Inner Work Life - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2023
News

Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due

five-minute interview. This disappointing selection process was a setback, but one I thought was unique to me. After graduating from HBS, I worked in finance with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York and Sydney. Despite the allure of... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

11 Feb 2019
Blog Post

John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”

businesses. After a corporate-wide restructuring, Bracaglia moved to Alphabet’s life science firm, Verily, where he worked on Liftware, a counterweighted spoon that maintains stability – a critical aid to... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

Research Summary

Social Innovation

My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details

24 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

Affects Our Behavior. It turns out that working on a relatively large machine (like a desktop computer) causes users to act more assertively than working on a small one (like an iPad). “We wanted to study... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products

09 Jun 2023
Blog Post

How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values

For organizations seeking to understand the actions needed to achieve their diversity and inclusion recruiting goals and to communicate their commitment to diversity and inclusion in the recruiting process, there are a lot of questions on how to do this View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

get their other finances in order, and make more substantial contributions to the economy, according to a new research study Second Chance: Life without Student Debt. The study was co-written by Harvard Business School Associate Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

Soon after ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, business leaders began taking their first steps into generative artificial intelligence, approaching this powerful technology with a mix of awe and trepidation. It’s no surprise that one of the most-read articles in HBS View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

summaries of the working papers published by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2016: The Great Training... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Podcast - Business & Environment

Project Bellwether at X, The Moonshot Factory at Alphabet (formerly Google X). Sarah shares how geospatial data and artificial intelligence can help communities and businesses anticipate and respond to climate risks. Sarah shares insights from her View Details

05 Nov 2014
HBS Seminar

CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

in which it is carried out. Joe Schmid observed that "both medical doctors and organizational managers work in cultures that are historically problem definition poor and solution rich. Their individual rewards systems are both driven... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

helping people truly uncover what they want to be doing in life—and even, perhaps, who they truly are. You Might Also Like: Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars' More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Apr 2017
Blog Post

Why I Love My Job: Ching Ching Chen On Her Passion For the Music Industry

is the power of music in shaping both people and culture. I am so excited to be working in an industry where the product we create has the ability to uplift and comfort as a universal healer, and unite as a universal language. To top it... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

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MBA Experience - Health Care

DMD/MBA Harvard School of Dental Medicine MBA/MPP Harvard Kennedy School MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Harvard Department of Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering... View Details

29 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

others as they navigate their own journeys and finding ways to combine my personal and professional passions. I’ve found that when you enjoy what you’re doing and why you’re doing it, work doesn’t feel like work, and I hope every HBS grad... View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Sam Walton: Great From the Start

the town. He was an active member of the Rotary Club, a member of the board of deacons of the Presbyterian church ("even though I was a Methodist, it worked out real well"), and president of the Chamber of Commerce. Equally... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail

01 Mar 2024
News

3-Minute Briefing: Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995)

Weinstein: Standing tall and seeing all of the strategic possibilities in a highly competitive industry. I grew up in New York City and worked in every store along our 10-block radius. I learned how to sell and negotiate at a young age.... View Details

Keywords: Edited by Julia Hanna; Photo by Chris Sorensen; search firm; entrepreneurship; hedge funds

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=kupor%20tormala%20norton%20rucker.pdf Working Papers An Empirical Study of the Spillover Effects of Workload on Patient Length of Stay By: Berry Jaeker, Jillian, and Anita Tucker... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Courses - Entrepreneurship

Sahlman Fall 2023 Q2 1.5 Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (also listed under Business, Government & the International Economy and General Management) Geoffrey Jones Fall 2023 Q1Q2 3.0 Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences Satish... View Details

25 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Machiavelli, Morals, and You

Stevens — we never learn his first name—set out early in life to become a great butler, one of the very best. He didn't want to get rich at it. He didn't care for fancy clothes. What Stevens wanted more than anything, according to HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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