Conflicts Of Interest - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Feb 2017
Blog Post

How I Chose My HBS Recommenders

graduating, I worked briefly for a Cambridge-based education startup named NuVu, before switching into management consulting and joining McKinsey. I spent time at McKinsey’s Dubai and New York offices, where I worked in a variety of... View Details

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

wide variation in the missions and activities that nonprofits focus on. Additionally, I had an interest in conservation organizations and the social goal of environmental conservation is conducive to the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity

negotiations and more broadly on negotiation as a micro-mechanism of inequality. Judith Clair Judith Clair is an Associate Professor at Boston College in the Department of Management and Organization,... View Details

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

Withdrawal—decreasing your interest in others’ resources. Sometimes this means simply walking away from a resource of value. Expansion—increasing the number of alternatives... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

24 Jul 2017
Blog Post

Transitioning to Product Management at HBS

resources available - for students looking to start their own venture, for those like me that want to join a startup, and for those interested in large tech companies. In fact, the tech/startup spirit permeated much View Details

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

personal example. "The turnaround was remarkable," he said. When asked about the how leaders could resolve the conflict in the Middle East, Rasul said, despite his being an "armchair quarterback," he would recommend... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

the United States in both parties. Whatever the reason, research is shedding interesting insights on the issue. Findings of a recent McKinsey Global Institute study include: (1) lack View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

suggests that key aspects of sponsorship actually benefit men more than women. Relative interests and a collaborative experiment Baldiga worked in the professional services industry—as an audit manager at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

November 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

Infarm: Betting the (Indoor) Farm on Food Security

By: Elie Ofek

In the summer of 2023, the co-founders of Infarm, a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company, were contemplating a major pivot going forward. While Infarm had successfully shown it could grow over 75 products—mainly herbs, leafy greens and mushrooms—in modular... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Model; Market Entry and Exit; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Transition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; North America; Toronto; Northeastern United States

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16 Nov 2010
News

The HBS Tunnels

green ones also have laundry rooms, study-group rooms, vending machines, and storage rooms along their lengths. The brown and yellow tunnels are quite narrow with quirky angles and have little of interest on... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson

24 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

professor at Harvard Business School, who co-authored the study published in Nature Human Behaviour with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania colleagues Erika Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, and... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

Profile

Ted Obi

necessary to achieve my goals as my interests evolve over my time here. Being part of the HBS community is like Winning the lottery but feeling an immense sense of humility and... View Details

01 Dec 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Financing Innovation

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda

Blog

What Black Executives Really Want

networked and got things done. But no one ever asked him to lunch. Many of the Black executives found their peers standoffish, perhaps because they were not used to being around black people. They concluded that their colleagues were just... View Details

09 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

Editor’s note: Concerns about data falsification and fabrication in a study conducted by Francesca Gino as part of this article have been shared by Harvard Business School with the publishing journal’s editor, along with a request that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

When COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home two years ago, newly remote workers largely reconnected on two collaboration apps: Slack and Microsoft Teams. The pandemic propelled Slack beyond its core following in the technology industry and piqued the View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

structure driven by the accelerators." Two Is Better A dual operating system is a nod to what Kotter believes is some of the most interesting management thinking of the past... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

Research Summary

Health-care Applications

Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm

world’s largest producers of wallboard for the construction industry. Both are active on boards and in their community and are particularly interested in issues related to education, arts and culture, and... View Details

21 Nov 2022
Blog Post

HBS Student Club Spotlight: Sustainability Club

sustainability space and wanted to delve deeper into climate. I also wanted to join this close-knit community of people who care about how we can leverage business to create a more sustainable economy. My goal as a leader is to continue... View Details

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