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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2025 | Working Knowledge

short stories, perfect to unwind. Willy Shih: Looking to the ocean and the skies One of the books I am reading this summer is Ocean Ecology: Marine Life in the Age of Humans by J. Emmett Duffy. I bought it a few months ago, and I am View Details
  • 2012
  • Article

Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank

By: B. Staats and F. Gino
Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition... View Details
Keywords: Motivation; Productivity; Specialization; Variety; Work Fragmentation; Boundaries; Performance Productivity; Organizations; Research; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities; Market Transactions; Resource Allocation; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Learning
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  • 21 Aug 2023
  • Book

You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

grit is going to overcome structural inequality and the lack of growth in real wages. Each of these pieces has made stability harder to achieve individually and collectively.” One of the more telling indicators of the shift in how employees think about their View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • May 2008
  • Case

Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics and a Career in Crisis

By: W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Heather Beckham
The case describes the dilemma of a marketing manager, Thomas Green, who, after being rapidly promoted, is harshly criticized by his boss, Frank Davis. Green and Davis disagree on work styles and market projections. Green believes the sales goals set by Davis are based... View Details
Keywords: Superior ＆ Subordinate; Performance Management; Personal Strategy ＆ Style; Management Style; Conflict Management; Communication; Rank and Position; Personal Characteristics; Power and Influence
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  • 23 Dec 2019
  • News

The rise of the smartphone and streaming services

  • 29 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

to leave payment for their hosts' servants at the end of their stay as a way of compensating for the extra work their visit created. Today, most people in Western societies draw a distinct line between tipping and bribery, and the fact... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Apr 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Changing In-group Boundaries: The Role of New Immigrant Waves in the US

Keywords: by Vasiliki Fouka, Shom Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini

    Extreme Teaming

    Today’s global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross industry... View Details
    • 15 Oct 2021
    • News

    Three Rules for Better Work-Life Balance

    • 2017
    • Book

    Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
    Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Complexity
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    • 06 Mar 2012
    • News

    Enhance Your Overseas Experience

    • 29 Jul 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: July 29, 2008

      Working PapersTraveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to examine how politicians with short-term electoral pressures control bureaucrats... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

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      Chiu, C-y, Morris, M.W., Hong, Y-y, & Menon, T. (2000).  Motivated cultural cognition: The impact of implicit cultural theories on dispositional attribution varies as a function of Need for Closure.... View Details

      • 25 Mar 2020
      • News

      Data-centric business: Inside the artificial intelligence factory

        How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

        In cities and metros across the United States, leadership from government, business, labor, education, and the nonprofit sector have started to work together across sectors to bolster communal resources. These cross-sector collaborations are diverse in nature, and... View Details
        • March 22, 2012
        • Article

        Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create 'Moments'

        By: Tsedal Neeley
        Global teams face the challenge of having to operate with limited face-to-face contact and across vast distances, time zones, language backgrounds, and contexts, as well as cultural differences. In turn, these differences generate disruptions to team cohesion and top... View Details
        Keywords: Global Range; Groups and Teams; Management Practices and Processes
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        • April 2002
        • Case

        Pallotta TeamWorks

        By: Allen S. Grossman and Elizabeth Kind
        Pallotta Team Works is a for-profit, privately owned company that produces multiday fundraising events for nonprofit organizations. Dan Pallotta, the 40-year-old CEO, founded the enterprise in 1992. The company has grown rapidly, having raised over $200 million for... View Details
        Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Nonprofit Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Service Industry; Consulting Industry; United States
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          Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services

          The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased... View Details

            Jan W. Rivkin

            Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

            Keywords: airline; computer; internet; music; transportation
            • 01 Mar 2017
            • Blog Post

            What You Need to Know about the Latino Student Organization

            Prior to HBS, Karla Mendez was working as a management consultant in the Silicon Valley, focused on customer-centric engagements for technology clients. She wanted to pursue an MBA to hone her leadership skills, develop more confidence in... View Details