Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
  • Research
    • Research
    • Publications
    • Global Research Centers
    • Case Development
    • Initiatives & Projects
    • Research Services
    • Seminars & Conferences
    →
  • Publications→

Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (1,447) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (1,447) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (1,447)
    • News  (519)
    • Research  (828)
    • Events  (7)
    • Multimedia  (2)
  • Faculty Publications  (408)

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (1,447)
    • News  (519)
    • Research  (828)
    • Events  (7)
    • Multimedia  (2)
  • Faculty Publications  (408)
← Page 14 of 1,447 Results →
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

A New Paradigm of Individual, Group and Organizational Performance

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and The Barbados Group
"The committee is therefore unable to draw conclusions, based on scientific evidence, on what does or does not work to enhance organizational performance" —Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance of the U.S. National Research Council Commission... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Performance Improvement; Research; Opportunities
Citation
SSRN
Related
Erhard, Werner, Michael C. Jensen, and The Barbados Group. "A New Paradigm of Individual, Group and Organizational Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-006, July 2010.
  • Teaching

Overview

By: Ethan S. Bernstein
Professor Bernstein currently teaches a second-year MBA course in Managing Human Capital (MHC). He is also the faculty chair for the Harvard Business School Online Developing Yourself as a Leader course and teaches in a variety of executive education... View Details

    Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration in the Presence of Outliers

    1. Problem definition: While artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms may perform well on data that are representative of the training set (inliers), they may err when extrapolating on non-representative data (outliers). How can humans and algorithms work together to... View Details
    • September 2013
    • Article

    Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers

    By: Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely and Deborah Kolb
    Even when CEOs make gender diversity a priority—by setting aspirational goals for the proportion of women in leadership roles, insisting on diverse slates of candidates for senior positions, and developing mentoring and training programs—they are often frustrated by a... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Leadership Development; Working Conditions; Organizational Culture; Gender; Diversity
    Citation
    Find at Harvard
    Purchase
    Related
    Ibarra, Herminia, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb. "Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers." R1309C. Harvard Business Review 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 60–66.
    • 03 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

    manipulation that involves misclassifying a patient into a diagnosis-related group that yields higher reimbursement. As overbilling allows hospitals to increase revenues without altering operations, affecting costs, or having to reverse such View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Article

    Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA's Office of National Estimates

    By: J. Peter Scoblic
    Would-be forecasters have increasingly extolled the predictive potential of Big Data and artificial intelligence. This essay reviews the career of Sherman Kent, the Yale historian who directed the CIA’s Office of National Estimates from 1952 to 1967, with an eye toward... View Details
    Keywords: National Security; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; History
    Citation
    Read Now
    Related
    Scoblic, J. Peter. "Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA's Office of National Estimates." Texas National Security Review 1, no. 4 (August 2018).
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Soul and Machine (Learning)

    By: Davide Proserpio, John R. Hauser, Xiao Liu, Tomomichi Amano, Alex Burnap, Tong Guo, Dokyun Lee, Randall Lewis, Kanishka Misra, Eric Schwarz, Artem Timoshenko, Lilei Xu and Hema Yoganarasimhan
    Machine learning is bringing us self-driving cars, improved medical diagnostics, and machine translation, but can it improve marketing decisions? It can. Machine learning models predict extremely well, are scalable to “big data,” and are a natural fit to rich media... View Details
    Keywords: Machine Learning; Technological Innovation; Marketing; AI and Machine Learning
    Citation
    SSRN
    Read Now
    Related
    Proserpio, Davide, John R. Hauser, Xiao Liu, Tomomichi Amano, Alex Burnap, Tong Guo, Dokyun Lee, Randall Lewis, Kanishka Misra, Eric Schwarz, Artem Timoshenko, Lilei Xu, and Hema Yoganarasimhan. "Soul and Machine (Learning)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-036, September 2019.
    • Article

    Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
    The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of decision making, behavioral choices, and possibilities for action must be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give... View Details
    Keywords: Standards; Interests; Decision Making; Behavior; Value; Groups and Teams; Performance Expectations; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives
    Citation
    Find at Harvard
    Related
    Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter." Alabama Law Review 62, no. 5 (2011).
    • April 1964 (Revised September 1982)
    • Case

    Empire Glass Co. (B)

    Details the behavior of line managers, management staff, and workers in response to long-established control system developed by corporation headquarters. View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Management Systems; Employees; Manufacturing Industry
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    Lawrence, Paul R. "Empire Glass Co. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 109-044, April 1964. (Revised September 1982.)
    • 01 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

    which all organized human groups are susceptible—the suppression, especially during planning and decision-making, of views that might be perceived as contentious or disruptive to an organization's foundational beliefs. Consider the costs... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons
    • 18 Sep 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

    Many institutions promote and even mandate moral behavior and values among their members, but how they do it differs greatly. Some organizations such as religious groups may proscribe very specifically what is acceptable behavior—think... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
    • 13 Mar 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

    avoid backsliding into dysfunctional routines—habitual patterns of negative behavior by individuals and groups that are triggered automatically and unconsciously by familiar circumstances or stimuli. Employees need help maintaining new... View Details
    Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
    • 08 Feb 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

    • 29 May 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

    going on at the School. This year the presentation topics included the human tendency toward dishonesty, the use of crowdsourcing to solve major scientific problems, and the impact of private equity investments. Understanding Dishonesty... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • March 2017
    • Case

    Intellectual Ambition at Harvard Business School: Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger

    By: Jan W. Rivkin and Amram Migdal
    This case, set in the 1920s and 1930s, discusses the contributions of Harvard Business School (HBS) Professors Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger to management research and to the Human Relations Movement in management scholarship. The case focuses on their research... View Details
    Keywords: Education; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Executive Education; Higher Education; Interdisciplinary Studies; Learning; History; Business History; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizations; Practice; Relationships; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Research; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Status and Position; Trust; Society; Social Issues; Theory; Education Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Illinois
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    Rivkin, Jan W., and Amram Migdal. "Intellectual Ambition at Harvard Business School: Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger." Harvard Business School Case 717-469, March 2017.
    • 15 Jan 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: January 15, 2008

    specialize in different stages of a complex production process. This paper considers the pricing behavior and profitability of these so-called modular clusters. In particular, we investigate a possibility hinted at in prior work: that for... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • August 2007 (Revised June 2020)
    • Case

    Trouble with a Bubble

    By: Tom Nicholas
    Examines technology, firm performance, and the stock market during the 1929 Great Crash and the Great Depression of the 1930s. The 1920s was an extraordinary period of technological progress marked by a strong run-up in stock market prices. Firms invested heavily in... View Details
    Keywords: Bubble; Stock Market; Great Depression; Irving Fisher; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; History; Financial Markets; Performance; Labor and Management Relations; Equity; Financial Crisis; Innovation and Invention; United States
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    Nicholas, Tom. "Trouble with a Bubble." Harvard Business School Case 808-067, August 2007. (Revised June 2020.)
    • 27 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

    Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan , behavioral scientist and HBS Associate Professor Francesca Gino explores the unexpected forces that often keep people from following through with their plans. The book,... View Details
    • Article

    Active World Model Learning with Progress Curiosity

    By: Kuno Kim, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Nick Haber and Daniel Yamins
    World models are self-supervised predictive models of how the world evolves. Humans learn world models by curiously exploring their environment, in the process acquiring compact abstractions of high bandwidth sensory inputs, the ability to plan across long temporal... View Details
    Keywords: World Models; Mathematical Methods
    Citation
    Read Now
    Related
    Kim, Kuno, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Nick Haber, and Daniel Yamins. "Active World Model Learning with Progress Curiosity." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 37th (2020).

      Amy C. Edmondson

      Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of... View Details

      Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry; professional services; consulting
      • ←
      • 14
      • 15
      • …
      • 72
      • 73
      • →
      ǁ
      Campus Map
      Harvard Business School
      Soldiers Field
      Boston, MA 02163
      →Map & Directions
      →More Contact Information
      • Make a Gift
      • Site Map
      • Jobs
      • Harvard University
      • Trademarks
      • Policies
      • Accessibility
      • Digital Accessibility
      Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College.