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14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

those one-out-of-ten firms grow into successful, sustained enterprises? Assistant professor Mukti Khaire believes that small companies can grow by developing intangible social resources such as legitimacy,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

24 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

national security, and later allowed to be granted and published. Daniel P. Gross, assistant professor of business administration, learned of the wartime policy while conducting research at the National Archives. “I started reading about... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

used by contract workers to obtain stretchwork. O'Mahony is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School while Bechky is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Management at the University of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology

03 Dec 2008
What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

refinancing. These recommendations fall at the intersection of financial and social engineering. They raise the question of whether housing and credit can be "nudged" back to health in this manner or whether there is some better... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

26 Jul 2016
First Look

July 26, 2016

June 2016 PLoS ONE Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity's Largest Gathering By: Barnett, Ian, Tarun Khanna, and Jukka-Pekka Onnela Abstract—Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Innovation? Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Would you be suspicious of employees who drew a curtain around themselves? What if you knew the curtain was specifically to block your prying managerial eyes? Harvard Business School View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work Culture By: Padavic, Irene, R. Ely, and Erin M. Reid Abstract—It is widely accepted that the conflict between women’s family obligations and professional... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

London’s School of Management, and Amirhossein Zohrehvand, assistant professor at Leiden University. Turing, meet Wade The Turing Test is an imitation game in which a person must guess whether they’re communicating with a machine or... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

society," Wagle added. "There are some very difficult places in Africa where the private sector is just not possible." Health, education and infrastructure should be under the wing of government, he said, with rules of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

amazing amounts of free time. Put a problem in front of them, and they will participate." Lipstein said the combination of "cool data sets" and a social mission has led to strong engagement on his company's challenges. "People are... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

military services begins in structuring leadership positions of 'executive officer' ... principal assistants to designated leaders having command responsibilities ... growth positions to enhance individuals' abilities." Francine... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

If organizations want to help their employees keep up with the Joneses, turns out it’s better to keep the Joneses out of sight. So suggests an article in the Journal of Finance by Harvard Business School assistant professor John Beshears.... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

farmers. The company is operating at reduced capacity to ensure social distancing in its factory and contributing to food drives in several Nigerian states. “AACE also is leading a drive to provide its Soyamaize product, which is a... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

businesspeople, we've seen ourselves as helpless" in eradicating seemingly intractable problems like poverty, he said. Though giving money and volunteering time are good things to do, a better solution, he insisted, is to apply market techniques to equip people in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

of their corporate governance, placing them within the wider context of the economic and social history of Germany. Based on both quantitative data and archivally based case studies, this book explores how the relationship between the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

scale?" That's the problem he explores in the HBS Teaching Note, Technology Innovations in K-12 Education, cowritten with Roniesha Copeland (HBS MBA '14), and research assistant Christine S. An. The report reviews the burgeoning... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

08 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief

work-related perceptions, too, the researchers say. For instance, a candidate who applies for two jobs might privately wish to get rejected by one rather than have to choose between two options, notes Barasz, a former assistant professor... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

can explain over 660,000 of the state and local government jobs lost in April, about two-thirds of the total observed declines.” In their research, Green, an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, and... View Details