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11 Dec 2012
News

It's Not Your Typical Job

03 Oct 2017
News

Equifax, SEC And Deloitte Cyber Breaches: Is It Time To Remove Executive Immunity From Prosecutions?

25 Mar 2020
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From 'Hello' To 'Can You Hear Me?': How The Coronavirus Could Change Office Culture

08 Feb 2017
News

In Trump’s America, the Price of Speech and Silence

22 Jan 2018
News

Bonuses Aside, Tax Law’s Trickle-Down Impact Not Yet Clear

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Informed Decision Making Exercise

2019
Working Paper

Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to Environmental Sustainability. Past Roads and Future Prospects

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Shawn A. Cole, John Ehrenfeld, Andrew A. King and Auden Schendler

This working paper examines key barriers to business sustainability discussed at a multidisciplinary conference held at the Harvard Business School in 2018. Drawing on perspectives from both the historical and business literatures, speakers debated the historical... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Opportunities

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24 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

visits—boosting in-store traffic by about 10 percent. “Technology companies can play a role in working toward racial equity.” The study, called “The Benefits of Revealing Race: Evidence from Minority-Owned Businesses,” also found that... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage

09 May 2016
Blog Post

What Is the Difference between RC and EC Year?

hectic. The fall semester is generously sprinkled with job search days (which mean no class on that day). Also, people select their schedules or do Independent Projects so that there’s a chance they don’t have class certain days of the week. I know plenty of... View Details

05 Oct 2023
News

On the Move: Massimo (Max) Magni (MBA 2003)

numbers. Where are we? What's good, what's bad? So that I can ask the right question. And then I rebuild my day based on what is the priority, what is the immediate priority, and then what are the big projects that we're working on so... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade

12 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?

—Buell explains in a new working paper, “Last Place Aversion in Queues.” "If I can’t look behind me and see someone else is willing to wait longer than me, I start to question whether waiting in line is worthwhile” Buell’s research... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service

31 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

economic works in history. Its messages of industry and frugality also found an audience through phonetic spelling and cartoons that appeared on anything from a child’s mug to a popular broadside. Examples of these early editions can be... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

to provide some explanation and give a measured response justifying the pay disparity.” Connections between wage disparity and company performance are detailed in Rouen’s recent working paper, Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Nov 2023
Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

Capitalism Succeeded Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Oxford University Press/HBSWK View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

George C. Lodge

Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business,... View Details

27 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

Along with colleagues Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, and John Van Reenen, London School of Economics, Sadun challenges this view in a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Management as a Technology? They argue... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

features her battle-tested advice for the newly diagnosed and their caretakers. In this episode of Skydeck, Kathy and I talk about how she learned those lessons, the mission and work of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation that she... View Details

11 Jun 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game

Keywords: by Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

Research Summary

Creating Trust in International Joint Ventures in Asia: An Empirical Comparative Study

In the wake of the currently ongoing financial crisis in Asia, we anticipate a rapid increase of international joint ventures between Asian and Western firms. However, so far, the sources of success in international joint ventures have not been well understood. Why do... View Details

2022
Working Paper

Rethinking Explainability as a Dialogue: A Practitioner's Perspective

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Dylan Slack, Yuxin Chen, Chenhao Tan and Sameer Singh

As practitioners increasingly deploy machine learning models in critical domains such as healthcare, finance, and policy, it becomes vital to ensure that domain experts function effectively alongside these models. Explainability is one way to bridge the gap between... View Details

Keywords: Natural Language Conversations; AI and Machine Learning; Experience and Expertise; Interactive Communication; Business and Stakeholder Relations