Learning By Doing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

sense of co-creation and ensure engagement.” Do asrarqureshi and Jainn have something here? Do super stretch goals require more commitment than a large organization can muster? What View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 May 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.

many ways—starting with job listings. Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups The key to avoiding gender stereotyping in the hiring process lies in evaluating job candidates as a group, rather than one at a time. Why... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

advice is you have to be in, but you need to do your homework first." That means making sure you have your own people on the ground in China to oversee construction and development of your supply chain. It also means picking partners... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control over El Salvador-based savings... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

suggest that the mere provision of information on peer health behaviors can have perverse effects on one's health behavior." To learn more, see Converging to the Lowest Common Denominator in Physical Health View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

aspects of developing globally competitive businesses. Much of their growth is driven by a wealth of smart, hard working, well-educated individuals. In other words, great human capital. However, they do not... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

02 Apr 2024
Video

HBS Financial Aid Overview - Domestic Students

15 Dec 2024
News

Crucible: Give It Up

Life becomes more process-driven and less about the ultimate result. That’s a hard lesson to learn in any aspect of life, whether it’s athletics or a career. Getting comfortable with trusting the process, and not looking for the result,... View Details

Keywords: Mark Adams; Illustration by Caroline Tomlinson

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these transformations firsthand, from roles... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

perceived them to be extremely efficient. At the same time, large work organizations destabilized extended family and community relations: first, by removing individuals from their family and community and placing them in factories for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

structure). And there are many examples among smaller and lesser-known firms run by private equity companies and capable entrepreneurs. Too often leaders of firms use their industry as an excuse for not View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

03 Mar 2010
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

Summing Up Is "identity" a victim of competitiveness? A recent study of organizational behavior published by Timothy Kieningham and Lerzan Toksoy shows that employees' perceptions of their employers' levels of commitment to them... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

plumbing’ of how the company works that force you to have those discussions, to do that kind of thinking. The big thing for us, too, is that we’re going to learn that, as we execute the strategy, the world... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

2024
Working Paper

Using LLMs for Market Research

By: James Brand, Ayelet Israeli and Donald Ngwe

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly gained popularity as labor-augmenting tools for programming, writing, and many other processes that benefit from quick text generation. In this paper we explore the uses and benefits of LLMs for researchers and practitioners... View Details

Keywords: Large Language Model; Research; AI and Machine Learning; Analysis; Customers; Consumer Behavior; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

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07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

for managers who do not have intimate knowledge of the content of their work. This emphasis on demonstration of capabilities is even more critical in the open source community. One earns the respect of peers View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

Tsedal Neeley

Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research, and Faculty Chair of the Christensen Center for Teaching... View Details

22 Sep 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Measuring Teamwork in Health Care Settings: A Review of Survey Instruments

Keywords: by Melissa A. Valentine, Ingrid M. Nembhard & Amy C. Edmondson; Health

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

At a recent Harvard Business School conference, dozens of CEOs committed to the idea of working toward "higher-ambition" goals that go beyond just short-term shareholder value. Inspired by the book Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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28 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

It’s India Above China in New World Order

but, in general, China has discouraged or actively undermined local entrepreneurship in favor of an foreign direct investment-dependent approach, they say. India, on the other hand, is building an infrastructure—however slowly—that allows entrepreneurship and free... View Details