Life Experiences - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

more than mechanistic structures that defined work roles and regulated economic action. Mayo, Roethlisberger, and their followers saw organizations as social systems characterized by ideals, values, and, ideally, a purpose. An individual View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

"presumes two things about corporate life today: That enough corporate executives can be 'deep.' That it pays to be 'smart' in today's corporation." If the presumptions are not correct, as she implies, how do we deal with the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

to leave sued firms. Overall, shareholders use litigation along with director elections and director retention to hold some independent directors more accountable than others when firms experience financial fraud. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

07 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West

expert in this area. Our Mindful Leadership seminar focused on the practice of meditation as one of those ways, with a variety of meditation techniques taught by Rinpoche. This was strictly a secular teaching, not a Buddhist one. In my View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

other people who went to the University of Chicago (where Chris and I received our Ph.D.'s ), we seemed to have a topic of conversation with our shared experiences there. We suspected this was likely to be the case in financial markets as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

29 May 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

productivity in the service sector has been accompanied by increasing employment, a phenomenon somewhat at odds with experience in the glory days of manufacturing. Thanks in part to new technology, service sector workers work smarter. But... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

23 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 23

imprints: the founder's own, direct work experience, as well as the indirect influence of parental work experiences and professional education. Our findings further suggest that the effects of direct imprinting are strongest from the... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Crisis or Opportunity? Psychological Science Ayse Yemiscigil, A.V. Whillans, and N. Powdthavee “Does retirement lead to an existential crisis or present an opportunity to experience a renewed sense of purpose in life? In a nationally... View Details

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

1946, when the late Georges Doriot, a long-time and legendary member of the HBS faculty, founded American Research and Development as a willing and able source of financing for the new ventures that were coming to life just after World... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

the benefit of racial diversity alone, done right, pays off not just in a better company, but a more productive one. In new research that focuses specifically on racial diversity, Ely said they found measurable performance benefits when work groups chose to learn from... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2003
What Do You Think?

To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?

along with other very thoughtful responses, suggest a wide divergence of views on the role of the board in the life cycle of a corporate entity. Interestingly, those who teach corporate law suggest that board accountabilities are subject... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

failing," he said. "Begin with the end in mind, and remember that faith is power—you have to believe in something, whether it's fruit flies or God." Beverly Anderson (HBS MBA '97) had ten years of experience in financial... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

“Delivering patient care is one of those situations where timely speaking up can be a matter of life and death, or frequently a matter of high- or low-quality care.” “Psychological safety describes a belief that the work environment is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics training to lead a space-mission... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

day.” Testing the unique benefits of work By all accounts, overcrowding, extreme poverty, and the experience of forced displacement inside the camps has taken a profound toll. Doctors Without Borders has provided almost 1.4 million... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

experiment evoking a realistic context, that privacy concerns are indeed sensitive to the indirect consequences of information transmission. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-075.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407062 Liz Claiborne and the New Working Woman Harvard Business School Case 407-060 At age 47, with two decades of experience as a lead designer for a Fortune 500 fashion... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

venture money? A: The vast majority of venture capital is allocated to technology-driven businesses: software, hardware, Internet-related spaces. There is also significant investment in the life sciences and biotech. There is some portion... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

creative leadership very close-up. The business researcher in me was looking for parallels with intimate creative collaboration in general. If you think about it, there aren't too many human collaboration experiences more extreme than a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

12 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 12

A. Arnaout Publication:Nature Biotechnology Abstract Advances in biotechnology have fueled the generation of unprecedented quantities of data across the life sciences. However, finding analysts who can address such "big data"... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Publications