Publications

07 Jul 2020
Working Paper Summaries

COVID-19 and the Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future Research and Action

Keywords: by Ashley Whillans and 28 coauthors; Health; Retail

2006
Book

Reflections from the Frontiers, Explorations for the Future: Gordon Research Conferences, 1931-2006

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich, Nancy Ryan Gray and Leah Shaper

Keywords: Research; Conferences; Cognition and Thinking; History

Web

Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

2012
Working Paper

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

By: Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson

Social networks and social groups have both been seen as important to discouraging malfeasance and supporting the global pro-social norms that underlie social order, but have typically been treated either as pure substitutes or as having completely independent effects.... View Details

Keywords: Social Norms; Social Networks; Triadic Closure; Social Groups; Group Identity; Groups and Teams; Identity; Performance Consistency; Social and Collaborative Networks; Societal Protocols; Social Media

Web

Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 26 Feb 2025 Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health Sarah Guezmir Author MBA Students tag Health Care Student & Alumni Stories The summer between my first View Details

Article

An Exploration of Marketing's Impact on Society: A Perspective Linked to Democracy

By: John A. Quelch and Katherine Jocz

The authors propose a political theory perspective for examining the impact of the modern aggregate marketing system on consumer welfare and society. Specifically, they suggest that the benefits marketing delivers to consumers are similar to the conditions required for... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Welfare

29 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark View Details

17 Dec 2020

College Programs Series: Exploring Pathways to HBS as a Student of Color

This webinar will provide students of color with the opportunity to learn more about how programs like SVMP, Peek, and 2+2 can offer access, exposure, and pathways to business View Details

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WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting

following companies: Applied Intuition , C3 AI , Databricks , Google , Imbue AI , LinkedIn , Lucid , Meta , Microsoft , NVIDIA , Nuro , Perplexity , Scale AI , Skydio , Snowflake , and Uber . Exploring... View Details

2012
Chapter

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

By: Rebecca Henderson and Robert Gibbons

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity

17 Jun 2021
News

Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

Thematically, the conference aimed to explore the major challenges of angel investing, managing and growing through a pandemic, as well as expanding opportunity for diverse founders View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Web

Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Exploring Trade Links in the Interior After the Second Opium War (1856-1860), the opening of new ports and riverways sparked tremendous growth in trade. Westerners now ventured from the treaty ports into the... View Details

November 2008
Article

Are They Really That Happy? Exploring Scale Recalibration in Estimates of Well-being

By: H. Lacey, A. Fagerlin, G. Loewenstein, D. Smith, J. Riis and P. Ubel

Keywords: Happiness

06 Feb 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties and Subsequent Performance

Keywords: by Wei Cai and Susanna Gallani; Manufacturing

Article

The Allure of Unknown Outcomes: Exploring the Role of Uncertainty in the Preference for Potential

By: Daniella Kupor, Zakary L. Tormala and Michael I. Norton

Influence practitioners often highlight a target's achievements (e.g., "she is the city's top-rated chef"), but recent research reveals that highlighting a target's potential (e.g., "she could become the city's top-rated chef") can be more effective. We examine whether... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation