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  • 07 Sep 2012
  • News

Something for the weekend

  • 03 May 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?

month’s column were, by and large, not surprised by the question: Why can’t more leaders teach? They offered some persuasive reasons. For example, Lisa Marks Dolan put it this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

Globe newspaper started Boston.com, the start-up founders had to calm the waters to ensure the newspaper's execs that the Web site wouldn't be stealing stories or ad revenue, said Lisa Desisto, Boston.com's CEO. Desisto said her group... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

companies do CSR in fits and starts” The problem? They lack a cohesive CSR strategy, says Rangan, who recently cowrote the working paper Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It with HBS research associate Lisa A. Chase... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jul 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

of work is going to ... increase morale." Faisal Shaheen takes the matter one step further by asserting that "If not supported and recharged, households will not be able to add productive talent to the future labor force."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. If you have resolved to exercise more, try ignoring what your peers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Feb 2014
  • HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

American," a case study authored by Mukunda with Lisa Mazzanti and Aldo Sesia (both case researchers at HBS). The case follows several key events in the career of Cynthia Carroll (HBS MBA 1989), who... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who has been trained as a physician—or is close to someone who has... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • Research Summary

Thin Slices of Groups [Under Review]

In this paper with Jeff Polzer, Lisa Kwan, Wannawiruch Wiruchnipawan, and Marina Miloslavsky, we extend research on “thin slices” by testing and determining that perceivers are able to accurately judge the effectiveness of small, task-performing groups... View Details

  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

doctoral candidate Lisa R. Klein and MIT professor Ernst R. Berndt, offer some important insights. The researchers begin by identifying forces both inside and outside the media industry that are influencing... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

(B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211045-PDF-ENG Cash Flow Productivity at PepsiCo: Communicating Value to Retailers F. Asís Martínez-Jerez and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case 111-069 PepsiCo developed a new metric that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Mark Tatum

headed a corporate soccer promotion at P&G. At HBS, he met numerous people working in the sports industry and took a summer internship doing sports marketing for Pepsi-Cola. After graduation and some travel with his wife and HBS classmate, View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

link: http://www.palgrave.com/Products/TitlePrint.aspx?PID=362801 August 2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Laura Huang, Sarah... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

bear. Written by Harvard Business School Visiting Professor Thomas H. Davenport and independent consultant Brook Manville, the book shares the tales of organizations that made successful choices through team-led decisions. This excerpt... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Keeping the Faith

It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Illustrations by Victo ngai
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

and by incorporating user innovation. We then examine how this ease of external engagement impacts the organization and its strategic activities. Specifically, we consider how this shift in information processing costs affects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

  PublicationsClusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution Authors:Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:Chap. 10 in Competition and Competitive Advantage: The Ideas of Michael Porter, edited by Robert Huggins and Hiro Izushi, 173-192.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

Participants assigned to recall a purchase made for someone else reported feeling significantly happier immediately after this recollection; most importantly, the happier participants felt, the more likely they were to choose to spend a windfall on someone else in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality

By: Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, Ethan Mollick, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Katherine C. Kellogg, Saran Rajendran, Lisa Krayer, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
The public release of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked tremendous interest in how humans will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accomplish a variety of tasks. In our study conducted with Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm, we examine... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Model; AI and Machine Learning; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement
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  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

Understanding Ordinary Unethical Behavior: Why People Who Value Morality Act Immorally By: Gino, F. Abstract—Cheating, deception, organizational misconduct, and many other forms of unethical behavior are among the greatest challenges in today's society. As regularly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne