Humane - Publications - Faculty & Research

2010
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Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors

We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms.... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Retention; Managerial Roles; United States

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06 Dec 2016
First Look

December 6, 2016

same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2018
News

After the Fall

of Finance and Banking When searching out the causes of the 2008 financial crisis, Professor Robin Greenwood says one needs to look to the root of nearly every crisis: human behavior. With his focus on behavioral finance, Greenwood wears... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

14 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Video Perspectives: Tara Basu Trivedi

View Video TRANSCRIPT Tara Basu Trivedi: My life's purpose is to use technology to improve human health. It's the reason why I studied what I studied in undergrad, why I took my first and then second jobs out of school, why I decided to... View Details

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Harvard & HBS IT Policies | Information Technology

Please refer to the HBS Human Resources website. Policy on Access to Electronic Information Harvard University Staff Personnel Manual Harvard University Information Security and Privacy Policies Harvard University's adherence to the... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Clean water that provides a trickle-down effect

As chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (AB 1981, MBA 1987) is enhancing the quality of life of more than six million people, approximately one-third of whom belong to the low-income sector in Manila, by making accessible a basic View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Faculty Books

discussions about the most important things in life (like happiness and sadness or hopes and fears)—is critical to helping develop the self-awareness, compassion, emotional intelligence, and authenticity required to be inspired human... View Details

Keywords: Professor Bill George; Professor Joseph L. Bower; Professor Herman B. Leonard; Professor Lynn S. Paine; Professor Howard Stevenson; Professor Noam Wasserman; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2017
News

Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis

in Paris arranged Trumbull’s interviews with government officials and NGO leaders across the continent. “They were all exhausted,” Trumbull recalls of his interview subjects. “The human weight of the situation was taking a toll on them.”... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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“Culture Is Everything”

culture. As a student at HBS, for example, he didn’t take his courses in human behavior seriously. Now, he said, he understands that “culture is everything.” Culture, in fact, was IBM’s problem. “The behavior, values, and systems were... View Details

Keywords: IBM; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

17 Jul 2017
Blog Post

HBS Summer Interns: Discover Their Career Passions

and organization practice, pursuing her desire of working in human capital. Hear below what students are hoping to gain from their summer internships. View Video View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Technology; Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail

Portrait Project

Nick Rosenbaum

to glaciers, a lighthouse at the end of the earth, monasteries perched on mountains. Death follows unseen. His Hawaiian shirt hangs in my closet, never to be washed again. Time and again I hold it to my face, breathing in his smell, until that too fades. Much later, I... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

In Memoriam

In recent months, the HBS community has mourned the loss of several prominent and long-serving faculty members whose intellect, character, and humanity shaped generations of students. Clockwise from top left: Lawrence, Rosenbloom,... View Details

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

19 Oct 2012
News

Past and Present

Sullivan: Fulfilling an age-old human curiosity. Photo courtesy Ancestry.com For Tim Sullivan (MBA 1991), the case method was the perfect way to learn. Sullivan, who is president and CEO of Ancestry.com—the world’s largest online... View Details

Keywords: genealogy; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

03 Apr 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Learning or Playing? The Effect of Gamified Training on Performance

Keywords: by Ryan W. Buell, Wei Cai, and Tatiana Sandino

2001
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Transforming Life, Transforming Business: The Life Science Revolution

By: Juan Enriquez and Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Science-Based Business; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Human Needs; Welfare; Transformation

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February 1, 2024
Editorial

Retired Military Officials: Protecting Abortion Care Keeps America Safe

By: Louis Caldera, Ray Mabus and Deborah James

Keywords: Military; Health Care and Treatment; Gender; Recruitment; National Security

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2025
Working Paper

Choosing and Using Information in Evaluation Decisions

By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Scott Kostyshak and Perihan O. Saygin

We use a controlled experiment to study how information acquisition impacts candidate evaluations. We provide evaluators with group-level information on performance and the opportunity to acquire additional, individual-level performance information before making a... View Details

Keywords: Discrimination; Beliefs; Stereotypes; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Performance Evaluation

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2023
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The Impact of Unionization on Consumer Perceptions of Service Quality: Evidence from Starbucks

By: Isamar Troncoso, Minkyung Kim, Ishita Chakraborty and SooHyun Kim

The US has seen a rise in union movements, but their effects on service industry marketing outcomes like customer satisfaction and perceptions of service quality remain understudied. In this paper, we empirically study the impact on customer satisfaction and... View Details

Keywords: Labor Unions; Customer Satisfaction; Perception; Public Opinion; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry

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Is Hybrid Work the Best of Both Worlds? Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Christos A. Makridis and Kyle Schirmann

This paper reports causal evidence on how the extent of hybrid work—the number of days worked from home relative to days worked from office—affects employee attitudes and performance. Workers who spent around two days in the office each week on average self-reported... View Details

Keywords: Attitudes; Performance Consistency; Employees; Work-Life Balance

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January 29, 2018
Article

How to Build Trust with Colleagues You Rarely See

By: Tsedal Neeley

Building trust is key to success for any organization. But that can be tricky when it comes to colleagues that you only interact with virtually. What does it take to build trust when you can’t meet in person? In this piece, the author suggests that professionals should... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Trust; Organizational Culture; Familiarity; Employees

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