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- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
number increased to 4.75 percent. In the match treatment, 4.41 percent chose to donate. And in the overhead-free treatment, a comparatively whopping 8.55 percent gave money to the foundation. There was a substantial difference in total... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
Jordan. And I’d love to visit all the World Heritage sites.” Cravings: “Avocado, any which way. I love it.” In her feed: Tanaka follows several female leaders on LinkedIn. “I also follow Japanese companies that we recently onboarded View Details
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
usually an engineering challenge that is tough enough to give the company an edge, resulting in several years lead or longer, if we're lucky. We look for a tough problem that hasn't been solved before. The solution can't be so... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governing the Family-Run Business
board of directors was too dominated by the family which had kept it paralyzed and unable to give the chairman pointed, critical feedback. This family business had the right structures in place; they just... View Details
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
sometimes want you just to tell them the answer—like 'just give me the answer to leadership!'" says Bernstein, who co-teaches the required Leadership and Organizational Behavior course to first-year MBA... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Roja Garimella: Developing a Founder's Judgment
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
Roja Garimella’s path to becoming a founder was anything but straight. Setting her sights on a career in medicine since childhood, she committed to medical school with her acceptance to college. And yet, throughout her studies, she continually explored alternative... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Judgments; Financial Services Industry; Health Industry
Satchu, Reza, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Roja Garimella: Developing a Founder's Judgment." Harvard Business School Case 825-006, July 2024.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Does Observability Amplify Sensitivity to Moral Frames? Evaluating a Reputation-Based Account of Moral Preferences
By: Valerio Capraro, Jillian J. Jordan and Ben Tappin
A growing body of work suggests that people are sensitive to moral framing in economic games involving prosociality, suggesting that people hold moral preferences for doing the “right thing”. What gives rise to these preferences? Here, we evaluate the explanatory power... View Details
Keywords: Moral Preferences; Moral Frames; Observability; Trustworthiness; Trust Game; Trade-off Game; Moral Sensibility; Reputation; Behavior; Trust
Capraro, Valerio, Jillian J. Jordan, and Ben Tappin. "Does Observability Amplify Sensitivity to Moral Frames? Evaluating a Reputation-Based Account of Moral Preferences." Working Paper, January 2021.
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Top 5 Myths About HBS
all. “Admissions looks for a typical HBS profile” Chad: I think this is one of the ways that, as an applicant, you can get into this imposter syndrome mindset, and I'll give you an example. When I speak to... View Details
- 21 Feb 2013
- HBS Seminar
Rodrigo Wagner, Tufts University
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
our lawyer and we had to go bribe them to give us the domain back, because we had such a limited digital presence. And this was in the midst of the dot-com craze View Details
MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent... View Details
- September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling
By: Ethan Bernstein, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats and Luke Hassall
With 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated software solution from Reflexis. Belk hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles,... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Scheduling; Local Autonomy; Automation; Metrics; Organizational Change; Human Resource Management; Process Improvement; Performance Measurement; Transparency; Southern United States; Retailing; Department Stores; System Outsourced Services; Employee Relationship Management; Selection and Staffing; Change Management; Governance Controls; Resource Allocation; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Applications and Software; Family Business; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Bernstein, Ethan, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats, and Luke Hassall. "Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling." Harvard Business School Case 415-023, September 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
You take it and you persuade people and you build the case and you build the social movement around it to get it done. Lambert: What is the first piece of advice you would... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 10 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men
them—a familiar scenario that plays out at a lot of companies. “Merely increasing the number of employees from underrepresented groups and trying to be inclusive isn’t enough,” Ely says. “Instead, companies that are intent on diversifying... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Business History - Faculty & Research
perceived political risk in Latin America and South Asia, an analysis of business investment in education geographies, and a study of spiritual philanthropy in emerging... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
across India and Malawi. He said, “The fellowship will give me a platform to test out ideas and hypotheses while collaborating with other recipients, starting in my first... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Lingo 101
START and a group of second year (EC) START Ambassadors plan and lead activities throughout the week. TREK: Pack your bags to travel to different parts of the world! HBS Treks are student-organized trips... View Details
- 02 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women
Professor Julian Zlatev and colleagues found evidence that women who felt empowered at the negotiation table were more likely to reach worse deals or no deal at all. The results held regardless of their negotiation partners’ gender. Eight... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
FAQ - Alumni
Giving FAQ Giving FAQ What is the School’s Federal Tax Identification Number? HBS gifts are managed under the umbrella of Harvard University’s Federal Tax Identification Number, which is 04–2103580. Harvard... View Details
- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
when we choose to be polite or rude, or to give someone else compliments or not, it’s all interpersonal regulation. “If we’re doing these things anyway, why not do it in ways that are wise, productive, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman