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- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee
In the wake of COVID-19, companies around the world are quickly changing how they get work done, which includes a shift to primarily remote work. As you navigate View Details
- 2021
- Book
Management as a Calling: Leading Business, Serving Society
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Business leaders have tremendous power to influence our society, how it operates, whether it is fair, and the extent to which it impacts the environment. And yet, we do not recognize or call out the responsibility that comes with that power. This book is meant to... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Power and Influence; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Leadership
Hoffman, Andrew J. Management as a Calling: Leading Business, Serving Society. Stanford University Press, 2021. (Winner of the 2022 PROSE Book Award, Association of American Publishers;
Winner of the 2022 Best Book Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management;
Finalist for the 2022 George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management.
Chinese Edition: 使命管理, China Science and Technology Press, 2022.)
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
As the Future Catches You
medicine, technology, international relations, economics, and human behavior, and as a phenomenon that stimulates itself - is at the core of the book. In the realm View Details
- Summer 2025
- Article
Time Well Spent: A New Way to Value Time Could Change Your Life
By: Leslie Perlow and Salvatore J Affinito
When individuals engage in fulfilling activities outside of work, they perform better on the job, but simply encouraging work-life balance doesn’t help with hour-by-hour time management. A new tool for measuring the subjective value of time for individuals as it varies... View Details
Perlow, Leslie, and Salvatore J Affinito. "Time Well Spent: A New Way to Value Time Could Change Your Life." MIT Sloan Management Review 66, no. 4 (Summer 2025): 44–49.
- 2022
- Book
From Strength to Strength: Finding Meaning, Success, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our... View Details
Keywords: Aging; Meaning In Life; Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Success; Happiness; Satisfaction
Brooks, Arthur C. From Strength to Strength: Finding Meaning, Success, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life. New York, NY: Portfolio/Penguin, 2022.
- 22 Mar 2018
- News
Sustainability: A New Way of Doing Business
- 14 Sep 2020
- News
The Falling Tides of lIfe
- 30 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The Life and Role of a CEO
giving my best every single day, and that’s the only way I work.” This does not mean that doing your best is enough. CEOs also talked about the importance of expectation management, View Details
- January 2000 (Revised October 2000)
- Case
Staples: A Year in the Life of a Start-Up
By: Myra M. Hart
The case provides information on the development of the office superstore concept, building partnerships, creating the business plan, and recruiting a management team. Focuses on the detailed level of decision making required to transform an idea into a viable... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Recruitment; Management Teams; Integration; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Business Plan; Decision Making
Hart, Myra M. "Staples: A Year in the Life of a Start-Up." Harvard Business School Case 800-241, January 2000. (Revised October 2000.)
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Teaching "design thinking" as a way to promote creativity and innovation
Harvard Business School Professor Srikant Datar talks about teaching the course 'Design Thinking and Innovation' to HBS students and to business school faculty around the world. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 04 Feb 2012
- News
When Life Is a Bunch of Carrots
- 14 Oct 2016
- News
A venture capitalist proves himself as a hedge fund manager
- October 2019
- Teaching Note
Managing the Future of Work
By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
This teaching note has been prepared to assist instructors with teaching HBS Case Study 818-128 "Managing the Future of Work.' This case has been designed to introduce leaders from various sectors to the Future of Work, and to give them the analytical tools and... View Details
- November–December 2021
- Article
Does Gender Matter? The Effect of Management Responses on Reviewing Behavior
By: Davide Proserpio, Isamar Troncoso and Francesca Valsesia
We study the effect of management responses on the reviewing behavior of self-identified female and male reviewers. Using data from Tripadvisor, we show that after hotels begin to respond to reviews, the probability that a negative review comes from a self-identified... View Details
Keywords: Word Of Mouth; Online Reviews; Management Responses; E-commerce; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Digital Platforms; Customers
Proserpio, Davide, Isamar Troncoso, and Francesca Valsesia. "Does Gender Matter? The Effect of Management Responses on Reviewing Behavior." Marketing Science 40, no. 6 (November–December 2021): 1199–1213.
- 28 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better
of respondents to a recent poll said they would prefer to do almost anything else, from watching paint dry, to a root canal, to a trip to the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Well-Tuned Life
founded Carry-a-Tune Technologies, a company that sells software products that use the fun of karaoke to help people improve their singing — and, no doubt, their self-image. It happens that self-worth is an... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Blog Post
A New Way to Recruit
When I was a student at HBS, I spent a lot of time discussing my career with classmates who were interested in learning about my experiences working in venture capital, or... View Details
- Article
Is Life Nasty, Brutish, and Short? Philosophies of Life and Well-Being
By: Michael I. Norton, Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin and Elizabeth W. Dunn
Three studies examine the extent to which laypeople endorse Thomas Hobbes' (1651) view of life as "nasty, brutish, and short" and explore the relationships between this philosophy and well-being. We asked participants to answer two binary choice questions: Is life... View Details
Norton, Michael I., Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, and Elizabeth W. Dunn. "Is Life Nasty, Brutish, and Short? Philosophies of Life and Well-Being." Social Psychological & Personality Science 2, no. 6 (November 2011): 570–575.