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  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

understanding of the entrepreneurial leader. The program combines self-assessments of their skills and behaviors by entrepreneurs themselves with evaluations of them by peers, friends, and employees. Along the way the data is also allowing scholars to study View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 02 Nov 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel

    Learning to Successfully Hire in Online Labor Markets

    Hiring in online labor markets involves considerable uncertainty: which hiring choices are more likely to yield successful outcomes and how do employers adjust their hiring behaviors to make such choices? We argue that employers will initially explore the value... View Details
    • 07 Feb 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

    final experiment asked participants to choose a partner for a collaborative project that could earn them a financial bonus. They read three descriptions: the narrator hiding distress in front of colleagues; the narrator showing distress in front of colleagues and View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Modest Victims: Victims Who Decline to Broadcast Their Victimization Are Seen As Morally Virtuous

    By: Nathan Dhaliwal, Jillian J. Jordan and Pat Barclay
    What do people think of victims who conceal their victimhood? We propose that the decision to not broadcast that one has been victimized serves as a costly act of modesty—in doing so, one is potentially forgoing social support and compensation from one’s community. We... View Details
    Keywords: Public Opinion; Mathematical Methods; Communication; Perception; Reputation
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    • Article

    Turbulent Stability of Emergent Roles: The Dualistic Nature of Self-Organizing Knowledge Co-Production

    By: Ofer Arazy, Johaness Daxenberg, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Oded Nov and Irene Gurevych
    Increasingly, new forms of organizing for knowledge production are built around self-organizing co-production community models with ambiguous role definitions. Current theories struggle to explain how high-quality knowledge is developed in these settings and how... View Details
    Keywords: Wikipedia; Knowledge Production; Organizational Structure; Knowledge; Information Publishing
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    • 12 Feb 2024
    • News

    Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award

    Dale LeFebvre (MBA 1998), founder and executive chairman of 3.5.7.11 Investments, was recently named by the nonprofit Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans as a recipient of the 2024 Horatio Alger Award. For more than 75 years, the award has been... View Details
    Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Solving for Z

    get to decide how they work. Chen has seen an increasing tendency toward multifunctional squads of people from various disciplines (engineering and design, marketing and sales) who work together to rapidly iterate solutions to whatever problem faces them. Chen View Details
    Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Managing Remote Work Quality: Evidence from Auditing Management Systems Standards

    By: Ashley Palmarozzo, Michael W. Toffel and Melissa Ouellet
    Remote work has become more common, providing operational flexibility and productivity benefits, but questions remain about whether and how it affects work quality. We investigate the quality effects of remote work in a context in which remote work separates workers... View Details
    Keywords: Audit; Auditing; Remote Work; Compliance; Assessment; Environment; Management Systems; Quality Management; Quality Management System; Quality; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Environmental Management; Safety
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    The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States

    By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios
    Even though epidemiological evidence links specific workplace stressors to health outcomes, the aggregate contribution of these factors to overall mortality and health spending in the United States is not known. In this paper, we build a model to estimate the excess... View Details
    Keywords: Occupational Health; Health Costs; Mortality; Applied Optimization; Health
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    • 10 Oct 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Michael Bordo, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences

    • August 2017 (Revised July 2018)
    • Case

    MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work

    By: Elie Ofek and Amanda Dai
    In June 2014, MannKind Corporation announced that after years of development and billions of dollars in expenses, the FDA had finally approved its drug, Afrezza. MannKind would thus be the only company with an inhalable insulin on the market. As an alternative to... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Adoption; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Thinking Ahead

    As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • September 2024
    • Case

    Xendit: Hiring for Growth

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Steve Castano, Quoc Anh Nguyen and Claire Wu
    In 2019, Xendit, a growth-stage Southeast Asia (SEA) fintech venture based in Jakarta, was looking to hire a Head of Sales and Head of Product to lead its next phase of growth. Founded by Moses Lo and Tessa Wijaya, Xendit provided payment infrastructure, modeling... View Details
    Keywords: Fintech; Financing and Loans; Entrepreneurship; Jobs and Positions; Sales; Product; Growth and Development; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Philippines
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    • Web

    Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

    path for our research today, which focuses on value creation of platforms and two-sided markets; use of open architecture and leverage of its collective value; development and execution of innovation strategies; innovative attributes of... View Details
    • 27 Jun 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

    executives in the West? There are important differences. Are differences attributable to different cultures or to different stages of corporate development? But first, what are we talking about? Roles in organizations involve more than... View Details
    Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
    • 12 Apr 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

    the number of unique messages a user received during the beginning of the experiment, and divided the group into thirds. Physical attributes didn’t come into play, though there could be overlap between the number of messages and... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • Web

    Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    time required for each process. Overhead functions such as billing, information technology, and human resource management should be attributed to the condition based on resource use resulting from the needs of patient facing resources.... View Details
    • 08 Mar 2021
    • In Practice

    COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

    A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Klarman Hall | About

    Advisors. In 2011, Seth received the HBS Alumni Achievement Award, the School’s highest honor. Seth joined the newly launched Baupost Group shortly after graduating from HBS in 1982. The low-profile CEO attributes Baupost’s success to a... View Details