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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
task forces' progress at various junctures to IBM's Worldwide Management Council. Gerstner and Childs followed up with the task force sponsors to ensure that the groups were gathering meaningful information and connecting it to the... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
connection doesn’t always mean a Zoom call; sometimes even a text message can be enough. Use ‘job crafting’ to let employees modify their roles Jayanth Narayanan, associate professor at the National University of Singapore: Prior research... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
Some of the best connections were serendipitous, sitting down at a lunch bench next to solar engineers who taught me about the necessity of tracking panels for Middle East projects or investors in South Asian two and three wheeler... View Details
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Online AI Course | HBS Online
roles to build an AI-powered organization Learn how generative AI connects to your organization and its impact on business and operating models Who Will Benefit Business Professionals Current and Aspiring Leaders Functional Specialists... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
corporate responses were not homogeneous. There were major variations between individual managers, companies, industrial sectors, and national business systems. This working paper supports this reinterpretation by examining the case of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
effects of their submissions on the other individuals in the workplace. We also find that offering employees project funding to implement their own proposals potentially backfires, undermining participation. And solicitations emphasizing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
default for those who don’t make an active choice: pharmacy pick-up without insurance subsidies. Under this program, 42% of eligible employees actively choose home delivery, 39% actively choose pharmacy pickup, and 19% make no active choice and are assigned the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
about customers and products or services. But, because of increasingly intense competition, one now had to look at individual orders. My research assistant (at the time) and I wrote a case with such detail that it proved to be very... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- Web
Departments | Employment
agility, and working towards strategic objectives. Managers work together to set strategy, priorities, and policies, determine resource allocation, manage performance and coach individual staff on their career goals, and measure results.... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
(forthcoming) Abstract Researchers have documented many cases in which individuals rationalize their regrettable actions. Four experiments examine situations in which participants go beyond merely explaining away their misconduct to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
class, a masterful faculty member who can bring the most out of them, cases and exercises that ground discussion in real-world problems, and a campus designed to support a fully engaged residential learning community, together create an experience that transcends the... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
make cities in smarter ways, so that they are built more quickly, with less waste and overall impact on the environment during the construction process. Environmental performance will improve in part due to building better buildings. For View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
By: Kerr, William R., and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
will help organizations reach a state of dynamic equilibrium, wherein paradoxes don’t impede progress—they spur it. And the way to tap the potential of paradox is to both separate and connect opposing forces: Managers must pull apart the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
block-size markets.” Nancy Weinstein (MBA 2000) took the runner-up spot with Mindprint Learning, a service that provides educators with assessment tools and resources to harness individual learning styles. Sergio Rattner (MBA 2001), won... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
found (or potentially found) in practice and whose hypotheses connect independent variables within the control of practitioners to outcomes they care about using logic they view as feasible. I provide several suggestions for how scholars... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
greetings, business cards, gift giving, dress, punctuality, body language, table manners, and so forth. Deeper cultural characteristics and their implications for the negotiation process itself. Below the surface are characteristics such as whether a culture is focused... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
connections have been built predominantly among businesses, and rarely between businesses and the public sector. “I don’t think we’ve really fully solved how that relationship plays out between the federal government and the private... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
since the SEC was created in the 1930s, so this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to contribute to building an orga-nization within government; to see how interactions between individuals influence the design, processes, and results... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
progress. That’s where my focus is these days.” Richard America was already a focused individual when he arrived on the HBS campus in 1961. He was one of four African-American students at the School, but that wasn’t the only thing that... View Details