Future Of Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

working across group lines and group differences. And I think that makes a lot of people wary." “A lot of policies in the workplace about diversity are based on research... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

their credibility and increase their voice in the running of the system," Grossman and Rangan wrote in a working paper on the subject. "The key for management is to develop a governance system that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

discussion at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference. When Marc Levine was asked to head up an internal start-up at electronics equipment maker Teradyne Corporation, he jumped at the opportunity. And it paid off handsomely. The project—the Integra... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2023
Article

Post Hoc Explanations of Language Models Can Improve Language Models

By: Satyapriya Krishna, Jiaqi Ma, Dylan Slack, Asma Ghandeharioun, Sameer Singh and Himabindu Lakkaraju

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in performing complex tasks. Moreover, recent research has shown that incorporating human-annotated rationales (e.g., Chain-of-Thought prompting) during in-context learning can significantly enhance... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Performance Effectiveness

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01 Dec 2022
News

The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

related story). The Institute is currently focused on two key questions: how to respond to climate change and how to build a more inclusive economy. “BiGS was created to expand the research that our faculty are doing on these issues and to View Details

Keywords: April White

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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Effects of Climate Change The time to drive innovation is now The Climate Crisis is Here Climate change is affecting many economic sectors: The time to drive innovation is now Altering the value View Details

05 Sep 2023
News

Credit Unions Handing Reins to Next Generation of Leaders

13 Nov 2006
Working Paper Summaries

A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of An Economy

Keywords: by Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton & Zvi Bodie

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The Power of Paradox: Some Recent Developments in Interactive Epistemology

This survey describes a central paradox of game theory, viz. the Paradox of Backward Induction (BI). The paradox is that the BI outcome is often said to follow from basic game-theoretic principles--specifically, from the assumption that the players are rational. Yet,... View Details

15 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Exploring the World of Electric Adventure Vehicles

Adventuring outside her comfort zone While Danziger will likely return to EY-Parthenon after graduation to fulfill her sponsorship agreement, she says that securing her Rivian internship seemed like a low-risk opportunity to throw herself outside View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail

01 Sep 2004
News

Salter New Head of External Relations

corporate, and institutional fronts, and I look forward to working with him.” An immediate priority, says Salter, is to complete the School’s $500 million capital campaign, which continues through 2005. Initially, he will focus on raising... View Details

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

01 Sep 2018
News

The True Value of a Tweet

media’s impact on the bottom line. You and your colleagues have taken a critical look at the assumption that social media works by attracting followers, which exposes the brand and in turn leads to sales. What’s wrong with that line View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

19 Dec 2016
Blog Post

The Making of An Internship: Impact

influence an organizations’ success longterm. Watch as three Class of 2017 students highlight the projects they worked on during their summer internships, and the impacts they made. Francesca Ioffreda... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

26 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus

Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works Five Leaders Forged in Crisis, and What We Can Learn From Them How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business In a crisis,... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

of the theory you can imagine but never anything practical." Upon graduation, Hoa returned to Hanoi to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Press Center. There, she caught... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

2017
Working Paper

Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries Influence Performance

By: Paul Green, Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats

In this paper, we examine how connecting to beneficiaries of one’s work increases performance and argue that beneficiaries internal to an organization (i.e., one’s own colleagues) can serve as an important source of motivation, even in jobs that—on the surface—may seem... View Details

Keywords: Prosocial Motivation; Belongingness; Motivation; Job Design; Field Experiment; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Job Design and Levels

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01 Mar 2016
News

Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias

specialized expertise to the process—which some worry might create subject-area bias in the decision-making process and affect the quality of research. Assistant Professor Danielle Li takes a mathematical approach to examining this issue... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

11 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

Fellowship (GO: Africa) to supplement the income of MBA graduates who go on to work in Africa following graduation. The aim is to support HBS graduates who want to make a difference in emerging markets and... View Details

March 2002 (Revised July 2004)
Case

Price of Light, The: Privatization, Regulation and Valuation in Brazil

Asks students to produce a valuation for Rio Light, a Brazilian power company that is state owned and to be sold in March 1996. If successful, the privatization would bring in over $2 billion to the Brazilian treasury. But success was far from assured. Members of the... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Energy Generation; Privatization; Corporate Governance; Energy Industry; Brazil

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