Shared Office - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Aug 2016
First Look

August 30, 2016

relative performance incentives in addition to piece rates to encourage competition in the workplace. We find that social identity has a significant impact on competition: a weaver only competes against coworkers with a different social identity, but not against those... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

the same true for employees today, many of whom are performing their work remotely, outside the traditional office setting? We’ve previously discussed here the need for greater “voice” among “officed” employees as part of the effort to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

think he was also just—as older brothers can be—skeptical of his younger brother,” Brandon says, laughing. It’s easy to laugh: Today, the brothers are cofounders of Shield AI, a rapidly growing artificial intelligence company based in San Diego, with View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

05 Oct 2016
News

Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab

possible by a gift from Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve Pagliuca (MBA 1982), the lab will offer shared space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars.... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

What do a health food manufacturer, an infectious-diseases specialist and a content-management expert have in common? Answer: All are women, all are entrepreneurs. And by virtue of being women and entrepreneurs they share one... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

the overall effects of fitness and wanted to share what I felt with others – what better way than teaching? My Double Life While still at my full-time job at the firm (though in a different role), I became a Flywheel instructor and... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

16 Jul 2013
News

Embracing Chaos

point in life where they can give some time and share their considerable skills but they don't know where to go to volunteer." Last year, with the help of several professionals from Microsoft who had founded the original SVP in Seattle,... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2003
News

Andrea Silbert

now the largest entrepreneurial training center in New England, with offices in Boston, Providence, and Worcester. While Silbert admits she spends more time on raising funds — from individual donors, foundations, and government agencies —... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

a host of issues related to how contracts between financial intermediaries and their customers are structured and how risks are shared between them, as well as the consequences of (unexpected) deviations from the ex-ante optimal... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach

better way forward. Executive AmbitionsDo you want the corner office someday? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Mike Troiano, a venture capitalist and former executive. They talk through what to do when you’re falling... View Details

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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019

Financials From the Chief Financial Officer 3ms Harvard Business School’s economic model performed impressively in fiscal 2019. For the fifth consecutive year, revenues grew faster than expenses, resulting in a double-digit increase in... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks

served as CEO of AEW’s Curzon Global Partners before starting Tristan Capital Management in 2009, a real estate investment firm with eight offices across Europe and more than 12 billion in assets under management, where Lewis is now... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; diversity; leadership; real estate; Real Estate

01 Apr 2002
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Spring greetings to all HBS alumni! The arrival of April signals the start of intense planning for spring events at HBS. The MBA spring reunions are fast approaching, and plans for the annual Club Officers Roundtable and spring Alumni... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

decided to implement the cradle-to-cradle (C2C) design protocol during the design of its mid-level office chair, Mirra. The C2C protocol was a set of environmentally friendly product development guidelines. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2010
News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

blues, and a job set up for failure. If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer Researcher Ethan Rouen discovers that rank-and-file employees understand the boss deserves a big salary, but only when the number is fully explained.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2015
First Look

November 10, 2015

were realized. What we label the CEO-specific Q and past return explains equity issuance, but it does not explain debt issuance, investment, or profitability. Two discontinuity analyses show that the specific share price that the current... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2021
News

Back to School

Nick Simmons (MBA/MPP 2019) was no stranger to the principal’s office as a student. “I was definitely an active, energetic young person who wasn’t always paying the closest attention,” says Simmons, currently senior advisor for school... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Arthur Rock | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

invested $3 million and returned $100 million to their investors. Arthur shared his experiences as a venture capitalist and his insights into successful entrepreneurship during a video interview at his San Francisco View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies

An effective job search needs to be enormously disciplined, says Neil S. MacKenna (MBA 1949). Over the last two decades, hundreds of HBS alumni have benefited from MacKenna’s experience as an outplacement professional and the founder of Career Assistance, Inc. MacKenna... View Details

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