Individuals And Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jun 2021
Book

9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

commitment given their prior expectations. 3. Inexperienced solicitors tend to blink at the last moment and ask for dramatically less than they were instructed. Sending a team of two (expensive in terms of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

basketball, culling a US Department of Education database for individual schools’ reported revenue by sport, which provided, through econometric modeling, a causal link between athletic success and revenue.... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

In today's global work environment, it's a given that companies need culturally diverse teams to succeed. Both scientific studies and common sense tell us that having people with different viewpoints onboard... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

communicate them.” The reason might be as simple as employees not knowing about the incentive programs. Leslie John, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and a team of researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

of current and future teachers, calls for values-motivated screening or divestment always posed an inherently complex challenge. Having spearheaded the development of Principles for a Responsible Civilian Firearm Industry released on... View Details

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

“overfitting” a statistical model, ensuring the model hits every historical data point and thus making it overly specific and lacking room for future variables. Another problem can develop with... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Angela Q. Crispi | About

She was Secretary of the Academic Performance Committee and a founder of the Community Values Initiative. Within Harvard University, Angela serves on the University Risk Management Council, Presidential Committee on Sustainability, View Details

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

and water, rather than fossil fuels, as feedstocks we can use clean electricity to produce all the organic compounds we need.” David Chan MBA 2018 | CCO, Head of Business Development, & Founding Team Member,... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future.... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

with a more stable job with more predictable schedules and income. Build out your support team You (and your partner) may be able to “outsource” the tasks that would otherwise put stressful pressures on your... View Details

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

approach to be more effective Who Will Benefit Negotiation Professionals Value-Driven Individuals Early and Mid-Career Professionals Hone your negotiation skills and develop... View Details

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

model, poor people give little because they expect donations to come mainly from richer individuals. In others, donations by poor individuals constitute a large fraction of donations, and this raises the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

daily basis. A hacker-to-hacker market exists for information today, with values placed on various types of information about us. The question remains how a market for such information could be created between individuals View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

"got us into more of a team approach" to examining supply chain risks. Departments better understand not just the risks, but also one another. Consider the tradeoffs. Experts agree that there are right View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

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

ventures I was advising as the senior advisor for social entrepreneurship at the Harvard Innovation Labs. They said: “Hey, we’d like to learn more about that solution, and we think our colleagues might too.” So they set up a pitch day for... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

of an idea with the potential to solve a problem or address an unmet need and grow it into a purposeful entity. The i-lab, the original component of the now three-lab ecosystem, opened in 2011 in Batten Hall with the vision of offering a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

Summing Up What Are the Antidotes to Too Much Focus? Individuals and organizations suffer from too much focus much of the time. That was the sense of the majority of responses to this month's column.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

women, ensure that meetings are held in the morning Organizations don’t want to change—they want the individuals to ‘adjust.’ And then they call it diversity and inclusion!”... View Details