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industries. Although he famously kept a low profile, leaders of business and government consistently sought and received his advice. Baker appreciated the View Details

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

87 percent, during the two months before an election, indicating that the information received in this period matters overall. Voters who switched candidates didn’t change their policy preferences. Voters’ policy views remained consistent, despite the onslaught View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

than something that has or certainly will happen. "There is the possibility that something bad could happen, and a sense that you don't have control over it," Brooks explains. The Anxious Mind While a little bit View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

line executives to help them better understand the cost, revenue, and profit implications of their decisions. Some finance groups spend more by investing in, say,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

Want employees to think outside the box? Start by taking a good, hard look at how you’re paying them. That’s the implication of new research examining the impact of different... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

01 Jun 2023
News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

entrepreneur, advised them in his role as a Harvard i-lab mentor. “We are in debt to him because he changed the trajectory for us,” says Jung. She adds that working at the i-lab with a network of advisors,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

08 Sep 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)

traditionally get at a large company like ExxonMobil. I learned a tremendous amount, was able to explore the world, and really caught the bug for resources exploration. It was the perfect pre-HBS role... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

article "What Drives Corporate Social Performance? The Role of Nation-level Institutions" (December 2012). Charles C.Y. Wang : Received the 2022 Charles M. Williams Award for... View Details

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

asking for children’s ages “at checkout” was potentially vague. They wondered what would happen if they specified the checkout date. Creating two different versions of the same menu, they tested it in real time, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2021
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Can We Train for Trust?

(Image credit: iStockphoto/jubaphoto) How many times have we discussed the contributions of employee engagement and the loyalty it produces to an organization’s performance? Trust is, as it is for many... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing, Cespedes, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, offers research-based insight and context, and presents sales productivity not... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Rock 100: The Network - Entrepreneurship

Rock 100 A worldwide exclusive HBS network for founders of early stage, high impact ventures. We are growing exponentially! Welcome to the Rock 100. The Summit The Summit The Summit The Summit An exclusive... View Details

05 Aug 2015
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How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

play a role in regulating hormone levels in employees. The bad news is that far too many business situations actually fuel the very hormones that trigger unethical behavior. The findings are detailed in the paper Hormones View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

consequences that impact not only the receivers of rewards and penalties, but also their colleagues, Gallani says. Additionally, this study shows that workers are motivated not... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

08 May 2023
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How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

You can also follow individual minority creators over time and see ups and downs in their rates of success,” Kerr says. Certain groups feel it more The heaviest View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

28 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

rewards for their efforts, workers may have low incentives to boost the quantity or novelty of what they create. And if the platforms choose to maximize their own profits by... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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FAQs - Doctoral

part of the Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Village. This program has been designed to enable motivated undergraduates to pursue summer business research in a defined project and also participate in a... View Details

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About the Project - Creating Emerging Markets

About the Project View Video Creating Emerging Markets explores the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. At its core are interviews, with leaders or former... View Details

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

unfamiliar ways, it is explained as if it were behaving in traditional ways. Nowhere is the change in the players in the market recognized. The change in the means by which large players seek to profit and... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

and the socially clueless. Still, people in an organization can be roughly classified using a simple matrix. Our research showed (not surprisingly) that, no matter what kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

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