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  • 05 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

improve their job performance. “Our work shows that if we'd take some time out for reflection, we might be better off.” In the working paper Learning by Thinking: How Reflection Aids Performance, the authors show how reflecting on what... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

functions under affine cost functions. We first characterize the equilibrium behavior of this class of models in the case where each product in the market is sold by a separate, independent firm, and customers share a common income level.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

matters are too long. The response of investors who say they care about sustainability-and their numbers are large and growing-is that companies do a poor job in providing them with the information they need to take sustainability into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, professor Robert Simons wrote about how organizations can design jobs for maximum performance. In this excerpt, Simons discusses what he terms the four basic "spans" of a job—control,... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

MBA, steps into her family owned business with their mandate to turn it around or close it. In her first six months, she has made a number of changes, with mixed results, but is beginning to show a profit. Many strategic, organizational,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Aug 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Accounting Rookie Job Market: A Practitioner’s Guide

Keywords: by Ethan Rouen; Accounting
  • Fast Answer

Job interview preparation

Where can I find advice on preparing for job interviews? HBS MBA students - Please consult MBA Career and Professional Development HBS Alumni - Please consult HBS Career and Professional Development  Bradley CV'S Interviewing... View Details
  • 19 Mar 2014
  • News

15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer

  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

"IVK extended case series," a fictitious but reality-based story about a newly appointed, not technically trained chief information officer (CIO) in his first year on the job. We designed the course around a narrative and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 22

Harvard Business School Case 313-091 The JOBS Act of 2012 This Note summarizes the potential of the Jobs Act of 2012 to change the way in which emerging growth companies, or EMGs, access capital markets.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2016
  • News

The Best First Impression

  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Accounting Rookie Job Market: A Practitioner's Guide

By: Ethan Rouen
This paper offers guidance and shares collective wisdom for accounting Ph.D. students who will be entering the academic job market. It is divided into two sections. The first offers subjective advice on the dissertation process—from choosing a topic to surviving the... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Jobs and Positions; Job Search
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  • 18 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 18

closed (low-power) poses, and then prepared and delivered a speech to two evaluators as part of a mock job interview, a prototypical social evaluation. All speeches were videotaped and coded for overall performance, hireability, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2016 (Revised May 2016)
  • Case

Dinr: My First Start-up (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Kristina Maslauskaite
In May 2012, a young employee at Google's London office, Markus Berger, was thinking whether he should quit his job and go after his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Berger's idea was to create Dinr, a company that would offer an upscale food ingredient delivery... View Details
Keywords: Exit Strategy; Startup; Start-up; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Food
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  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008 By: Raffaelli, Ryan Abstract—I examine the processes and mechanisms whereby market demand for a "dying" technology re-emerges at a later date. In 1983, fourteen years after the introduction of the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description

growth. Consider adding a few short bullets that address one or more of the following: Describe the first few months on the job How does the organization support an employee's goals? What are the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

first dimension relates to the degree to which the collaborative network is "open" verses "closed." The second dimension relates to the degree to which the governance structure for collaboration is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Oct 2010
  • News

Jobs Bill Misses Mark

Sometimes good politics and good policy just don’t mix. Take the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama recently signed, for example. A bill that purports to create jobs is good politics just before a... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

Reserve's Tenth Annual Report of 1923. The three principles I focus on are 1) the discouraging of speculative lending by commercial banks, 2) the desire to meet the credit needs of business, and 3) the preference of a focus on credit over a focus on monetary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

ObenchainHarvard Business School Supplement 310-057 After posting its first-ever quarterly loss in 2008, Goldman Sachs surpassed market expectations for the first quarter of 2009 but came under intensive fire for, among other things,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace