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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
  • 2022
  • Article

Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium

By: Nathan Wilmers and Letian Zhang
Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these claims as hypocritical: prosocial... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Equality and Inequality; Wages; Recruitment
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  • September–October 2024
  • Article

Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday

By: Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tommy Pan Fang
This paper examines the effects of temporal distance generated by time zone separation on communication in geographically distributed organizations. We build on prior research, which highlights time zone separation as a significant challenge, but argue that employees... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Employees; Behavior; Equality and Inequality
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  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

markets, highlighting concerns as China strives to modernize its financial system to meet global competition and support its fast growing economy. Purchase the note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

prosperity. Recent Publications Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones 2025 | Chapter | Faculty Research This chapter explores when and why private regulatory governance systems... View Details

    Dutch Leonard

    Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
    • Summer 2014
    • Article

    When Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice?

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Halaburda
    We present a theory for why it might be rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there... View Details
    Keywords: Platform Governance; Direct Network Effects; Indirect Network Effects; Complements; Tragedy Of The Commons; Equilibrium Selection; Coordination; Foresight; Strategy; Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Balance and Stability; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Applications and Software; Network Effects
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    Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

    spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal special self-insight. Drawing on previous theory and research, we propose that the greater self-insight they are attributed leads spontaneous thoughts to exert a... View Details
    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions

    By: Alvin E. Roth
    The deferred acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and, indirectly, by raising new theoretical questions. Deferred acceptance... View Details
    Keywords: Education; Marketplace Matching; Market Design; Mathematical Methods; Theory; Practice
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    Profiles - MBA

    interest: Data Labeling, Machine Learning, Brain Computer Interfaces, AI Safety, Human-Centered AI Systems Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: The summer before college, I interned as the first... View Details
    • 09 Feb 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

    School of Management at Northwestern University.) "From an academic perspective, we thought we could advance the theory of networks by looking at the psychological consequences of networking." Previous psychology research has shown that... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 11 Dec 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 11

    individuals, subgroups, and teams perform. Paper: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1534-0856&volume=15 The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid Author:Werker, Eric D. Publication:In Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability: Political,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 Feb 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 23

    knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    experience, linking theory and practice to shape business practice and train business leaders. Nonprofit Strategy & Governance Expanding its early focus on helping nonprofits operate more efficiently to the emerging space of social... View Details
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    Skydeck - Alumni

    Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis? In this excerpt from Managing the Future of Work , Mallory Dwinal-Palisch (MBA 2015) offers a lesson plan for the American education system Carbon's Second Act A startup employing nature's C02 recycling... View Details
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    Business History - Faculty & Research

    market economies such as the United States. This article finds instead that regional influences were more important, supporting sociological theories about the importance of visibility in corporate green strategies. It identifies major... View Details
    • 27 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

    missions. Three, it could have simply rejected the new national security mandate. In reality, it didn’t play out in any of those ways. “Nothing in prior theory led us to expect what we observed—in essence, structural ambidexterity... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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    Papers in progress

    • “The ‘Carbon Club’: Oil Companies, Climate Change & the Shaping of Public Policy”. Conspiracy theories abound, but the roles of the major oil companies in influencing public policy on climate change remain largely obscure. This... View Details
    • 05 Aug 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

    wondered if there were biological or physiological factors that could help to explain the misconduct that we see so frequently in the real world” A new study reveals two key discoveries about the link between the endocrine system and... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 21 Jul 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: July 21

    stronger. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers (revised) Authors:David I. Levine and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace