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  • 23 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

laboratory conditions, she was eager to confirm her findings in a real-world setting. That opportunity came when a Fortune 500 high-tech electronics firm agreed to an in-house study that would measure factors affecting creativity within... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

graduates who want access to the School's renowned inventory of management information. A new Web portal, HBS Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu), was launched in October, bringing together a wealth of information from leading print and View Details
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Faculty Research Symposium

that she also published in the August 2002 Harvard Business Review. For the time-pressure study, Amabile endeavored to “trap creativity in the wild” by surveying employees at seven companies across three industries. She and her... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Books

a business landscape replete with possibilities, they select a single modern-day example -- the electronic computer -- as the focus of their study. Baldwin and Clark argue that the computer industry could not have experienced its... View Details
  • 29 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

legend in the newspaper community. The case describes the evolution of Schibsted's strategy from print media towards electronic media starting in 1995, including their choices around the internal structuring of new ventures. In September... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

(Editor's Note: In a recent issue, Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter tackled the controversial issue of "commodification of the body." Harvard Business School professor Michel Anteby contributed the... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

hierarchy in interfirm transaction networks in two industry sectors in Japan: automotive and electronics. Our empirical results show that the electronics sector exhibits a much lower degree of hierarchy than the automotive sector due to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

donations. To assess their potential impact, an archival survey of voluntary, in-state whole-body donors to two programs procuring in the same U.S. state was conducted. The programs' specimen recipients were also analyzed. One program is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

When Stephen Kaufman took the helm at Arrow Electronics in 1982, it was de rigueur for CEOs to sit on the boards of several other companies in addition to running their own. Back then, serving as a board member didn't require much of a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

office architecture on employees’ interpersonal and electronic interactions. Working with co-author Stephen Turban, who was introduced to Bernstein by the late HBS professor David Garvin, their study yielded surprising findings about the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

than luxurious prizes like electronics or trips. It’s even better if a gift feels personalized. A manager could give an employee who enjoys fitness activities a gift card to a store that sells workout clothes, while giving another worker... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 24 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 24

their country's institutions, some have undertaken wholesale changes, while others have attempted to influence the rules in other countries. We survey past attempts at governance innovation, from private governance in India's industrial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Ink

Valley to Swaziland: How One Couple Found Purpose and Adventure in an Encore Career Quoted (iStock) “We’ve now surveyed thousands of executives at hundreds of companies, and they’re always shocked to see how poorly their strategy is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Apple; Microsoft; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

patient-reported outcomes, at an accelerated pace. These comprehensive sets are integrated with electronic health records and incorporated into clinical practice, and they will underpin internal quality improvement and external... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

frontline employees take initiative to improve their work systems to prevent operational failures. Drawing on the system improvement and team-learning literatures, we develop a framework of frontline system improvement and test it using View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey By: Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using survey data from a sample of senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

managers of facilities that are subjected to comparable institutional pressures adopt distinct sets of management practices that appease different external constituents. Using an original survey and archival data obtained for nearly 500... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

knowledge-intensive multinational corporation suggest that reluctance to speak up, even with pro-organizational suggestions, is driven by specific implicit theories about speaking up in hierarchies. Study 2 uses open-ended survey... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field experiment to distinguish... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

Abstract—Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne