project work - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

Working Papers Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting Authors: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Goal setting is one of the most replicated and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2023
Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

learned from her depression after a movie she worked on “bombed;” and how to be not necessarily happy all the time, but happier. Here's a transcript of the full conversation. Jeffrey Goldberg: Please join me in welcoming to the stage... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

22 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Why Many Businesses Are Becoming More Vocal In Support of LGBTQ Rights

It’s a clear case study on the intersection of business and social activism. One of the clearer case studies on the intersection of business and social issues is how companies have handled the rise of LGBTQ rights. For many years, businesses have been View Details

Keywords: All Industries

20 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

management in seven companies identify teams working full-time on projects that demanded creativity. We ended up studying 238 professionals in 26 project teams in 7 companies... View Details

Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile

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

Career Coach

Ryan Kennedy

Ryan offers experience from across the for profit, non-profit, and government sectors. Most recently, Ryan worked at early-stage fintech startups in several roles: product manager, risk management, operations, and View Details

13 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Following My Dream: Launching a Venture

This summer, while most of my classmates pursued internships, I decided to work full-time on my start-up ‘smoodi’, which I recently incorporated. It’s been an amazing experience and I’m grateful for the support I received as a Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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Africa - Global

Region September 2024 Case InfraCredit and the Project Inception Facility By: John Macomber , Namrata Arora and Maagatha Kalavadakken Around the world, large infrastructure projects are frequently stymied by... View Details

2008
Working Paper

I Am Not on the Market, I Am Here with Friends: Using On-Line Social Networks to Find a Job or a Spouse

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

Sociologists have extensively documented that networks influence market exchange through improved matching and vouching. In this paper, I propose that networks can also blunt the signal of market participation, as actors who are on the market surrounded by their... View Details

Keywords: Job Search; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology

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1.5 Attendance - MBA

Course Registration 1.10 Cross-Registration 1.11 Leaves of Absence 1.12 Clearance for Return 1.13 Satisfactory Academic Progress 1.14 Academic Review/Academic Withdrawal 1.15 Official Transcripts/Certificates of Attendance 1.16 Student Educational Records 1.17 Field... View Details

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

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

or entirely missing.— Tarun Khanna Regarding his work on entrepreneurship with Professor Palepu, Khanna notes that "it is important to recognize that emerging economies, unlike those of developed nations, typically lack many of the... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton%20sommers.pdf Working PapersSustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future? Authors:Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Tiona Zuzul Abstract Two trends are likely to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2024
Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

she contributed to the recently published Research Handbook on Organisational Integrity, Paine revisits her earlier work and again urges managers to see ethics as an organization-wide imperative, not just a personal issue, and lead... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

Working PapersInstitutional Pressures and Environmental Strategies Authors: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Abstract This paper suggests how institutional theory can explain enduring differences in organizational strategies. We... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

investor at Coatue Management, a technology-sector hedge fund. Previously, he worked at Vector Capital Management LP in San Francisco and at Goldman Sachs International in London. Originally from Norway, Abrahamsen earned an undergraduate... View Details

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

decades, the system may have worked better than ever for the constituencies that it was built to serve best: primary voters, donors, and lobbyists for special interests, including businesses. Unfortunately for the American public, most... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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1.7 Grading - MBA

Registration 1.10 Cross-Registration 1.11 Leaves of Absence 1.12 Clearance for Return 1.13 Satisfactory Academic Progress 1.14 Academic Review/Academic Withdrawal 1.15 Official Transcripts/Certificates of Attendance 1.16 Student Educational Records 1.17 Field Based... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

TV show and film production processes. This episode features Sam Read, Executive Director of the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance, a consortium of major studios and streamers including Disney, Netflix, and Warner Brothers. Sam describes how these players are View Details

21 Nov 2019
Blog Post

The Power of Business in the Energy Transition

economy. Representatives from resource producers such as RioTinto and Shell discussed their work to engrain sustainable practices in their operations, as well as serve as a source of expertise to execute alternative energy View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Energy / Cleantech

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