Managing The Future Of Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

“People think, ‘It would be wonderful if every morning I went for a run at 7 a.m. and then was showered and ready to work at 8 a.m.,’” says John Beshears, the Terrie F. and Bradley M. Bloom Associate... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Sep 2008
News

The MBA Turns 100

customers — all voice concerns about the programs, according to recent research by HBS professors Srikant Datar and David Garvin. They presented their findings to participants in two separate Centennial colloquia on View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Jun 2024
News

AI Isn’t Yet Capable of Snapping up Jobs—Except in These 4 Industries, McKinsey Says

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

experiment required the involvement of a specialist—a mortgage underwriter, say—the team would enlist an actual specialist from the bank's staff and have him or her perform... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

01 Jun 2008
News

Letters to the Editor

Christensen as Classmate I was delighted to read your excellent tribute to HBS professor Chris Christensen in the March issue. It has a wonderful description of his years on View Details

Keywords: Roland Christensen; Roberta Moniz Lasley; Diana Greer; Edna Homa; Anne Jardim; Eunice Jensen; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

15 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

studies at HEC Paris. "I've been a banker. I know they work hard. But if a banker works 20 percent harder than someone in another occupation, it doesn't explain getting paid ten times more." View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

coverage—which has led a number of colleges to take proactive steps that prevent future problems. Schools have made serious attempts to better understand the nature and extent... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

01 Jun 2006
News

NFL Players Hit the Books

Thirty-five NFL players traded their shoulder pads for notepads in late February to participate in an Executive Education program designed by the HBS faculty to help them prepare for careers after football. View Details

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

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

through improved management of the district’s resources.” Another Broad resident executive is Monique N. Epps (MBA 2000), who left a position with View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

16 Aug 2022
News

HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship

against these in-game lottery-like mechanisms and their broader implications for the gaming industry and beyond. Sasago, who was a recipient of the HBS Japan Fellowship in 2019... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Web

Growing on the Job - Alumni

improve or acquire new skills. The fundamentals of these reviews, and their variety, should be familiar to any jobseeker or employee. The key is to not assess yourself in... View Details

Lakshmi Ramarajan

Professor Ramarajan is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research examines the management and consequences of identities in organizations.

She teaches the... View Details

Keywords: nonprofit industry

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

with markets and investment. In addition, he worked half-time with a Boston-based management consulting firm on the strategy problems of several... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

instructions to work with the community. This is an interesting dimension of globalization that calls for further study: multinationals transfer not only their technology, but... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

22 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates

to assert their most attractive qualities to discriminating job seekers. At Samsung, the manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Korea, “Results speak for everything,” says Phoebe Hung (HBS MBA 2011), View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

business services team effectiveness, and overall case experience. It is becoming part of the culture—the future of BCG." View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

May 2017 (Revised August 2021)
Case

Mavi: Fashioning a Path to Brand Growth

By: Jill Avery and Gamze Yucaoglu

This case examines the strategic choices and business model with regards to branding at Mavi, a leading Turkish apparel retailer. The case is presented from the perspective of the company CEO and its global brand director who is also part owner. In 2015, Mavi had sales... View Details

Citation

Educators

Purchase

01 Dec 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

goal will be to connect with future alumni at the earliest point — while they are still students — and keep the connection vital over the next... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

January–February 2023
Article

The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Davide Sola and Martin Kupp

Many start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They all go through a developmental stage called extrapolation, say three business school professors.
View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scalability; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship