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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

and the efficacy of various education to employment programs. He co-hosts the popular Managing the Future of Work podcast, which has been downloaded almost two million times. Prior to joining the Harvard Business School faculty, Joe was a co-founder and long-time CEO... View Details

17 Aug 2006
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Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1910

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio

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Course Development

General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done. Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

of the ACA 2018 Best Paper Award from the University of St. Gallen’s Institute of Accounting, Control and Auditing for “The Effect of Monitoring by Management on Corporate Misconduct” with Gerardo Pérez Cavazos. V.G. Narayanan : Winner of... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and (b) how the risk of governmental monitoring affects the extent to which CSR reports are symbolic or substantive. First, we examine how firm characteristics reflecting dependence on the... View Details

12 Aug 2020
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Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

productive relationships. However, every year, a few thousand customers file new arbitration cases with Finra, the US brokerage industry’s regulatory organization, alleging everything from negligence to fraud. “Consumers should monitor... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

19 Mar 2014
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A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

companies are monitoring Twitter for complaints and asking how can we intervene?” Social collectiveness also lets marketers crowd-source brand messages from actual fans who already discuss the brand on social media. Today's fans can be... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

12 Aug 2019
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How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

making all decisions solo), and still needs some oversight. More than 100 employees: Capable of borrowing the car for a weekend road trip with friends. Hand over the keys! If your leaders feel that you won’t give them the keys, that you are backseat driving or View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

18 Oct 2022
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When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

to change. It's so hard to monitor or fix compared to the machine. Layne: In layman's terms, how does your solution, BEAT, work? You mentioned surge pricing for car services as an example. Israeli: So, imagine we have three different... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 May 2013
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How to Spot a Liar

to lie," Van Swol says. "Using so much of your brain to lie may make it hard to monitor yourself in other areas." Liars used far more third-person pronouns than truth tellers or omitters. "This is a way of distancing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 May 2004
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How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

behavior: (1) monitoring the work effectively (giving timely feedback and reacting to problems in the work with understanding and help); (2) providing socioemotional support (showing support for a team member's actions or decisions;... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2023
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

monitoring that enables seniors 65+ to live more independently. Early on, the students learned that in Argentina, the attitudes of young people towards seniors were often negative and that many seniors led very solitary lives. It was an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

23 May 2019
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Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

shepherding them into boarding school and monitoring their development through daily calls and weekend visits. “That was a tough time, but my Harvard ‘family’ made it bearable,” she says. That family included her roommates, her Ec 10... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

09 Apr 2007
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Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

the question my study, coauthored with David Levine (UC Berkeley) and Ronnie Chatterji (Duke), is striving to answer. A third study looks at self-policing. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched its Audit Policy a decade ago in an attempt to encourage... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Participation - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Professors Garvin and Heskett explain the importance of monitoring which students are raising their hands in class to help keep a discussion on track. Transcript Handling Experts Frances Frei Professor Frei presents her strategy for... View Details

08 Aug 2005
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Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

"happens all too often," says Michael Jensen, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and managing director of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Monitor Group's organizational strategy practice. "Allocating decision... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

08 Mar 2019
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Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

thwarting the confident protagonists of an apparently popular project. Actively monitor local currents and cross-currents of opinion. Reportedly, Amazon did not hire a single New Yorker to continuously engage with community groups to... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

26 Jul 2022
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Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

restaurant review websites not only provide a useful guide for consumers, but could help influence the restaurant business and its regulators. After all, Farronato says, monitoring hygiene isn’t merely in the hands of regulators.... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail

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Help - Research Computing Services

and files. Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid Learn how to run a Unix command or query LSF to check the status of a current job. HBSGrid Project directory space notifications Tips on how to View Details

08 Nov 2022
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How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

societies where men were away from home for extended periods to work and found it difficult to monitor the behavior of women, for example in societies that relied more on pastoralism rather than agriculture. In pre-industrial times,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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