Individuals And Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

download count numbers, but we were able to see exactly who was doing this, and in what circumstances." In their research, Larkin and Edelman teamed up with the SSRN View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems

By: Tarun Khanna

What problems do developing countries face, and how can individuals contribute to solutions rather than awaiting the largesse of the state or other actors? Intractable problems – such as lack of access to education and healthcare, forced reliance on contaminated... View Details

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Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

By: Robert L. Simons

To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy

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Recent Insights from HBS Podcasts

Our faculty at HBS produce many podcasts on diverse business topics, designed to get you thinking, elicit discussion and provide new perspectives. Here we've gathered a few recent episodes you might want to explore. Of course, you can... View Details

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

connects with prospective candidates by posting internship opportunities in 12twenty, hosting an informational session in January, and networking with relevant student groups like the social impact clubs and... View Details

23 Nov 2020
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COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

Jialan Wang and Jeyul Yang of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Benjamin Iverson of Brigham Young University. “The drop in business bankruptcies is particularly striking given reports of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

education, CSML integrates world-class faculty and research in managing teams and organizations with best practices in educational leadership, to provide school leaders with... View Details

21 May 2021
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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

organization, and then wrote reports that our team would provide to the target company. Much of what I wrote about dealt with issues that are common in Asia, from a lack of governance that met global... View Details

03 Mar 2003
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Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

IRS argues that the difference in stock price is actually income to the entrepreneur. # 9: Issuing founder shares without vesting. Simply put, vesting protects the members of the founding team who take the venture forward. If people... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

28 Jun 2022
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The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

Investors and market watchers noted Amazon’s less-than-stellar forays into health care, while privacy advocates raised concerns about Amazon’s access to patient medical data. Still others have voiced hopes Amazon will bring much-needed... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

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Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers

By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred

This case illustrates the importance of choosing a primary customer as the basis for organization design. Cross Country Group managers adjusted resource allocation, organization design and performance measures over time to transform Cross Country Group from an... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Gap; Entrepreneurship; Auto Industry; Insurance; Performance Management; Performance Measurement; Performance Measures; Performance Pressure; Decisions; Family Business; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Customer Focus and Relationships; Performance Evaluation; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry

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25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

networks and the Internet. The most important thing that the CEO and senior management should understand about IT is its associated economics. As the pace of doing business increases, the CEO View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

08 Feb 2023
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Alumni-Cofounded Company Sells to CVS for $10.6 Billion

named the Chief Innovation Officer at Oak Street in January 2022, with the firm noting at the time that he would “lead strategic efforts to expand the [c]ompany’s model.” The release went on to note that, under Price’s leadership “Oak Street Health has built a View Details

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

New Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy Build the skill set and strategic acumen to compete in the digital world through a combination of forward-looking coursework, unique View Details

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Statistical & Data Services - Research Computing Services

individuals supporting or collaborating with them are provided at no cost for up to one hour per month . Consultations longer than one hour and project work for faculty are charged to faculty research... View Details

08 Sep 2008
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The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

balance sheet constraints and bond liquidity By: Johannes Breckenfelder & Victoria Ivashina SEP 2021 The authors explore the ties between bonds and individual dealers formed... View Details

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Tara Basu Trivedi

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? To get out of my comfort zone – to explore startup ideas, to meet people who don’t think like me, to learn about what goes into making a team and a product... View Details

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Events - Business History

and economic history. Digitized sources can improve our access to materials and can help us place our own individual case studies into broader contexts. But have digital... View Details

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