women are...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
management by walking around. Decreasing workplace transparency can increase worker productivity. Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator What to do when the other party's behavior does not make sense. Why...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Location Choices Under Strategic Interactions
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by Juan Alcacer
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
going dark, fearful of offending or of being accused of taking advantage of an unfortunate situation for corporate gain. According to estimates from a March 2020 survey of marketers conducted by the Interactive Advertising Bureau, nearly...
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by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
alone do not a learning organization make. The necessary complement is a mind-set of inquiry and experimentation, plus a knowledge-sharing process that enables everyone in a company to act in an informed way...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
upstream indicators of culture gone sour, they scraped employee reviews from Glassdoor.com, a website where employees can leave subjective anonymous reviews about their employer. Harnessing machine learning to analyze text, they found...
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- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
without endangering its competitive position? Or does the answer lie in increasing levels of disruptive competition, the strategy of providing less for much less? What do you think? Original Article The issue of whether less is more, both...
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- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
Employees often feel stressed when their firms are bought by other companies, fearing they could face layoffs, demotions, or lousy working conditions. While it’s true that organizations tend to restructure their workforce following...
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by Lane Lambert
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
the jobs exported are those involving relatively little "ownership" potential and they are replaced by those created by the entrepreneurial, small-business engine that has fueled the U.S. economy...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
When does a star performer become a corporate nightmare? And what can you do about it? HBS Working Knowledge's Mallory Stark conducted this e-mail interview with Morten Hansen.Stark: Can you describe what you mean View Details
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by Mallory Stark
- 15 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News
associate professor at Harvard Business School. “But we also find that a surprisingly large degree of information avoidance doesn't appear to be related to such excuse-driven motives.” By replicating past experiments that sought to...
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by Kristen Senz
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
managed for the long term." The research team was interested in several issues: Do short-term companies attract a particular kind of investor? Is investing in these firms riskier than investing in companies with longer-term time horizons?...
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- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
write, "Disruption is a positive force. It is the process by which an innovation transforms a market whose services or products are complicated and expensive into one where simplicity, convenience, accessibility, and affordability...
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- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
Internet music piracy not only doesn't hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music. Those were the counterintuitive findings released in March by Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and his...
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