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  • 08 Mar 2022
  • News

Remote-Work Experts Are in Demand as Return to Office Begins Anew

  • 27 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

Policy (Management) doctoral program at HBS. (Edmondson chaired her dissertation committee.) Prior to the redesign, the hospital used ad hoc groupings in the emergency department—any available nurse would... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
  • 08 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

schedules, with the opportunity to work from home on more than just an occasional basis. These preferences have helped fuel the rise of the “gig economy” and the rapid growth of companies like HourlyNerd,... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
  • Article

Strategy-Proofness of Worker-Optimal Matching with Continuously Transferable Utility

By: Ravi Jagadeesan, Scott Duke Kominers and Ross Rheingans-Yoo
We give a direct proof of one-sided strategy-proofness for worker-firm matching under continuously transferable utility. A new “Lone Wolf” theorem (Jagadeesan et al., 2017) for settings with transferable utility allows us to adapt the method of proving one-sided... View Details
Keywords: Matching; Strategy-proofness; Lone Wolf Theorem; Rural Hospitals Theorem; Mechanism Design; Marketplace Matching
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  • 12 Feb 2015
  • Video

Comeback Kids: How the Boston Red Sox went from last place to World Series

  • 13 Jul 2016
  • Blog Post

How To Hire A Millennial

sciences. Survey after survey has found millennials prefer flexible work schedules, with the opportunity to work from home on more than just an occasional basis. These preferences have helped fuel the rise... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 05 Oct 2020
  • Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

perfectly—he got heatstroke, they missed a tour of the Vatican, and it rained for two days straight—the couple fought so much over whether the trip was worth the high price tag that the husband threatened to take the next flight home. But... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Dec 2015
  • News

A Leader’s Call to Action

Photos by Joe Szurszewski “What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.” That observation, attributed to Plato, is inscribed on the Athena Leadership Award that graces Barbara Nick’s home office in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

hospital business and a health insurance business, management decided to split the businesses apart through a corporate spin-off because it realized the businesses were strategically incompatible—the... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 2022
  • Book

Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present

By: Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi
How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable leaders are central challenges for any society. These are not new concerns. Scholars, educators, and political and economic... View Details
Keywords: Merit; Meritocracy; Society; Government and Politics; History; Power and Influence; Leadership; Competency and Skills; China; India
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  • 18 May 2015
  • News

Providing broadband to rural communities

As president of the Fiber to the Home Council Americas, Heather Gold (GMP 8, 2010) represents companies that build and operate fiber to the home... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

items caught my eye recently. The first was the report from the Home Depot annual meeting contrasting this year's investor-friendlier tone set by the company's new CEO, Frank Blake, with last year's, led by then-CEO Robert Nardelli. It's... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 22 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

borrowers with other private information, including monthly payment histories on auto loans, mortgages, home equity lines of credit, student loans, and credit cards, plus occupation and income information. Using debt relief View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

Many managers know that even when their firm launches a change initiative with great fanfare, it is tough to make the changes last. More often than not, employees wearily dismiss the initiative as another management fad. Soon enough,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

protections: Consumers were, as caveat emptor suggests, on their own. What caused the rapid rise in modern consumer protections? Gunnar Trumbull: The main driver has been affluence. As an increasing percentage of homes began View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • April 2012
  • Article

Retail Doesn't Cross Borders: Here's Why and What to Do about It

By: Marcel Corstjens and Rajiv Lal
Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for boosting revenues and profits today. However, success abroad varies widely, and research shows that it's often tough to... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Growth and Development Strategy; Globalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Local Range; Retail Industry
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  • 12 Jul 2022
  • News

Expanding the Power to Prosper

send money home to help their families, for example. The blockchain could change all of that though, and cryptocurrencies could empower anyone with a smartphone to have access... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

5 Tips To Successfully Make A Hybrid Setup Work For You And Your Boss

  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

within their own ranks. “What you really do need is knowledge of that specific industry, whether it's pharmaceutical or manufacturing or hospitality or rocket science.” The findings suggest an active market for CEOs, who are lured View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 13 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

across Africa. I was worried HBS would not accept students from my background. I hadn’t studied outside Nigeria and most of my work experience was local. Were the things I had done “impressive” enough? I felt like all I did was go to... View Details