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HBS - The year in Review

Hamilton, External Relations, retired Elizabeth Karpati, MBA Program Office, retired Peter J. Martel, Human Resources, retired Jane McCormick, MBA Admissions, retired Dolores D. Mullin, Audio Visual... View Details

12 Sep 2023
What Do You Think?

Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

medium-sized, for-profit retailing organization. You have been asked to approve changes to the company’s orientation program that probably would not have crossed your desk several years ago. Your human View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Horizontal Integration (1) Housing (4) Human Capital (27) Human Needs (14) Human Resources (292) Identity (6) Immigration (37) Income (7)... View Details

07 Jul 2023
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Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet

could access the resources of innovation and entrepreneurship. These include a wide range of courses and programs; maker, media, and AR/VR studios; experienced mentors; and... View Details

12 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

untested ideas, Lane says. Compared to the unscreened evaluators, the experts weighed feasibility roughly 30 percent more in their ratings of a design’s quality. On average, experts screened through the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

regions of Kazakhstan. Established by Kazakhstani businessman and philanthropist Aidyn Rakhimbayev, IQanat sought to address the stark disparity between academic resources in urban and rural parts View Details

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

study of a sponsorship collaboration between a global financial institution (UBS) and a multi-site museum (Guggenheim) evaluates critical aspects of resource integration... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Food and Drug Administration faced the task of convincing a skeptical public of the safety of new vaccines... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical

September 2016 (Revised July 2017)
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Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (A)

By: Dorothy Leonard and Christopher Myers

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a federally funded research institution within NASA, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has played a large role in many space and planetary explorations, particularly to the planet Mars. As a project-based... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Aerospace Industry; United States

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25 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector

business options available. And the biggest component suppliers benefited the most by expanding their opportunities to do business with others, shows the study, coauthored by Shane Greenstein, the Martin Marshall Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

October 2017 Negotiation Journal Prescriptions Based on a Realistic View of Human Behavior By: Bazerman, Max Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy

airline industry at MIT and was an aviation business analyst until the early 1940s. His impact on HBS began in 1942 when he partnered with Dean Donald K. David to establish the HBS Research Program on Aviation; he chaired its advisory... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

The American workforce has always migrated, moving wherever the jobs took them—traditionally, away from small towns and toward big cities. Now, as an increasing number of workplaces embrace remote work and allow people the flexibility to... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy, plant manager autonomy, and span of control. Consistent with the... View Details

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

guidelines. Companies at this stage often wait too long to hire people experts—both human resources managers and experienced recruiters who get the startup-to-scale scene. That's a big mistake. Investing... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

strive to keep all employees forever. "You don't want blind loyalty," says Scott Brooks, an executive consultant at Minneapolis-based Gantz Wiley Research. "The best kind is when both parties are benefiting." Leigh Grantham, VP View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

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Our Team - Impact Investments

of Science in Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Researchers M. Diane Burton Faculty member in the ILR School at Cornell University M. Diane Burton is a faculty member in the... View Details

02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2

since the human genome sequence was completed-has changed the way we think about, study, and approach the development of novel therapies. However, these advances in knowledge have so far not been reflected... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Competition for Scarce Resources Authors:Péter Esö, Volker Nocke, and Lucy White Publication:The RAND Journal of Economics 41, no. 3 (fall 2010) Abstract... View Details