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  • 09 Nov 2023
  • HBS Case

What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

health research fund after his son experienced a psychotic break. In the following interview, Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discusses why it’s important for organizations to address mental health and... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health
  • 2016
  • Book

Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Ethics; Society; Mission and Purpose; Natural Environment
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  • 01 May 2024
  • What Do You Think?

Have You Had Enough?

experiment work. Do please pass on the art and habit of asking questions of others. To my editors over the years—Sean Silverthorne, Danielle Kost, and Dina Gerdeman—who’ve... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

While companies may tout their wellness programs as a way of investing in their employees’ well-being, many are overly focused on reducing healthcare costs, so they tend to offer step challenges and gym discounts that workers don’t have... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
  • April 2018
  • Case

Happy UAE

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Brian J. Hall, Tiffany Y. Chang, Karim Sameh and Alpana Thapar
This case centers on the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) national goal of raising the happiness of its residents and visitors through ambitious government initiatives. They combined this bold national goal with an accountability structure (incentive plan) built on Key... View Details
Keywords: Happiness; Welfare; Governance; Motivation and Incentives; United Arab Emirates
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By: Mattias E. Fibiger
Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

  Publications August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The Art of Strategic Renewal By: Binns, Andy, J. Bruce Harreld, Charles A. O'Reilly, and Michael L. Tushman Abstract—In recent years, we have seen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

    Birth of a Salesman

    This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and... View Details

    • Web

    Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

    Popular Browse All Articles About Us Newsletter Sign-Up RSS Page 1 of 5,369 Results 12 Nov 2024 HBS Case Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers by Avery Forman How can formerly incarcerated people reintegrate into View Details
    • 2022
    • Chapter

    Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The case of Wilderness Safaris

    By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Woods and Herman B. Leonard
    This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries. It illuminates a series of factors that contribute to positive environmental impact as well as financial... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Entrepreneurship
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    • 11 Aug 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?

    give, and conversations about why and how to help others are powerful,” Whillans says. “Our studies show that the way parents explain why some people have more than others in View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
    • 20 Jun 2023
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Lessons in Strategic Change

    Keywords: Re: Andy Wu; Technology
    • 07 Jul 2022
    • HBS Case

    How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

    flourishes in Brooklyn In summer 2010, Smith and Cuscuna got serious about selling their homemade ice cream. They opened a pushcart during a neighborhood arts festival, where they could test flavors with the... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 2019
    • Book

    The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe

    By: Steven L. Kaplan and Sophus A. Reinert
    The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an “economic turn” that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. From the birth of new agricultural practices and the foundation of private societies to the sustained and popular theorization of... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Systems; Trade; History; Markets; Society; France; Europe
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    Tuition & Financial Support - Doctoral

    payments, providing financial relief during the academic year. In addition, our students are eligible for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Parental Accommodations and... View Details
    • June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
    • Case

    The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

    By: Robert Steven Kaplan, Christopher Marquis and Brent Kazan
    Marc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit medical research organization. The project was founded in 1985 by Marc and his father Nick, a former Hall of Fame football player, when Marc suffered a spinal cord injury. In 2007,... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Testing and Trials; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Industry; Miami
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    Forgoing Earned Incentives to Signal Pure Motives

    By: Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang, Emma E. Levine, Katherine L. Milkman and Judd B. Kessler
    Policy makers, employers, and insurers often provide financial incentives to encourage citizens, employees, and customers to take actions that are good for them or for society (e.g., energy conservation, healthy living, safe driving). Although financial incentives are... View Details
    Keywords: Incentives; Motivation Laundering; Self-signaling; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Perception
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    Program Requirements - Doctoral

    School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as advisors for each student upon entrance into the Business Economics program. The advisors, in conjunction with the PhD Program... View Details
    • 2019
    • Book

    The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

    By: Shoshana Zuboff
    In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Profiling; Consumer Behavior; Forecasting and Prediction; Information Technology; Power and Influence; Ethics; Society; Transformation
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    • 2008
    • Book

    On Competition

    By: M. E. Porter
    Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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