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  • 26 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course... View Details
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

Amy, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Peter Glick, Susan Crotty, Jihye Chong, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Four studies tested whether cultural values moderate the content of gender stereotypes, such that male stereotypes more closely align with... View Details
  • 18 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

questions about past misdeeds. But a recent set of studies indicates that people genuinely do tend to forget the details of their own transgressions. In the paper Leaving Our Immoral Deeds in the Past, researchers show that engaging in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

marketing, technical, and sales resources; extra post-sales support for installation, training, warranty, and field service; and liberal payment terms. While all of these services create value and loyalty among customers, none of them... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

School Founders By Catalina Daniels (MBA 1991) and James H. Sherman (MBA 1991) Harper Business Would-be-entrepreneurs Catalina Daniels and James Sherman studied the nuts-and-bolts of entrepreneurship as classmates at HBS. Years later,... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
  • 08 Feb 2023
  • Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

familiar." The remote and hybrid work that rose up during the pandemic helped break down these boundaries. Virtual meeting and collaboration platforms helped level the playing field by increasing meeting access and giving voices equal... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
  • 18 Feb 2020
  • Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

opportunity close to New York City, and lived in Harlem while I was in Brooklyn. We spent every weekend together. Hours spent cooking, laughing, and watching movies turned into hours studying for the GMAT as we jointly decided to pursue... View Details
  • 13 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

field experiment at a large North American company, provides plenty of reassurance, showing that regular Zoom chats with managers fosters solid career-building connections for new workers. In fact, informal “virtual watercooler” sessions... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 21 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

countries, from Sweden to New Zealand, now hold debates, often with much media fanfare. The best way to win hearts and minds Democratic US presidential candidates took to the debate stage for the fifth time this week. While Pons didn’t View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 24 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

blankets, when you can donate one blanket and feel just as good?” Barasz says. “But, if you frame it as a set, then there is a reason to want to complete the set and to donate all six of the items.” The results of the field View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

When HBS professor Steven Spear recently released an abstract on problem solving at Toyota, HBS Working Knowledge staffer Sarah Jane Johnston e-mailed off some questions. Spear not only answered the questions, but also asked some of his own—and answered those as... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

through experience. ... That is why so many MBA programs teach using the case study method..." Jack Wung appeared to take issue with this view, suggesting that "street smarts can only be acquired in the school of hard... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

assets, as reflected by the level 3 fair value designation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-008.pdf Does Competition Favor Delegation? Author:Christian Alejandro Ruzzier Abstract This paper studies the consequences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

V.G. Narayanan | About

research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives. He uses field experiments to understand how firms can use incentives and performance feedback to improve performance. VG is View Details
  • 13 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

considering getting an MBA and worried about similar issues, I hope you will find this post helpful.  Here were my major concerns:  1. I wasn’t interesting enough I studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Lagos, then spent... View Details
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

McCulloch HBS 1917–1918 Clarksville, TX Harvard College, 1917 An alumnus of Andover Academy and Harvard College, Samuel McCulloch spent a year studying at HBS upon completion of his undergraduate degree. His career trajectory took him... View Details
  • 25 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, studies brand marketing and communications. Greyser pioneered the academic study of the business of sports, and... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

according to Larkin's 2009 paper "Paying $30,000 for a Gold Star: An Empirical Investigation into the Value of Peer Recognition to Software Salespeople." The paper describes a field study at a large... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women, published in the journal Management Science. The study was co-authored by Coffman and Nancy R. Baldiga, an economics and accounting professor at the College of the Holy Cross,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel