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    Howard H. Stevenson

    Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

    Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
    • 18 Sep 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets

    Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Mia Raynard
    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Eliciting Advice Instead of Feedback Improves Developmental Input

    By: Hayley Blunden, Ariella Kristal, Ashley Whillans, Jaewon Yoon, Hannah Burd, Georgina Bremner and Michael Yeomans
    Most organizations encourage employees to provide feedback to one another to support learning, personal growth, and career advancement. However, employee feedback often fails to improve performance because it lacks concrete, specific guidance. We provide a temporal... View Details
    Keywords: Feedback; Personal Development and Career; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Evaluation
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    • October 2015
    • Article

    The Multinational Firm and Geopolitics: Europe, Russian Energy, and Power

    By: Rawi Abdelal
    Multinational firms unavoidably exert influence over politics through power that is generated by both structure and process. While both political economy and management scholars address international firms, neither field has an adequate understanding of the reciprocal... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Government and Politics; Economics; Europe; Russia
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    • 24 Jun 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy

    Keywords: by Robert L. Simons
    • 20 Dec 2017
    • Blog Post

    Meet Annie & Piper: A Student and Dog's Life at HBS

    Before attending HBS, Annie Fulton studied Architecture at the University of Arkansas and worked for a building materials company. It was important to Annie that she become more involved with the decision-making process of what is built... View Details
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    Diversity Thresholds: How Social Norms, Visibility, and Scrutiny Relate to Group Composition

    By: Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dolly Chugh and Modupe Akinola
    Across a field study and four experiments, we examine how social norms and scrutiny affect decisions about adding members of underrepresented populations (e.g., women, racial minorities) to groups. When groups are scrutinized, we theorize that decision makers strive to... View Details
    Keywords: Social Norms; Impression Management; Groups and Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Diversity; Gender; Decision Making
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    • 2016
    • Chapter

    Nudging as a Tool for Leaders

    By: Max Bazerman
    BOOK ABSTRACT: Jewish organizational life is inundated with publications on organizational change and effective leadership, but from mutually exclusive sources: business and organizational studies, on the one hand, and Jewish studies, on the other. One addresses... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Leadership; Civil Society or Community; Religion; Business and Community Relations
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      Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets

      Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of global GDP and more than 50% of global foreign direct investment in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk,"... View Details

        Jill J. Avery

        Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

        Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels ＆ motels; food; beverage
        • January–February 2021
        • Article

        Between Home and Work: Commuting as an Opportunity for Role Transitions

        By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Julia Lee Cunningham, Bradley Staats, Francesca Gino and Jochen I. Menges
        Across the globe, every workday people commute an average of 38 minutes each way, yet surprisingly little research has examined the implications of this daily routine for work-related outcomes. Integrating theories of boundary work, self-control, and work-family... View Details
        Keywords: Commuting; Boundary Work; Self-control; Work-family Conflict; Prospection; Transition
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        Strategy - Doctoral

        Strategy The doctoral program in Strategy encourages students to pursue multi-disciplinary research that utilizes multiple methodologies—quantitative, as well as qualitative—to study how companies and industries around the world develop... View Details
        • July–September 2012
        • Article

        The (Un)Hidden Turmoil of Language in Global Collaboration

        By: Tsedal Neeley, Pamela J. Hinds and Catherine D. Cramton
        Companies are increasingly relying on a lingua franca, or common language (usually English), to facilitate cross-border collaboration. Despite the numerous benefits of a lingua franca, our research reveals myriad challenges that disrupt collaboration and contribute to... View Details
        Keywords: Strategy; Loss; Spoken Communication; Performance Productivity; Research; Global Range; Problems and Challenges; Diversity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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        • 21 Nov 2013
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Path-Breakers: How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

        Keywords: by Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras & Lakshmi Iyer
        • 12 Sep 2012
        • Research & Ideas

        The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

        talk to the families of patients who are soon-to-be deceased," says Anteby, who for several years has studied the morality of markets by focusing on legal cadaver commerce in the United States. "There's a lot of discussion in... View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health
        • 18 Aug 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: August 18

        a purely social act with economic considerations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-012.pdf Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery Authors:David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and Jonathan T. Kolstad Abstract... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 11 Jun 2007
        • Lessons from the Classroom

        Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

        You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
        Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
        • 14 Jun 2004
        • Research & Ideas

        The Big Money for Big Projects

        There is nothing small about the research practiced by Harvard Business School professor Benjamin Esty. He studies the financing of some of the largest projects in the world: the Eurotunnel, Hong Kong Disneyland, and the Airbus A380, to... View Details
        Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
        • 06 Jul 2015
        • Research & Ideas

        Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

        It's well understood that cash bonuses often motivate a sales force to step up its game, but they don't work in every scenario and in some cases can backfire, a new study from Harvard Business School has found. The key variable? Whether... View Details
        Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail
        • 16 Oct 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: October 16

        in managing business analytics and big data at the enterprise level. It includes key applications of analytics, human and organizational issues in building analytical capabilities, and case studies of the application of analytics in... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne