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  • 31 Jan 2018
  • News

How can multinationals get their regional teams to work well together?

  • 02 Jun 2021
  • News

Will Work-from-Home Work Forever?

  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship

By: Ramana Nanda and Jesper B. Sorensen
We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel dataset. We argue that coworkers can increase the likelihood that an individual... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence
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  • September 2020
  • Teaching Note

Miami's Tech Future (B): Building the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
In 2017, Miami was rated #1 among U.S. cities for startups, but about 40th for “scale-ups” – growth companies. This case shows how leaders of incubators and accelerators supported startups and a culture of entrepreneurship, but also describes some factors limiting... View Details
Keywords: Scaling; Growth; Startup; Community Impact; Community Relations; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Community Relations; Miami; Florida
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  • 4 Jul 2014 - 7 Jul 2014
  • Talk

I'm Just Passionate!: Attributing Emotional Displays to Passion versus Emotionality

By: Elizabeth Baily Wolf and Alison Wood Brooks
People often express emotions at work that violate workplace display rules. In particular, expressing self-focused sadness is often viewed as inappropriate. Across three experimental studies, we find that the attributions that people make for their inappropriate... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Emotion; Display Rules; Emotions
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  • July 2010
  • Article

Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship

By: Ramana Nanda and Jesper B. Sorensen
We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel dataset. We argue that coworkers can increase the likelihood that an individual will... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Perception; Opportunities; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence
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  • 29 Jan 2018
  • News

How to Build Trust with Colleagues You Rarely See

  • 02 Nov 2020
  • News

Research: How Virtual Teams Can Better Share Knowledge

    Leslie A. Perlow

    Leslie Perlow is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She recently launched a second year elective, Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA. This course encourages students to... View Details

    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Loss of Peers and Individual Worker Performance: Evidence From H-1B Visa Denials

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Kirk Doran, Astrid Marinoni and Chungeun Yoon
    We study how restrictive immigration policies that result in the unexpected loss of co-workers affect the performance of skilled migrants employed in organizations. Specifically, we examine the impact of the loss of team members on their co-workers’ performance in... View Details
    Keywords: Immigration; Performance Productivity; Employees; Human Capital; Ethnicity; Groups and Teams
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    • Research Summary

    Research Overview

    Globalization and innovation are two key forces that will shape individual and business success in the 21st century. To thrive, individuals and organizations must collaborate effectively across cultural lines to solve pressing business problems and develop new products... View Details
    • March, 2023
    • Article

    Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees' Outcomes

    By: Maria P. Roche
    The transfer of complex knowledge and skills is difficult, often requiring intensive interaction and extensive periods of co-working between a mentor and mentee, which is particularly true in apprenticeship-like settings and on-the-job training. This paper studies a... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Higher Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Knowledge Dissemination
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    • 10 Mar 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

    It's common wisdom: When it comes to starting a new business, it matters who you know and how much money you have. But research into the inspiration and success of entrepreneurs has not delved very deeply into why this is so. Does it matter whether who you know are... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 29 Jan 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: January 29, 2008

    uses a unique panel dataset that allows us to track the career histories of individuals across firms. We find that an individual is more likely to become an entrepreneur if his or her co-workers have been entrepreneurs before, or if the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • July–September 2012
    • Article

    The (Un)Hidden Turmoil of Language in Global Collaboration

    By: Tsedal Neeley, Pamela J. Hinds and Catherine D. Cramton
    Companies are increasingly relying on a lingua franca, or common language (usually English), to facilitate cross-border collaboration. Despite the numerous benefits of a lingua franca, our research reveals myriad challenges that disrupt collaboration and contribute to... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Loss; Spoken Communication; Performance Productivity; Research; Global Range; Problems and Challenges; Diversity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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    • Research Summary

    Managing Multiple Identities at Work

    By: Lakshmi Ramarajan
    Peoples’ work identities, which are often a deep source of meaning for them, may conflict with or complement cultural, familial, or personal identities they value. A central focus of Professor Ramarajan’s work is understanding, on the individual level, how these... View Details
    • Web

    Entrepreneurship & Innovation - MBA

    into new ventures. Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is a wet laboratory with co-working space for early-stage, high-potential biotech and life science start-ups founded by Harvard students, alumni, faculty, and... View Details
    • 28 Aug 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

    2018 Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries By: Khanna, Tarun Abstract— Entrepreneurs in developing countries who assume they will have the same legal, governmental, and institutional... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 30 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Anger Makes a Wrongly Accused Person Look Guilty

    A co-worker accuses you of lying during an important client meeting, and you’re furious because you didn’t lie. Expressing that anger, however, isn’t the best way to prove your innocence, according to new research. “People may... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 29 Jul 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

    put their findings in perspective and offer a framework for future research, the researchers emphasized the nature of a patent examiner’s work, which requires little coordination with co-workers on a daily basis. Examiners perform their... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz