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- 26 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out
job responsibilities. Six months after graduation, those figures rose to 70 percent and 42 percent, respectively, the research shows. 166,000 prospects called and emailed Lane collaborated on the work with Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Sep 2023
- Book
Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You
journey that led him to Harvard and to his collaboration with Winfrey. “Everybody thinks that [successful people] have perfect lives,” Brooks adds. “But if you look inside their own heads, you’re going to see the same problems that... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
eight major North American and European financial services companies as well as an international internet survey in collaboration with journals and organizations. The present paper gives an overview of the initial findings of 61... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2008
- Article
The Gordon Research Conferences As Scientific Infrastructure
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich and Leah Shaper
Conferences serve as a crucial part of scientific infrastructure by offering participants the opportunity to announce novel findings, discuss research methods, and take part in a variety of networking activities. Presenting papers and learning about unpublished new... View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Interpersonal Communication; Infrastructure; Science-Based Business; Social and Collaborative Networks
Daemmrich, Arthur A., and Leah Shaper. "The Gordon Research Conferences As Scientific Infrastructure." Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 33, no. 2 (2008): 94–102.
- 17 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Teaming in the Twenty-First Century
Even as academic journals and business sections of bookstores fill up with titles devoted to teams, teamwork, and team players, Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson wonders if many might be barking up the wrong tree. "I've... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
players and ask whether or not complementarities are exploited. While this point might seem obvious, the academic and practitioner communities have so far offered little insight on how to think about interaction between business models.... View Details
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
Github, among others, were 4.4 percent more productive than those following a more traditional “work-from-home” policy that gives schedule flexibility but requires workers to live near the office. “While prior academic research has... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
difference between k-means and Gaussian mixture models. They also learn the value of collaborative filtering for predicting customer preferences. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
computer systems to recognize text and image. While at Stanford, Gebru collaborated with AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, who had hired people to tag the contents of 15 million images, noting if they included a cat or a cello. This dataset would... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
examine the selection of students going into finance or science and engineering (S&E). I find that academic achievement in college is negatively correlated with a propensity to take a job in finance and positively correlated with a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
their communication quality and ultimately to benefit their performance. Paper not available. Boundary Spanning in a For-profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe Authors:Christopher C. Liu, Toby E.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss
did not provide any information about why they were distressed. For the second experiment, students at the Harvard Decision Science Lab were paired as storyteller and listener. Storytellers were asked to recount a recent time when they were distressed about View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
between your life and your work, it's almost inevitable that we see these blurring lines,” she says. The research team detailed their findings in the working paper Collaborating During Coronavirus: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nature of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
the sector’s success, but to what extent have the loans meaningfully improved livelihoods? That question has been more difficult to track, say Natalia Rigol and Ben Roth. Both development economists and assistant professors at Harvard Business School, Rigol and Roth... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
organization that pursues multiple logics and requires both focus and collaboration among individuals and groups. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411095-PDF-ENG Assistant Professor Gyan Gupta and the Wet Noodle... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
supply chain profitability in emerging markets and understand the impact of e-intermediaries. Academic / Practical Relevance: In practice, much attention has been given to e-intermediaries, and they have often been touted as for-profit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
inventive activity in the economy. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern11-1 Collaborating Across Cultures: Cultural Metacognition and Affect-Based Trust in Creative Collaboration Authors:Roy Y.J. Chua,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2022
- Op-Ed
Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable
we can come to prefer difference, with time—to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. We took on this idea while teaching Inclusive Leadership to first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School last academic year. I teach the... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice