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Angela Q. Crispi | About
to research, and the management of areas including diversity & inclusion, external relations, financial, human resources, information technology, library, marketing and communications, operations and others. Angela has overseen the... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
Last year, the pioneering Black-owned global asset management firm Brown Capital Management found itself at a crossroads. The secret to its success had been a deliberately diverse hiring strategy, but with... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
United States, what were the economic and political advantages of building and managing the canal? A: The Panama Canal provided massive cost savings to intercoastal commerce. Before the Second World War, the vast majority of the cargo... View Details
- 2011
- Article
Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Responses to Environmental Protection in China
By: Christopher Marquis, Jianjun Zhang and Yanhua Zhou
We develop a framework to analyze the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and present a number of resulting implications for doing business there. We identify three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Law Enforcement; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Alignment; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Strategy; China
Marquis, Christopher, Jianjun Zhang, and Yanhua Zhou. "Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Responses to Environmental Protection in China." California Management Review 54, no. 1 (Fall 2011): 39–63.
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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni
career (or establish a new one), the following practices can facilitate a smoother transition: Let others know Go beyond networking to let everyone in your circles (family, friends, acquaintances, and colleagues) know that you are... View Details
- 2022
- Working Paper
Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions
By: Caleb Kwon, Ananth Raman and Jorge Tamayo
We empirically analyze how managerial overrides to a commercial algorithm that forecasts demand and schedules labor affect store performance. We analyze administrative data from a large grocery retailer that utilizes a commercial algorithm to forecast demand and... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Human Capital; Performance; Applications and Software; Management Skills; Management Practices and Processes; Retail Industry
Kwon, Caleb, Ananth Raman, and Jorge Tamayo. "Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions." Working Paper, December 2022. (R&R Management Science.)
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
academia. The three areas have more in common than many think, Laidler-Kylander says. Best practices in leadership and management are applicable everywhere, but nonprofits come with additional organizational... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
associated with the program rollout, we use both population based morbidity measures from the Demographic and Health Surveys and health facility based mortality data as reported in the national Health Management Information System. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
that people need to take breaks throughout the day, get enough sleep, and take vacations.” Yet many of us don’t practice what we preach, she acknowledges. So managers can set an example by taking breaks and... View Details
- June 2011
- Article
Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work
By: J. R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson
This article examines, in a series of four studies, the nature and impact of implicit voice theories-largely taken-for-granted beliefs about when and why speaking up at work is risky or inappropriate. In Study 1, qualitative data from 190 interviews conducted in a... View Details
Keywords: Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior
Detert, J. R., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work." Academy of Management Journal 54, no. 3 (June 2011): 461–488.
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
two-thirds of our innovation skills still come through learning—from first understanding the skill, then practicing it, and ultimately gaining confidence in our capacity to create. This is one reason that individuals who grow up in... View Details
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Founder - Entrepreneurship
(NVC) President’s Innovation Challenge Black New Venture Competition (BNVC) Build Entrepreneurship and Tech Skills: Tech Club & CAML club workshops/seminars Rock Center and i-lab workshops HBS Course notes on the Harvard Business Publishing Site The Entrepreneurial... View Details
- 15 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
theory, known as the “strength of weak ties,” has been an influential principle in the business world and the practice of networking. Acquaintances, the thinking goes, are more likely to have information that you don’t already have access... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- August 2016 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
Breakfast at the Paramount
By: Ryan W. Buell
The Paramount is a 44-seat diner on Charles Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. A frequent "Best of Boston" award winner, the restaurant is a perennial favorite among locals and tourists, particularly for brunch on the weekends, when lines often stretch... View Details
Keywords: Food; Management Practices and Processes; Service Delivery; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Boston
Buell, Ryan W. "Breakfast at the Paramount." Harvard Business School Case 617-011, August 2016. (Revised January 2020.)
- 16 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?
conducted by Joshua Schwartzstein, a Harvard Business School assistant professor, and Benjamin Handel, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley. “Thinking through, for practical applications, ‘is it a friction or a... View Details
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Professional Development - Alumni
Management Practice Our toughest negotiations often aren't those with outside parties. Instead they are with our boss, our colleagues – and sometimes even people who report to us. Our toughest negotiations... View Details
- September 2010
- Article
Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment
By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Using data from a sample of U.S. industrial facilities subject to the federal Clean Air Act from 1993 to 2003, this article theorizes and tests the conditions under which organizations' symbolic commitments to self-regulate are particularly likely to result in improved... View Details
Keywords: Adoption; Code Law; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Governance Compliance; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; United States
Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment." Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 3 (September 2010): 361–396. (Lead article; Featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (Summer 2011) and in Behind the scenes of the Administrative Science Quarterly.)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
group's majority stake in the rural retailer was sold, and the poultry business was placed in a joint venture with US-based Tyson Foods. The most significant changes came at the top. In August 2007, the managing director—a longtime Godrej... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary
to do everything twice as well. In addition, John Rice’s (MBA 1992) experience as a Black professional led him to create Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national non-profit organization that fights racial and economic... View Details
- November 2009
- Article
Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?
By: Robert C. Pozen
When the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Standards; Banking Industry
Pozen, Robert C. "Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?" Harvard Business Review 87, no. 11 (November 2009).