Activities - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

scientific reasoning and method appear to be applicable to business, thus helping to legitimate the study of business as an activity within the university. Yet what exactly a "science" of management should study would be puzzled... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

activity and put in place collective governance. By contrast, Nagle argues, the Amazon rainforest is subject to control by a gatekeeper—Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, who must weigh national politics with environmental protections... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

02 May 2016
Blog Post

5 Facts about Clubs at HBS

up and pay dues for 5-10 clubs immediately. Attend the first couple events of a few clubs you’re considering and then commit to ones where you are most excited. Few students report being actively involved in more than 2-3 clubs each year.... View Details

20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

Like: Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here? What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose Stereotypes and Politics Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Considering Retirement - Alumni

what will you do with it? What kinds of activities will you find meaningful? Time spent considering your future now will yield returns in the quality of the time you spend in retirement. In fact, the people who are most satisfied with... View Details

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

to activate the developer, and a standard fixing agent (hypo). Another set of rollers squeezed the negative-positive sandwich out of the camera, and a dry positive print was peeled away from the negative. Traditional photographic... View Details

26 Sep 2023
Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Francesco Rossi (MBA 2024)

aunts, uncles, and cousins. Our house may not have been the grandest or most opulent, but it was a place I cherished because it was always brimming with activity and conversation. Every family reunion, to this day, never adheres to a... View Details

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

saying that, “It is manifestly ridiculous, if not actively racist, to frame this issue of justice as being worth doing because it is profitable.” The point, of course, is that economic data may be needed to counter negative gut reactions... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

competitive by integrating activities and coordinating resources across national borders. At the same time, they also need to be sensitive and responsive to national differences in consumer tastes and government requirements, for example.... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

29 Aug 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Patent Trolls

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun & Scott Duke Kominers

2008
Other Unpublished Work

Accounting, Risk Management and the Aftermath of a Control Debacle

By: Anette Mikes

Despite the widespread adoption of risk management systems in the financial services industry, recent control debacles highlight the apparent lack of top managerial attention to risk controls. Yet in order to understand the workings and uses of risk controls (or any... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Governance Controls; Management Systems; Accounting; Conflict and Resolution; Trends; Financial Services Industry

Citation

Governments and foundations around the world are urgently seeking strategies to optimize their investments across a range of distinctive missions targeted towards societal challenges. How should such investments be made, from early R&D spending to later-stage... View Details

Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality

The public release of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked tremendous interest in how humans will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accomplish a variety of tasks. In our study conducted with Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm, we examine... View Details

31 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

completed, need not detract from productivity if it’s done right,” Amabile says. For managers concerned that offering such activities might lead to distraction or procrastination, they can be offered in public space separate from the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

behavioral dynamics that may exist in supply chain management. What led you to study this in particular? Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson: Supply chains are incredibly complex with numerous moving parts. To appreciate this complexity, it is useful to first realize that... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

helps you turn an idea into a viable venture. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by... View Details

01 Jan 2013
News

André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

every year since its inception, is the only firm of its kind in Brazil that has been awarded an MQ1 rating by Moody's. Jakurski, who serves as managing director, focuses on fixed income, equity, and currency trading in global markets and supervises all trading View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

18 May 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Organization Design for Distributed Innovation

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin

2022
Report

The First Four Healthy Building Strategies Every Building Should Pursue to Reduce Risk from COVID-19

By: Joseph G. Allen, Emily Jones, Marissa V. Rainbolt, Linsey C. Marr, David Michaels, Leslie R. Cadet, Shelly L. Miller, Meira Levinson, Lidia Morawska, Richard L. Corsi, Nira R. Pollock, Yuguo Li, Alasdair P.S. Munro, Kelly Grier, Qingyan Chen, John D. Macomber and Xiaodong Cao

Understanding of the most probable transmission routes and identifying the risk environments for disease spread should always be among the first critical steps in the response to future disease threats. This is one of the most vital public health lessons of the... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Buildings and Facilities; Risk and Uncertainty; Health Industry; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry