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- July–August 2025
- Article
How the Busiest People Find Joy
By: Leslie A. Perlow, Sari Mentser and Salvatore J. Affinito
Joy, along with achievement and meaningfulness, is one of the three keys to a satisfying life. Yet it’s the missing piece for many ambitious individuals, the authors found after examining data on how nearly 2,000 professionals spend their days. Jam-packed schedules are... View Details
Perlow, Leslie A., Sari Mentser, and Salvatore J. Affinito. "How the Busiest People Find Joy." Harvard Business Review (July–August 2025): 135–139.
- December 2014
- Article
The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty
By: Tiziana Casciaro, Francesca Gino and Maryam Kouchaki
To create social ties to support their professional or personal goals, people actively engage in instrumental networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended consequences for an individual's morality. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Networking; Morality; Dirtiness; Power; Networks; Moral Sensibility; Identity; Power and Influence
Casciaro, Tiziana, Francesca Gino, and Maryam Kouchaki. "The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty." Administrative Science Quarterly 59, no. 4 (December 2014): 705–735.
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty
By: Tiziana Casciaro, Francesca Gino and Maryam Kouchaki
To create social ties to support their professional or personal goals, people actively engage in instrumental networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended consequences for an individual's morality. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Networking; Morality; Dirtiness; Power; Networks; Moral Sensibility; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence
Casciaro, Tiziana, Francesca Gino, and Maryam Kouchaki. "The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-108, April 2014.
How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources
In cities and metros across the United States, leadership from government, business, labor, education, and the nonprofit sector have started to work together across sectors to bolster communal resources. These cross-sector collaborations are diverse in nature, and... View Details
- August 2014 (Revised May 2015)
- Case
Teaming at Disney Animation
By: Amy C. Edmondson, David L. Ager, Emily Harburg and Natalie Bartlett
Jonathan Geibel, Director of Systems at Walt Disney Animation Studios (hereafter referred to as Disney Animation), walked through the workspace occupied by the group he had been tasked to lead. Geibel knew he was part of a creative and magical environment. The Disney... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Creativity; Organizational Structure; Animation Entertainment; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
Edmondson, Amy C., David L. Ager, Emily Harburg, and Natalie Bartlett. "Teaming at Disney Animation." Harvard Business School Case 615-023, August 2014. (Revised May 2015.)
- March 2010 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Roll Back Malaria and BCG: The Change Initiative
By: Nava Ashraf, Rachel Gordon and Catherine Ross
Roll Back Malaria, a global partnership dedicated to fighting malaria has not met its founders' expectations of effectively combatting malaria. In 2005, after several internal evaluations, RBM leadership has decided to engage the Boston Consulting Group to work on a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Evaluation; Communication Strategy; Communication Intention and Meaning; Non-Governmental Organizations; Change Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Negotiation; Health Industry
Ashraf, Nava, Rachel Gordon, and Catherine Ross. "Roll Back Malaria and BCG: The Change Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 910-023, March 2010. (Revised March 2014.) (Request a courtesy copy.)
- 03 Sep 2024
- News
Welcoming the MBA Class of 2026 to Harvard Business School
- 26 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Kurt Piemonte
Tell us about your role at HBS. There are two main aspects of my role at HBS — one is to assist MBA students with their job searches and career planning, and the other is to aid companies in their recruiting efforts. I focus on international careers and View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association
global Jewish community, JSA brings members together to celebrate holidays, engage in learning opportunities, and foster the Jewish community on campus and beyond. This year’s JSA is led by the club’s three co-presidents – Emily Blady,... View Details
John D. Macomber
John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on climate adaptation and the... View Details
The Psychosocial Value of Employment
In settings where employment opportunities are scarce, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Video
Welcoming the Class of 2026 to Harvard Business School
- Profile
Tim Nicolette
graduating from Columbia, I worked for a year with a nonprofit. I was deeply committed to the mission, but I realized the administration didn’t have the strategy, management, and organizational skills necessary to maximize impact. Also, I... View Details
- 25 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases
- 21 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
What Does PRIDE Mean to You?
PRIDE is HBS's home for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning MBA students and their partners. PRIDE builds community through dedicated social and advocacy programming, and in doing so create a supportive environment for emerging leaders to View Details
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Sidestepping Some of the Partisan Debate: An Interview with Max Stier
By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
Whereas some organizational leaders are engaging in CEO activism by speaking out on social and political issues not directly related to their bottom line, some leaders want to avoid doing so. Some, in fact, hold neutrality as a core component of their strategy. But... View Details
Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel. "Sidestepping Some of the Partisan Debate: An Interview with Max Stier." Special Issue on HBR Big Idea: Leadership in a Hot-Button World. Harvard Business Review (website) (March–April 2018).
- February 2012
- Article
A 'Core Periphery' Framework to Navigate Emerging Market Governments—Qualitative Evidence from a Biotechnology Multinational
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, James Geraghty and Tarun Khanna
We build on the emerging literature of influence-based models to study how multinational firms can navigate host governments. Our "core-periphery" framework posits that the actions that an MNC takes with actors in what we call the "periphery"—comprised of state,... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Multinational Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Framework; Biotechnology Industry; Massachusetts; Brazil; China; Costa Rica; France; India
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, James Geraghty, and Tarun Khanna. "A 'Core Periphery' Framework to Navigate Emerging Market Governments—Qualitative Evidence from a Biotechnology Multinational." Global Strategy Journal 2, no. 1 (February 2012): 71–87.
- Research Summary
Business Leaders and the Social Sector
By: James E. Austin
This research involed a multifaceted, multi-year study of corporate and business leader involvement in the social sector. This examined: the extent and nature of, and motivation for, Harvard Business School graduates' involvement with nonprofit and social-sector ... View Details
- January 2025 (Revised February 2025)
- Technical Note
Skills-First Talent Management Onboarding, Development, and Performance Management
By: Boris Groysberg, James Barnett, Robin Abrahams and Katherine Connolly Baden
The second in a series of notes on how organizations manage skills-first talent-management chains, covering onboarding, development, and performance management. Onboarding included the practices, programs, and policies used by an organization to facilitate new employee... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- News