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    Krishna G. Palepu

    KRISHNA G. PALEPU is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, and has served previously as Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University, and Senior Associate Dean at the... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; banking; financial services; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; retailing
    • 06 Mar 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: March 6, 2007

    perform their jobs more safely and effectively. The latter required that workers engage in mutual expressions of vulnerability: they acknowledged their physical limitations, learned from their mistakes, and attended to their own and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 23 Sep 2019
    • Blog Post

    Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

    times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. So why do many companies fail to help their workers battle mental health disorders? “There’s a silence... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • October 2015
    • Article

    Global Teams That Work

    By: Tsedal Neeley
    Many companies today rely on employees around the world, leveraging their diversity and local expertise to gain a competitive edge. However, geographically dispersed teams face a big challenge: physical separation and cultural differences can create social distance, or... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Groups and Teams; Performance; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Learning to Use: Stack Overflow and Technology Adoption

    By: Daniel Jay Brown and Maria P. Roche
    In this paper, we examine the potential impact of Q&A websites on the adoption of technologies. Using data from Stack Overflow – one of the most popular Q&A websites worldwide – and implementing an instrumental-variable approach, we find that users whose questions... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Adoption; Knowledge Sharing
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    • 05 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

    subsequently. Our results are consistent with theory on the active role firms can play in managing their reputational capital through anticipatory actions to avoid negative media coverage. Publisher's link:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 07 Dec 2023
    • Webinars: Career

    Considering Retirement

    "So you're actually thinking about retiring?!" Retirement can inspire not only excitement for new possibilities, but also fear for the future. How can you keep the parts of work you love but enjoy more balance in your life? What work will you do? How will this... View Details
    • 26 Sep 2023
    • Blog Post

    HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Francesco Rossi (MBA 2024)

    certain elements of Peru were conspicuously absent from my life. I yearned for the cuisine, the vibrant national holiday celebrations, the fervor for soccer, and so much more. Yet, I came to understand that what I missed were not mere View Details
    • October 2022
    • Case

    EducationSuperHighway 2.0

    By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
    In 2012, Evan Marwell launched EducationSuperHighway (ESH) to address a major problem: though most public K-12 schools in the US had access to the Internet, only roughly 30% had true broadband access that would enable every student to have high speed connectivity. ... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Leading Change; Early Childhood Education; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
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    • 24 Sep 2014
    • Op-Ed

    The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

    zone. It's how financial managers cover the possibility of unlikely but high impact events. Why would asset owners—never mind groups of citizens—not want to use a probability-based approach to resilience of physical portfolios in the face... View Details
    Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
    • 30 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    January 30, 2018

    digital activities that impact physical realities. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53823 Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Apr 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: April 20

    emerged. Universities also became active players in the commercialization of science. In short, science has become a business. This essay examines the institutional and organizational challenges created by this convergence of science and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 1

    physical activity: people's activity levels tend to converge to the lowest-performing members of their groups. This research adds to our understanding of the factors that determine when the behavior of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July 2022
    • Article

    When Alterations Are Violations: Moral Outrage and Punishment in Response to (Even Minor) Alterations to Rituals

    By: Daniel H. Stein, Juliana Schroeder, Nicholas M. Hobson, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton
    From Catholics performing the sign of the cross since the 4th century to Americans reciting the Pledge of Allegiance since the 1890s, group rituals (i.e., predefined sequences of symbolic actions) have strikingly consistent features over time. Seven studies (N = 4,213)... View Details
    Keywords: Ritual; Morality; Groups; Norms; Commitment; Groups and Teams; Values and Beliefs; Change; Moral Sensibility; Behavior
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    • May 2020
    • Article

    Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education

    By: Jessica N. Holtzman, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert and Jennifer Kasper
    Problem: Value-based health care (VBHC) is an innovative framework for redesigning care delivery to achieve better outcomes for patients and reduce cost; however, providing students with the skills to understand and engage with these topics is a challenge to... View Details
    Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses
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    • 2019
    • White Paper

    Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

    By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
    Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed... View Details
    Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Statements
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    • Research Summary

    The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Transparency

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein

    Workplace transparency provides a foundation for learning and control, and therefore for satisfaction and productivity. Yet my research shows that an obsession with transparency-enhancing tools and structures can backfire, producing the unintended consequences of... View Details

    Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Productivity; Field Experiments; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Human Resources; Leadership; United States; Europe; China; Japan
    • Teaching Interest

    Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems

    By: Tarun Khanna

    What problems do developing countries face, and how can individuals contribute to solutions rather than awaiting the largesse of the state or other actors? Intractable problems – such as lack of access to education and healthcare, forced reliance on contaminated... View Details

      Suraj Srinivasan

      Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; financial services
      • 29 Aug 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Patent Trolls

      Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun & Scott Duke Kominers