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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
selecting references, and creating a résumé, to planning and executing a search campaign, interviewing techniques, and negotiating job offers. An extensive bibliography includes both publications and Web sites that address topics such as the View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
several unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter as they develop new businesses. The authors focus on factors that influence female entrepreneurs’ choices of business and industry — personal motivation, commitment, education, experience, View Details
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Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library
the board of directors at the Cambridge Settlement House, which provided social services to the urban poor and campaigned for social justice, and she volunteered at Jobs Clearing House, a job placement... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
or money in trying to acquire the item, they may continue to bid past their initially set limit. To quit before "winning" makes it difficult to self-justify initial investments in pursuit of the item. Competitive arousal—or the mechanism underlying... View Details
- Web
Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report
substantive hope, a hope that moves us through difficult emotions and leads us to take the next step forward. A practicable hope must be accompanied by action , and it must have an element of pragmatism that grounds it in reality .... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work Culture By: Padavic, Irene, R. Ely, and Erin M. Reid Abstract—It is widely accepted that the conflict between women’s family obligations and professional... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
social change and very conscious that I was going to use my HBS training in different ways than most of my classmates,” America explains. “In class, I appreciated the pro-labor side in cases that had a union-management component. I was... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
emotional states. Critically, it tends to follow a redemptive sequence in which negative feelings such as longing and loss give way to positive feelings such as happiness, social connectedness, gratitude,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
home removes the usual social signals about when to eat or drink. Don’t rely on feeling hungry or thirsty! Put meals and hydration times on your to-do list or set alarms if necessary. One of us recently witnessed a colleague pass out from... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
startup funds—and what allowed them to take the risk of launching a company." Curiosity eventually led to his doctoral dissertation: a series of studies showing a definitive link between the social safety net and entrepreneurship. In... View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
business expertise, women also bring a very different set of emotional skills. Stewart points to studies that have found that women directors facilitate the discussion of difficult issues by forcing boards to confront the tough questions.... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
the operating decisions of the waste-to-energy firm. Our analyses suggest that if the social planner's objective is to maximize landfill diversion, offering a subsidy as a per kilowatt-hour for electricity is more cost effective, whereas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
the course: One is a textbook, The Moral Leader: Challenges, Tools, and Insights, that provides historical and social context for the works read in the course, as well as instructional materials. The other is an instructor's guide,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
of what explains Endline’s role today as mastermind and chief rioter at sweetriot, a socially conscious chocolate company founded in 2005. Working directly with cacao farmers in Latin America to ensure a fair price for their labor,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
botsourcing for jobs that do require emotion if robots appear to convey more emotion; and (4) people prefer to outsource cognition-oriented versus emotion-oriented jobs to other humans who are perceived as more versus less robotic. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
CEO Corie Barry, who says that making money is the company’s business imperative, not its purpose. Barry explains how the company manages to balance pursuing its mission of enriching people’s lives through technology while also focusing on its View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
Psychology. Vol. 40, edited by Mark P. Zanna, 61-149, 2008 Abstract The stereotype content model (SCM) defines two fundamental dimensions of social perception, warmth and competence, predicted respectively by perceived competition and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
"They say, 'My skill set is coding, so how can I take that and apply it to the problem?' " says Rose. "There are incremental moves to get these folks involved in a more meaningful way, and you can see the power of that View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
learning and better leverage the skills of teachers and other adults in schools to provide coaching, targeted teaching, and social and emotional development support. The current situation has highlighted... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more... View Details