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- 01 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
- 2020
- Working Paper
Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo and Xina Li
Prior research has documented that during mortality-related crises workers face psychic costs and are motivated to make social contributions. In addition, management practices that encourage workers to make social contributions during a crisis create value for firms.... View Details
Keywords: Crisis; Social Contributions; Work From Home (WFH); Cannot Work From Home (CWFH); Social Distancing; Online Communities; Coronavirus; COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Internet and the Web; Crisis Management
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Wesley W. Koo, and Xina Li. "Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-096, March 2020. (Revised April 2020.)
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
lean startup practices needed to be successful in entrepreneurial projects. "In government we announce something and wait to get it perfect. By using more experimental approaches, some public leaders are achieving success by testing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
The benefits of creating good aren’t often apparent to companies, since they often don’t reap the rewards. Thus, many tend to practice “loss aversion,” avoiding a known downside rather than taking the risk of creating an even better... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 07 Jun 2021
- Book
9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'
Professor of Business Administration Emeritus. “It is hard work and absolutely vital if the organization is to succeed.” In this excerpt from Effective Fundraising, McFarlan offers nine practical tips for trustees preparing to seek... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- Web
Tsedal Neeley | About
the "30% rule" outlining the minimum technology and change capabilities needed to succeed in a future driven by machine learning and AI. Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere highlights evidence-based best practices in remote... View Details
- Web
Engagement - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
the class and determine on which students to call on. Buzz Groups Taking a few minutes for students to talk among themselves or practice a managerial scenario allows all students to participate and engage with class content. It can also... View Details
- 15 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Promises and Limitations of Big Data
article by Professor Sunil Gupta in the European Business Review highlights the potential impact of big data on business practices in three broad areas: applications, methods, and infrastructure. View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in Pre-Industrial Society
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and Charity Pre-Industrial Credit in... View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
they act by improving their leadership skills. The former takes time to identify and assess critical assumptions about management, leadership, and business; the latter requires practicing new approaches. Getting away for an extended... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
roll it out in Asia, then Europe. Functional managers with worldwide responsibilities really have to know their specialty—whether it's technology, R&D, or people. They must know where best practice is and how to leverage it.... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
Jobs to be Done Case Practice The Godrej Group Applying Jobs to be Done to You Featured Exercises One-on-One Discussion & Interview Assignment: Discovering Customer Jobs to be Done Team Discussion: Innovation in Yogurt 5-6 hrs Module 3... View Details
- 29 Jul 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from the Kursk Submarine Rescue Failure: The Case for Pluralistic Risk Management
Keywords: by Anette Mikes & Amram Migdal
- 18 Jul 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Cumulative Innovation & Open Disclosure of Intermediate Results: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Bioinformatics
Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau & Karim Lakhani
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
PublicationsIndispensable: When Leaders Really Matter Author:Gautam Mukunda Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract Will your next leader be insignificant-or indispensable? The importance of leadership and the impact of individual leaders has long... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Need for (Long) Chains in Kidney Exchange
- Teaching Interest
Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)
Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details
- Winter 2021
- Article
Dealmaking Disrupted: The Unexplored Power of Social Media in Negotiation
By: James K. Sebenius, Ben Cook, David A. Lax, Isaac Silberberg and Paul Levy
While social media has had profound effects in many realms, the theory and practice of negotiation have remained relatively untouched by this potent phenomenon. In this article, we survey existing research in this area and develop a broader framework for understanding... View Details
Sebenius, James K., Ben Cook, David A. Lax, Isaac Silberberg, and Paul Levy. "Dealmaking Disrupted: The Unexplored Power of Social Media in Negotiation." Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Negotiation. Negotiation Journal 37, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 97–141.
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The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States
By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios
Even though epidemiological evidence links specific workplace stressors to health outcomes, the aggregate contribution of these factors to overall mortality and health spending in the United States is not known. In this paper, we build a model to estimate the excess... View Details
Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Stefanos A. Zenios. "The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States." Management Science 62, no. 2 (February 2016): 608–628.
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Tread Lightly Through These Accounting Minefields
By: H. David Sherman and S. David Young
In the current economic climate, there is tremendous pressure—and personal incentive for managers—to report sales growth and meet investors' revenue expectations. As a result, more companies have been issuing misleading financial reports, according to the SEC,... View Details
Sherman, H. David, and S. David Young. "Tread Lightly Through These Accounting Minefields." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 7 (July–August 2001): 129–135.