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- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
The coronavirus pandemic has not only disrupted lives and businesses, it has illuminated underlying fragilities in the global value chain (GVC) that drives economies around the world. The smartphone you use many times daily is a product... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
organizations schedule time for workers to reflect on their workdays. (Previous research has shown that taking time out to reflect on work improves job performance in the long... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2016
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
rough time in the markets—baptism by fire,” she says, noting that her two intense years there were great training, as was her time at HBS. “If you can master the case method, you can do anything.... View Details
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
and organizations at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Challenging segregation at work and home The study comes at a time when cries for racial justice have grown in the United States, and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
leadership talent with the attitude, training, and willingness to devote the time to this difficult task of engagement, which can have a significant impact on performance. Too much emphasis on “making the numbers” to the exclusion of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
experience suggests it may take several years. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-020.pdf Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations Authors:David James... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021
offices and forging new paths in hybrid and remote work models. Many workers decided they didn’t want to suffer through long commutes or return to jobs they hated and joined the “Great Resignation.” And ultimately, virus variants and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
engineering and was required to spend equal amounts of time at a laboratory, in front of a computer and at the hospital. “Doctors,” this professor said, “won’t trust you if they know you are engineers.” I later came to know he was being... View Details
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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Teaching in recognition of outstanding work in the transition to online and hybrid teaching and learning. Ayelet Israeli : Received the 2020–2021 Robert F. Greenhill Award. Isamar Troncoso : Selected as an AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
“People might be intimidated to approach the sales superstar and reveal that they are having problems because of self-image issues,” Stanton says. “And the best salespeople may want to hold on to their information because it gives them status within a firm.” In a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things
the idea of completing a set, even if it means working harder or spending more money—with no additional reward other than the satisfaction of completion and the relief of avoiding an incomplete set. Imagine arriving at your boss’s summer... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
Professor Esty emphasized the importance of having a viewpoint backed up by data—I feel better equipped going into the working world having been forced to reckon with my values and how that applies to corporate policy issues. Why did you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Working PapersWhat Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive theory of GAAP under the assumption... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
Series How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About... View Details
- March 2015
- Case
BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm
By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White
BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.
In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy
Sahlman, William A., and Robert F. White. "BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 815-702, March 2015.
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Bryan Stromer
thing you'll be leaving with? One thing I brought to campus is the belief that business and the private sector have a responsibility to ensure that people with disabilities are included in our economy. I have been able to work with the... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity
On the upside, every dollar invested in treating those disorders leads to a return of $4 in terms of the ability to work and thus contribute to the economy. Nava Ashraf hopes this study will prompt more like it, both among government... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
called to our teammates. Flying isn’t about airplanes. It’s about people working together to make a mission happen. My fellow aviators came from every state, every type of background, and every walk of life. It was the trust and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective
Tunnell recalls that “as a liberal arts undergrad, I wanted an education that drew ideas from a variety of disciplines, people, and perspectives.” Noting “it wasn’t easy to jump between schools” during his time at Harvard, Tunnell says he... View Details