Short Time Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

and provided guidance for tough decisions—it's time to get everyone who works for you focused on the job at hand. Tracking performance goals—the third implementation imperative—requires you to set the right... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

05 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

scorecard’s authors. “All employers are not created equal in terms of the type of springboard they provide for advancement,” says Fuller, who co-leads the Managing the Future of Work project at HBS. “And that's something that workers and... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

19 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

Working PapersExploring Inventory Trends in Six U.S. Retail Segments Authors:Adenekan (Nick) Dedeke and Noel H. Watson Abstract Our paper describes inventory trends for both public and private U.S. firms in six retail segments between... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Research Summary

Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

These resources are vast and diverse, ranging from tax dollars and the time of government bureaucrats and officials to national resources such as forests and mineral deposits. All these commodities are finite, and all have been squandered... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk

Web

Accelerating Solutions - Business & Environment

Climate Change: Accelerating Solutions Climate Change: Accelerating Solutions A Roadmap for Leaders Key Insights There’s no time to waste when it comes to figuring out business’s role in driving global climate solutions. But it’s... View Details

24 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

visits—boosting in-store traffic by about 10 percent. “Technology companies can play a role in working toward racial equity.” The study, called “The Benefits of Revealing Race: Evidence from Minority-Owned Businesses,” also found that... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage

18 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS

After five years working in venture capital and private equity, Laura Little (MBA 2015) was eager to make a career change. With a budding interest in early-stage healthcare, Laura enrolled at HBS to pursue her passion. These days Laura is... View Details

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Abstract—The most important of Lenin’s writings was, arguably, Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism. That work shifted the focus from workers’ struggles within one country to the dynamics of capitalism as a global system. The... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Web

Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About

sessions. This policy pertains to all program or course activities taking place in a classroom or other academic setting, including, for example, discussion or project groups, work at project sites, and doctoral dissertation defenses.... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due

Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Earning a full scholarship has always been the only realistic ticket to a superior education for me. It was this golden opportunity that allowed me to... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

20 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring Bryan Guerra...

(Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise), which incidentally, is a course that I never actually got to take while I studied here. So, it's fortunate now that I have this unique opportunity to work directly with the course content... View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Mar 2024
News

In My Humble Opinion: Role Model

One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; acting; theater; diversity; career path; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

21 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

choose to spend your first year at either HBS or HLS and your second year of the program will be at the partner school. Since I chose to start at HBS, I spent time with my HBS section for the entire first year, and in the second year, I... View Details

Web

Hiring International Students

Free Trade Agreement Individuals from: Canada (TN) Mexico (TN) Australia (E-3) Singapore (H-1B1) Chile (H-1B1) No limit on the amount of time a person can work in a TN or E-3 status A total of 6 years... View Details

10 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?

of services. "Some of these are point-of-sale situations where we didn’t traditionally think about tipping 15 percent." “In many establishments, we’re now moving to digital payment systems such as Toast that ask you each time you purchase... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette

10 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 10

time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game theory under three learning... View Details