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30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

negative health outcomes, including heart disease—Wu says this is the first study to analyze the impact on the innovation generated by firms and their workers. The research team analyzed a sample of 3,445 inventors and 1,180 firms in California and New England, drawing... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Mar 2024
News

Game On

processes. That data is especially valuable in this case because the Lakewood Ranch location is the company’s beta test. Just down the street, a 15-person corporate team is building the next club in Port St. Lucie. And the one after that... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

lines. By sharing insights and fostering connections, attendees left inspired and united in their shared commitment to transforming organizational practices and shaping a collective future for women’s leadership. Read more . Select recordings from the Summit are... View Details

04 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

ability to collect and analyze more data more quickly, decision-making and problem-solving have become increasingly complex. Many people look to technology to solve modern problems, but the more technology advances, the more human... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

07 Jun 2023
Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

a co-founder as much as a life partner and that the same elements that make a marriage successful are those that make a co-founder relationship successful. Both founders also followed traditional career paths after HBS, which contradicted the pressure to have our View Details

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Team - Case Method Project

writer, researcher, and curriculum developer for the Case Method Project. A native of Amherst, Massachusetts, he received his A.B. in social studies from Harvard College and currently lives in San Francisco, California. Motivated by the... View Details

23 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

Professor of Business Administration, who coauthored the study. “Our results also suggest that a range of local businesses actually expand during periods of gentrification.” The findings are included in the new paper Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Favorite We provide continuous, high-bandwidth access to satellite data through a software-enabled optical communications module and data transfer service, connecting individual satellites in any orbit to a... View Details

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

"millions of people living and working in space." Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, has laid out plans to build a city of a million people on Mars within the next century. Both Neil deGrasse Tyson and Peter Diamandis have been given... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

Probing the productivity and morale toll The anonymized nature of the data made it difficult to discern the quality of the meetings and email communication, and the impact on employees’ well-being. The study also didn’t include the time... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Jun 2024
News

Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

18 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

can amplify bias. Some companies try to address the issue by making sure that their algorithms don’t use data on protected characteristics such as race or gender. Yet, eliminating factors like race from an algorithm doesn’t address the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 9

States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple organs. Nevertheless, most Americans are not registered organ donors despite the relative ease of becoming one. We study in the laboratory an experimental game... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2023
News

Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

17 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

perceived by workers. Rouen set out to explore the factors at play. He obtained data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for 931 firms in the S&P 1500 between 2006 and 2013, including total employee compensation and the composition... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 14

fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that Brazilian states with natural endowments that were allowed to export commodities high in demand (e.g., rubber and coffee) ended up having higher revenues... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

opportunities. He graduated from Kenyon College, has one daughter, and lives in Wellesley, MA. Marla Malcolm Beck (MBA 1998), Bluemercury Marla Malcolm Beck is the co-founder and CEO of Bluemercury Inc., a high-growth luxury beauty... View Details

23 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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Generative AI - Alumni

positions that I’ve held. The last paragraph should focus on personal interests and community involvement. Indicators: Separating inputs can help GPT understand the prompt better. This is required when you want GPT to pull data that you... View Details

20 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

researcher observed in India during the same week. "We lived and experienced these teams," Neeley says. And they asked questions. Can you tell us about your project? How do you interact with your colleagues at other sites?... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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