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  • Research Summary

Recruiting specialized inventors into young organizations

Commercializing nascent technologies may require the expertise of those intimately involved in the original invention, especially when tacit knowledge is essential. Yet the organization home to the original invention may not serve as the best commercialization... View Details

  • October 2017
  • Case

Still Leading (B10): Louis Gossett Jr.— A New Role Erasing Racism

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Louis (Lou) Gossett Jr.’s exemplary life included a groundbreaking career in entertainment and a bold and audacious goal to erase racism. From the Broadway stage to television and the movie screen, Gossett earned major accolades in his field, notably becoming the first... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Advanced Leadership; Change; Transition; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Prejudice and Bias
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  • February 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Following a successful military career as an Army Nurse, achieving rank as Major General, becoming the first female Acting Surgeon General of the Army, and the 22nd Chief of the Army Nurse Corps, Pollock developed a vested interest in improving the lives of the... View Details
Keywords: Health
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  • 22 Mar 2022
  • News

The Great Resignation or the Great Rethink?

  • September 2019
  • Technical Note

Care Economy in the U.S. (Primer)

By: Joseph B. Fuller, William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg
This case describes how caregiving responsibilities influence American employees, firms, and the broader economy. It details how sociodemographic trends in the late 20th century transformed the way that Americans balance their personal and professional lives, analyzing... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Demographics; Labor; Health Care and Treatment; Family and Family Relationships; Strategy; Management; United States
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  • 15 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

supplemented these data with data on employment opportunities and gender inequality across countries. The survey included several pages of questions related to gender attitudes, home life, and career path. The researchers were primarily... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

  Publications August 2014 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem By: Quoidbach, Jordi, June Gruber, Moïra Mikolajczak, Alexsandr Kogan, Ilios Kotsou, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Bridging psychological research exploring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Personal Development and Interpersonal Feedback

Enabling individual development and learning are key to enabling organizational success as well as employee satisfaction and engagement.  Many organizational approaches to employee development visualize feedback processes as mechanisms for illuminating individual... View Details
Keywords: Feedback; Personal Development
  • 16 Aug 2010
  • News

Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award

  • 2022
  • White Paper

Building from the Bottom Up: What Business Can Do to Strengthen the Bottom Line by Investing in Front-line Workers

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman
A significant number of American workers—44%—are employed in low wage jobs at the front line of industries. Despite undertaking some of the most tedious, dirtiest, and most dangerous jobs, low-wage workers are—and have long been—the most likely to be overlooked by... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Labor Market; Low-wage Workers; Worker Welfare; Churn/retention; Morale; Jobs and Positions; Employees; Wages; Retention; Well-being; Human Resources
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    The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

    A Harvard Business School professor and a16z crypto research partner and a career marketer and Web3 entrepreneur demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline... View Details
    • 21 Feb 2024

    Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder

    Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumna, Katie Kirsch (MBA 2023), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details
    • July 2012
    • Case

    Owen's Precision Machining

    By: Ramana Nanda and James McQuade
    For the second time in fourteen months, Christopher Owen, the second-generation owner of Owen's Precision Machining (OPM), found himself running out of cash. Owen wondered what he was doing wrong. How much additional money would he need to raise to get OPM through the... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Cash Flow; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Problems and Challenges; Business Strategy; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Massachusetts
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    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Wide Horizon

    There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
    Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
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    • March 2020 (Revised June 2022)
    • Case

    GreenLight Fund

    By: Brian Trelstad, Julia Kelley and Mel Martin
    As Tara Noland, the Executive Director (ED) of GreenLight Cincinnati, reflected on her first few years on the job. Noland had delivered on what she had been hired to do in the city: work with leading philanthropists and nonprofit executives to use data and evidence to... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy; Venture Philanthropy; Replication; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Venture Capital; Social Issues; Decision Making; Analytics and Data Science; Cincinnati
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    • 2011
    • Book

    Success with Science: The Winners' Guide to High School Research

    By: Shiv Gaglani, Maria Elena De Obaldia, Scott Duke Kominers, Dayan Li and Carol Y. Suh
    Do you want to develop useful skills, gain admission to top colleges, win scholarship money, excel at science competitions, and explore career options all while having fun? By reading this book and using the advice within it, you will learn how to formulate a research... View Details
    Keywords: Science; Research
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists' Participation in Commercial Science

    This paper examines gender differences in the participation of university life science faculty in commercial science. Based on theory and field interviews, we develop hypotheses regarding how scientists' productivity, co-authorship networks, and institutional... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; For-Profit Firms; Gender Characteristics; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Governing and Advisory Boards; Science-Based Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Biotechnology Industry
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    • April 2005
    • Case

    FBI: Mission Extended

    Following the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, there was consensus that the FBI needed to make organizational changes. The FBI had long distinguished itself as the world's pre-eminent organization for conducting after-the-fact investigations that laid the... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Law Enforcement; United States
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    • 07 Feb 2020
    • News

    Women less inclined to self-promote than men, even for a job