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- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ashley V. Whillans, who studies how people navigate trade-offs between time and money. “We know that buying into positive experiences—like the movies—is a good predictor of daily happiness. This... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
Business Administration and co-head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Consider that between the 1950s and 1980s, Uncle Sam’s spending on research and development (R&D) rose fivefold from less than $20 billion to more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
practice. All of these abrupt changes called for medical professionals to have a certain level of management prowess, says Robert Huckman, Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Outside... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
reported trouble staffing up when the economy began to recover. "Helping workers keep attached to their prior employers could speed up the recovery," explained Till von Wachter, an economist with the University of California at Los... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
“Young scholars frequently like to study a lot of different things, but they are often encouraged to really focus,” says Frank Nagle, assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. “Otherwise, how are you going to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Relationship with Wal-Mart (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 907-013 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907013 Yale View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
same time, Harvard Business School Professor Elie Ofek was seeking case studies for his second-year Marketing and Innovation course. "I was looking for new products and innovations that were unexpected successes—things that you... View Details
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
Wilson Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvad Business School and Dean of the University of Miami Herbert Business School. [Image: stevecoleimages] THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
nascent industry. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2294928 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 413-030 Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards In 2011, Sarah Naudé and Matt Stanley sat down with the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
interacting with racial minorities motivates White people to self-segregate, says Harvard Business School professor Jon M. Jachimowicz. And White people often attempt to erect barriers—even seemingly innocuous ones like stricter dress... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
or silent killers. We call them silent killers because while everyone knows about them and they are discussed in private where it is safe, they are not discussible publicly with senior management. The fact that a company's people are seen as a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
media on the train, may actually interfere with people’s ability to transition into work mode smoothly—which makes them feel gloomier about their jobs and more likely to quit. “I was surprised with this finding myself,” Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
do," says Harvard Business School professor Raffaella Sadun. "Most of the time it's difficult to codify the qualities of a good manager." “We went in with the curiosity of trying to understand the life of a CEO” Despite... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Pérez Villaneuva, Mayra Espina Prieto, and Lorena Barberia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming. Abstract The Cuban economy has been transformed over the course of the last decade, and these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
co-workers can help those employees improve. “When you are exposed to different ideas or a different way of working, it can change your own behavior,” says Christopher Stanton, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
down, his intelligence dims and his memory becomes less quick, so that he risks committing many errors in his business.” “In a sense, these are very early concepts of corporate social responsibility,” says Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
When Transnational Management was first published in 1992, the world was a different place. "The global economy was radically restructuring in the wake of an era of accelerating globalization in the 1980s," says Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
increase their occupancy rates significantly, bringing their earnings more in line with the higher rental incomes of white hosts, according to a study coauthored by Shunyuan Zhang, an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard... View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
(ICUs) studied by the University of Minnesota. For example, while one of the two largest hospitals in Spokane County, Washington, was 92 percent occupied, the other was only 30 percent full. Hospital administrators could help alleviate... View Details
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
Administration at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Faia is a professor at Goethe University Frankfurt and a Research Fellow at the Center... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne