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- 28 Nov 2023
- Video
Making An Impact through Collaboration
- Article
Common Variants of the Oxytocin Receptor Gene Do Not Predict the Positive Mood Benefits of Prosocial Spending
By: Ashley V. Whillans, Lara B. Aknin, Colin Ross, Lihan Chen and Frances S. Chen
Who benefits most from helping others? Previous research suggests that common polymorphisms of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) predict whether people behave generously and experience increases in positive mood in response to socially-focused experiences in daily...
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Keywords:
Prosocial Behavior;
Positivity;
Behavior Genetics;
Individual Differences;
Behavior;
Emotions;
Genetics;
Spending
Whillans, Ashley V., Lara B. Aknin, Colin Ross, Lihan Chen, and Frances S. Chen. "Common Variants of the Oxytocin Receptor Gene Do Not Predict the Positive Mood Benefits of Prosocial Spending." Emotion 20, no. 5 (August 2020): 734–749.
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
to the Times, is “to invigorate private-sector initiatives in these industries, then in a host of supplier companies, and eventually throughout manufacturing.” Commented Bloom, “I am deeply afraid that if you lose the ability to View Details
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Manufacturing
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
asked about what he wanted to do differently ... He and his family took a year off. The company offers six months paid. He said that he wants to offer resources to his employees to View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
companies. Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who chairs the project’s Leadership Council and chairs the GSG (Global Steering Group) for Impact Investment and The Portland Trust, says that all companies deliver some positive impact through employment, but the data View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Nov 2020
- News
Gender differences in COVID-19 perception and compliance
- February 2004
- Case
The Making of Verizon
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Douglas A Raymond and Ryan Raffaelli
Through a series of mergers, Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon chairman and CEO, successfully shared the co-CEO title twice while building the largest telecom company in the United States. The strong and complementary cultures of the companies that Seidenberg and a key group of...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Change Management;
Transition;
Leading Change;
Organizational Culture;
Risk Management;
Telecommunications Industry;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Douglas A Raymond, and Ryan Raffaelli. "The Making of Verizon." Harvard Business School Case 303-131, February 2004.
- October 2018
- Case
BreezoMeter: Making Air Pollution Data Actionable
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Allison M. Ciechanover and Margot Eiran
The case focuses on an Israeli startup that provides actionable air pollution data and forecasts. The company has over 50 enterprise customers and its tool reached a million people daily in 67 countries. The co-founders wrestle with which markets and customers to focus...
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Keywords:
Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Pollutants;
Analytics and Data Science;
Sales;
Marketing;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Technology Industry;
Israel;
United States
Cespedes, Frank V., Allison M. Ciechanover, and Margot Eiran. "BreezoMeter: Making Air Pollution Data Actionable." Harvard Business School Case 819-058, October 2018.
- 2008
- Working Paper
How Can Decision Making Be Improved?
By: Katherine L. Milkman, Dolly Chugh and Max H. Bazerman
The optimal moment to address the question of how to improve human decision making has arrived. Thanks to fifty years of research by judgment and decision making scholars, psychologists have developed a detailed picture of the ways in which human judgment is bounded....
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Milkman, Katherine L., Dolly Chugh, and Max H. Bazerman. "How Can Decision Making Be Improved?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-102, June 2008. (Revised July 2008.)
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
employees like I had when I joined Walker & Dunlop, if someone isn’t doing that well, the CEO’s attention to an issue—just by putting attention to it, much less whether you’re being nice or mean or angry—you can make View Details
- November 10, 2020
- Article
Value-Based Health Care in Four Different Health Care Systems
By: Mjåset Christer, Umar Ikram, Navraj S. Nagra and Thomas W. Feeley
Health care systems across the world have increasingly embraced a value-based health care (VBHC) agenda. They do so for different reasons, using different foundations, and variations on the tools and tactics to effect their strategic goals. The role of governments,...
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Keywords:
Value-based Health Care;
Comparative Analysis;
Health Care and Treatment;
Value;
Global Range;
Performance Improvement
Christer, Mjåset, Umar Ikram, Navraj S. Nagra, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Value-Based Health Care in Four Different Health Care Systems." NEJM Catalyst (November 10, 2020).
- October 27, 2022
- Article
How to Build a Life: How to Make Life More Transcendent
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: How to Make Life More Transcendent." The Atlantic (October 27, 2022).
- 25 Sep 2019
- Podcast
Make Me a Match! How AI Can Transform Clinical Trial Recruitment
A majority of clinical trials fail because they can’t enroll enough patients. One reason for this is patients and clinical trials teams simply can’t find each other. Deep6 CEO Wout Brusselaers talks about how his company is using AI to transform the process of...
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- June 2011
- Case
Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 1
By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Sam Palmisano explains the moves he made to transform IBM into a faster-growing, more profitable company focused on IT solutions to the problems of companies, cities, and nations.
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Transformation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business or Company Management;
Information Technology Industry
Bower, Joseph L., and Sonja Ellingson Hout. "Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 1." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 311-701, June 2011.
- January 23, 2023
- Article
Click-by-click: Using Alternative Data to Make a Business Case for Culture
By: Jillian Grennan and Joseph Pacelli
Grennan, Jillian, and Joseph Pacelli. "Click-by-click: Using Alternative Data to Make a Business Case for Culture." CMR Insights (January 23, 2023).
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Make Tax Planning a Part of Your Company’s Risk Management Strategy
- September 29, 2022
- Article
How to Build a Life: Technology Can Make Your Relationships Shallower
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Technology Can Make Your Relationships Shallower." The Atlantic (September 29, 2022).
- July–September 2007
- Article
A Dynamic Theory of China-US Trade: Making Sense of the Imbalances
By: Amar Bhidé and Edmund S. Phelps
Bhidé, Amar, and Edmund S. Phelps. "A Dynamic Theory of China-US Trade: Making Sense of the Imbalances." World Economics 8, no. 3 (July–September 2007): 7–25.
- June 2011
- Case
Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 2
By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Keywords:
Leadership
Bower, Joseph L., and Sonja Ellingson Hout. "Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 2." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 311-703, June 2011.
- 19 Oct 2020
- News