Inner Work Life - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

react to the hiring decision, and was it worth the risk? Would male employees or local partners be reluctant to work with a woman? Would local customers refuse to trust the decisions of a woman? "You're basically facing a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work Culture By: Padavic, Irene, R. Ely, and Erin M. Reid Abstract—It is widely accepted that the conflict between women’s family obligations and professional... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Mar 2018
News

Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission

people that resided there and what life was like, but also about this man named Shah, who had raised a militia, and was really terrorizing that valley, and ruling it with an iron fist. And so our goal, our mission, was to fly helicopters... View Details

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2024
News

Back to School

passion. “Work is one arena where passions can be pursued but far from the only one. There’s a lot of research showing that people who pursue their passion outside work actually end up being more satisfied with their jobs.” (Jachimowicz’s... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Feb 1998
News

Women at the Top

corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies are women, such an opportunity is indeed rare for female executives, most of whom have always worked in male-dominated workplaces. "While they're able to perform very well in predominantly male... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

Editor's note: Building and landscape design can do much more for an organization than provide an inspirational headquarters or appealing work spaces. At Harvard Business School, the leafy, orderly, community setting helps reinforce a set... View Details

Keywords: Education

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

HBS professor emeritus George C. Lodge's idea of a World Development Corporation has been percolating for years—he wrote a seminal article on the proposal in Foreign Affairs in 2002 (reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge). The WDC would be a... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

attracted the research attention of Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Andres Hervas-Drane, a PhD candidate in Economics at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. Their View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

the chain best positioned to create a process that benefits all. In this excerpt, Rangan discusses the promise of channel stewardship. (Look for an HBS Working Knowledge interview with Rangan next month.)Senior managers of most of the... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

01 Jun 1997
News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

and problem solving, he told the gathering, "It is important to recognize that what we are doing here in Hong Kong is a hallmark of the School. We bring together important people to work on important problems. This is an opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

transparent. Clean Water Contestants DetoXyFiRishon Benjamin, MBA 2022We aim to provide everyone with access to clean drinking water by commercializing low-cost, natural, comprehensive water filtration devices. Ocean CycleRobert Goodwin, GMP 2007OceanCycle View Details

26 May 2022
News

Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

Life at HBS The newly renamed HBS PRIDE Alumni Association (formerly HBS LGBT Alumni Association) recently welcomed an audience of nearly 150 alumni and current HBS students to a multi-generational panel discussion titled “Five Decades of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

[American] guy working in England.” Twenty years ago, Lewis founded the Black Heart Foundation, an organization dedicated to improving educational access, quality, and outcomes for children from underprivileged backgrounds. In response to... View Details

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

of innovation in fields as diverse as real estate law and songwriting. But it is in the health sector where Watson’s impact is most tangible, where its benefits are literally the difference between life and death. “What I focus on,” says... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

Author:Louis T. Wells Publication:AIB Insights 10, no. 1 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lwells/Insights.pdf Working PapersAgency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

seeing real innovation in business, not in products but in what business does." Economic Facts Of Life There are three key characteristics of information technology markets—three economic facts of life, said Upton, that can help show... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

Web

Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar Tractor Co. General File Industrial... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age

However, like most social sciences, it’s historically based and typically involves one faculty member and their research assistant working on the case project. But there is a real opportunity here to adopt a scaled research model, a lab... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Jun 2021
News

Case Study: Inside Story

Illustration by Lu Zhang Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) grew up feasting on the stories her parents told about how they met and what it was like for them to leave China to start a new life in the United States. These narratives were central to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

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