Individualism - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

more union workers experienced a 1.5 percent drop in wages over the same period—even though in both cases employment numbers remained unchanged. At firms with unions, the company negotiates with union representatives first to create a fixed wage scale, which leaves... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

conversations with individual employees during this critical time. Conversations are the best way to get leaders and employees back into the practice of relating to one another in person. How are people doing? What challenges are they... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Details Concepts Business and the Broader System Changing the Rules: Focusing on Governance and Finance Business & Politics: Driving Systemic Change Individual Action in Business Featured Exercises Values and purpose reflection exercises... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction

Gbadegesin has lived more than half of his life in the United States and speaks perfect English with a slight Midwestern accent, he is still at heart a Nigerian. Armed with his MBA, he will return home to launch an identification system designed to increase access to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; democracy; family; technology; Finance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services

individuals to review files and folders to remove old, unused, or temporary work. As a part of this process, you can compress and archive groups of files. See our HOWTO document for this. If space is still needed, contact RCS to request... View Details

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

identity; to process payments, subscriptions, credits and refunds; and to collect amounts owed, as applicable. To perform research (such as academic research). To assess admissions criteria and analyze individual and aggregate progress,... View Details

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Engagement - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

typically used in conjunction with another question type, whether cold call, warm call, or volunteer. The results of a vote – e.g. deciding to “keep or sell,” giving a company or individual a letter grade, or selecting among strategic... View Details

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

remotely. But in general, rather than monitoring every move employees make, companies should establish work goals and measure individual productivity based on output, he says. “If you’re on a team in a traditional company, one imperfect... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2004
News

Marquis Jet Takes Off

segued into high-net-worth individuals and corporations — now 90 percent of Marquis Jet’s clientele. And it reaped a bonanza of free exposure when NBC producers picked the company to appear last January on the second episode of The... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

companies, a scaling initiative for ventures at the pre-series A stage, and training for individuals managing other accelerators. The effort is a continuation of the government’s investment of 5 billion Egyptian pounds in creating a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

First, individuals experience negative emotions when examining their own failures, and this can chip away at self-confidence and self-esteem. Most people prefer to put past mistakes behind them rather than revisit and unpack them for... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

budgets and bonuses—by rewarding people purely for their accomplishments, not for their ability to hit targets—will we take away the incentive to cheat. Only then will we eliminate the budgeting incentives that drive individuals to act in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

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Why Do Consumers Contribute to Connected Goods? A Dynamic Game of Competition and Cooperation in Social Networks

Social network platforms and media rely on the voluntary contributions of individual users to stay relevant. Consumers (users) contribute content such as photographs, videos, tweets etc.: these are available to any of their friends or peers, but not... View Details

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Dissertation - Social Structure and Mechanisms of Collective Production:Evidence from Wikipedia

Andreea's dissertation research examines social networks in the setting of collective production, defined as collective action oriented towards production of collective goods - goods available for consumption by all members of a group whenever they... View Details

2025
Chapter

Leapfrog Leaders: Accelerating Systems Leadership Skills

By: Laura Cabrera, Derek Cabrera and Hise O. Gibson

We need leaders who can execute at the Strategic, Operational, and Tactical (SOT) levels. But, research shows it takes time for skills to develop at all three levels—too much time. Why does it take too much time? First, because expertise is borne of experience. An... View Details

Keywords: DSRP; VCML; Strategy; Operations; Leadership Development; Decision Making; Organizational Structure

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24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

coming into the HBS | HKS Joint Degree program. “My goal was to help individuals better invest their money – that was my North Star,” he said. Fast forward ten years, and Reed is living out that vision managing the asset allocation for... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2021
What Do You Think?

What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

through our computers and phones. Remote work has given top leaders incentives to use these communication technologies to not only communicate with every individual in the organization but even meet their pets and check out their living... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

research rethinks what academics and practitioners have simply called the supply chain—a loose federation of individual suppliers that feed companies with the goods and services necessary to create products for consumers and businesses.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

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Providers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

outcomes, reward excellence and innovation, keep pace with medical advances, and work more efficiently, so they succeed in a competitive health care landscape. Key Action Steps for Providers & Individual Physicians Design medical practice... View Details

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