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  • April 2018
  • Article

Elite Strategies and Incremental Policy Change: The Expansion of Primary Education in India

By: Akshay Mangla
This article analyzes India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. This programmatic policy change is puzzling given the clientelistic features of Indian democracy. Drawing on interviews and official documents, I demonstrate the catalytic role of committed... View Details
Keywords: Education; Policy Change; Policy Elites; Institutions; India; Early Childhood Education; Policy; Education Industry; India
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  • January 2014
  • Article

Self-reported Ethical Risk Taking Tendencies Predict Actual Dishonesty

By: Liora Zimerman, Shaul Shalvi and Yoella Bereby-Meyer
Are people honest about the extent to which they engage in unethical behaviors? We report an experiment examining the relation between self-reported risky unethical tendencies and actual dishonest behavior. Participants’ self-reported risk taking tendencies were... View Details
Keywords: DOSPERT; Risk Taking; Honesty; Lying; Dishonesty; Unethical Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Robert MacCulloch
We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Price; Policy; Government and Politics; Poverty; Welfare; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 06 Mar 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Dina Pomeranz, Harvard Business School

    Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity, Engagement, and Performance

    Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by JAR, to test whether an information sharing system recording... View Details
    • 21 Sep 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

    published in the Journal of Positive Psychology. Is the restaurant owner fulfilled? In one of their first experiments, De Freitas and his colleagues gave about 400 participants different vignettes, one of which described Ariana, a fictional restaurant owner. The View Details
    Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
    • 01 Dec 2016
    • News

    In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)

    Mickelson, Henrick Stenson, and Lydia Ko. Under Brewer, Callaway’s US market share has increased 57 percent, a significant achievement as the number of active US players declines. “Melding the desire for a shorter format or more relaxed game with the classic golf View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna
    • 19 Apr 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    The History of Beauty

    worldwide, there is now also a concern that the forms in which such claims were delivered, whether in jars or creams, should be relevant to local consumers in each market. Moreover, as global firms experiment with taking new beauty ideals... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
    • September 2016 (Revised July 2017)
    • Case

    Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (A)

    By: Dorothy Leonard and Christopher Myers
    The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a federally funded research institution within NASA, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has played a large role in many space and planetary explorations, particularly to the planet Mars. As a project-based... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Aerospace Industry; United States
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    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Drop Everything, Read This

    The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • 06 Sep 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

    more than 30,000 emails sent among colleagues experimenting with various work arrangements during the COVID pandemic in 2020. He teamed with Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS, HBS doctoral student Kyle Schirmann, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • Web

    Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

    brand to new heights. Since its founding in 2014, Glossier had disrupted the beauty industry, created a powerful community-driven brand, and was looking to build the business that would unlock its growth and potential. With diverse View Details
    • 31 Oct 2023

    The Value of an MBA in Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Capital

    Do you currently work in tech, entrepreneurship, or venture capital? Or, do you aspire to work in these dynamic sectors in the future? If you find yourself in either of these categories, we invite you to join a panel of HBS students and alumni who share your career... View Details
    • 20 Jul 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

    for $1 billion. Had he never chatted with Kay, he would never have wound up purchasing Pixar, and the world might never have thrilled to wonderful animated films like Toy Story, WALL-E, and Up. Experimenting. Finally, innovators are constantly trying out new View Details
    Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen
    • 05 Feb 2019
    • News

    The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

    horizontally. Many of the systems at PCL can be an inspiration to MAYU as the business grows. My experiences at PCL in sourcing/purchasing, logistics, import and export, taxation, and legal will definitely help when building MAYU. “PCL is... View Details
    • 25 Jun 2020
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

    REGION Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia UNDERGRAD EDUCATION University of Richmond PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Jonnah, Saudi Aramco Soltan Bryce Looking five to ten years out, Soltan believes the true marker of success will be, “Am I more focused on being... View Details
    • 21 Aug 2020
    • Blog Post

    Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

    (JD/MBA 2021) and Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021), co-presidents of the JD/MBA Association, offer their perspectives on the program and what they have learned about the HLS/HBS joint degree. It’s a four-year program that gives you the full View Details
    • 09 Jun 2022
    • Blog Post

    The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

    Student Association, the South Asian Business Association, the Venture Capital & Private Equity Club, the Tech Club, and the Brew Club. She plans on starting a career in venture capital investing. What advice would you give to incoming students?The most important... View Details
    • 31 Jan 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Boardroom Centrality and Firm Performance

    Keywords: by David F. Larcker, Eric C. So & Charles C.Y. Wang
    • Research Summary

    Moral Muscle

    By: Sandra J. Sucher

    Can we get better at moral decision making? How is the capacity to exercise moral leadership developed? One answer to these questions is the notion of “moral muscle,” which is a combination of moral awareness (the ability to recognize situations that can be... View Details

    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Decision Making