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  • 02 Apr 2024
  • What Do You Think?

What's Enough to Make Us Happy?

today’s multibillionaires and much less than most people would have assumed. One reason was that he gave away half of what he earned throughout his career. He gained a great deal of satisfaction from being frugal with View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It

following the advice of commentators from Steve Jobs to Joseph Campbell who advocate for people to marry their real-life values with their work. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do," Jobs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

    Fortune Tellers

    The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who... View Details
    • November 2016
    • Case

    ShotSpotter

    By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra
    SST, Inc. offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States in addition to a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business-to-government sales model, and the company had been... View Details
    Keywords: ShotSpotter; SST; Internet Of Things; IoT; Smart Cities; Public Entrepreneurship; Enterprise Sales; Scaling And Growth; Government; Public Sector; Innovation; Ralph Clark; Entrepreneurship; Sales; Innovation and Invention; Public Administration Industry; California; United States
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane
    This working paper surveys the business history of the global wind energy turbine industry between the late nineteenth century and the present day. It examines the long-term prominence of firms headquartered in Denmark, the more fluctuating role of U.S.-based firms,... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Renewable Energy; Competitive Advantage; Technology Adoption; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; United States; Denmark
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    Normative Judgments and Individual Essence

    By: Julian De Freitas, Kevin P. Tobia, George E. Newman and Joshua Knobe
    A growing body of research has examined how people judge the persistence of identity over time—that is, how they decide that a particular individual is the same entity from one time to the next. While a great deal of progress has been made in understanding the types... View Details
    Keywords: Concepts; Essentialism; Normative Factors; Persistence; True Self; Morality; Identity; Moral Sensibility; Perception
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    Overview

    I study how people collaborate with each other as they define, change, and solve problems while working on creativity and innovation projects in organizations.

    Conference Proceedings:
    Cromwell, J. & Gardner, H. 2017. High-stakes innovation: When... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Startups; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Teams; Team Process
    • May 2024
    • Teaching Note

    Vineyard Wind Starts Spinning: Overcoming Onshore Challenges to Offshore Wind

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-113. To activate the first wind turbines in the ocean off Martha’s Vineyard eventually supplying clean energy to 400,000 households, Vineyard Wind’s leaders had to navigate the permitting process, numerous delays, and objections from... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Renewable Energy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Industry; Massachusetts; Martha's Vineyard; New Bedford
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    • 29 Mar 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High Risk Endeavor

    Keywords: by Faaiza Rashid & Amy C. Edmondson
    • 22 May 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

    asking Working Knowledge readers to share their thoughts about student loans and debt forgiveness.  Take the poll   “This would be a great way of attracting talent,” he says. “I think there are opportunities... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 15 Feb 2022
    • Book

    When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

    Decades ago, a talented young musician pursued his childhood dream of becoming the world’s greatest French horn player, studying with great teachers, attending music festivals, and always earning first... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman

      How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management

      High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than beneficial... View Details
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      By: Ethan C. Rouen
      Relying on empirical archival methodologies—as well as techniques in data science—to develop and structure new sources of data by which to approach questions of looming disclosure changes, Professor Rouen has focused on one of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s... View Details
      • 12 Sep 2024
      • Blog Post

      4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS

      already know they wish to work in after HBS. In rare cases, and depending on the pedagogy of the course, IFCs are open to cross-registrants (students from other Harvard graduate schools). This provides ECs... View Details
      • 08 Oct 2020
      • News

      How to Manage a Hybrid Team

        ShotSpotter

        SST offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States, and a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business to government sales model, and the company had been focused on... View Details
        • March 2024 (Revised September 2024)
        • Case

        Vineyard Wind Starts Spinning: Overcoming Onshore Challenges to Offshore Wind

        By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
        To activate the first wind turbines in the ocean off Martha’s Vineyard eventually supplying clean energy to 400,000 households, Vineyard Wind’s leaders had to navigate the permitting process, numerous delays, and objections from stakeholders in three communities:... View Details
        Keywords: Climate Change; Renewable Energy; Joint Ventures; Green Technology; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Massachusetts; Martha's Vineyard; New Bedford; New England
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        • 09 Dec 2002
        • Research & Ideas

        Unilever—A Case Study

        to portfolio investment), yet these are by no means straightforward concepts. A great deal of the theory of multinationals relates to the benefits—or otherwise—of controlling... View Details
        Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
        • 11 Apr 2024
        • In Practice

        Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

        important, as in many settings, refugees face severe restrictions on how they can participate in the local economy. When you have a lower- or mid-skilled (non-refugee) migrant coming for US work opportunities, their motivation may be... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne
        • 07 Jul 2022
        • HBS Case

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

        to fantasize about big ideas,” Smith recalled. “After our first four days, and after we saw such great press and reviews, those dreams started to shape how we thought about the future.” At that juncture,... View Details
        Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds