Subjective Well Being - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

gets lost in this conversation is the extent to which the US needs immigrants. We need their youth, their willingness to work at any job, their productivity, their contributions to a social security system being weighted down by the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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History - Entrepreneurship

intricacies of finance to the art of leadership, and I am delighted to be able to support those efforts both now and for the future." Historically, approximately 50% of HBS graduates become entrepreneurs by the time they are 15 years out... View Details

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Join the MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

from Professor Porter, as well as a wide variety of video content to support preparation for and teaching of the MOC course. An annual MOC Faculty Workshop is held at Harvard Business School every December for professors from affiliate... View Details

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

performance. The Balanced Scorecard approach has evolved into a tool that can be used to help companies create greater value at the business unit level, the corporate level, and the board level. This is done through three Balanced... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

Portrait Project

Aman Kumar

for those who don't. There are two options: forge ahead, or pause and rest. Life is a fragile balance of both, managing energy as well as time, drawing inward in order to dispense outward. I wish for myself equanimity and peace alongside... View Details

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

about what to do and whether or not my ideas and hunches that I had in business school might well in fact apply, decided that the problem with the business really lay with strategic decisions being made at... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

hospital's emergency department around temporary teams called pods. The low-cost redesign led to dramatic improvements, both qualitatively and quantitatively, including a 40 percent reduction in how long a patient would remain in the ED before View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

06 Jan 2016
What Do You Think?

Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

elaborated on this idea: "All you can do is be clear about your long-term direction, make decisions with that direction in mind, monitor results, and make changes or adjustments when you’re not getting the results you expect.”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

and Kurt Vonnegut said, “To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.” To which MacDonald himself might have added, Not a bad day’s work for a guy who... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

PublicationsThe Future of Organization Design Authors:Baldwin, Carliss Y. Publication:Journal of Organization Design Abstract The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

is uncertain about what vaccine supplies, if any, are available or when they will be. The World Health Organization estimates that at least 60 to 70 percent of the population would need to be vaccinated to reach herd immunity. While... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

it’s almost an unavoidable fact that blunders will be made. We might wish we could forget them and focus instead on the more successful stages of work life, but the lessons that we take from those earliest failures have a way of sticking... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Sexual Harassment & Other Sexual Misconduct | About

committed to maintaining a safe and healthy educational and work environment in which no member of the University community is, on the basis of sex, including sexual orientation or gender identity, excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Michael F. Cronin

who have lent him a hand, and his determination to help others in turn, it can truly be said of Michael Cronin that he has never forgotten where he came from. When Cronin was six years old, his father died of cancer. To provide for the... View Details

03 Dec 2015
Blog Post

4 Things You Need to Know About Independent Projects

project I would say it's definitely workload intensive. My fall IP took quite a bit of time in clumps, including many hours over winter break, whereas my spring IP was much gentler on my time. Consider that time commitment when you are picking IPs, especially if you... View Details

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

About EcoWorldDevelopment of EcoWorld began in 2016 by Indian real estate firm RMZ to accommodate Bangalore’s increasing need for office space, particularly for tech firms. Accordingly, the development was designed to be a... View Details

2010
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Backlash to Arbitration: Three Causes

By: Louis T. Wells

There are at least three reasons for the current backlash among developing countries against the international regime that governs disputes between foreign investors and host governments. First is the inconsistency of the decisions rendered by arbitration panels... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Conflict Management

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27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

crisis as a disrupter to the status quo and look for areas of pain. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading your company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business will View Details

Keywords: by Staff

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

communicating during a crisis, brands that do it well have the opportunity to reap significant rewards. 65 percent of surveyed consumers indicated that their likelihood of purchasing a brand would subsequently View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

prodding entrepreneurial people to enter the public sector or even just to invent for the public realm." “Government should be naturals at crowdsourcing” Government entrepreneurship takes many forms. There are "public-public... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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