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- 30 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date
hand-labeled six different types of questions: introductory, mirror, full-switch, partial-switch, follow-up, and rhetorical questions. Forty-four percent of the questions—more than any other type—were follow-ups. Based on the hand-labeled... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
many times your cofounding team will disagree on things—from product and hiring decisions to operating procedures and a fundraising strategy—and how you process these decisions... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 09 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
the job,” according to Bell. The company began looking for ways to attract new demographic groups to truck driving, including women and young people. Another important move has been what the company refers... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 23 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules
Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
- 24 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy
Vaccinated When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
you can create the right environment for a group to address issues together." ADVICE TO STUDENTS "Never underestimate the importance of the 'softer' management lessons you learn at HBS—the ones that revolve around working with View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
managers. Employees were randomly assigned, via a lottery, to certain days they would work in the office. Choudhury and his team then divided the participating HR workers into three View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- June 2022
- Case
PFA Pensions: The Climate Plus Product
By: Daniel Green, Victoria Ivashina and Alys Ferragamo
The case explores whether alternative investments play a unique role in achieving low carbon dioxide emissions at the portfolio level. This case is set in April of 2020 and follows Kasper Ahrndt Lorenzen, Chief Investment Officer, and Peter Tind Larsen, Head of... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Carbon Footprint; Alternative Assets; Alternative Investment Vehicles; Pension Fund Investing; Private Equity; Renewable Energy; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Denmark
Green, Daniel, Victoria Ivashina, and Alys Ferragamo. "PFA Pensions: The Climate Plus Product." Harvard Business School Case 222-088, June 2022.
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
thresholds, targets, or benchmarks are set, and defining the pay-performance relation and how the relation changes over time. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1935654 Performance Tradeoffs in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Mid-US - Global
resonate with today's student-athletes. In this conversation, Gibson examines how Sanders has attempted to transform CU’s team with his unorthodox style of leadership. Listen to the podcast here . SEPTEMBER 2024 HBR COLD CALL Uncle... View Details
- Web
About - Global
About Building upon a rich legacy of global engagement in business education. The Global Initiative is anchored by a team based in Boston with more than 65 staff sitting in key regions around the world to contribute to the school’s global... View Details
- Web
Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting
make a positive impact on the world, one exciting path forward is investing in mission-centered businesses. Areas like healthcare, education, energy, and the environment attract innovative and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2022
- What Do You Think?
Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
performance data, and then performing field studies of a subsample of the firms identified to explain why some organizations with strong cultures had good and some had poor performance. "The View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
For more than a century, the long, stately rows of Encyclopædia Britannica have been a fixture on the shelves of many an educated person's home—the smooshed-together diphthong in the first word a symbol of old-world erudition and... View Details
- 18 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification
- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
You can also follow individual minority creators over time and see ups and downs in their rates of success,” Kerr says. Certain groups feel it more The heaviest impact was felt... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
Dysfunctions of a Team can be helpful, but mastering the art of hiring takes practice. From 50 to 100 employees. This is a transition period in which you may sit in on candidate reviews for key hires, when the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation Dichotomy Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas Engineering Serendipity: The Role of Cognitive Similarity in Knowledge Sharing View Details
- April 2005
- Article
Partisan Social Happiness
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We use a new approach to study questions in political economy that relies on data on the subjective well-being of a large sample of people living in the OECD over the period 1975-1992. Controlling for the personal characteristics of the respondents, year and country... View Details
Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Partisan Social Happiness." Review of Economic Studies 72, no. 2 (April 2005): 367–93.
- 2011
- Working Paper
From Single Deals to Negotiation Campaigns
By: David A Lax and James K. Sebenius
Negotiation scholars typically take the individual deal, or a few linked deals, as the unit of analysis. While analyzing one deal requires a familiar conceptual framework, doing the same for a broader "negotiation campaign" calls for a different focus and set of... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Framework; Business Subsidiaries; Agreements and Arrangements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Information Management; Finance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Lax, David A., and James K. Sebenius. "From Single Deals to Negotiation Campaigns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-046, December 2011.