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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Francesca Gino (Dey Street) From an early age, we are taught to be rule followers, and the pressure to fit in only increases as we age. But conformity comes at a steep price for our careers and personal lives. When we mindlessly accept rules and View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
authors examine how 20th-century shifts in global governance norms and structures eventually left the high seas open for predatory attacks. Reviewing contemporary debates about how best to combat piracy, they conclude that the solution... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
consistent with our field interviews of R&D executives from laboratories involved in our study. The study provides further evidence of the geographically bounded nature of knowledge. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2423341 Bureaucratic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
majority of newsvendor settings. When demands are uncensored, subjects tend to order below the normative quantity when facing high margin and above the normative quantity when facing low margin, but in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis
roles became more formalized with norms for daily check-ins that eventually became weekly check-ins as Summer Associates became more settled into the program. Introducing an HR buddy system was a new addition to offer more opportunities... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
much bigger, which is the amount of time we are “on”—meaning at work or monitoring work remotely. Workaholics are nothing new in the managerial ranks, but technology has made a 24/7 connection to work the norm for many more people than... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
and T-shirts. Going against the corporate norm is nothing new for Scher, who shunned the usual perks and salary an HBS graduate typically commands in favor of the glamourless, risky, and low-paying job of starting up a company that wasn't... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
home of James Barnes (21st OPM), who, along with fellow Central Florida OPM alumni, hosted an evening of delicious dining and spirited camaraderie. "The Reunion was a tremendous success," notes Norm Berg. "Many participants told me how... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
transparency of the methods used to obtain research findings. Although comprehensive reporting facilitates accurate assessment of a paper’s claims, the current reporting norm is secrecy, not openness. We begin by putting this situation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
offers weekly Zoom meetings with guest speakers, game-based messaging, positive social norming exercises, and the promotion of “protective factors” such as staying connected to others, being physically active, and taking breaks from... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
colleagues on the Harvard Business School faculty, legendary teacher and thinker Tony Athos. In an organization with a culture of long hours and FILO (first in last out) norms (borrowing from David Physick's comment), Tony liked to sit... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
the international financial architecture; and the formal rules and informal norms of international organizations. Book link: http://www.tobinproject.org/twobooks/pdf/New_Perspectives_Full_Text.pdf Government as Risk Manager Authors:Tom... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
the company norms and culture.” Actively solicit feedback and listen to members of your community about their lived experience so that these practices are part of the conversation. Equity audits can also be used to bring in outside... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development
one on one meetings between managers and direct reports are the norm and the career development conversation is ongoing. “I tend to think about things in 90-day terms, so managers and their reports look at what the employee needs to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
concept of modularity -- the building of complex products from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole. It was modularity, the authors assert, that freed designers to experiment with different approaches while working... View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees' Career Development
one on one meetings between managers and direct reports are the norm and the career development conversation is ongoing. “I tend to think about things in 90-day terms, so managers and their reports look at what the employee needs to... View Details
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
economic outcomes, as well as their influences on macroeconomic policy design and performance. Moreover, it demonstrates how institutional differences across countries ultimately rest in differences in norms and beliefs, and explores how... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax theory has yet to capture the diversity of normative principles with which society evaluates taxes. I generalize the conventional model to incorporate multiple View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
effected a dramatic shift in the norms of acceptable behavior in the workplace. Easterbrook was just one of a number of CEOs to get caught in the reversal and be shown the door over harassment or relationship issues. Boards and business... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
importantly, these gains were driven entirely by increases in exports, which as a percentage of GDP rose to 30 percent, much higher than the typical 20 percent that was the norm 10 years ago. Merchandise exports rose between 2007 and 2014... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim