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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
inspiration typically comes from a very human place. DART Therapeutics CEO Gene Williams (MBA 1987) ("Your Own Medicine"), for instance, told us about a revelation he had during a 2002 trip to Rotterdam to observe clinical trials for the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
culture. As a student at HBS, for example, he didn’t take his courses in human behavior seriously. Now, he said, he understands that “culture is everything.” Culture, in fact, was IBM’s problem. “The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
internal evaluation of your values, your resources — financial and human — and your ability to communicate with your family. How should people’s values influence the way they manage their money? If you have money and don’t have good... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Time Dependence and Preference: Implications for Compensation Structure and Shift Scheduling
By: Doug J. Chung, Byungyeon Kim and Byoung G. Park
This study jointly examines agents’ time dependence—period effects within instantaneous utility—and time preference—behavior on discounting future utility. The study considers the start- and end-of-period effects for time dependence and exponential and hyperbolic... View Details
Keywords: Time Preferences; Present Bias; Hyperbolic Discounting; Compensation; Dynamic Structural Models; Identification; Time Management; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Performance; Compensation and Benefits
Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung G. Park. "Time Dependence and Preference: Implications for Compensation Structure and Shift Scheduling." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-121, April 2021.
- April 2004 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Confronting a Necessary Evil: The Firing of Alex Robins (A)
A manager recounts his experience firing the person he was asked to replace and reflects on the challenges of the experience. Teaching Purpose: To role-play and reflect on tasks that entail harming other people to fulfill one's responsibility. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Problems and Challenges; Leadership Development; Behavior; Decision Making; Resignation and Termination
Margolis, Joshua D. "Confronting a Necessary Evil: The Firing of Alex Robins (A)." Harvard Business School Case 404-125, April 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
- 22 Oct 2021
- News
Women Do More to Fight Burnout — and It’s Burning Them Out
- 10 Apr 2020
- News
How to Be an Inclusive Leader Through a Crisis
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
incorporates human rights, development, and health issues — it’s the ultimate strategic challenge.” At the Kennedy School workshop, participants discussed a case coauthored by Barrett and Ballou-Aares on Heineken’s efforts to implement an... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Here's a tip for companies looking to woo customers away from the competition: Besides advertising fair prices for your products, try advertising fair wages for your employees. Recent research from Harvard Business School indicates that shoppers prefer retailers that... View Details
- 04 Nov 2022
- News
How Bullying Manifests at Work - and How to Stop It
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
It's a funny image that touches the underlying anxiety some firm leaders express about managing and maximizing human resources. When their people get on the elevator at night, there's no guarantee they'll be back the next day. More than... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
strategies. "Few Asian countries have done this," Porter commented, citing chronic problems such as inadequate infrastructure, skilled human resource shortages, deficiencies in science and technology, and lingering monopolies that have... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
around the vision, and mobilizes human and other resources in the execution of that vision. Equally important, a leader is responsible for establishing the tone, values, and operating style of the organization in order to form its culture... View Details
- March 2025
- Article
Does Communicating Measurable Diversity Goals Attract or Repel Historically Marginalized Job Applicants? Evidence from the Lab and Field
By: Erika L. Kirgios, Ike Silver and Edward H. Chang
Many organizations struggle to attract a demographically diverse workforce. How does adding a measurable goal to a public diversity commitment—for example, “We care about diversity” versus “We care about diversity and plan to hire at least one woman or racial minority... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Diversity; Goals and Objectives; Communication Intention and Meaning; Behavior
Kirgios, Erika L., Ike Silver, and Edward H. Chang. "Does Communicating Measurable Diversity Goals Attract or Repel Historically Marginalized Job Applicants? Evidence from the Lab and Field." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 154, no. 3 (March 2025): 624–643.
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
has instilled in GE's management—speed, simplicity, self-confidence, and boundarylessness—are uniquely suited to the preparation of a successor who can take GE in new directions under the umbrella of the same set of values and the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
and 1927. “Donham’s innovations became anchor points for subsequent campus development,” says Executive Dean for Administration Angela Crispi (MBA 1990). “Our unique status as a residential business school has guided decisions about the function and View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Curb Your Overconfidence
an article appearing in the January issue of Negotiation, an HBS Publishing newsletter. While overconfidence is a fundamental human bias, in the workplace it can lead to adverse consequences, says Bazerman. He poses this real-world... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness
community, city, our country, than the pain of outsiders,” he says. We can increase our aggregate good in the world by redirecting our intentions to support people farther afield who are struggling with basic human needs. Max Bazerman is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
a quiet smile from my father, I suspect. More recently I’ve written 2 books, 10 peer-reviewed articles for scholarly journals, and more than 30 opinion pieces and essays in the fields of education and human development. Recently, I helped... View Details