Administration of Human Resource Programs - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

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

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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

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

frustration and a path to burnout that is all too common in today’s workplace, says Robert Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Today’s jobs are... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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

01 Mar 2019
News

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

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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

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

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
First Look

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

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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

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

21 Feb 2017
First Look

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

01 Sep 2021
Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

LinkedIn. Follow Francesca Gino on LinkedIn to read more of her posts. About the Author Francesca Gino is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

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

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Administration Jim Matheson Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Lynn Schenk Director of Business & Environment Initiative George Serafeim... View Details

28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

frequently non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in locations such as Ghana, Tanzania, Romania, Philippines, and Vietnam. The case provides data for students to assess the first year of operation and recommend what changes IBM should... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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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

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

startups focused on Climate Tech and Future of Work. Prior to HBS, I was the program manager of the NextGen Initiatives at Disability:IN, the leading nonprofit View Details

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