Work Environments - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest

to mitigate these risks to maximize the social return, and shed new light on what might have originally been a questionable business case. For young managers seeking to grow global careers, this implies several things: First, working in... View Details

Keywords: Chris Maloney; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

10 Mar 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension

as a ship engineer. In time, she moved into business to, as she puts it, “understand how the world worked,” even as her passion for the environment continued. After two decades in the for-profit sector, including consulting View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) (Harvard Business Review Press) The employer-employee relationship is broken. The old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business... View Details

30 Apr 2021
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Revealing the Rules

down from mentors or parents and, in the process, create a dividing line between those who inherently know how to navigate a workplace environment and everyone else. After working as a career advisor for... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Books

and professor Josh Lerner draw on their extensive research on venture capital organizations to illuminate the workings of this important industry. In a series of interpretative essays, the book expands on common themes in research they... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise

Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, Reddit had seen its share of CEO turnover as it grappled with questions about how to moderate content and build a sustainable advertising model without crushing the site’s notoriously independent spirit. Luckily, Wong had... View Details

19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire

interested in your thoughts on empathy because empathy feels like something that we hear a lot more about today as a necessary trait for leaders. BG: Absolutely. I studied as an industrial engineer and that was all about how you use your hands, how do people View Details

10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

tell them that they were in and what were their priorities at that moment. And it related to finance. It could relate to work. It could work to charitable giving. It could relate to caregiving. They developed a whole framework. And then... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems

at Harvard in the second month of a yearlong program. They are drawing on the University’s academic environment to plan and prepare for field-based initiatives they will launch to confront global and local problems in areas such as... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2006
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The Baby Business

really is no business of stem cells yet. There’s research, and money going into research, but to date there are no products being sold on the open market. It’s a fledgling business. The other major difference has to do with the regulatory View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2003
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Student Conferences, at a Glance

Every year, members of HBS student clubs work overtime to organize conferences that address an array of business-related themes and issues. This year’s events, which featured renowned guest speakers and thought-provoking panels, focused... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

case sets forth various proposals for increasing its capacity. In considering change, the importance of the organization’s close-knit culture — built around quality service, attention to patients, and an attractive work View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator

Like many great innovations, it all began with a simple question, in this case from Khan’s nine-year-old cousin, Nadia: “Sal,” she asked, “can you please help me with my homework?” So how did Nadia’s request launch a juggernaut? In 2004, Nadia was living in New Orleans... View Details

23 Oct 2019
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After the Storm

mess. The work is already so hard. It’s a blessing to do it, I would not want to work in service to anyone else in terms of the communities of color that we serve in the community that we serve, but it’s... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

Dreyfoos’s collection, encompass the years from 1950 to 2013 and reflect 60 countries. Those in the early decades have a historical aura, and many others may soon join that group as cultures evolve and the environment eliminates or... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

about the recent slump but also about the fascinating workings of the star-maker machinery behind the music that moves America. Strauss Zelnick, president and CEO of BMG Entertainment North America, a division of Germany's Bertelsmann AG... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Sep 2020
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Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

believe that the ideas the elite present are not universal and true but, in fact, are designed to serve their own interests. Why are we seeing a surge in populism? See more from the online-only September Alumni Bulletin IMPACT section’s exploration of democracy-related... View Details