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- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It
leadership, and business growth—as well as personal growth—depends on the ability to push the boundaries, reshape the environment, and play by a different set of rules—our own," says Malhotra. "In the face of established... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say
full-time MBA experience once in your life. You want to make sure that you pick the right two years personally and professionally. I wouldn't worry so much about the financial component -- just focus on if the time in your life is right... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
from my research associates and me. I met personally with each participating team four times during their participation: An initial recruiting meeting, where I explained what participation would involve and what the team would get in... View Details
- 04 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
Journal next year. The three professors commenced their research with field data from a national pizza delivery chain, mailing out questionnaires and successfully surveying fifty-seven pizza store managers and 374 employees about their View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership
In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- Web
About - Race, Gender & Equity
gender, work, and family limit both men’s and women’s ability to thrive personally and professionally. Her work is published in academic journals, such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Academy of... View Details
- Web
The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade
merchants, making personal fortunes through sales with Western traders The hong merchants cultivated close relationships with Western traders like Augustine Heard and provided them with valuable guidance. “[Houqua’s] great success was at... View Details
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
for senior talent.” He made Delta’s employee demographics public, and he committed to hiring twice as many Black officers by 2025. ‘He made it his personal commitment’ In response to George Floyd’s murder and the ensuing nationwide... View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed With Your New Boss
will work together. Even if you don't develop a close personal bond, doing so will help you create a productive working relationship. Matching Your Requests For Support To Your Situation The type of support you need from your boss will... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
personal rapid transport, or PRT for short, has been percolating since the mid-1950s and is finally gaining ground, according to HBS professor Benjamin G. Edelman. Business and communities small and large are increasingly aware of PRT as... View Details
- Web
Leverage LinkedIn - Alumni
your resume and LinkedIn Profile. VMock is a smart career platform that provides instant personalized feedback on your resume and LinkedIn Profile to help improve aspects like presentation, language, and skills. Sign up for VMock using... View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
8 Tips to Help You Prepare for the Case Method
problem. The case protagonist is the person tasked with solving that problem. As students, we are expected to step into the shoes of the protagonist and discuss the nuances of each decision and the reasons behind them with the rest of our... View Details
- 12 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks
in the order they arrive. In general, people are not necessarily wrong to assume that their personal process is more effective than the firm’s policy, which sometimes is not the most practical one. Rather, it’s likely that people fail to... View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
“I was so struck by that. He clearly felt he was going to become untethered from the person he’d been for many years, in a fundamental way,” says Amabile, a Baker Foundation professor at HBS, who is semi-retired herself. In preliminary... View Details
- Web
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization - Recruiting
Fulfilling Career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) Paige Arnof-Fenn Student Clubs Partner with one of the 50 career-related clubs on campus to engage with targeted groups of students. See all clubs Recruiting Contacts Work with a member of our office, focusing on your... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
- 2022
- Article
How Does Working from Home during COVID-19 Affect What Managers Do? Evidence from Time-Use Studies
By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Raffaella Sadun, Andrew L. Kun and Orit Shaer
We assess how the sudden and widespread shift to working from home during the pandemic impacted how managers allocate time throughout their working day. We analyze the results from an online time-use survey with data on 1,192 knowledge workers (out of which 973 are... View Details
Keywords: Time-use; Working-from-home; COVID; Managers; Knowledge Workers; Health Pandemics; Time Management
Teodorovicz, Thomaz, Raffaella Sadun, Andrew L. Kun, and Orit Shaer. "How Does Working from Home during COVID-19 Affect What Managers Do? Evidence from Time-Use Studies." Human-Computer Interaction 37, no. 6 (2022): 532–557.
- Article
'Many Others Are Doing It, So Why Shouldn't I?': How Being in Larger Competitions Leads to More Cheating
By: Celia Chui, Maryam Kouchaki and Francesca Gino
In many spheres of life, from applying for a job to participating in an athletic contest to vying for a date, we face competition. Does the size of the competition pool affect our propensity to behave unethically in our pursuit of the prize? We propose that it does.... View Details
Keywords: Unethical Behavior; Cheating; Competitors; Social Norms; Ethics; Behavior; Competition; Societal Protocols
Chui, Celia, Maryam Kouchaki, and Francesca Gino. "'Many Others Are Doing It, So Why Shouldn't I?': How Being in Larger Competitions Leads to More Cheating." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 164 (May 2021): 102–115.
- Article
Three Principles to REVISE People's Unethical Behavior
By: Shahar Ayal, Francesca Gino, Rachel Barkan and Dan Ariely
Dishonesty and unethical behavior are widespread in the public and private sectors and cause immense annual losses. For instance, estimates of U.S. annual losses indicate $1 trillion paid in bribes, $270 billion lost due to unreported income, as well as $42 billion... View Details
Ayal, Shahar, Francesca Gino, Rachel Barkan, and Dan Ariely. "Three Principles to REVISE People's Unethical Behavior." Perspectives on Psychological Science 10, no. 6 (November 2015): 738–741.
- December 2014 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Bhutan: Governing for Happiness
By: Sophus A. Reinert, Thomas Humphrey and Benjamin Safran
Unique among the world’s countries, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan had abandoned the traditional policy goal of increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in favor of pursuing Gross National Happiness (GNH). Famously, Bhutan ranked highly on lists of the happiest... View Details
Reinert, Sophus A., Thomas Humphrey, and Benjamin Safran. "Bhutan: Governing for Happiness." Harvard Business School Case 715-024, December 2014. (Revised May 2019.)