Community Engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

bonding activity—regular rituals like doing the Walmart Cheer or firing a Nerf toy gun to conclude a project—led to a 16 percent increase in how meaningful employees judged their work to be, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Norton.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507024 Lobbying Harvard Business School Note 707-471 Describes how companies engage the political and legal system and the rules and ethics associated with doing so. Focuses... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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HBS - The year in Review

technology and innovation. Beyond engaging in research, students attend faculty lectures and professional development workshops to build a strong community of scholars. Leadership Fellows The Leadership... View Details

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

recognizes that communication with and motivation of an organization's managers, employees, and partners is extremely difficult. What this means in practice is that if we tell all participants in an organization that its sole purpose is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

18 Jul 2023
News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

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About - Race, Gender & Equity

such as ethnicity, community and family. She examines consequences such as employee engagement and commitment to work, career success and satisfaction, quality of interpersonal and intergroup relations, and... View Details

02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

networks take on distinct structural forms. Technologically stable industries feature clan networks, characterized by low network connectedness and rather strong community structures. Technologically dynamic industries feature View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Mid-US - Global

effective transit solutions is not only a means to physical mobility, but class mobility as well." Drawing from his varied experiences at Fiat Chrysler and May Mobility, an autonomous vehicle company, Hurd will focus on fostering View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Wide Horizon

and maximize the research in these emerging areas?’ Because I’m convinced if we focus on these areas, we will increase our chances of finding that major breakthrough that we’re looking for.” Rodakis knew that changing perceptions in the research View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

07 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

its leaders distribute authority and delegate decision-making. Too often, leaders only communicate how digital transformation will improve the company’s performance. Instead, they must develop a narrative—a human-centric story—for how... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

06 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

highly successful in their respective fields and at the peak of their careers. This makes their behavior especially perplexing, raising questions about what caused them to lose their way: Why do leaders known for integrity and leadership View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Klarman Hall | About

basis of health and disease, supporting the Jewish community and Israel, expanding access to services and enrichment opportunities in Greater Boston, and ensuring a healthy democracy. In view of the transformative influence HBS has had on... View Details

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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

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

Campaign and the Upside of CEO Activism By: Chatterji, Aaron, and Michael Toffel Abstract—When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz asked his baristas to engage customers in a discussion about race in America, it was a clear case of the growing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2023
News

Thinking Ahead

in our memory in a way that numbers, which are more abstract, do not. As a behavioral economist with a focus on how information is communicated via natural language and how ideas become contagious, Assistant Professor Thomas Graeber has... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

team to dig into the language of open-mindedness. Through their work, the team identified five ingredients of conversational receptiveness—the use of language to communicate one’s willingness to thoughtfully View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

financial statements, such as balance sheets and income statements. 8 weeks, 6–8 hrs/week Pay by July 17 $1,850 Certificate Leading with Finance Professor Mihir Desai Build an intuitive understanding of financial principles to better View Details

September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
Supplement

IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created an innovation in public education through a business-school partnership for widespread replication and diffusion. In 2012, while P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was still in its first year operating,... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Partnerships; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Business and Community Relations; Innovation and Invention; Growth Management; Chicago; Idaho

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18 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View

Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details

Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Utilities

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