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Jillian has an interest in understanding the effect of high worker autonomy and uncertainty on operational metrics. Her research attempts to empirically explore the relationship between efficiency, resource utilization, and quality in hospital settings.... View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
- HBS Case
How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)
Lindsay N. Hyde. Eisenmann and Hyde wrote two case studies with HBS case researcher Tom Quinn that analyze the smart moves and simple errors at Ample Hills Creamery, as well as the launch of the company’s new shop afterward. The cases illustrate the challenges of... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Working PapersHiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy Abstract We test the hypothesis that firms appoint independent directors who are overly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
conflict. In IBM and Microsoft's case this conflict eventually led to control over the new business being given to the old and that in both cases effectively crippled the new business. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern11-1 Working... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
Working PapersEveryday Failures in Organizational Learning: Explaining the High Threshold for Speaking Up at Work Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines how people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
research—and how academics could better help improve the work of government. The workshop is just one example of how HBS scholars are using their research to make a difference in government policy. Some, like Michael E. Porter or Federal... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Teaching Interest
Interpretability and Explainability in Machine Learning
As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to aid decision makers in high-stakes settings such as healthcare and criminal justice, it is important to ensure that the decision makers correctly understand and consequent trust the functionality of these... View Details
- 05 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)
the right people are confident, suggests recent research by Thomas Graeber, assistant professor at Harvard Business School. His work tested the effects of meta-cognition—essentially, whether more skilled people are also more confident... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
about exactly what to give away and how to couple it with complementary products and services than you do anything else." Wooing Open-source Developers Another focus centers on determining how to make it easier for the open source community to View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
In his recent Working Paper, "Marketing's Role in Cross-Sector Collaboration," HBS professor James Austin outlines three stages of collaboration between businesses and nonprofits—philanthropic, transactional, and integrative... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
donor and grateful recipient, toward deeper, strategic alliances. These changes are already under way, and the changing alliance landscape is rich in variety, with businesses and nonprofits from Boston to Seattle finding new ways to work... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
Summing Up Let's Pay for Performance But How? In spite of its naysayers, pay for performance still makes sense to most of us, according to those responding to this month's column. But there is a difference of opinion of about when and how it View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
after installing a simple pop-up prompt in the referral system. “Behavioral insights are increasingly being put into practice in the private sector as well. We’ve also worked with companies to use behavioral economics for the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract— Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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The role of the manager in cross-sector interactions
My second stream of research takes the individual manager as the unit of analysis in examining cross-sector interactions. Two papers explore processes and mechanisms that allow managers to cross sectoral boundaries more effectively.
The first paper... View Details
The first paper... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
competitor without anyone being the wiser. Working from home has facilitated searches. Employees didn’t have to close the door and hold hushed phone conversations with recruiters (not that such efforts ever fooled anyone). At home and... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
feminine—become moot when identity construction processes are no longer defensive. Q: What are you working on now? A: We are currently designing a follow-on project in which we will administer a survey to... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
Warmth and competence represent the central dimensions of group stereotypes, the majority of which are ambivalent-characterizing groups as warm but incompetent (e.g., older people, working mothers) or competent but cold (e.g., model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
really matters in the workplace is helping employees feel appreciated.” Rewards that signal to employees that they did a good job and that their manager cares about them will encourage employees to want to work even harder, the research... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman