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- 12 Jan 2017
- News
The 10 Best Business Books of 2016
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The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
See Richard Gillespie, Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, and Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, "Shedding Light on the Hawthorne Studies," Journal of Occupational Behavior ,... View Details
- 05 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding
American Journal of Sociology. While artificial intelligence promises to transform the workplace and disrupt the organizational chart, Zhang’s research suggests that middle managers will still play a key role even in innovation-heavy... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Bit Player or Powerhouse? China and Stem-Cell Research Authors:Debora Spar and Fiona Murray Periodical:New England Journal of Medicine 355, no. 12 (September 21, 2006): 1191-1194 Abstract For more than a decade, China has been shocking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
David A. Thomas
David Thomas is H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change. He recently served as a... View Details
- 2014
- Article
Ascent-Descent Young Diagrams and Pattern Avoidance in Alternating Permutations
By: Ravi Jagadeesan
We investigate pattern avoidance in alternating permutations and an alternating analogue of Young diagrams. In particular, using an extension of Babson and West’s notion of shape-Wilf equivalence described in our recent paper (with N. Gowravaram), we generalize results... View Details
Jagadeesan, Ravi. "Ascent-Descent Young Diagrams and Pattern Avoidance in Alternating Permutations." #P3.9. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 21, no. 3 (2014).
- 09 Oct 2020
- HBS Seminar
Jeffrey L. Furman, BU, Questrom Sch of Business
- February 2013
- Article
Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews
By: U. Simonsohn and F. Gino
Many professionals, from auditors and lawyers, to clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of applicants a day. We conjectured that in such... View Details
Simonsohn, U., and F. Gino. "Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews." Psychological Science 24, no. 2 (February 2013): 219–224.
- 30 Nov 2018
- News
Share Buybacks: Mismeasured and Misunderstood
Ray A. Goldberg
A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.
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- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
India Authors:A. Banerjee, Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo, and L. Linden Periodical:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming). (August 2007) Abstract This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better
School. “You feel like maybe they weren’t totally listening.” In fact, people often aren’t tuned in when we think they are, and it’s tough to tell when someone is actually paying attention, according to a forthcoming article in the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- January 2021
- Article
The Pursuit of Success in Academia: Plato’s ghost asks ‘What then?’
By: A.R. Elangovan and Andrew J. Hoffman
What do we pursue as we seek success in academia? For most, the path to academic success focuses narrowly on A-level journal publications, which has caused a stealthy but steady erosion in the very essence of academia. In this essay, we explore that erosion by drawing... View Details
Elangovan, A.R., and Andrew J. Hoffman. "The Pursuit of Success in Academia: Plato’s ghost asks ‘What then?’." Journal of Management Inquiry 30, no. 1 (January 2021): 68–73.
- 09 Mar 2016
- HBS Seminar
Katja Seim of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Web
Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research
Institute for Innovation Management. He also holds a faculty appointment in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. He has written multiple books and published extensively in many of the leading academic journals ranging from Management... View Details
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Research and Publication Interests
Michelle Craig McDonald is currently writing a Harvard Business School case study on the impact of the International Coffee Act on small producers. She is interested in early American economic development, especially the role of foreign trade and re-exported... View Details
- 20 Oct 2022
- News
Envy, the Happiness Killer
I Moved Your Cheese
Now a Wall Street Journal Best-seller! Over a decade ago, the best-selling business fable Who Moved My Cheese? offered its answer to the question: accept that change is inevitable and beyond your control, don't waste your time wondering why things are the... View Details