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  • 31 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

effective solution for companies. She co-wrote the journal article with HBS doctoral student Grace Cormier, as well as three employees of Happify, Allison L. Williams, Acacia C. Parks, and Julia Stafford. Happify, which funded the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 07 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

for new brands to stand out in a crowded marketplace as a result of the innovative or compassionate ways they are responding to the virus outbreak, with 37 percent of consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
  • 04 Jun 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

team, judge and jury, and exercise the wisdom of Solomon.” David McConnell said, “Maybe the answer lies in the question, ‘What is the offender doing to be sure that it does not happen again?’ How long does... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

apparent, they tend to emerge over time as the wisdom of better decision-making bears fruit. “In the early stages, it’s hard to see that you are gaining all of those benefits,”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

MBA Professor of 2017. Mihir A. Desai : Winner of the 2018 Axiom Business Book Award Bronze Medal in the Economics category for The Wisdom of... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

anecdotes and wisdom from women who’ve been there, and featuring quizzes and checklists for self-evaluation, Career Forward provides a wealth of valuable lessons, including the value View Details
  • 20 Jan 2023
  • News

Free Spirits

approximately 40 percent of Americans don’t drink at all. With so many flexi-drinkers crowding the bar these days, the stigma is starting to fade. “Not drinking has become a more visible choice since the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

activities in companies. But key facts about sales in the 21st century, and the implications of those facts for resource allocations and selling behaviors, are not typically discussed in the business press and sales books. This session... View Details
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.jom.2014.09.008 March 2015 Management Science Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts By: Mollick, Ethan, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

When managers need help leading through turbulent times, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter suggests taking wisdom from the sayings of that expert on confusion, Yogi Berra. "When you... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

All of the most valuable firms in the world today are platforms, starting with Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. But platforms do not evolve in predictable ways, and there is a lot that managers and entrepreneurs can learn about past,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Alumni Books

like trust, authenticity, courage, and validation can go hand in hand with traditional business practices. She illustrates the origins of her values and the bases of her approach with stories from her career... View Details
Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

Jeong-han Kang, and Toby E. Stuart Periodical:Administrative Science Quarterly (forthcoming). Abstract This article examines how competitive crowding affects the conduct of actors in a tournament. We develop... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

disregard—advice all the time. A widely recommended strategy for figuring out the most accurate solution to a complex problem is to reach out to multiple people to leverage the wisdom of the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). SEAS is relocating its campus across the street from the business school in a few years, and the two organizations are discussing collaboration opportunities. Seeking answers from... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • July 2021
  • Article

Creating Exercise Habits Using Incentives: The Trade-off Between Flexibility and Routinization

By: John Beshears, Hae Nim Lee, Katherine L. Milkman, Robert Mislavsky and Jessica Wisdom
Habits involve regular, cue-triggered routines. In a field experiment, we tested whether incentivizing exercise routines—paying participants each time they visit the gym within a planned, daily two-hour window—leads to more persistent exercise than offering flexible... View Details
Keywords: Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making; Healthcare; Exercise; Habit; Routine; Health; Behavior; Decision Making
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  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

@Soldiers Field

modified by former product manager Ellen Chisa (HBS 2016). Former New Jersey Governor and EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman chatted with professor Joe Lassiter about the future of nuclear energy, hosted by the HBS Business &... View Details
Keywords: John Shad (MBA 1949); Educational Services
  • 23 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

maintained, the power of self-policing organizations, the question of whether the service is drifting from its core principles, and whether a Wikipedia-like concept can work in a business setting. (See... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

crowds can be expected to provide wisdom and show, theoretically and empirically, that their efficacy is related to crowd sophistication and task complexity. Consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

wisdom of the crowd, with each product being reviewed many times (some with more than 1,000 reviews). Because of this, the way in which information is aggregated is a central... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne