Meanings Of Work And Retirement - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

year he graduated from HBS. The pair first met in 1984 at Alex. Brown & Sons and later figured out they had swum against each other in high school. They became instant friends while working the brutal hours... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

note. Fold in the recent rise of remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the question arises: Has the trend peaked? Tech history as told by patents To look at the trends,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

with the new ones. Organizations are trying so hard to maintain their hybrid work environments and fill offices. They’re trying so hard to get back to the pre-pandemic workplace, but was it so great? No.... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

important reason, but by no means the only one, he added. Others include communication problems, a lack of hierarchy for resolving issues—think of Ford View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2019
News

“The Star of the North”

And why would retiring business owners want their hard work taken from the places that helped build them up? Take the case of Microbiologics, a... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

14 Aug 2006
HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

better, I will perform better, I'll make more money if somebody gives me a pay-per-perform'" work environment, says Snook. Others crave autonomy or teamwork. "The ultimate lesson is, what kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

26 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

inferences on behalf of Black and Latinx and Native American software engineers.” “I could imagine a context where people use this argument even though they don't really View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

02 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs

the better off you are. More generally, being as careful as you can be with resources, and flexible in terms of the types of arrangements that you are willing to enter into,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

onset of the crisis. PE-backed companies consequentially experienced higher asset growth and increased market share during the crisis. Business History, the Great Divergence View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2023
News

A Century of Birthday Candles

Doris Duff's 2019 retirement dinner, HBS Association of Boston. (Courtesy photo via the Laconia Daily Sun) In celebration of her 100th birthday, Doris Duff’s (HRPBA 1952)... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

name is REVOK. “James would often have an outrageous means of approaching the situation that didn’t immediately seem obvious and sometimes you thought was a little bit crazy,”... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

In an interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne, Harvard Business School professor Dorothy Leonard and research assistant Brian DeLacey discuss their research View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2007
News

A Man of Influence

native would have relished every whistle-stop appearance of his book tour. Ambitious, inquisitive, and brimming with gusto for life’s adventures, it’s easy to imagine Valenti sitting down with Charlie Rose... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Ink: The Habit of Innovation

can kill innovation energy: the plague of the zombie project. Do you shuffle and linger on, sucking the innovation energy out of your organization? If so, then a zombie... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

09 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

least likely to seek it out, the researchers discovered. The findings emerge as companies worldwide navigate the complexities of training and acclimating new employees in hybrid or remote View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

importance of collaboration. Leaders often wish they could improve the way they collaborate, starting with how they approach working with others, she says. “Leaders tend to dominate the conversation; they... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—To scale service operations requires retrieving knowledge across the organization. However, prior work highlights that individuals on the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

2005 on business solutions for alleviating poverty. The work combines chapters from a variety of perspectives—business, academic, government, nonprofit—to examine the nature of... View Details