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    Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity, Engagement, and Performance

    Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by JAR, to test whether an information sharing system recording... View Details

      On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition

      For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new... View Details

        Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

        Winner of the annual MIT Sloan Management Review Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, for the most outstanding MIT SMR article on planned change and organizational development. Chosen by MIT Sloan faculty judges Deborah Ancona, John Van Maanen, and Cyrus... View Details

        • May 2020
        • Case

        Big Boom Beverages: Fight or Flight?

        By: Stephen A. Greyser and William Ellet
        Four college friends market a beverage that combines ingredients like those in a drink they consumed in college bars. It includes a caffeinated energy drink, malt liquor, and a soft drink flavoring. They launch the business, Big Boom Beverages (BBB), with their own... View Details
        Keywords: Alcoholic Beverages; Energy Drinks; Regulation; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Marketing Communications; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Reputation; Communication Strategy; Decision Making
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        • 2016
        • Chapter

        How Moral Flexibility Constrains Our Moral Compass

        By: F. Gino
        Cheating, fraud, deception, uncooperative actions, and many other forms of unethical behavior are among the greatest personal and societal challenges of our time. While the media commonly focuses on the most sensational scams (e.g., Enron, Bernard Madoff), less... View Details
        Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Organizations; Attitudes
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        • 30 Nov 2007
        • What Do You Think?

        What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

        Summing Up Can creativity and innovation be managed? Judging from responses to questions posed by practitioner panelists at a recent colloquium on "Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future" at Harvard... View Details
        Keywords: by Jim Heskett
        • 14 Jun 2010
        • Research & Ideas

        The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

        Quantifying performance and measuring results are no longer the sole domain of for-profit enterprises. Today, many nonprofit organizations also find themselves on the hot seat—not with stockholders but with donors who expect similar... View Details
        Keywords: by Julia Hanna
        • 31 Jan 2023
        • Research & Ideas

        It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

        and other traditional perks, Zhang says. [div class=infogram-embed data-id="infogram_0__/ht8SH7N4rZHhFznkrvea"][/div] College graduates “have the luxury of choosing not only [based] on wages but also these other aspects, like whether or not an View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne
        • 01 Dec 2023
        • News

        A Continuum of Innovation

        understanding, and it has evolved into a course that also teaches design thinking and team effectiveness through practice in the real world. It takes place in the spring of the RC year for all 900-plus students and culminates in team-based project work with partner... View Details
        Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
        • 04 Feb 2002
        • Research & Ideas

        How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

        Even now, mere mention of Quaker Oats' acquisition of Snapple causes veteran dealmakers to shudder. For good reason. In 1993, Quaker paid $1.7 billion for the Snapple brand, outbidding Coca-Cola, among other interested parties. In 1997, Quaker sold Snapple to Triarc... View Details
        Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage
        • 01 Mar 2024
        • News

        Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

        from his spirited partner Sam, Finn continues pursuing his dream of being recognized as an elite athlete through unrelenting challenges on and off the water. Smooth Scaling: 20 Rituals to Build a Friction-Free Organization By Rob Bier... View Details
        Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
        • 2016
        • Working Paper

        Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense Against the 24/7 Work Culture

        By: Irene Padavic, Robin J. Ely and Erin M. Reid
        It is widely accepted that the conflict women experience between family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is partial at best: men, too, experience... View Details
        Keywords: 24/7 Work Culture; Hegemonic Narrative; Social Defense; Work-family Conflict; Systems Psychodynamic Theory; Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture
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        • May 2019
        • Case

        The United States Air Force: 'Chaos' in the 99th Reconnaissance Squadron

        By: Francesca Gino, Jeff Huizinga and Nicole Keller
        In the spring of 2019, Lt. Col. Matthew “Chaos” Nussbaum is nearing the end of his two-year term as commander of the U.S. Air Force's 99th Reconnaissance Squadron. In this position, he has focused the majority of his energy on finding new ways to organize, train, and... View Details
        Keywords: Empowerment; Culture; Innovation; Motivation; Military; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Change; Leading Change; Innovation Strategy; United States
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        • 17 Jul 2023
        • Blog Post

        Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

        a position within the nonprofit space and specifically for an organization that had mission and purpose in their DNA. I was fortunate to find a position in the marketing department for HBS’s Career Professional Development team. I spent... View Details
        • 02 Aug 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

        A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
        Keywords: by Lane Lambert
        • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
        • Case

        Transformation at ING (A): Agile

        By: William R. Kerr, Federica Gabrieli and Emer Moloney
        In December 2017, Vincent van den Boogert, CEO of ING in the Netherlands, was reflecting upon the company’s “agile” transformation, a reorganization of work that had been critical to respond to and exceed rapidly changing customer expectations. Launched in 2015 at the... View Details
        Keywords: Organizational Change; Organizational Management; Workforce; Agile; Change Management; Leadership; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Leading Change; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Banking Industry
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        • November 2020 (Revised March 2021)
        • Case

        Amazon: Cult or Culture?

        By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Tricia Gregg
        Amazon was one of the first entrants in e-commerce. Under the leadership of founder Jeff Bezos, Amazon had expanded beyond books to manufacturing and selling a wide range of products and services globally. Bezos had built a customer-centric culture that permeated all... View Details
        Keywords: Culture; Technology Companies; Retail; Human Resource Practices; Growth; Founder; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Growth Management; Information Technology; Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Retail Industry; Technology Industry
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        • 20 Oct 2016
        • Cold Call Podcast

        The Spectacular Fall and Fix of HealthCare.gov

        Keywords: Re: Leonard A. Schlesinger; Health
        • Web

        Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

        a list of resources for those re-entering the workforce and/or looking for project & flexible work opportunities. Re-entering the Workforce The organizations below offer resources and guidance on re-entering the workforce after an... View Details
        • 22 Mar 2021
        • Research & Ideas

        How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

        When employees feel free to express their ideas and concerns, the whole group benefits, particularly when it comes to close calls, Edmondson says. “In organizations like Toyota, where they recognize the richness of the almost-failure and... View Details
        Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health