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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation

By: Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen and Max H. Bazerman
We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an "evaluation nudge," in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Performance Evaluation; Gender
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  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers

By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred

This case illustrates the importance of choosing a primary customer as the basis for organization design. Cross Country Group managers adjusted resource allocation, organization design and performance measures over time to transform Cross Country Group from an... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Gap; Entrepreneurship; Auto Industry; Insurance; Performance Management; Performance Measurement; Performance Measures; Performance Pressure; Decisions; Family Business; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Customer Focus and Relationships; Performance Evaluation; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry
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  • 25 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

Brierley Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School. Deighton studies consumer behavior and marketing, with a focus on digital and direct marketing. You Might Also Like: Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products
  • September 2020
  • Case

Minerva 2004: Discovery

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
After nearly five years in operation, Doctor Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), was reflecting on the company’s next steps. In a few short years, she and her small team had managed to develop a nanoparticle process for... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Biotechnology Industry
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  • August 2002
  • Article

Creativity Under the Gun

By: Teresa Amabile, Constance N. Hadley and Steven J. Kramer
If you're like most managers, you've worked with people who swear they do their most creative work under tight deadlines. You may use pressure as a management technique, believing it will spur people on to great leaps of insight. You may even manage yourself this way.... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Time Management; Working Conditions; Performance Evaluation
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  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

themselves or their teams are currently experiencing the shift from short-term to long-term crisis. That shift is difficult at best. The circumstances of this particular shift, particularly the awareness that things could have played out... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 17 Jul 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”

Keywords: by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • HBS Case

What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

an executive who has dealt with this. Baskin: How do leaders take care of themselves? Cohen: Each case is different. If you force a leader who’s clearly uncomfortable and doesn’t want to talk about it to open up, it may make them a worse leader: “Gosh, now my View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

open the door to major success down the road. In 1993, as a doctoral student at Harvard, Edmondson conducted a study at two local hospitals, where she hypothesized that teams that worked better together would make fewer medical errors.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Forecasting Airport Transfer Passenger Flow Using Real-Time Data and Machine Learning

By: Xiaojia Guo, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Bert De Reyck
Problem definition: In collaboration with Heathrow Airport, we develop a predictive system that generates quantile forecasts of transfer passengers’ connection times. Sampling from the distribution of individual passengers’ connection times, the system also produces... View Details
Keywords: Quantile Forecasts; Regression Tree; Copula; Passenger Flow Management; Data-driven Operations; Forecasting and Prediction; Data and Data Sets
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  • Web

Rock Summer Fellows - Entrepreneurship

Family, provides an opportunity for students exploring an entrepreneurial path to focus on founding a new venture. Details for Students (login required) The Rock Summer Fellows track is a competitive program in which students will be part... View Details
  • 12 Sep 2023
  • Book

Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You

Schedule your downtime and leisure just as you would work. Set goals that focus on service to others and earned success. Take your vacations. Invest more in family, friendships, and faith Many work-addicted strivers toil for external... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • August 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the young and ambitious company. In 2023, the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Bicycle Industry; Africa; Kenya
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  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

salary, attrition due to burnout is worth preventing. Why companies should focus on employee energy Studies have found that employees who are in good health are more likely to feel engaged and productive at work, and employees in good... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

and the fluidity of most work structures mean that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming. Teaming shows that organizations learn when the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2010
  • Book

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

By: Robert L. Simons
To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy
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  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Ashley V. Whillans
Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
  • Web

Finding Job Opportunities - Alumni

career opportunities. Idealist Idealist is a job board with a focus on social enterprise. Job postings are frequently mission-driven with an emphasis on collaboration. AngelList Interested in working for a startup? AngelList is a website... View Details
  • Web

Health Care Initiative - Health Care

Health Care Initiative Supporting a dynamic community MBA Experience MBA students focus on health care through industry-related courses, extracurricular activities, and recruiting opportunities. Faculty & Research Faculty collaborate to... View Details