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Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog

power abuses that threaten our freedoms and well-being. Course overview: Designed for individuals at any stage of their career, this course is meant to debunk our fallacies about power View Details
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517069-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-032 Shang Xia: The Creation of a Chinese Luxury Lifestyle Brand The case traces the birth of Shang Xia, a joint venture between the Hermès Group and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 28 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching

I had a few industry internships and jobs during and after college to explore other opportunities, but I couldn’t shake the pull I felt toward academia. During grad school, I... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Customers Want from Your Products

get done, and design products and brands that fill that need. In this excerpt, the authors look at designing products that do a View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook & Taddy Hall; Consumer Products

    Ruru Hoong

    Ruru Hoong is a PhD candidate in Economics at Harvard & HBS, on the academic job market AY 2025-26.

    Her research interests span artificial intelligence, digital economics, privacy, and social media, primarily focusing on the (i) optimal design and integration... View Details

    • November–December 2023
    • Article

    Look the Part? The Role of Profile Pictures in Online Labor Markets

    By: Isamar Troncoso and Lan Luo
    Profile pictures are a key component of many freelancing platforms, a design choice that can impact hiring and matching outcomes. In this paper, we examine how appearance-based perceptions of a freelancer’s fit for the job (i.e., whether a freelancer "looks the part"... View Details
    Keywords: Freelancers; Gig Workers; Demographics; Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Analytics and Data Science
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    • 27 Sep 2012
    • News

    Study Shows Leaders Experience Lower Stress

    • 24 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

    levels of poverty. One common challenge is that farmers only have access to one channel, often an auction, in which to sell their crops. Recently, e-intermediaries have emerged as alternate, technology-driven posted-price channels. We aim... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 30 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

    executives to provide on-the-scene examples of how the organization's values are lived on the job is important. This invariably requires a larger-than-normal travel and communication budget, incentives for... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
    • 16 Oct 2013
    • Op-Ed

    Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

    cheaper than the current Gen III+ plants or the proposed Small Modular Reactors, even though much work needs to be done before we know that these Gen IV designs will actually be cheap enough to beat coal in India View Details
    Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
    • October 2002 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Intermountain Health Care

    By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman
    Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making... View Details
    Keywords: Ethnicity; Innovation Strategy; Cost Management; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Technology Adoption; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Adoption; Change Management; Cost vs Benefits; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Utah
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    • 09 Aug 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

    Financial resources don’t determine the quality of education, but it would be absurd to deny that money helps. "Adding to the challenge, 65 percent of Black college students are also juggling full-time jobs or families." Merck CEO Kenneth... View Details
    Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg
    • 04 Aug 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

    We’re in the middle of a Great Resignation. This past April, 2.7 percent of Americans quit their jobs, the highest rate on record. And according to a study by Microsoft, more than 40 percent of the global workforce would consider leaving... View Details
    Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
    • 01 Jun 1997
    • News

    Blockbuster Deals

    inappropriate centralized and bureaucratic organizational design on the target firm. Management was unable to make critical decisions without multiple approvals. "As a result, the organization lost its... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
    • 06 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

    individual anonymized career trajectories, implied by job titles and income, with far more specificity than previously available, Kerr notes. State Department data suggest that from 1989 to 1995, two-thirds... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 01 Dec 1997
    • News

    Growing Together

    sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston... View Details
    Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
    • 09 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

    have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. The latter requires thinking about the level of technical skill the company requires, its philosophy of the PM... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Oct 2020
    • Blog Post

    Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital

    to legal, to tax, to portfolio management – which created a great preamble before Harlem Capital.” While working at ICV, Tingle and Pierre-Jacques were also part of the Management Leadership for Tomorrow career program, an organization... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital / Private Equity
    • 13 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

    to draw more women to apply: Make it easier for candidates to know whether they are qualified. Instead of using vague language about the experience or skills candidates need in job postings, be more precise about expected qualifications.... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin