Science Education - Publications - Faculty & Research

2019
Working Paper

The Impact of Professionals' Contributions to Online Knowledge Communities on Their Workplace Knowledge Work

By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Frank Nagle

Knowledge work is becoming increasingly challenging as pace of change in the knowledge frontier is increasing. Organizations have created multiple mechanisms to minimize knowledge gaps and increase learning such internal training, mentorship programs as well as... View Details

Keywords: Open Source; Future Of Work; Software Development; Knowledge Work; Online Community; Learning; Knowledge Sharing; Applications and Software; Open Source Distribution; Performance Productivity

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13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

India Authors:A. Banerjee, Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo, and L. Linden Periodical:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming). (August 2007) Abstract This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban India. A remedial View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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About - Race, Gender & Equity

gender, work, and family limit both men’s and women’s ability to thrive personally and professionally. Her work is published in academic journals, such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Academy of... View Details

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PRIMO Alumni Profiles - Doctoral

labor economics. Read more about Jo here. Stella Jia UC Berkeley, Class of 2025 Stella Jia (she/her) was born in the Bay Area and grew up in California. The unique presence of technology in the Bay Area led her to study statistics and data View Details

21 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Building a Better World: The Harvard Builders Club

2022) and Tomer Avni (MS/MBA 2022) We – Yarden and Tomer – are graduates of Harvard’s MS/MBA Engineering Sciences program. The program was founded in 2018 by Harvard Business School and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

van Bever Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Allison Mnookin Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 Willy Shih Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Data Science for Managers 2 Michael Parzen Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Michael Parzen Spring 2025 Q4... View Details

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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the most serious of cases. Outcomes of care should be reviewed on a regular basis with transparent information about team performance and individual performance in multidimensional outcomes. Lastly, educational sessions need to be held... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Japan - Global

studies and course materials for use in business education programs around the world. Since opening, the JRC has supported most of the Japan-focused cases and HBS research projects on the region. Location Japan Research Center Tokyo,... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

Leadership ; Venture Capital ; Talent and Talent Management ; Strategy ; Credit ; Banking Industry ; Argentina ; Mexico ; Colombia ; Latin America Citation Educators Related Alcacer, Juan, and Manuel Franck. "Hyperscaling Dreams: Ualá’s... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

2017
Working Paper

Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca

Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Analytics and Data Science; Local Range; Social and Collaborative Networks

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Business History - Faculty & Research

Business in Latin America." Chap. 8 in A Business History of Latin America , edited by Andrea Lluch, Martin Monsalve Zanatti, and Marcelo Bucheli, 159–174. New York, NY, United States: Routledge, 2025. ZEISS: Commercializing Science By:... View Details

26 Aug 2024
Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Together with HBS, SEAS offers a two-year MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences degree. The two-year program aims to educate future leaders of technology ventures by... View Details

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

educating MBAs at HBS. Martha Lagace: Teachers are leaders, as you argue in your new book, and yet most managers don’t receive any training in teaching. How can managers approach their role in a new way? Thomas DeLong: Their employees... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

related to the workforce, including the skills gap, degree inflation, care economics, the role of artificial intelligence in employment outcomes, the effectiveness of social entrepreneurs in improving education to employment outcomes,... View Details

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

medical care, defense, education and so on guarantees that fewer taxpayer dollars and government resources will be available for other initiatives. It may also mean that the national debt will increase, imposing a heavy burden on future... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(93) Budgets and Budgeting (4) Buildings and Facilities (4) Business Conglomerates (1) Business Cycles (6) Business Divisions (7) Business Earnings (5) Business Education (24) Business Exit or Shutdown (1) Business Growth and Maturation... View Details

05 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

and rural landlessness. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53164 in press Psychological Science Polluted Morality: Air Pollution Predicts Criminal Activity and Unethical Behavior By: Lu, J., J.J. Lee, F.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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