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  • 04 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

thoughtfully and purposefully. Every founder should read it—and take the time to digest its rich data and lessons." In this excerpt from Chapter 9, Wasserman discusses the advantages and disadvantages of a common but risky practice... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

    Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality

    In this article, we examine a case of task segregation—when a group of workers is disproportionately allocated, relative to other groups, to spend more time on specific tasks in a given job—and argue that such segregation is a potential mechanism for generating... View Details
    • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 05 Oct 2016
    • Webinars: Trending@HBS

    Negotiating the Impossible: Break Deadlocks and Resolve Conflicts (without Money or Muscle)

    Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then there are situations that seem completely hopeless. Conflict is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. To top it off, you have little power or other resources with... View Details

      Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?

      The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the complex interdependencies of globalized supply chains. While these global multistage production networks had spread during a relatively benign environment of falling trade barriers and increasing interdependencies among... View Details

      • 01 Mar 2005
      • News

      Changing Lives One Computer at a Time

      take away a valuable tool — a computer. They will be on par with fellow students who have a computer at home." Since the project's launch last October, more than a dozen HBSAAA volunteers have dedicated several hours every other Saturday to serve View Details
      Keywords: Margie Kelley; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
      • 27 Oct 2008
      • News

      Economic crisis hits as Brazil builds

      • Fall 2020
      • Article

      Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It

      By: Rebecca Henderson
      How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainable Business; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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      • September 2021
      • Article

      Income More Reliably Predicts Frequent Than Intense Happiness

      By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Ruo Mo, Adam Eric Greenberg, Bertus Jeronimus and Ashley V. Whillans
      There is widespread consensus that income and subjective well-being are linked, but when and why they are connected is subject to ongoing debate. We draw on prior research that distinguishes between the frequency and intensity of happiness to suggest that higher income... View Details
      Keywords: Life Satisfaction; Time Use; Happiness; Income; Money; Satisfaction
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      • 21 Feb 2014
      • News

      Why Rational People Can’t Succeed as Economic Forecasters

      • 27 Apr 2022
      • News

      Healthy (and Unhealthy) Coping Strategies for Anxious Times

      • 01 Oct 1999
      • News

      The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

      made good business sense. As a result, the class moved away from upward paths in large, traditional organizations. In 1992, 90 percent of those with a net worth of over $5 million had made their money in... View Details
      Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
      • 08 Feb 2016
      • Blog Post

      Applying to Business School as a Couple

      the decision when you know where you both got in. How has your time at HBS changed your relationship? Our time at HBS has brought us closer together. We met while working after college, so we did not know... View Details
      • 01 Jun 2024
      • News

      The Bookshelf: Try As One Might

      A professor of management at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and a leading expert on design thinking, Jeanne Liedtka (MBA 1981) helps people make better decisions through experimentation. The concept sounds simple enough in the... View Details
      Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; experimentation; innovation; process
      • January 2021
      • Article

      Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

      By: Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
      What is the optimal form of firm organization during “bad times”? We present a model of delegation within the firm to show that the effect is ambiguous. The greater turbulence following macro shocks may benefit decentralized firms because the value of local information... View Details
      Keywords: Decentralization; Growth; Turbulence; Great Recession; Organizational Design; System Shocks; Economic Growth; Performance
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      • 14 Aug 2014
      • News

      Why It's Time To Manage Progress and Not People

      • 19 Sep 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

      Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. “There are many benefits to the individual and the company from embracing work-from-anywhere,” Choudhury says. “But there are also challenges—and one of those is that when people are spread out across View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 15 Feb 2022
      • Book

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

      roadmap to the second curve How do you know it’s time to look for that second curve? “One of the big tipoffs is that you just don’t enjoy your work as much anymore,” Brooks says. “People love to do what... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
      • October 2008
      • Article

      It's Time to Make Management a True Profession

      By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
      In the face of the recent institutional breakdown of trust in business, managers are losing legitimacy. To regain public trust, management needs to become a true profession in much the way medicine and law have, argue Khurana and Nohria of Harvard Business School. True... View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Education; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Management; Trust; Value Creation
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      • 23 May 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Board Games: Timing of Independent Directors’ Dissent in China

      Keywords: by Juan Ma & Tarun Khanna
      • 08 Mar 2017
      • News

      Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose

      Duane Highley (AMP 177, 2009) is president and CEO for the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation. In this interview, he explains how the organization is united behind a common purpose—the concept of energy efficiency as a benefit to... View Details