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Hidden Workers, Part-Time Potential - Managing the Future of Work

large sub-set of hidden workers: part-time workers, who indicated in our survey that if their circumstances were different, they would prefer to work more hours. Part-time workers are heterogeneous, with a variety of attributes that... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

as high as its EU neighbors, according to the World Health Organization, which attributes these disproportionate effects to historical trauma and Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine. Those figures and concerns have only grown: The World... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

19 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

spent over an education campaign. Nudges are less effective in motivating polluters Beshears attributes the effectiveness of nudges to the way they target our thought process. He takes a page from Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

attributes and skills required 6-7 hrs Module 2 Private Debt, Distress Investing, and Secondaries Compare and contrast private equity and debt and identify the skills needed for successful distress investing. Highlights From Equity to... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Simmons Family Endows Professorship

of Zions Bancorporation in 1990. "In our case, it has really been wonderful. I attribute 90 percent of our success to my father." Today, Zions Bancorporation is a multistate banking and financial services firm with 250 offices in Utah,... View Details

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

at 3:00 a.m. and asked to perform. We call this pattern your trust “anchor.” Your anchor is the attribute that’s least likely to get wobbly on you, even when the proverbial clouds start to gather and winds start to howl. Reprinted by... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

There is no single "best" style of leadership nor one set of attributes in all situations. We look at the sources of constraints and at leadership as a sense of identity: Leaders do not require a formal position; rather,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

2013
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International Health Economics

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson

Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Global Range; Economics

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2016
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Strategy Beyond Markets

By: John de Figueiredo, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Rick Vanden Bergh

Strategy beyond markets has been an active area of research inquiry since the early 1990s. Since its inception, the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have... View Details

Keywords: Strategy

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09 Jun 2015
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Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au

information networking. “I was a linear thinker,” he says. “After being exposed to the case method and a diverse group of peers, I began to think more broadly and understand the importance of relationships in business.” A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Au View Details

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

America, but during the first half of 2013, Porsche's sales increased by 31 percent, largely attributed to its growth with women drivers. The Cayenne and the Panamera four-door sedan have both been successful in attracting women to the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

realm of design and human interaction with everyday objects. Norman provides thought-provoking insights on usability and human-centered design. The book is relevant to my own research on visual analytics. Picture this: designing an algorithm to extract visual... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

functional areas, marketing costs, and residence expenses for Executive Education program participants. Total operating expenses for fiscal 2022 were $908 million, an increase of $129 million, or 17 percent, from $779 million for fiscal 2021. The increase was primarily... View Details

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

against the wall of the office. But Gino attributes some of her productivity at UNC to the lack of an actual view to the outside. "After all, it is sunny very often in North Carolina," she smiles. View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna & Ashutosh Varshney

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

28 Jul 2020
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Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

Chesky responded to the findings and publicly acknowledged that the potential for discrimination on the platform hadn't occurred to him or his two cofounders prior to the site's launch, a blind spot he attributed in part to the fact that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

them white, came out to support him. Why did Donald Trump’s candidacy appeal to so many women voters? Although his election has been attributed primarily to disenfranchised citizens, the data suggest otherwise. Women from varying... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

of which applies to a particular attribute of an organization. "Intimacy is about leadership," Groysberg explains. "Interactivity is about channels. Inclusion is about content. And intentionality is about goals, vision, and the strategy... View Details