Helping - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jan 2013
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Why Running a Family Doesn't Help You Run a Business

17 May 2009
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Obama, Congress should look to the Swiss for health help

26 Apr 2024
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Michael C. Jensen, 84, Who Helped Reshape Modern Capitalism, Dies

29 Feb 2024
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How ‘Looking the Part’ Can Help You Get the Job

01 Jul 2023
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Does It Help to Know How Much the Boss Makes?

14 Mar 2023
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Can AI and Machine Learning Help Park Rangers Prevent Poaching?

12 Feb 2022
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The Technology That’s Helping Companies Thrive Amid the Supply-Chain Chaos

24 Apr 2014
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Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands

Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) volunteered as a Big Brother and saw firsthand how urban youth suffered from a lack of job options. He wrote his HBS application essay about starting a program to connect those young adults with a growing need for entry-level labor. After... View Details

2018
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How the Other Half Thinks: The Psychology of Advising

By: Hayley Blunden and Francesca Gino

This chapter integrates research on advice interactions, motivations for advising, and the psychological consequences of serving in an advisor role to develop a more comprehensive perspective on the psychology of advising. By connecting this work, which spans various... View Details

Keywords: Advice; Advice Giving; Advisor; Self-other; Helping; Interpersonal Communication; Cognition and Thinking; Social Psychology

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November–December 2022
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Can AI Really Help You Sell?: It Can, Depending on When and How You Implement It

By: Jim Dickie, Boris Groysberg, Benson P. Shapiro and Barry Trailer

Many salespeople today are struggling; only 57% of them make their annual quotas, surveys show. One problem is that buying processes have evolved faster than selling processes, and buyers today can access a wide range of online resources that let them evaluate products... View Details

Keywords: Sales; AI and Machine Learning; Customers

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October 16, 2024
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Physicians Can Help Cut Costs. They Just Need the Right Incentives.

By: Susanna Gallani and Derek A. Haas

Health care organizations have long tried to enlist physicians in their effort to control or reduce costs. One effective means for doing so is to create an incentive system that rewards physicians for their contributions. To design such a system, organizations should... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Health Industry

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24 Jul 2018
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How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft

A recent Bloomberg profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood (MBA 1999) offers an inside look at how the 16-year company veteran has worked to redefine the tech giant. Hood’s tenure as CFO began with an immediate challenge, as detailed in the Bloomberg piece: Once Nadella took... View Details

19 Jun 2018
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Ellen Pao: The Perverse Incentives that Help Incels Thrive in Tech

11 Aug 2021
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The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

you know.” To many professionals, this is a no-brainer — but if you had asked me in college how I felt about networking, I would have been at a loss for words. Despite the impostor syndrome I experienced while navigating my early career, I was lucky to have classmates,... View Details