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  • September 2020
  • Article

Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes:: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East

By: Matt Buehler, Kristin Fabbe and Kyung Joon Han
Why do native citizens of the Middle East and North Africa express greater opposition to certain types of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons? Why, particularly, do they express greater opposition to sub-Saharan African migrants? This article investigates these... View Details
Keywords: Postmaterialism; Immigration; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Surveys; Africa; Middle East
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  • June 2019 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (A)

By: Tsedal Neeley, Paul Leonardi and Michael Norris
Eric Hawkins, director of engineering at AppFolio—a digital technology firm that offered cloud-based business software to small and medium sized companies—was shocked by an unusual request from his senior leadership team. Could Hawkins and one of his agile teams build... View Details
Keywords: Values; Agile; Vision; Corporate Culture; Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Transformation; Technology Industry; United States; California
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  • Article

Family Rituals Improve the Holidays

By: Ovul Sezer, Michael I. Norton, Francesca Gino and Kathleen Vohs
Rituals are central to family life. Three studies (N = 1098) tested the relationship between family rituals and holiday enjoyment and demonstrated that family rituals improve the holidays because they amplify family closeness and involvement in the experience. In Study... View Details
Keywords: Happiness; Behavior; Satisfaction; Family and Family Relationships
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  • Working Paper

Covenant-Light Contracts and Creditor Coordination

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
In 2015, 70% of newly issued leveraged loans had weaker enforcement features, called covenant-light or "cov-lite"; this is nearly a three-time increase in cov-lite issuance compared to a previous peak in 2007. We evaluate whether this development can be attributed to... View Details
Keywords: Credit Cycles; Loan Contracts; Debt Covenants; Contracts; Financing and Loans; Credit; Borrowing and Debt
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  • 1999
  • Article

Effects of Instructional Style on Problem-Solving Creativity

By: A. M. Ruscio and T. M. Amabile
This study sought to determine the impact of 2 differing instructional approaches on creative problem-solving performance. Eighty-two college students completed a novel structure-building task after receiving algorithmic instruction (providing a rote, step-by-step... View Details
Keywords: Training; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Performance; Learning
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  • Article

Evaluating and Managing Tramp Shipping Lines Performances: A New Methodology Combining Balanced Scorecard and Network DEA

By: Ying-Chen Hsu, Cheng-Chi Chung, Hsuan-Shih Lee and H. David Sherman
The shipping industry is essential for the economic development of nations like Taiwan as a means delivering and receiving cargo. Shipping has been depressed since 2008 as a result of the financial crisis increasing pressure for the shipping lines to operate more... View Details
Keywords: Network Data Envelopment Analysis; Shipping Line; Centralized Approach; Cross-efficiency; Balanced Scorecard; Performance Evaluation
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  • July 2014
  • Article

Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India

By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Christopher Stanton
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name... View Details
Keywords: Diaspora; Outsourcing; oDesk; Networks; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Diasporas; Internet and the Web; Ethnicity; Service Industry; South Asia; India
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  • March 2008
  • Article

Radically Simple IT

Many managers think that developing and rolling out a major IT system is like putting up a warehouse: You build it and you're done. But that does not work for IT anymore. Taking that approach results in rigid, costly systems that are outdated from the day they are... View Details
Keywords: Design; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry
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  • 20 Oct 2019
  • News

U.S. Business Schools Realize ESG is no Fad but Part of Long-Term Trend

  • 09 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

develop negative ideas about marriage, just as citizens of the United States and China may develop bad feelings about each other from watching their leaders squabble. So why wouldn't the same thing happen in the workplace? Testing For View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Profile

Phillip Jones

Phillip Jones was in a sixth-grade classroom when the Twin Towers fell on 9/11. His parents, like other parents that day, sat him down for a talk. But they were also both Air Force pilots who were obligated to explain that they would not... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Portrait Project

Joe Coleman

I spent my 23rd birthday in a psychiatric hospital. Family and friends reassured me during visiting hours, but I was still terrified by my diagnosis bipolar disorder—an incurable condition that felt like a death sentence. Looking back,... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

field study of 78 audit and consulting teams from two global professional firms, revealing an irony of team life: even though motivated to perform well on a high-stakes project, pressured teams are more likely to engage in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Breaking News

retire but also felt a commitment to the communities that their outlets served and hoped to preserve these assets. Like so many owner-publishers around the country, the Healeys found few options: “It’s just very difficult to assemble the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 04 Sep 2015
  • Blog Post

4 Tips for MBA Students with Families

HBS is a diverse place – and not just in terms of the countries our students hail from; some students are single, some come here with partners, and some bring the whole family.  In the past we’ve discussed what it’s like to be a partner... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

that has defined the transformational experience of an HBS MBA. "Will we continue to get the most promising young students and future leaders and attract the most remarkable faculty and staff that creates this transformational experience that create alumni View Details
  • 05 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

discount from list price. The new model is based on three prices: the everyday (at least 40 percent off), which kicked off February 1; month-long values, based on themes like back-to-school and Valentine's Day; and "best prices," which... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail
  • 12 Jan 2023
  • News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

relative drop in the banking bucket, my strong hope is that we become a catalyst for other larger organizations to rethink their systems around lending,” Ballard allows. “In 30 to 40, years we’d like to look back and say BetaBank played a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli