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14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

reevaluate. Maintaining culture change requires measurement. Leaders should constantly reassess their progress by collecting feedback from a random representative sample at View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

relating the story, Miller said, "I believe in Christensen's fundamental premise that you find very few of those guys who are actually successful at disrupting the market, and [then disrupting] themselves." How To Not View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Motherhood and the MBA

Being an MBA student can be hectic, overwhelming, and a lot of fun - and the same can be said for being a mom. When you’re juggling being an MBA student and a mom at the same time, things can get pretty crazy. We connected with mom and... View Details

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

When your boss asks you to meet with clients for last-minute drinks, are you tempted to clear your calendar, even if it means missing your child’s piano recital? If so, you’re among the many professionals who tend to prioritize... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

30 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

Researchers study 2,000 conversations In the first two studies, people were assigned a random partner and told to chat for 15 minutes in order to get to know each other. In the first study, one person in each pair was told to ask View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

28 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1

Hosting a company recruiting event is a great way to build brand awareness and engage with HBS students. At the same time, we know that event planning requires a commitment from your team in preparing materials, securing speakers,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

efficiency. In "Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity," the authors show that workers are especially productive on rainy days, simply because they're not tempted by the possibilities of a sunny day—a walk in the park, for example, or an afternoon View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award at the INFORMS Workshop on Data Science for "Using Data-Mined Variables in Causal Inference Tasks: A Random Forest Approach to the Measurement Error Problem" with Mochen Yang, Gordon Burtch, and... View Details

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

generalize," Avery says. But that misses the point. Rather than helping researchers estimate the habits of ordinary consumers, the data from extreme customers can uncover new consumer motivations, promoting different ways of looking View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

other people at work, home, school, and beyond, we aren’t that great at it—we make mistakes, have awkward moments, miss golden opportunities—we all have room for improvement.... View Details

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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Administration, 1966. Roethlisberger, Fritz Jules. The Elusive Phenomena: an Autobiographical Account of My Work in the Field of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School . Boston: Division of Research, Graduate School of... View Details

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is low. Objective: To determine whether... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

Harvard Business School faculty members, looking at the U.S. financial crisis from a variety of disciplines, urged caution and prudent analysis in a recent panel discussion. The discussion titled "Turmoil on the Street: Fathoming the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

MIT Sloan Management Review Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School By: Guinan, Eva C., Kevin J. Boudreau, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—Harvard Medical School seems an unlikely organization to open up its innovation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

professor at Harvard Business School who coleads the WMS with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics. "If you really want to be convincing, it's important to have large-scale... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

rising college seniors. At SVMP, we developed a friendship, which turned into a relationship a year later during Laura’s work trip to the New York City Wine and Food Festival. We started off long-distance—flights between New York City and... View Details

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

of opportunity, America could instead be closing it down—unless we create a positive agenda to renew the American spirit," she writes in the book's introduction. Kanter believes America at the start of the 21st century has lost its... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Collection Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti by Robert S. Kaplan and Mahek A. Shah Partners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the cost of primary care View Details

30 Apr 2018
Blog Post

HBS Grad Drives Lori Systems to Success

eye toward uncovering the obstacles – and possibly arriving at a means for relieving them. The big problem? Trucking. Too many (and all too common) missed connections and miscommunications led to long delays... View Details

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Jiaojun Wang

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? After seven years of working, I wanted to take a step back, reflect upon my major life decisions, and start afresh. I miss campus so much! Walking on the... View Details

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