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- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
not force the disparate CSR programs into their business strategies. Instead, the goal should be to "bring discipline and structure to the many fragmented components. [The] components will in some cases support the core strategy and in...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Publication:Developmental Psychology 44, no. 5 (2008) Abstract The present research identifies an anomaly in sociocognitive development, whereby younger children (8 and 9 years) outperform their older counterparts (10 and 11 years) in a...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
of the AMP experience." Applicants are generally 3 to 5 years away from achieving the rank of CEO or its equivalent, and they must be endorsed and sponsored by their company's highest levels of management. Every Friday, participants...
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- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
-1,000 otherwise" over "0 with certainty." Studies 3, 4, and 5 address the apparent discrepancy between these results and the evidence for loss aversion documented in previous research. The results reveal that only under...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
of collective action. While the available evidence is generally consistent with these theories, there is a dearth of quality evidence. Moreover, a large part of the variation in access to public goods seems to have nothing to do with the "bottom-up" View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
self-control. We focus on children aged between 5 and 15 as the literature suggests that self-control develops within such age range. We ask each child to toss a fair coin in private and to record the outcome (white or black) on a paper...
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- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
more so when your uncle, mother, or daughter is your business partner. Harvard Business School's John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra outline 5 ways to analyze and improve dealmaking and dispute resolution while protecting family ties. As...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
support for Trump, the candidate who scores lower on competence in our survey. But two groups respond to the treatment with a large (between 5 and 7 percentage points) increase in their support for Donald Trump: those living in rural...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
rights perspective. "We can link the causal effect from the immigrants to the firm trade decisions, even 60 years later.” However, the researchers decided to focus on a specific period in US history in 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when the...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
they are operating. In this toolkit, we present three methods for collecting and analyzing information about these marketing environments firms face: Five C's Analysis, Porter's Five Forces Industry...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
consideration for all managers. Value Creation—and Collusion Suppose that pharmaceutical firm A manufactures a new, beneficial drug and begins selling 100 million pills per year at $3.05 per pill. Each pill costs 5 cents to manufacture,...
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by Max H. Bazerman
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
to play in spite of the pain, reasoning, "I don't want to let my $300 go to waste." And some people even count on their own irrationality and buy season tickets to a play or symphony series, knowing that it will force them to...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
transparency for shareholders and other stakeholders. The primary argument is that, without high standards of personal integrity posed from within, Section 404 will be of limited value. As John Louk put it, "I personally believe that you cannot View Details
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by James Heskett
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
actually hinder the most important part of problem-solving: actually solving the problem. Research by Ethan Bernstein and colleagues. The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs (34,436) David Yoffie and Michael...
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- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
to present a 3-principle framework we call REVISE. This framework classifies forces that affect dishonesty into three main categories and then redirects those forces to encourage moral behavior. The first...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
entrepreneurial ideal of attaining financial success without having to give up the reins of the company. When To Found About 4 to 5 percent of MBA students at HBS decide to leap into entrepreneurship immediately upon graduation, or even...
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- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
work in exploring the forces that govern the process of CEO change. I have conducted research in four interrelated areas: factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; factors that affect the choice of successors; the role of market...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
much as many people think. I say that culture is a 5 percent factor, not a 50 percent factor. The issues facing families in business are surprisingly similar across cultures. The way you would go about addressing an issue in a family...
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by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
Competition keeps you hungry. It forces you to continually find new and more cost-effective solutions to business problems. Although there's nothing new in this insight, recent research suggests some often-overlooked ways in which...
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by David Stauffer
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
of the term of the next President. We'll have the mechanism that will bring transparency and have this tax support that will make it possible for people to buy health insurance with pre-tax money. Q: And why are the 5 View Details