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- 26 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out
For mid-career STEM professionals looking to advance their skills and careers, certificate programs at elite universities can offer a fast track. And for universities, such programs are an important and growing revenue stream—and a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All
of university around the same time held jobs that have the same seniority level that also belonged to the same industry as the entrepreneurs before they started their VC-backed companies. Leapfrogging on the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
airline that would develop the next generation of pilots. He also began widening Delta’s ties with Atlanta’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In 2019 Delta added a new Talent Connections network, and Bastian put $1... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
House of Representatives on September 10, 2009. The subject of the hearing: "The World Bank's Disclosure Policy Review, and the Role of Democratic Participatory Processes in Achieving Successful Development Outcomes." [Webcast] "The challenges of... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
allowing me to better understand the process by which business education emerged and how it has evolved over the last hundred years. Q: In a podcast for Princeton University Press, you said business leaders are among the least trusted... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
message. And what we're trying to do at Harvard University to bring these ideas to people, who knows? That was the beginning of this project. Goldberg: Can I ask you this, Arthur, and this is just a carve out question from the main... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
against it. Our review includes 129 studies spanning three levels of organization: within a single firm, across firms, and open community-based development. Across these levels, the hypothesis was supported in 69% of the relevant cases,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto
emerging market. A study of 59 million US consumers Di Maggio, the Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS, collaborated on the research with Darren Aiello, Jason Kotter, and Mark J. Johnson of Brigham Young University; Scott R. Baker of... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams
Tamayo’s recent working paper, Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food. Tamayo cowrote the paper with Achyuta Adhvaryu of the University of California, San Diego, as well as Parker Howell and Anant Nyshadham of the View Details
- 15 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better
may be bridling widespread acceptance of automation, says Julian De Freitas, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and one of the authors of the piece forthcoming in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. “We find... View Details
- 20 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It
or lack of resources," says HBS assistant professor Amy J.C. Cuddy, one of the researchers on the study. “It's not about the content of the message, but how you're communicating it.” In "Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was eager to increase them to more "normal" levels to exert effective monetary policy. Yet the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- June 2012
- Case
Buro Happold (Abridged)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Ryan Johnson
In 1996, Ted Happold, the founder of the engineering services firm Buro Happold, passed away, and Padraic Kelly became the firm's new managing director (MD). One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current... View Details
Keywords: Learning And Development; Managing Growth; Organizational Design; Diversification; Client Management; Leadership Skills; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Training; Programs; Customer Relationship Management
Eccles, Robert G., and Ryan Johnson. "Buro Happold (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 412-123, June 2012.
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
University Press, forthcoming Abstract This chapter assesses contemporary qualitative research on Southeast Asia and its contribution to the field of political economy. It focuses especially on the political origins of economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Truth About Authentic Leaders
Critiques of authenticity But recently three leading scholars at Insead, Stanford, and Wharton challenged the concept of authentic leadership. Like all movements—Harvard University Professor Michael Porter’s famous five forces of strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Nov 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?
University (completed before the outset of the pandemic) concluded that a strong corporate culture fosters better execution, reduction in agency cost, and therefore, higher productivity and creativity. Of the many executives surveyed, 92... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?
fashionistas? And if companies focus more on these consumers, how is the broader consumer pool impacted? Farronato studies these questions in a working paper recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Written along with El Hadi Caoui of the View Details
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.
doctoral student at the University of Chicago. The ‘state’ of the price gap matters Economists generally use two main data models to detect inflation and predict the pace at which retailers raise prices: time dependent and state... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details