Life Experiences - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

Working PapersHappiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2025
News

Heartland

Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

economic theory with field experiments. "Field experiments give you scientific rigor while being close to practice," says. "Unless you really have a bulletproof argument that you can't poke holes in, it's hard to change prior beliefs."... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2012
News

Rival Visions

After its war of liberation from England, America was bankrupt, disjointed, and devoid of experience in governance. "The new country could have broken apart because of its financial problems," HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw writes... View Details

17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

details of his theories regarding economic development and international financial interactions, as well as his indebtedness to earlier Renaissance traditions. The book also uncovers new material relating to Serra’s life and provides... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

Emerita Deborah Kolb. "Despite bodies of knowledge about social institutions and social issues at the institutional and organizational levels, we know very little about how individual organizations experience and internalize gradual... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

students may experience soon after graduation). It offers a manager’s perspective on how to drive program execution. This course will develop implementation and project management skills . A critical skill required of program managers is... View Details

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

on political campaigns that promise a different approach to foreign and domestic policy. As formative as those experiences were in establishing her sense of justice and political engagement, however, the linchpin is probably a very... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

26 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Syngenta Tomato Vision

around the room. We were fortunately able to sample different varieties of tomatoes and experience their innovative flavor profiles. For instance, we were able to try the award-winning Yoom tomato that had been created for a specific... View Details

16 Jan 2020
News

Hitting the High Notes

Hong performed selections from Beethoven and Schumann, followed by another short film by Kim, about the life of another Aronson student, cellist Mitchell Maxwell. Hong concluded the concert with the theme from “Schindler’s List” by John... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 1996
News

Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

are wreaking havoc on the workplace. Reengineering, for example, destabilizes and changes the rules by which organizations operate, he says. "Many of these programs are actually designed to make life easier for top management without... View Details

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

school tend to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more prosocial than others... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2020
News

Well Matched

over five feet tall, Rapaport was the number-one draft pick of Orlando Magic forward Al-Farouq Aminu, who saw her experience at Jefferies, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs as a definite plus in helping chart his own financial future. Rapaport... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance

17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market Authors:Santosh Anagol, Shawn Cole, and Shayak Sarkar Abstract We conduct a series of field experiments to evaluate two competing views of the role of financial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

English and history at Dartmouth; his acceptance to HBS came with the caveat that he add another year of work experience to the two already listed on his résumé and complete some of the quantitative courses his transcript lacked. He spent... View Details

31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

2017 Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Democracy: A Case Study By: Moss, David Abstract—Democracy: A Case Study invites readers to experience American history anew and come away with a deeper understanding of the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

on how gender stereotypes impact belief updating. Participants in our experiments take tests of their ability across different domains. Absent feedback, beliefs of own ability are strongly influenced by gender stereotypes. We then provide... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

which all 88,000 workers are new, many are temporary, and half are volunteers, an entity that has no preexisting procedures and methods, no institutional memory, no long-term viewpoint, no established corporate culture, and, by definition, no future. "Think of the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

17 Dec 2017
News

How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

experience that I had. Otherwise, you're just an aid tourist and, oftentimes, a draw on those organizations resources. The opportunity I found was setting up a job trading center at one of these IDP camps. While I was there, someone had... View Details

06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

understanding their life stories. Authentic leaders frame their stories in ways that allow them to see themselves not as passive observers but as individuals who learn from their experiences. These leaders make time to examine their View Details