Slack Time - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

If a chatbot can Slack convincingly in the boss’s voice, will employees follow orders once they realize the CEO is actually a machine? A novel two-part study finds that an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot trained to write like a... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

about innovation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55477 November–December 2018 Organization Science Slack Time and Innovation By: Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Nov 2020
News

Countdown To Remote Learning

members to teach online, and get 1,900 students—who had scattered around the world—ready to learn online,” says Srikant Datar. “It was daunting.” The School quickly convened a task force from across campus. “Most of us didn’t know each other, but there wasn’t View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade

Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

collaboration encouraged by today’s communication tools like Slack and Skype good or bad for finding the best answer? “I don’t want there to be zero communication, but I do think that transparency and communication do have downsides"... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

without much physical interaction: Zoom replaced meetings, Slack subbed for water-cooler talk, and offices stood mostly vacant. “Our view is that the metaverse can still succeed.” Researchers Andy Wu and David R. Clough felt the brunt of... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

Development has gathered best practices from companies who crafted remote internships for the first time in 2020, and those who have managed virtual teams for years. Using these strategies and tools will help set your company up for an... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

31 Oct 2014
Op-Ed

Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness

Ebola. Furthermore, in the interest of efficiency, we've decreased the number of beds available for extreme cases, leaving ourselves unable to admit patients in the face of an epidemic. There's a constant trade-off between efficiency and View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health

31 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

that's where the good stuff happens. That's where the answer lies at that intersection.” Many guests expressed their desire to hire candidates who understand the interconnectivity of climate challenges and can translate complex climate topics into simple terms. They... View Details

13 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

less productive. ©iStock/Uberimages “We were afraid teams would spend less effort finding households of different ethnicities, and they would spend all of their time trying to register their own people in order to gain power,” says Pons.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

volunteer opportunity to organizations like MBAs Fight COVID-19 and the National Student Response Network, as well as email listservs, and Slack channels. As word spread through the tight-knit HBS community, we received tremendous and... View Details

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture

years as a time to experiment, to learn to launch something, but also to gain the skills on the operational side, and to expand my network. I was great at finance, I understood the healthcare market, but there was a lot of opportunity for... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

lean inventories and just in time deliveries, there is not a lot of slack in the system to act as a buffer. This disaster promises to be quite a test. Consider, for example, Shin-Etsu Handotai, one of the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

Cohen It was quite an adjustment. "I had to update my skills and relearn about business," Fishman Cohen said. She found a job at Bain and devoted herself utterly and full-time to her career while her husband worked three-quarters View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

22 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

in Sweden. For decades, the company had compensated sales people with a base salary and a monthly quota. But anecdotes from regional managers indicated it might be time for a change—largely thanks to the weather. “In Sweden what happens... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Web

MBA 2024 Alumni Transition - Alumni

Zoom account . July 17: Class Card access ends May 22, 2025: HBS Slack access ends. Laptops and Mobile Devices Please take the following steps to configure your laptop and mobile devices for after graduation. Topic Description Mobile... View Details

05 Mar 2008
What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

since the early part of the twentieth century, he believes the time may be right for significant change. He's not alone. Theodore Zeldin, a British historian who has spent a great deal of time studying the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

25 Apr 2023
News

Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight global regional winners together... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

of the common contracts people sign with themselves each year. If you have resolved to eat healthier, try ordering your groceries a week in advance of delivery. Internet delivery services make it all too easy to give into food cravings with the click of a mouse. The... View Details