Giving and Philanthropy - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

new,” Choudhury says. “Now you can work from anywhere. A company can give an employee the choice of where to live, even if there’s no company office there. This is what digital nomads do.” The key takeaway of this new research, say... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Tata Hall | About

the philanthropic subsidiaries of the Tata Group: Tata Companies, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, and the Tata Education and Development Trust. Commenting on the gift in 2011, Tata noted, “I am so proud to View Details

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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

GIVING SALES MANAGERS AND SALES REPRESENTATIVES TIME TO FOCUS ON BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS, MANAGING, AND SELLING." AI systems help produce highly accurate sales forecasts, which... View Details

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

see that and keep that clearly in focus. It's frequently very hard for people to do this, to give up on a long-sought-after goal. And yet sometimes the stakes can be as high as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

probably as busy and involved today as he was when he ran the firm. He's made philanthropy and involvement in social enterprise a full-time job. What was your first job? When I... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

The Harvard Innovation Labs is a vibrant, cross-disciplinary ecosystem for the Harvard community to explore innovation and entrepreneurship while building deeper connections. The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab View Details

01 Jan 2013
News

Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus, The AES Corporation Download Sant profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1931 Born, Los Angeles, California 1955 Earns BS, Business Management, Brigham Young University 1955... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

following the steps a customer takes to select, buy, and consume a product or service. You call these situations “decoupling.” Could you give an example? Teixeira: A great example of decoupling is an... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

that disproportionately rewards people who can throw an orange ball through a hoop, people who can pick companies to invest in,” says Kim. “If you happen to be one of the lucky ones with a skill set that affords so much opportunity, it’s your duty to fulfill that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

01 Dec 2023
News

Rounding the Bend

Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2023
News

In Full Flower

80 percent of the company’s customers are women gifting to other women, and they give steadily, all year. “Our product is more about being thoughtful and caring than the grand... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; florist; marketing; supply chain management; Personal Services

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

wanted to say. I used this as a learning experience and decided to find a comment buddy—someone who would give me feedback and vice versa. After every cold call or... View Details

13 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How to Spot a Liar

receiver. The receiver had no way of verifying how much money the allocator had been given, information which the allocator was not required to divulge. Hence, an allocator could conceivably give the receiver $2 View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

It hardly needs to be said that organizations cannot learn from failures if people do not discuss and analyze them. Yet this remains an important insight. The learning that is potentially available may not be realized unless thoughtful... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

01 Mar 2024
News

Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

28 Feb 2019
News

New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

Thomas S. Roberts (MBA 1989) and his wife Kristen (photo by Russ Campbell) Thomas S. Roberts (MBA 1989) and his wife Kristen (photo by Russ Campbell) Believing that today’s complex problems require... View Details

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

Employees should think about work on the way to work by mentally mapping out a plan for their day. By using the travel time as an opportunity to get into the work mindset, employees are giving themselves a chance to make an easier mental... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Sep 2023
News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details

01 Jan 2013
News

Thai Lee, MBA 1985

hospice care, but Lee refused to give up. Researching treatment options, she found doctors at Johns Hopkins who performed complicated surgeries. Today, Margaret is cancer-free, and much of Lee's View Details