probability - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

steps create the probability that you will not be controlled by your fears," DeLong writes. "It means that as you begin a new behavior, begin a new relationship, take on a new job, or start on a challenging new assignment, you... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

fade after this contagion, but there will probably be more outbreaks in the decades to come. This means that we can expect our physical structures to change, too. Think of the extension of today’s airport and courthouse security... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

they need is probably not a panel discussion. Rather they need someone with a high degree of expertise and lived experience in the field to brainstorm individually around their challenge. These resources sit on top of the foundational... View Details

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

switch to alternative dairy products, whether for health, price or sustainability reasons. This transition will likely occur slowly and alternative dairy products probably won’t ever fully replace animal dairy products, but we feel that... View Details

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

This Mother’s Day, we celebrated progress and possibility on the HBS campus! HBS first accepted women into the MBA Program in 1963. Fast forward six decades and now classrooms are 44% female and most sections have 1-2 mothers. Across the RC (first-year) and EC... View Details

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

product. Others were less negative, arguing that the Company probably had to do what it was doing to “stay in the game.” The Company’s management faced a major decision. On the one hand, it could unwind the effort to begin production in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

risk considered plausible. It assigned a probability of 11 percent to such a pandemic (against, for instance, a 19 percent assigned to global energy shortage or a 17 percent assigned to shortage of labor), making it not really that rare... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

“I think the digital nomads are probably more likely to be Millennials, early career workers who want to travel the world and work, or empty nesters,” Choudhury says. Several countries, including Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Mexico, Norway,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

an open-minded and approachable person in a more powerful position who can take the lead. Certainly we need to be prudent. But in a more rapidly changing world, finding opportunities in crises probably reduces your overall risk. To Learn... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

complained that when they started, they were "blissful in their ignorance." But after this sustained development, they could now see problems, root down to their probable cause, design solutions, but the team members couldn't... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

and mortgage and automobile companies employed—approaches that are diametrically opposite to those outlined in my book and discussed here. These firms did dumb things because their leaders did not make the principled choices outlined above. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

generalists on a team can be even more important. “If you are trying to make incremental improvements on existing technologies, then specialists probably are the most well-suited for that,” Nagle says. “But, if there is at least some... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2021
What Do You Think?

What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

consciously working with your superior to obtain the best possible results for you, your boss, and the company.” However, it didn’t trigger the amount of follow-on research that the subject deserved after early interest in the topic died down. "We View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Feb 2019
Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

birth of our first child, we probably spent half our time “together” based in different cities. With a child things were different, until they weren’t. Once again, we found ourselves apart, me in Boston and Hilary in South Carolina. I... View Details

02 Aug 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

“Engagement comes from spirit, and if the organization has little or no spirit—if it see mission as simply ‘maximizing shareholder value’—then engagement will remain an elusive thing.” George Yurieff added that “as long as the order entry numbers are on (or over)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

advice of experts, media, and other influencers within their demographic, socioeconomic, and innovation adoption segment. Influencers will need to mitigate concerns about the “newness” of the vaccine, such as the probability of side... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

thought, hmmm, it's probably people who are up for tenure soon, or maybe it's the people who just graduated, and they want to get their name out there," Larkin says. "We were thinking very much along the traditional economic model--people... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Participants will leave with a toolkit to help assess the severity of exposures and to use probabilities and risk maps to make investment choices. Busting Up the Boys' Club: Why is Gender Diversity So Hard? Professor Kristin W. Mugford... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

clear, with 33 percent of employers blaming missed work days and 28 percent citing lateness. “How can a Kaiser Permanente compete against a sexier company like Google for talent? They probably can’t compete on pay, but they can compete on... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

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