Time As Money - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Nov 2017
News

Renshaw '20: Thank you, mom, for working all the time

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

make sure everyone is on the same page about the most fundamental questions. “While team launches set the course of a group at the moment it comes together, relaunches act as resets.” Reassess available resources: The relaunch is a View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

employment patterns, market share, business investment, and most prominently, stock market performance. Given Gates's achievements, it is interesting that he is throwing down a gauntlet to have global capitalism direct itself toward social contribution View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

functions impacted by a single issue, can be used as needed to facilitate rapid decisions. Many companies measure strategy execution with KPIs assessed annually or maybe quarterly. In times of crisis,... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

01 Apr 1999
News

Time to Vote in University Elections

will elect five members of the University's Board of Overseers and six directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. Candidates for Overseer The Board of Overseers is one of Harvard's two governing boards, the other being the President and Fellows, which is more... View Details

20 May 2025
News

AI in the Workplace Is Nearly Three Times More Likely to Take a Woman’s Job as a Man’s, Un Report Finds

12 Jul 2010
News

Education As We Know It Is Finished

01 Mar 2018
News

Leadership books for volatile and uncertain times

2017
Working Paper

Malleable Monopoly Money: Does How You Pay For A Gift Card Affect How You Spend It?

By: Priya Raghubir and Shelle Santana

This research examines the malleability of a specific form of “monopoly” money (viz., Raghubir and Srivastava 2008), gift cards, and shows that the manner in which one purchases a gift card affects its subjective value and subsequent use. Study 1 shows that... View Details

Keywords: Subjective Value Of Money; Economic Psychology; Behavioral Economics; Gift Cards; Money; Value; Perception

Citation

16 May 2016
News

The Airplane As A Microcosm Of Class Divisions

June 2022
Case

The SAH Group: The Time is Right

By: Juan Alcacer and Alpana Thapar

In January 2021, Jalila Mezni, cofounder and CEO of the SAH Group, was preparing to present the company’s future growth plans to its board of directors. The Tunisian company was a leading producer and distributor of personal care and packaged hygiene products. In 2019,... View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Expansion; Business Divisions; Product Positioning; Brands and Branding; Competition; Presentations; Consumer Products Industry; Tunisia; Kenya

Citation

Educators

Purchase

Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through... View Details

04 Sep 2014
News

Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS

He can no longer walk, talk, or swallow, but Avi Kremer (MBA 2007) won’t let that slow down his pursuit of a cure for ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease. As founder of Prize4Life, the nonprofit he launched in 2006 with HBS... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico

COO and began a major restructuring of the 5,000-employee company. “It was hard,” he admits. “There were people who had been working at the company almost as long as I’d been alive. But I think I was able to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; World Bank; United Nations; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

October 2019 (Revised April 2020)
Case

Carme Ruscalleda: The Chef as an Artist

By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Annelena Lobb

In October 2018, Chef Carme Ruscalleda, the most-starred woman chef in the world at the time, closed the doors of her Restaurant Sant Pau (Sant Pau), as she had on almost every night for the past 30 years—this time for the last time. Ruscalleda had opened the... View Details

Keywords: Restaurants; Sant Pau; Personal Development and Career; Family Business; Leadership Style; Innovation and Invention; Food; Success; Food and Beverage Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

22 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

institutional investors as a whole have been effective activists, from the perspective of being able to institute changes that increase shareholder value. Often the reason can be traced to conflicts of interest between institutions and... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services

24 Apr 2014
News

An investment of time to advance education

a director at Facebook, as well as at Dell and Walmart, to free up time for this new position and other activities. “I want to make as much of a... View Details

July 2013 (Revised May 2024)
Case

BMVSS: Changing Lives, One Jaipur Limb at a Time

By: Srikant Datar and Saloni Chaturvedi

Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently-abled persons by providing them with the legendary low-cost prosthesis, the Jaipur Foot, and other mobility-assisting devices, free of cost. Known... View Details