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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

factor, their research showed, because people experience more joy during their limited free time than while working or doing household chores. Interestingly, however, what people did with their extra time was more important than how many... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

Biasi, Zoë B. Cullen , Julia H. Gilman and Nina Roussille This paper provides causal evidence on how wage inequality among workers affects the labor movement using three complementary research designs: a vignette experiment with union... View Details

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alumni and students can view your profile, via the Privacy tab of Edit My Profile for your Alumni Profile. You may provide feedback about this experience at the Website Feedback & Support page. LinkedIn Why is my profile no longer syncing... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

political and social objectives. Exploiting two natural experiments, we further show that (v) rhetorically aligned firms experience larger stock price declines following events damaging the Party’s reputation, and (vi) firms increase... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

Rising Patrik Frisk, CEO of ReJu, joins Climate Rising to discuss his company’s mission to recycle textile waste and build circular supply chains for apparel made of polyester fabric. Patrik brings his prior experience leading Under... View Details

05 May 2014
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Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

perform better afterward." A field experiment The final study tested the hypotheses in the real-world setting of Wipro, a business-process outsourcing company based in Bangalore, India. The View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

other extant signaling game models in the operations management literature. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50107 Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Africa - Global

admissions and outreach activities on the continent. Locations Africa Research Center: Johannesburg Johannesburg, South Africa Africa Research Center: Lagos Lagos, Nigeria Africa Research Center: Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya News & Highlights MAY 2025 View Details

10 Nov 2015
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Using an MBA for a Career Change

file cabinets?? So I applied to business schools and was lucky enough to be admitted to HBS. I tried out things I never would have done had I stayed in auditing. HBS FIELD 2 at Dafiti.com in Sao PauloAcademic immersion View Details

07 Aug 2012
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experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2007
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introducing a generation to the practice of personal computing and laying the foundation for the Information Age. Gates and Jobs turned their curiosity about electronics into a multi-billion dollar industry. From early experiments like... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Asia Pacific - Global

leveling the playing field between retail investors and institutional investors. In addition, he also explored the implications of misinformation for managers and discussed ways in which managers could play a more proactive role in... View Details

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

occurring in the same paper. I will use my knowledge of behavioral ethics and my experience as a co-author on a fraudulent paper to explore changes that are needed to improve research integrity. About the Unit The NOM Unit seeks to... View Details

27 Oct 2009
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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 View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2013
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The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Agriculture & Agribusiness

05 Aug 2022
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Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It

provider that they had an unsightly smudge on their face. The field study points to an uncomfortable truth: Even in cases where people have little to lose, they withhold needed feedback from others who could use it. Part of the reason why... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Influencing practice and advancing the field for over 25 years. Through the work of the faculty, the Social Enterprise Initiative has built a foundation of knowledge that has both responded to and influenced the changing View Details

2009
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Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

By: Heidi K. Gardner

In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing team motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I conducted a... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Groups and Teams

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07 Feb 2022
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Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

end-to-end customer experiences in an unforgiving dynamic economy. As one executive put it, in a hyperconnected world, competitors can "pop up from anywhere and everywhere." With rising expectations of customers and other stakeholders, no... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

15 Feb 2022
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When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

mathematics—see much greater longevity. Teachers often experience long-lasting success, and a Chronicle of Education study says the oldest college professors tend to have the best teaching evaluations. Jumping on that second crystalized... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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