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  • 16 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

and diversity of the AAPI experience and inspire hope for a world of empathy, compassion, and courage. Iris Yu (MBA 2023) My family story is one of many variations on the theme of the American Dream. My parents immigrated from China to... View Details
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Status Inconsistency: Variance in One's Status Across Groups Harms Well-being but Improves Perspective-taking

By: Catarina Fernandes and Alison Wood Brooks
Most people belong to many different groups. While some people experience consistently high or low status across all of their groups, others experience wildly different levels of status in each group. In this research, we examine how status inconsistency – the degree... View Details
Keywords: Status; Social Hierarchies; Well-being; Perspective Taking; Status and Position; Groups and Teams; Satisfaction; Perspective
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  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

to fill little gaps in the literature, and I continue to think that was excellent advice.” Just as researchers in the life sciences often target their work to tackle the most dangerous diseases, so argues Moss, social scientists can make... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 29 Nov 2018
  • Blog Post

The HBS Community - Student Initiatives

If you were to ask students or alumni what the best thing about Harvard Business School is, they will almost always respond; “the people.”  When we started at HBS in the fall of 2017, we found that our classmates – both in and out of section – not only brought the HBS... View Details
  • November 2024
  • Case

Demond Martin and WellWithAll

By: Hise Gibson, Archie L. Jones and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
This case study chronicles the transformative entrepreneurial path of Demond Martin, co-founder and CEO of WellWithAll, a health and wellness startup. Motivated by a pivotal life experience and deep concern for racial health inequities, Martin transitions from a... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Health; Recruitment; Leadership Style; Management Style; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Relationships; Trust; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Investment; Business Startups; Transition; Entrepreneurship; Equality and Inequality; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; Health Industry; United States; Chicago; Boston; Atlanta; North Carolina; District of Columbia
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  • April 2013
  • Article

Making a Difference Matters: Impact Unlocks the Emotional Benefits of Prosocial Spending

By: Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Ashley V. Whillans, Adam M. Grant and Michael I. Norton
When does giving lead to happiness? Here, we present two studies demonstrating that the emotional benefits of spending money on others (prosocial spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Prosocial Impact; Subjective Well Being; Donations; Happiness; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • 20 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

from that experience in recent weeks as she helps government officials explore ways to shore up the 30 million small businesses that provide almost half of the country’s jobs. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage
  • 22 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

The Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)) has a mission to destigmatize the experience of living with or being the caretaker of someone with a disability. We cherish the unique perspectives that individuals with disabilities... View Details
  • 09 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)

and diversity of the AAPI experience and inspire hope for a world of empathy, compassion, and courage. Adelina Pak (MBA 2024) The first time I ever asked my parents for help on homework was at HBS. Growing up as a child of Korean... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2017
  • Blog Post

2+2er Pursues HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Life can get quite busy here for all the right reasons. No matter how demanding it gets, I try my best not to take my time here for granted because these few years have truly been special. This experience... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

have now tasted the experience of remote work and want more of it in their future professional arrangements. In fact, several surveys suggest that approximately 70 percent of employees want to retain some degree of remote work. While many... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 17 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

third problem is his steadily eroding autonomy. To others, he looks like an extraordinarily independent, active man, but his own experience of day-by-day life is very different. He feels he has few degrees... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 24 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo

life in El Salvador—not being able to spend time with loved ones, coming here and building a life and hoping that someday it would be worth it. That’s why moments like graduation are so valuable for us, and... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2018
  • Blog Post

MBA Students Reflect on Their Summer Internships

Kriesche August 13, 2018“This summer, while most of my classmates pursued internships, I decided to work full-time on my start-up ‘smoodi’, which I recently incorporated. It’s been an amazing experience and I’m grateful for the support I... View Details
  • Profile

Sherry Chen

meaningful. How has your overall Harvard Business School experience shaped your goals & career path? My most precious experience at Harvard Business School is self-reflection and self-awareness. It helps... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Services; Other Financial Services
  • 18 Jan 2023
  • Blog Post

Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

more. We caught up with Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013), an HBS career coach with over 15 years of professional experience in high tech - including big tech, startups, and venture capital—to learn more about career coaching at HBS. Among her... View Details

    Open Innovation – How can I use the crowd?

    Innovation has become an urgent imperative for entrepreneurial and established organizations. Over the last decade, in industries as diverse as fashion design, media software, life sciences, pharmaceuticals and automotive, the most cutting edge organizations have... View Details
    • 29 Feb 2024
    • Blog Post

    African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

    The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) aims to create a close-knit community for its members from the time they choose to join HBS, through their transition to the second year, and beyond graduation. In this feature, we highlight the View Details
    • 2012
    • Chapter

    The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort

    By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
    Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.) utilizing varied work approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Applications and Software; Product Development; Organizations; Employees; Behavior; Competition; Cooperation; Creativity; Information Technology Industry
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    • 16 Nov 2016
    • Blog Post

    My HBS Journey

    View Video As I find myself looking out the window, as the airplane leaves Boston behind, I realize just how special the MBA experience was at HBS. Before I came here I heard from a few people, "You probably won't learn that much... View Details