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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Turning Point: Soul Cycle
Karyn Kerr Pettigrew (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Karyn Kerr Pettigrew (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We all have turning points in our lives—clarifying moments that change the trajectory of our lives. The value... View Details
- January–February 2018
- Article
The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture: How to Manage the Eight Critical Elements of Organizational Life
By: Boris Groysberg, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
Executives are often confounded by culture, because much of it is anchored in unspoken behaviors, mindsets, and social patterns. But when properly managed, culture can help them achieve change and build organizations that will thrive in even the most trying times. In... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Groysberg, Boris, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng. "The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture: How to Manage the Eight Critical Elements of Organizational Life." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 1 (January–February 2018): 44–52.
- January–February 2019
- Article
Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance
By: Claudine Gartenberg, Andrea Prat and George Serafeim
We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related to financial performance. However, high... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Purpose; Purpose; Employee Motivation; Belief Systems; Corporate Performance; Human Capital; Middle Management; Culture; Corporate Culture; Meaning; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Employees; Perception; Values and Beliefs; Performance Effectiveness
Gartenberg, Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim. "Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance." Organization Science 30, no. 1 (January–February 2019): 1–18.
The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card
What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.
Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
- 23 May 2013
- Video
In One Word
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
deflate,” Miller recalled in a recent Harvard Business School case. The partner had a job offer in his pocket that he had planned to hand Miller, but the prison time changed everything. View VideoVideo:... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh
long-distance partner, Shaye, and making myself breakfast (an egg, mushroom, and cheese sandwich on toast). I typically leave one of my cases to read in the morning, since my brain works best at this time. 9:00 AM: I bike to campus and... View Details
- January 1994 (Revised March 1995)
- Background Note
Power Dynamics in Organizations
By: Linda A. Hill
Designed to introduce the concepts of power and power dynamics to students in the MBA second-year elective course Power and Influence. Defines "power" and "influence," and explores the role of power dynamics in managerial work and in the life of organizations. Combats... View Details
Hill, Linda A. "Power Dynamics in Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 494-083, January 1994. (Revised March 1995.)
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
7. 36. Land quoted in Sean Callahan, "Dr. Land's Latest Bit of Magic," Life 73, no. 17 (October 27, 1972): 48. 37. William J. McCune, Oral History Project, Interviews with William J. McCune, Chairman,... View Details
- July 2, 2020
- Article
How to Build a Life: A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Higher education is often described as an investment. But it’s still unclear if it pays off in happiness. View Details
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life." The Atlantic (July 2, 2020).
- January 2018
- Article
Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life
By: Edward L. Glaeser, Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca and Nikhil Naik
New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome variables at higher frequencies and finer geographic scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for... View Details
Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik. "Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life." Economic Inquiry 56, no. 1 (January 2018): 114–137.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy
By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman and Benjamin Iverson
In a randomized control trial (RCT) with U.S. small businesses, we document that a large share of firms are not well-informed about bankruptcy. Many assume that bankruptcy necessarily entails the death of a business and do not know about Chapter 11 bankruptcy, where... View Details
Bernstein, Shai Benjamin, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman, and Benjamin Iverson. "Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30933, February 2023.
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Media, VC Discussed at WSA Conference
of Time Inc., delivered keynote speeches challenging the notion that there’s only one path to the top. “Let’s blow up the phrase ‘work-life balance,’” Fudge told an audience of some 850 participants gathered in Burden Auditorium. “Balance... View Details
- 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT, 09 Apr 2019
- Career Events
What's Next in My Life?
Do you see change ahead on your horizon, and you're not sure how to quite put it all together? Join this hands-on, two-hour workshop where you will learn frameworks for life and career planning, consider work and life dimensions to help create your next chapter and... View Details