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- 09 Apr 2024
- Book
Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning
scientists have traditionally approached rituals from a cultural or religious perspective, but we all have our own idiosyncratic rituals we conduct throughout our days,” says Norton, author of the new book The Ritual Effect: From Habit to...
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by Michael Blanding
- September 2022
- Case
Deciding When to Engage on Societal Issues
By: Hubert Joly and Amram Migdal
This case provides brief descriptions of 18 examples of corporate leaders confronting questions of whether and how to engage with societal issues, including social, political, and environmental issues. Social issues include COVID-19; social and racial justice;...
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Political Issues;
Social Justice;
Racial Justice;
Environmental Issues;
Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Values and Beliefs
Joly, Hubert, and Amram Migdal. "Deciding When to Engage on Societal Issues." Harvard Business School Case 523-045, September 2022.
- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
Workplace, using two high-profile cases of religious discrimination that were argued before the US Supreme Court in recent years: one about a young Muslim woman who battled Abercrombie & Fitch for rejecting her job application because...
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- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
In "You Can't Enlarge the Pie," the authors argue that barriers to effective government decision making result in poor decisions about critical issues like the environment, organ transplants, and energy policy. Why? Because...
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- 2020
- Book
Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead
Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass...
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Capitalism;
Business And Society;
Economic Systems;
Economic Growth;
Policy;
Leading Change;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Community Relations;
Corporate Strategy
Bower, Joseph L., Dutch Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine. Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead. Updated and expanded ed. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
reprehensible, part of the religious belief is that you do not charge interest or accept interest. Now, of course, that isn't always practiced, but it is the theory." Compassion is required when a business is in trouble. "In any...
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
and transcripts of interviews and video clips are available on the site. “All these stalwarts have built, to general acclaim and acknowledgement, organizations that are seen as forward-looking and innovative, subscribing to a code of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
feedback to last month’s column Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance? We would like to think that religious belief does affect organizational performance. Deb Wiesner expressed this...
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Re: James L. Heskett
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt...
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by Michael Blanding
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
"The development of modern sales management is an uniquely American story." Why do you think this is? Walter Friedman: In the early nineteenth century, many nations, certainly all the European ones, had traveling peddlers and peddling networks. But no nation...
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by Laura Linard
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
specialized form of central planning. “A change from the current insane, superstitious, or religious belief in official money may occur sooner than expected.” Xingang, on the other hand, worried that digital currencies are instruments...
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- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
resources—people, innovation, traction, money, and execution—business is the most powerful force for change on the global stage right now. No other set of institutions—not religious organizations, not the nation-state, not individual...
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by Nancy Koehn
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
examples—GE, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hasbro, IBM, United Rentals, and Tata Consultancy Services—and testimonies of leaders who have successfully used this framework, this book solves once and for all the practical dilemma of how to align an View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
is uncertain about what vaccine supplies, if any, are available or when they will be. The World Health Organization estimates that at least 60 to 70 percent of the population would need to be vaccinated to reach herd immunity. While...
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- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. "In an organization, all the employees already have some of this, in varying degrees." “Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
consumers in Indonesia, Turkey, and Egypt the most. In those predominantly Muslim nations, we could survey only people who worked in the organized economy and belonged to the top 50 percent of the population in socioeconomic terms. Such...
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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the...
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- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
young, impulsive, “self-righteous, entitled, narcissistic” visionaries realize the full potential of organizations that were formed around them. It suggests the question: Does West Coast Management need adult supervision? What do you...
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- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
activists (e.g., social movement organizations vs. religious groups and activist investors) rely on dissimilar tactics (e.g., boycotts and protests vs. lawsuits and proxy votes). Further, we show how...
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Sean Silverthorne