University Level - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

automated vehicles to navigate for them. “The risk is that the promise of extensive automation may provide a false sense of security,” says Sadun. “Our findings suggest that some drivers are already easily distracted, and unable to keep a safe View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first... View Details

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

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

of externalities became additional features of the debate. The introduction of market imperfection arguments actually introduced significant complications: specialization in the "wrong" activities, i.e. those with lower levels... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in Pre-Industrial Society

greatest expression. 3 In practice, however, lending and borrowing proceeded briskly and at all levels of the pre-industrial economy, if not in forms that we would recognize today. 2 Rosa-Maria Gelpi, The History of Consumer Credit:... View Details

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

practice. All of these abrupt changes called for medical professionals to have a certain level of management prowess, says Robert Huckman, Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Outside... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

06 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

new shares you suddenly own of a company that you never intended to buy in the first place? Logic suggests that you would be likely to sell those shares. But research by Associate Professor Malcolm Baker, Professor Joshua Coval, and Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Person Page

AOM Ethno PDW 2009-2014

AOM PDW 2014: Being There/Being Them: Entry, Exit, and In-Between in Organization Ethnography

Co-Organizers: Michel Anteby, Harvard; Curtis K. Chan, Harvard; Julia DiBenigno,... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

Illustration by PJ Loughron Illustration by PJ Loughron How has your experience as Dean of the School differed from your experience as a member of the faculty? Being on campus and engaging with faculty, staff, and students is something I have done for many years, and... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

effectively be reduced with moderate levels of investment, these findings suggest substantial economic value for policy and organizational expenditures for burnout reduction programs for physicians,” the study states. "Essentially... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

hiring scholars who study race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality —by assuring each unit that it can hire such individuals without diminishing its capacity to hire other candidates. The encouragement applies to candidates at the senior and junior View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

continued outstanding contributions to the HBS community. Robin J. Ely : Winner of the 2021 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research from the Boston College Center for Work and Family and Purdue University Center... View Details

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

shareholders. Stakeholder management requires prioritizing various constituencies and their influence on a strategic decision. For example, one approach to prioritization involves identifying the power and interest of each constituent. A constituent with high View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

possible—indeed, Friedman went further to say that any attempt to curb the free market was harmful to the good of society. This is the view Ramanna grapples with in a new working paper, Managers and Market Capitalism, cowritten with Rebecca M. Henderson, the John and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jan 2002
News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

Founding Chairman, Egon Zehnder International, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Zurich, 1949 A.B., Classics University of Zurich, 1953 Ph.D., Law (including... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

compared with $260 million, or 27 percent, in fiscal 2022. For the University as a whole, philanthropic revenue accounted for 45% of total operating revenues in fiscal 2023. The School’s annual endowment distribution for fiscal 2023... View Details

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

Summing Up What is the Proper Role of Judgment in Decision-Making? There is a seemingly universal (and currently popular) quest for rational processes—what Hamilton Carvalho terms "cognitive repairs"—to counter the foibles of... View Details