life experiences - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

outline a consumer-oriented research agenda that will provide individuals with good advice about core purchase decisions. My anecdotal experience is that many homebuyers search until they fall in love with one house, negotiate only for... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

student statistics. HBS: Part of the Global Village The international students who grappled with this introduction to an essential aspect of life at HBS are part of a long tradition. Business students have traveled to Soldiers Field from... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

03 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 3

diaries, the authors found that nothing contributed more to a positive inner work life (the mix of emotions, motivations, and perceptions that is critical to performance) than making progress in meaningful work. If a person is motivated... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

steps towards investigating this possibility by devising a novel 10-day field experiment to estimate the differences in behavior that are created by sorting workers into their preferred institutional regimes versus having them unsorted.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

deep appreciation for education, one that took Ryan through his studies at Wayne State University and into the PhD program in engineering at Cornell. It was a path that ensured a secure future, but Ryan didn’t love the work. Rather than face a View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Riding It Out

used.” THANK YOU, WESTLEY: Minard with the horse that inspired SmartPak. On starting a business, she advises entrepreneurs to “choose something you’re intrinsically interested in; it will help you get through the hard times.” SmartPak’s View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

19 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

other people who went to the University of Chicago (where Chris and I received our Ph.D.'s ), we seemed to have a topic of conversation with our shared experiences there. We suspected this was likely to be the case in financial markets as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

29 May 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

productivity in the service sector has been accompanied by increasing employment, a phenomenon somewhat at odds with experience in the glory days of manufacturing. Thanks in part to new technology, service sector workers work smarter. But... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

19 May 2020
News

Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online

to help each other grow personally and professionally. Under normal circumstances, the support that HBS alumni find in Forum has been invaluable to navigating life and career ups and downs. But in the context of a global pandemic,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 15

the partners' actions. To redress this imbalance, we conceptually disentangle cooperation and coordination in the context of inter-organizational collaboration and examine how the two phenomena play out in the partner selection, design, and post-formation stages of an... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

when it was followed by a negative consequence. In addition, they judged the behavior as more blameworthy and to be punished more harshly. Participants' ethical judgments mediated their judgments of both blame and punishment. The results of the second View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

conservatism. Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company Authors:Øystein D. Fjeldstad and Christian H.M. Ketels Periodical:Long Range Planning Journal 39, no. 2 (April... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 May 2018
Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

lead to a different method in solving certain situations such as pay discrepancy " As Ali put it, "Why companies find it so difficult to talk salary when our government is so open on what each employee is paid is baffling. The View Details

Keywords: All Industries

09 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

was directing and executive producing that year’s HBS Show; my IP evolved into a reflection of the intersection of business and art, as well as my experience navigating both creative and business leadership. I learned a lot about myself,... View Details

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

the return of the Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) course after a two-year absence. In addition, the MBA program graduated the first class of students from the MS/MBA Biotechnology: View Details

09 Jun 2017
News

Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China

no market differentiation, no tailored, in-depth experience into China. So I thought, well, no one could access China better than I could, in a way, because I speak the language, I grew up there, and I could appreciate the Chinese culture... View Details

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)

to supporting municipalities through the life of their assets and relationship with Highland. It’s a complex job, but immensely rewarding job to balance the cost control at the backend, while still delivering an exceptional service to our... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

experience in the for-profit sector? Mario Morino: My background was in the IT industry, working in systems management, which is fundamentally about tracking the performance and integrity of large computing platforms. What I experienced... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. So why do many companies fail to help their workers battle mental health disorders? “There’s a silence... View Details