Personal Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Oct 2023
What Do You Think?

Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?

leaders most effectively to enter the real world. I can add a personal experience to those that Edmondson cites. In 1990, a colleague, HBS Professor John Kotter, and I began a study of the impact of an organization’s culture on its... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Dec 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Does Financial Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin, and George Serafeim

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

1907–1958 John Pepper Procter & Gamble Company, 1995–1999 Guy S. Peppiatt Federal Mogul Corporation, 1950–1969 Franklin P. Perdue Perdue Farms, 1953–1988 H. Ross Perot Electronic Data Systems, 1962–1979 Christopher J. Perry Philadelphia... View Details

Program

Agribusiness Seminar

constraints Leverage data and technology to improve decision making, operating efficiency, and responsiveness to customers Defend against commodification and drive profitability through product and marketing innovation Design robust,... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture

2015
Working Paper

Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals

By: Renée Adams, Matti Keloharju and Samuli Knüpfer

What makes a CEO? We merge data on the traits of more than one million Swedish males, measured at age 18 in a mandatory military enlistment test, with data on their service as a CEO of any Swedish company decades later. CEOs have higher cognitive and non-cognitive... View Details

Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Management Teams

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Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

outcomes to increase patient value. Patients Participate actively in managing personal health, and, when faced with care and treatment options, seek assistance in understanding the expected outcomes. Health Plans Maximize value for... View Details

09 Nov 2023
HBS Case

What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

the common misperceptions around mental health that contribute to the stigma: A person’s mental health issue is just an “excuse.” “It’s going to be a burden to our business or organization if we take on this person who has a mental health... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health

09 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

and disciplinary isolation led Duede to wonder whether the data they had collected could be used to understand the association of geographic and intellectual proximity on intellectual influence. The power of diverse interactions The study... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

14 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

lasting career ramifications. By May 2023, the number of employed moms was at its historic peak. “COVID-19 did not destroy all the gains moms have made, and that’s good news.” “Now, 77.5 percent of women in the US are employed, which is a higher proportion of working... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

Summer 2025
Article

Time Well Spent: A New Way to Value Time Could Change Your Life

By: Leslie Perlow and Salvatore J Affinito

When individuals engage in fulfilling activities outside of work, they perform better on the job, but simply encouraging work-life balance doesn’t help with hour-by-hour time management. A new tool for measuring the subjective value of time for individuals as it varies... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Work-Life Balance; Time Management

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23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Driving Corporate Performance

are using powerful performance measurement and management control systems to confront some of today's biggest challenges and opportunities, such as improving employee motivation, using AI and data analytics effectively, and reporting on... View Details

17 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade.” Collins asked him about the personal characteristics of prisoners who did... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Transforming Customer Experiences

customers to thrive Communicate your organization's strategic service mission Leverage technology to create and enhance service offerings and improve delivery Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and... View Details

15 Feb 2022
Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

Lawyers, financial professionals, doctors—these types of workers often expect their abilities to remain steady or grow with time. But Brooks points to data showing that’s not the case. In almost every high-skill profession, he finds,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

26 Apr 2023
In Practice

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

gradually and then suddenly.” Companies will move slowly to deploy generative AI technology like that embodied in OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Harnessing the immense pool of data underlying it will require the development of proprietary... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

06 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

wave” of immigration from Vietnam that the AHA triggered, the researchers discovered a fortunate coincidence: This particular group of people migrated just as the US Census created its in-depth Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) database. These View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

important.” “As we gradually understand that our children aren’t suffering, I hope the guilt will go away” This isn’t about raising happier kids, she continues. “When women choose to work, it’s a financial and personal choice. Women... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

the same over time? Does it increase or decrease? A: Customer value changes over time, and in our data we find that the value is increasing over time. In general, we expect customer value to initially increase as the firm grows and later... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services

16 Aug 2016
First Look

August 16, 2016

drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? I draw from extensive personal interaction and correspondence with nearly fifty former executives as well as research in psychology, criminology, and economics to investigate how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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