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01 Aug 2023
What Do You Think?

As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?

Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Uri Gneezy, Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work (Yale University Press, 2023). Steven Kerr, “On the Folly of Rewarding A While Hoping for B,” Academy of Management Journal,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jun 2018
News

How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don’t Get Lost in the Shuffle

04 Feb 2014
Working Paper Summaries

From Crowds to Collaborators: Initiating Effort and Catalyzing Interactions Among Online Creative Workers

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Patrick Gaule, Karim R. Lakhani, Christoph Riedl & Anita Williams Woolley

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

business but also as a determinant of wealth and poverty, they will find a way back to becoming leading participants in the debates over the fundamental question of what makes an economy grow. 2. Innovation.... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

01 Apr 1996
News

Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?

University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of 2.25 percent until 1973. Since... View Details

04 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Getting Accepted to HBS through the 2+2 Program

me more perspective and skills that would pay off when I went to business school, and I was having such a blast at work that I didn't feel I quite needed the break of school yet. After three years of work, I... View Details

02 Dec 2020
News

Nine Ways to Have a Better 2021

illustrations by Rose Wong Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness Invest in the New Abnormal Bounce Back from a Blunder Hit Pause Kill Groupthink Up Your Time Affluence Advance Racial Equity in the Office Embrace the Corona-Blur Take Time... View Details

2015
Working Paper

Moving to the Adjacent Possible: Discovering Paths for Export Diversification in Rwanda

By: Ricardo Hausmann and Jasmina Chauvin

How can Rwanda, which currently has one of the lowest levels of income and exports per capita in the world, grow and diversify its economy in presence of significant constraints? We analyze Rwanda's historical growth and trade performance and find that Rwanda's high... View Details

Keywords: Export Diversification; Industrialization; Economic Complexity; International Trade; Rwanda; Diversification; Trade; Transportation; Developing Countries and Economies; Rwanda

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13 May 2013
Blog Post

Leveraging the HBS platform to enter social enterprise

spending virtually all of undergrad involved in the public sector, I decided to try something totally different after my graduation in 2011. So, I moved to New York City and began View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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What to Expect When Coming to Campus If you are planning a trip to campus for one of our Executive Education programs you can be sure that HBS is View Details

13 Dec 2022
News

Six Ways Companies Fail to Help Workers Grow

08 Mar 2019
Blog Post

“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off

shoes, or C) make her shoes tighter due to the inserts," Smith explains. "She came up with the problem for us." Wiegele, who has a background in air and water filtration thanks to his... View Details

09 Nov 2023
Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

If you choose to pursue a career in business, I can guarantee that you will experience moments that will test you as never before. At times like those, what quality will you need more than any other? I believe that quality is courage.... View Details

04 Aug 2015
Blog Post

What’s it Like to be an HBS Partner?

participate in things. We are equal in every way and that has been amazing. I sort of thought this would be two years on the back burner but instead it’s been a truly transformation experience for both of us. Plus, I actually think being... View Details

07 Feb 2020
News

Women less inclined to self-promote than men, even for a job

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

around the world could improve responses to the next global financial catastrophe. Work done recently by dozens of Harvard Business School students under Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Jun 2018
News

The 10 best business and leadership books of 2018 so far, according to readers

10 May 2021
News

Does Your Team Understand the ‘Big Picture’? Ask 5 Questions to Find Out

09 Jan 2006
What Do You Think?

Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?

students. Manohar Kamath put it this way: "We need to extend transparency. If grades do not predict work performance, then there is a problem in the design of management education." Michael Robbins... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

06 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

competitor. That, in turn, drags down the firm’s revenue even faster. In contrast, if a company decides to eliminate head count, the employer can control who leaves—presumably letting go less-productive workers. The findings are presented... View Details